The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1909-01-27
BEST EVER HELD
GENERAL SECRETARY WAY is
VERY SANGCINE
That the Sunday School Convention
Which Meets in Orangeburg Will
Be q Grand Success.

Which Meets in OranSeburg VIII
Be Grand Success.
The State Sunday School Conven-
ton which meets at Orangeburg Feb
ruary 1918, gives promise Of being
one of the greatest and most sue
cessful Sunday School meetings ever
held in South Carolina. For several
months Secretary ]. NJ. Way has
been working hard to do everything
in his power to insure the fullest pos
sible success. Mr.. Way in the
course of an interview concerning
the Orangeburg Convention, gives
the following information, which
will be Of interest to all Sunday
school workers, in this and adjoin-
ing States:
1T is expected that the Conven-
ton to be held in the city of Or
angeburg February 1918, will be the
greatest in the history Of the AS
sociation. In fact, the plans of the
Convention provide for twice as
much work, and more than twice
as many workers, as were represent
cd in the program of the the Con-
yention last year. The complete
program viii! be distributed through
the South Carolina Sunday School
Promoter and the various news
paners Of the State in the next few
days, and contains the names OF
eighty speakers, conference conduc-
tors and those who will lead de-
votional exercises.
Those who will participate in the
various sessions include several ner-
chants several doctors, two college
presidents, three presiding elders,
several school teachers, sixteen Ia
dies, all leaders in elementary work,
twenty-six ministers, including ali
protestant denominations of the
State, two musicians of international
reputation and three Sunday Schcol
specialists.
Mr.. Marion Lawrence, genera!
secretary of the International Sun
day School Association, is the rec
ognized leader Of American sunday
School workers. There is no quest
ton about his being the best inform
ed man in the world On Sunday
School work. He directs the entire
field work as well as the affairs Of
the Office of the international Sunday
School Association. Mr.. Lawrence
rarely finds time to attend our con-
ventions and his coming to our State
Convention for two nights and one
day will be a rare treat for our Sun
day School workers, one which it is
doubtful if they will enjoy soon
again. Mr.. Lawrence is not only a
man of superior intelligence, bur
one of the most consecrated Chris
tian workers in America. He has
the mind of the master workman
and a heart as tender as chlld's.
"Mr. Hugh Cork, who will reach
the State about the 11th of Febru-
ary, beginning his work with the
Charleston County Convention, is one
Of the younger international workers,
but not too young to have made an
international reputation. He has
had experience in all lines Of or
ganized Sunday School work, from
the township convention up to the
great work Of the International As
sociation. At the last International
Convention he was elected super
intendent Of house visitation. On
the second afternoon of the conven-
ton, it is his purpose to conduct a
house visitation Of the city of Or
angeburg, and he hopes to SO orga-
nize the workers that every white
family in the city may be visited,
and a Sunday School and church
census taken in from thirty to forty
minutes. To do this work he hopes
to secure the services of two or
three hundred men and women as
visitors.
Mr.. O. R. Brouse. of Illinois, will
attend the Convention with an ex-
hibit Of Sunday School supplies
Mr.. Brouse is an ex-president of tbs
Illinois Sunday School Association.
ITO those who attended the con-
vention at Union last April it is use
less to speak of Tullar and Meredith,
who will conduct the song services
Of the Convention. The delegates
who attended the convention last
year were almost unanimous in their
request to have Tullar and Meredith
again this year. These men are
known for their good work all over
the United States and Canada, and
aey will win their way at the Con-
vention. In fact, no part of the
program will be more enjoyed than
the song services.
t'If we were to speak of each one
of the splendid men and women Of
our State it would take more space
than any newspaper would be willing
to give US. We are proud Of them
every one, and they are going to do
a great work at the Convention.
1T is expected that four or five
hundred delegates, at least, will at
tend this Convention. Each Sunday
School that wishes to 90 so. may
send one delegate. Credential
blanks have been sent out to the Of