The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-06
Sunday School Rally at AuditO-
rum a Notable Event.
Governor Stubs Delivers the
Address of Welcome.
BIG CHORUS is HEARD
Four Hundred Voices Join in the
Singing.
Development Of the Sabbath
School Work Emphasized.

Nearly four thousand of the good
people of Kansas met at the Audi
torium last night and participated in
the formal opening of the forty-fourth
annual convention of the Kansas State
Sunday School association. President
w. A. Elliott performed the function of
opening the grand meeting and the
Rev. Mr.. ]. E. Mclean of Newton led
the initial gathering in prayer.
The meeting last night was a good
sample of the spirit of the Sunday
school workers of this state. Their en-
thusiasm, their interest and their deep
religion spoke out on every hand of the
success Of the work in Kansas. The
singing was full of true open hearted
ness, the speeches were applauded with
fervor and every word was listened to
with unusual interest
The chorus of 400 voices accompanied
by the big pipe organ, two pianos and
the boys orchestra, made a great i'm
preston upon the delegates to the con-
vention. Every delegate is more or less
of singer and together with this
musical accompaniment the song ser
vice was one of the prettiest things
ever heard in this city. The big Audi
forum resounded with the grand en-
semble of 5000 voices and it was a fit
ting beginning to the success of the
largest convention ever held in Kan
SaS.
Although the chorus had not been to-
gether entirely for rehearsal before the
meeting last night their work under
the leadership of Mr. Grant c. Tullar
was pratseworthy and did not show
the lack of training. The excellent
amount of individual training served
as a great help to the voices. The Sc
lections were taken from the 'Bible
School Hymnar' published by the Tull-
er Meredith Company and were an i'm
provement over the Sunday school
songs which suggest rag-time air.
Governor Stubbs' Speech.
Governor Walter Roscoe Stubbs gave
the address Of welcome for the capital
city last night.
AS he assembled the platform the
great assembly arose and waved hand
kerchiefs through respect for Kansas
chief executive. In his address of well
come to the capital city he said in
part:
''It is indeed a great honor as we'll as
a real pleasure to meet and speak to
the best men and women of Kansas,
and Kansas is the most progressive
state in the Union, and women who
have charge of Sunday school work in
Kansas 1 regard the very best citizens
in this state. or any other state.
THE Sunday school is one of the very
important factors in the religious
tie know about the Bible I gained in
a Quaker church in Douglas county
when was from IL to 16 years old. L
regard to this day. 1 remember to this
day when a man came out to this
church 80 or Sc years ago how he re-
er and thy mother that the days of
their lives may be longer in the land
the Lord thy God hath given thee
That verse has sung in my ears ever
since. 1t is mighty good sentiment.
Il remember when / was 10 we had
the resurrection question, 18th. or Is
chapter Corinthians. / don't know
when 1 have seen it since.
al think Paul was the greatest human
being who ever lived with the excep-
ton of Christ. Paul and Isiah were
about the greatest people in the Bible.
! think Moses was quite man, too!
CBaughter).
THE man who studies these things
and follows their teachings won't have
any trouble in his daily religion. /
don't have any doubt about the truth
of the Bible as 1 know it in my own
life.
Il think there is lot of formality
about the church. 1t is important to
get children into the Sunday school. No
one has better opportunity than Sun
day school teachers to do good, and
they ought to have their teachings
come from their hearts. 1 wouldn't
give 0O cents lot InlS sunday religion.
If it doesn't go into politics and bust
ness it doesn't amount to anything. If
you don't apply 1t every day in office,
in business. it will discredit the whole
system. The man who gets religion
from his boots up to the top of his
head is a good advertisement
II can say in behalf of this work
while you are here. I'm right here to
help you"
In the response given by President
A TNl1inff LraY- 90;
believed that the Sunday schools are
doing more to make this state great
than any other force in the state. Our
natural resources are only physical
riches while after all it is the spiritual
side of things that constitutes our
greasest source of wealth.
Mrs. Lamoreaux' Lecture.
Mrs. NJ. S. Lamoreaux. of Chicago
who came next on the programme. de-
livered a lecture on Character Ruild-
ing from One to Six" In the course of
her remarks she said that every child
has an outer wall around him. Some
teachers know that they must get in
side the wall, but don't know how to
do 1t. 1t does no good to pound on
the wall but there are several gate
ways by which entrance may be gain
ed.
The first gateway is that of curiosity
When one teaches It he can go inside
The speaker had seen fathers in sun
day school, let children handle. see
and smell, things that make for baJ
character. One must say for all eterni-
ty for you can't take out the bad i'm
pressions.
Another gateway is that of imitation
Every moment the little child is irving
to initiate just what your life touches
He tries to do the things he sees Won
doing.
A third gateway is that of fancy. the
child imagines that he sees lions and
tigers in the yard.
Were hearing so much about sug-
gestion these days" said she. Never
Sunday passes when there is not an
opportunity for teacher to enter this
gateway.
"Restlessness. God has given this
not as something to get rid of but to