Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-02

| - II fNtIidI ith VI tdNdGN Dap
tist Church occupied the chair while the
| electlon was i'm progress The program
also included an address by Mrs. Mary
| roster Bryner, elementary secretary OF
the international Sunday School Union, or
| Home Cooperation in Bible Study A
| number of two-mnute speeches were
| made on home department experiences
Kew. X. l.. Wright, pastor Of Mckendree
Methodist Episcopal Church, made the
closing prayer.
Program This Afternoon.
| The fifth session began at o:15 o'clock
this afternoon with President MILAN pre-
siding. Rev. Donald c. Macleod of the
| First Presbyterian Church conducted the
devotional exercises. The balance of the
program follows:
Wheel. Mrs. Bryner: reports from the
twelfth International SunCay school con-
vention, My First International Con
vention, Prof. Mitchell Carroll; How the
Invention i1,, Looked to a Veteran P. H.
BrlstoW: The Official Side of the Conyen-
! ton W. W. MILAN; address. 1.-The Prob
| lem of Efficiency in Missionary Educa-
! ton. Prof. William A. Wilbur: address
Sunday Schools the World Around" Mrs.
| BrEner; lesson for December = I Kings
| 1ii:4-11, 2. II. Bristow Superintendent of
calvary Baptist Sunday school: PRAYER
and benediction. Rev. Tyler bennett.
Session Late Yesterday,
The session yesterday afternoon was de-
voted to the District Of Columbia Primary
Mon Mrs. Amy Mary Gray, president
| of the union, presided. The devotional
exercises were conducted bv Rev K
Wright
Mlss Mary tos'er Bryner. elementary
secretary of the International Sunday
| School Association, taught the primary
| lesson The teachers assumed the role of
scholars and listened intently to the les
son.
! Mrs. Wilbur F. Crafts followed Mrs
Bryner. with short address on Child
Study
She said there is so much in the chill
| dren to study. so much that Is interest
ing. She made an appeal to the teachers
| 10 do all In their power to gain the
| condolences Of the children so that the
| chances of success in aiding them will
| be much greater.
Mrs. Frank Byram made an address on
appropriate primary music and pointed
| out the fact that the minds Of little ones
| are greatly Influenced by the songs sung
| in the primary departments of the Sun
! day schools.
f. Richmond made an address on the
work of training the little ones and at
| the close of his remarks Mrs Bryner
| taught the junior lesson She illustrate ed
her remarks on blackboard as she did
| i'll the primary lesson.
Mrs. Kate S. Outwater conducted the
| beginners lesson.
| Benediction pronounced by Rev
| Joseph Dawson, pastor of Calvary Meth
odist Church.
Discussion Last Evening.
At the session last evening a discussion
of the organized adult class movement in
Sunday schools was in order Mrs. Mary
NSto Pr,-p clio,
the International Sunday School Associ-
/ alton, outlined .'Women's Work in the
Bible School Prof Nit hell Carroll,
teacher of the Vaughn class, spoke on
Mems Work for Men in the Sunday
| School, declaring that Sunday school
workers have at last awakened to the
| fact that they must win success by the
same methods which labor unions and
| lodges have used. III. c. Obenholser
| teacher of the Metropolitan Bible class,
made an address on THE Adult Class
[ Outlook in the District of Columbia.
arousing enthusiasm by predicting that In
two or three Years the number of organ
| lied classes in District Sunday schools
will be increased threefold and the mem
| berShip increased tenfold
| J. RI. Hammer. secretary of the commit
| tee on adult department. reported that
! forty-one organized adult classes are now
| enrolled on the associations records, and
declared that the aim Of the committee
| the coming year is to organize at least
| one adult class in every Sunday school in
the District.
Opens With Song Service
| With President W. W. MILAN presiding.
| the session was opened by song service
| by Il choir of sixty voices. under the di-
| rection of Page J.. Zimmerman, with Mrs
| H. Clyde Grimes as organst and Mrs.
| John w. Stewart pianist. Rev.
| Charles r. Guthrie. pastor of Hamline NJ
| E. Church, conducted the devotional ex-
| ercises.
Discussing the adult class movement.
Mrs. Bryner. the first speaker, aid there
| are liz such classes enrolled with the
| International Sunday School Association.
! having a membership of more than 7O,MD
| and in churches of twenty-nine different
| denomina tons.
.'ro make these classes Il success there
| must be something besides Bible study,
| the speaker declared There must be,
| first. something to do; secondly. some
thing to learn: thirdly. something to en-
| ioy When these three features are COM
| bincd in proper proportion there Will be a
| successful class.
| smile appeared on the faces of the
| man delegates to the convention when the
| speaker described womans class in Des
| Moines Iowa. which calls itself the Go
and Tell Class
| Mems Work In Churches.
| Prof Carroll, in speaking of man S
| work in churches, pointed out that dur
| ing the last few years men have been
taking greater interest in churches.
| The churches have been too largely
| feminine he declared. Among the
! Protestant denominations two-thrds of
| the members are women. In the con-
| yresations described in the New Tesla
Ement the men predomnated One meeting