The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-06

church news. The place, and time of
the services will be given under the
Church News" head in this paper. The
churches over the city will make spe-
cial efforts to entertain the delegates
during their stay over the weeks end.
The little official programmes and
guides issued by the Commercial club
are proving more than popular with
the visiting delegates. Hundreds of
delegates have taken their little book
let's and packed them away for safe
keeping, clipping the programme out
of the State Journal for the official
meetings. The distributors of the
pamphlets say that they have received
thousands of demands for extra books.
The delegates are taking them home to
their friends. The Commercial club
has made good with the first "aid''
since the adoption of the new slogan.
1t can well be said that the books are
a thing of beauty and a joy forever"
Mr.. Grant c. Tullar who has charge
of the musical end of the convention,
put aside all conventionality and was
hard at work at one of the booths
when seen by State Journal re-
porter with his sleeves rolled up.
One delegate who hailed from a rural
district came up to the booth and
said, "And is this where unroll."
MT. i ulldT appreciates the COnlcdl
side of life. Once-while driving in a
hack in Atlantic City the driver waxed
profane and cruelty 1ashed the horses,
whereupon Mr.. Tullar presented him
with one of his songs entitled Keep
Sweet" The uncouth man on the
ing, mister hain't you got another of
them things for my wife? She needs
onev' On another occasion a man
wanted the song to present to his
mother-in-law.
Mr.. TulIar has been in the
evangelistic field of work for twenty
years and he and his associate Mr.. J.
H. Meredith, soloist, have had charge
of Sunday school convention work
from Maine to California and from
the boundaries of Canada to the Gulf
of Mexico. Mr.. Tullar's object in this
convention is to make the musical
feature of the meetings different from
what one generally hears at a Sunday
| school convention. The 'Bible
| School Hymnal," got up entirely by
| Mr.. Tullar and Mr. Meredith will be
used in the services, thirty-two page
| leafet containing songs included in
| the Hymnal, having been distributed
among the delegates as they reg
| istered. The song Keep Sweet is ex-
| pected to be the hit of the convention.
Mr.. Tullar is great advocate of the
| keep sweet idea.
The State Journal wishes to make
| an announcement of utmost i'm
portance to the delegates and con-
yention officers. For thirty cents the
dress in Kansas for one month. This
will include the four copies of the
paper containing the articles concern
| ing the convention These extra
copies of the convention papers will
| be of great value to the delegates.
| Leave the address with a State Jour-
nal reporter at the convention or at
| of the Office, Eighth and Kansas ave-
nue-just opposite the transfer sta
ton.
| The chorus last night only COM
prised 400 voices but it is fully ex-
pected that there will be at least 500
on the big platform tonight Seats
have been built from the front of the
stage half way up the front of the
| convention. The leaders stand is di-
rectly in front of the chorus seats
The singing last night and today was
a marvellous exhibition of the volume
OF religious music
The Y. NJ C. A. of this city has
furnished guides with street cal
| tickets to handle the strangers in the
city during the convention. The
| guides have been stationed at the
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| rival of delegates they are escorted
Ito their rooms all over the city
| Thirty-one boys and men from the
| junior deartment of the 7. NJ. C. A
| have been acting as pages. These
pages are not only for the purpose Of
/ directing the delegates to their rooms
/ but they serve as Information bureaus
to the visitors. Every place of note
is explained as it is passed.
The convention officers are plan
ming with much interest the mems
parade to be given Friday evening
from the First Baptist church to the
auditorium. This parade will be one
of the big features of the convention
1t is expected that a thousand mer
will march down Kansas avenue
will be one of the greatest parades OF
this kind ever seen in Topeka A bis
detachment of men are coming from
| Holton and AtchiSon for this occasion
and they will enter into the parade.
is hoped that a large number of To
peka men will enter and march. Al
the national convention in Louisville
Kentucky, several thousand men en-
tered this parade-it being the mos
spectacular parade in thu history o
the churches The parade In Topek;
will resemble the Louisville parade il