The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-23
 CONVENTION
 IN SESSION Sunday School Workers at SouthSide. FINE PROGRAM IS GIVEN County Sunday Schools Are Repre-
 sented. proyision Is Made for House to House Canvass for the sunday Schools of the County in
 Early October.

The sixteenth annual session of the Montgomery County Sunday School As- sociation is in session at the Southside Baptist Church.
 The devotional exercises at the open ing exercise yesterday were conducted by Rev. W. M. Curtis, pastor of the Perry Street Methodist Church. Miss May Hill was elected as Secretary, but at her request that some one re- lieve her. Rev W. M. Curtis took the work until the noon hour.
 The attendance at the first session was small. but the President. W. D. billiard Of Mathews. proceeded to call the ron of schools and enroll dele gates. The following churches were represented at roll call: Clayton Street Methodist. Perry Street. Methodist, Forest Avenue Methodist. First Bap- tist, Clayton Street Baptist, Southside. First Presbyterian, Mathews Metho- dist. Cecil Baptist. Hope Huh Metho- dist, Bethany Presbyterian. Quite number of schools were not represent cd, but 1t was expected before the ses- sion closes possibly all win be repre- sented
 The President, Mir. Dillard, made a statement of his work for the year Some difficulty has attended his work during the year. His secretary was married, hence gave him more work. The convention last year saw it to make him chairman of the Executive Committee. which also increased his labors. However. in each of the i've districts of the Association. meetings have been held and every church in the districts represented.
 Mir. Dillard was very hopeful as to results and expressed qualification that so much good work has been done. There are forty-six Protestant schools in the county with about thirty located 4e4 xAk rrNr fn behind In proportion to population. The President urged not only persistent ef- fort to get all in the schools. but to be loyal to the pledge to the State sworlx made last year.
 The Secretary, Mrs. Virginia Mc- lRae. and the Treasurer. M. M. lSweatt, were both out of the city, hence their reports were postponed.
 In the report of district presidents, Armistead Brown reported for the Montgomery District. He did not have the figures, but was confident 1hat Montgomery needed much work. He suggested a Sunday School day for a house-to-house canvass. He stated that he intended to call meeting of the committee in a few weeks and ar. rsnge for a house-to-house canvass in Montgomery.
 He suggested also that we have a mGe&iz4w 0f all the officers ao Of the
 
 gram. but having in view e social hour with refreshments.
 Mir. Brown was very enthusiastic as to his district
 ,. L. Taylor, Cecil reported for DIs- trict No. 3. Two conventions were held. There are four schools in the district and all were represented. They are all evergreen schools. Mir. Taylor said the prospects, were more hopeful AIa hnx road. Good roads have much to do with the country schools. Two churches have no schools in the dis trIet- The report was very good in- deed.
 I. L.. Mccullough reported for Dis- trict No. 8. Three schools are organ fixed. The school at Hope Hull has an enrollment of 3ifty-three and an average attendance of forty-seven. One ana ali the schools represented. Tn the district there are three churches with but schools. There are two evergreen schools in the district.
 l The presidents Of Districts Four and Five were not present to report 1 After singing T Love to Tell the old Old Story" D, W. Sims secretary of the State Sunday School work, ad- dress the association on teacher train ing. Mir. Sims said that the time has come when 6. person would not be selected to teach just because he was good, but because he was trained and prepared. He emphasized the fact that the teacher must not only know that things are in the Bible, but where to find them and how to use them. The International Teacher Training course of fifty lessons has twenty on the Bible, seven on the pupil. seven on teaching. seven on Sunday School man agement and nine on church history and denominational facts. MT. Sims made plain the necessity of every teacher having a thorough knowledge of this course. He used many illus trations to enforce his ideas and with closest attention the audience followed him in his discourse.
 The president then introduced Mrs.