Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-02-13
SUNDAY SCHOOL
/ ASSOCIATION
Hold Annual Meeting at
EIkins This Month
GREAT PREPARATIONS
BEING MADE FOR SESSION

All Sunday School Workers are Urged
to Attend. n Take an intrest in
the Movement-New superinsend-
I ent of the Work viii be on Hand
Work is in Good Shape.
The headquarters OF the West yir-
glnia state Sunday School associa-
ton has issued the following an
nouncoment:
10 the Sunday School Workers Of
West Virginia: Greetings
Dear Fellow Laborers:
The time OF our annual convention
Is approaching. Elkins is the place,
y ana April 20-2I-22 is th5 time.
Every thoughtful and proper ar
rangement is being made by the good
/ people of that city, for the cosyen-
! ience of the meeting, and the enter
tainment Of the members. and We
are intensely anxious that this shall
be the best assembly of all the years.
The reports Of the superintendent
made at the annual meeting Of the
executive committee show that SPLEEN
did work has been done in all de-
partments.
AS you are we'll aware. we have
met with a great loss, this year, in
the Home Going Of our beloved Cen
eral Secretary Brother VIM. c. Sha-
fer. His devotion to the work OF his
life, his exemplary Christian charac-
ter, and the noble worth Of his man
Aaoas hrs# about him charm
which we could not. If we would,
cast aside. The perfume of the flowers
that grew in such p~rofusion in the
garden OF his soul ana filed with
such fragance the charging field OF
his influence, will long linger to make
our lives more sweet and beautiful.
Peace to his ashes and blessing to
his memory.
The executive committee imme-
dlately placed in charge of the of
fee, and the work, Miss Martha v.
Graham, whose experience wise
judgment, and wide knowledge of the
1 field, eminently fitted her for the re-
sponsible position, and under her di-
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gone forward.
The program of the coming con
vention is being carefully completed,
and the indications are that it will be
one of the very best.
q A subcommittee, after much cor
~respondenee, and after careful and
prayerful investigation, recommend
ed to the executive committee at its
annual meeting, the employment or
MIR. A. T. Arnold, elf Wheaton, Hi
nois, to be our state general secre-
{ tary. which recommendation the
committee endorsed ana he was so
employed. His work TO begin Feb
ruary /. 1899 Without having made
for himself, or any other having
made for him an application for the
place, the committee found him to be
( most thoroughly qualified for the po-
sltion.
When his ccllsge life was compile
ted, he chose the Sunday school as
his life work-feld. and for twelve
years has been employed by the I'LL
nois State association as one of its
field workers. He comes to us at a
financial loss, but ONE because he
believes this to be the place where
he car make the best life investment
OF his intellectual and spiritual
forces. The committee believed that
it was directed of the Lord in his Sc
lection.
We call upon all our workers and
friends to rally about him, as about
another in the past, ami give him a
royal welcome, and the assurance OF
their heartiest cooperation.
Our work is growing. More and
more are the Sunday school people OF
the state coming to know the help
fulness of the associated workers.
More and more are those hitherto
u~ninterested, coming TO see the
matches beauty OF the book, its
unparalleled. intellectual grandeur and
1.-THE sublime heights of its spiritual