The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-12-31
OHIO FIRST
In The LIST
Has More than Million in
Sunday Schools.
DR.. CLARK'S ADDRESS.
Interesting Event at Congress
Yesterday.
Plea for Temperance Made by the
Speaker Rev. Hensel Made Sec.
retary of Association.
DR.. CLARK'S ADDRESS

There was an excellent attendance |
at the Congress of Sunday Schoo |
Workers convened at the Presbyter- |
ian church yesterday to review top
les OF Interest under the direction
of Dr. Joseph Clark OF Columbus,
secretary of the state association.
The purpose OF the association is
to systematic and refine the meth
DDS of the Sunday school, that great
primary grade of Christianity when
TURNS out thousands of boys and
girls to citizenship. DIR. Clark
opened the morning session with
prayer and after few preliminary
remarks he touched upon the past
Of the Sunday school in Ohio.
'The Sunday school in Ohio" ac-
cording to the speaker Is, more than
a century Old. The state was or
ganized fifty years ago. Judge
Mitchell being the first president Of
the association. This being jubilee
year he urged each school to help
make 1t a golden year of achieve
ment. Already Ohio stands first in
the list of states in the number Of
its Sunday school scholars of which
There are one million, but four mil
lion remain outside TO bring within
the fold. There are S25 schools in
Ohio but the number should be in
creased, even multiplied He also
asked that each school bend every
effort to reach the golden standard
by being able to report six points
of the perfect whole to the county
secretary, /, increase of ten per
cent in membership 2, cradle roll;
3, home department; T. adult class
es; the fifth and sixth points would
be the subject OF the afternoon
address.
The session adjourned with pray
er.
The afternoon session convened
with prayer by DR.. Clark at one
thirty o'clock His address concern
ed the fifth and sixth points of the
six required for the golden stand
ard; that one or more persons in
a school be enrolled with the state
association for a teachers train
ing course and, an effective mission
airy department
Regarding the former Dir. Clark
asserted that one must know some.
thing about everything before he
can know everything about some-
thing. The Sunday school should
follow the day school in the mat
ter OF being able to turn out train
ed teachers. Incidentally he took
occasion to emphasize the import
ance of having every man, woman
and child enrolled sign the pledge
never to touch intoxicating liqour
so that we may have three million
temperance voters from the Sabbath
; schools alone in the future.
Concerning the latter the speake
believed that a great missionary
awakening was necessary in the
schools. At the present rate of con
version 1t would require 800 years
to save India alone If there were
no births nor deaths One mis-
, sionary has one million souls in
his parish On this ratio there
would be seven ministers for the
who'e of the United States where
the environment and economic con
ditions are vastly more conducive (
the Christian life that is plague
ridden, famine-swept India, The nee
Is tremendous and the solution o
the problem lies in regular syste'
matte training to meet the demand
OF the starving soul No fiction II
all literature Is so stirring as the
life of Livingston, the ideal mil
sionary The salvation of the worl
depends upon a missionary visio
in the schools. If America is to b
saved it must be through her boy
a and gir's. Thirty million dollar
for thirty years and the worlC