The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1908-06-18
ALL COUNTRIES ARE
REPRESENTED There
Meetings Will Continue for Several
Days and Many of the Best Speakers
in the World Will Be Heard on Re.
lgious Topics.
Hearst News Service.

LOulSVllle, n.y., June lo.-WitH au-
dresses of welcome in which were
sounded the notes of Kentucky's char
acteristic hospitality, Mayor James F.
Grinstead and Governor Augustus e.
Wilson today gave hearty greeting
to the Sunday School Hosts of the
world. The exercises marked the for
NAL opening of the Twelfth convention
of the International Sunday School
Association, and the president OF that
organization, Justice J. ]. MacLaren,
of Toronto, Ont, responded to the well
come of the chief executive of Louis
vile and Kentucky.
Never before has such a noteworthy
assemblage of earnest religious work
ers gathered in the metropolis of the
Blue Grass State as that which filled
the big First Regiment armory this
afternoon Every state and territory
of the Union had its representatives
in the throng, and not a province of
Canada, is without it's delegation.
Mexico and the islands of the West
Indies and many far distant lands of
Europe and Asia have also sent dele
gates.
Aside from the welcoming exercises,
the principal feature of this after
Moons program is a. memorial service
in honor of DR.. John Potts, of Canada
I at which many men of prominence
f; will pay tribute to his services as
chairman of the Internationl Lesson
Committee.
Among the important events of the
convention will be great temperance
mass meeting next Sunday, and an ad-
dress by DR.. Booker T. Washington
on Sunday School Work Among the
Negroes" An outline of the program
is as follows:
Tomorrow-Reports of international
Secretary Lawrence and the Inter.
national Committee; THE Sunday
School in Relation to National Ideas.
Rev. DR.. Robert Johnson, Montreal
'JoId ..'omBukQ IooqoS GepunS eqL,,
Hamill; adult department conference,
1880 p. M. adult department march
from Warren Memorial church to the
Armory; addresses by ex-Gov. H. G.
Utter, Rhode Island; AN Appeal to
Young Men for Christian Service" and
Rev. A. c.. Dixon, Chicago, bible
Study for Men"
Saturday morning-The Internation
al Lesson System; THE Grade System
of Lessons-Why They Should BE
Used" DR.. NJ. C. Hazard, Boston
Mass. "The Coming Generation fol
Christ" DR.. Edwin H. Hughes, presi
dent of DePauw University; "Educa
tional Methods With the Coming Gen
Grafton" President Douglas Macken
zie, Hartford Seminary.
Saturday afternoon will be half
holiday.
Saturday evening" Missionary Worl
in Japan, China, India and America
illustrated with moving pictures, C. c
Kitchener, general secretary.
Sunday morning delegates to atten'
Sunday school and church as the
choose. Temperance meeting at tn
Armory presided over by Justice Mao
Laren; superintendents' conferenc
at Warren Memorial church; teachers
congress directed by Rev. Herber
! Moneigle, Cincinnati. In the evenin
THE Relation of the Sunday school t
Missions will be discussed by Rober
4 E. Speer, of New York; Prof. H. N
Hamill, of Nashville; the Rev. DIR. .
P. Gouden, of Baltimore; the Rev
Maurice A. Levy, of Neuth, Mass, tn
Rev. Robert Forbes, of Philadelphia
C. c.. Michene, of New York; the Rev
j. F. Lore, of Atlanta.
Monday morning-Election of off
4 GERS; selection of the Seventh Intel
national Lesson Committee and col
sideration of the work OF the ensuin
triennium. The afternoon will be gi'
len over to conferences.
sEvening-"Work among the NJ
groes" will be discussed by ex-Go'
w. J. Northen, Atlanta, Ca, and Bool