The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-10-18
COUNTY HAS
CONVENTION
MEETING OF SUNDAY SCHOOL
WORKERS is sUccEss-THosE
.- WHO SPOKE.
Special correspondence.


Glendive. Mont, Oct t.1a.-The Dawi
son County Sunday School convention.
which came to an end With splendid
meeting in the Congregational church
last evening. was the most successful
event of the kind ever held in this
part OF the state
Rev. J. \. Afford of Helena. gen
eral secretary of the Montana State
Sunday School association. has been
working in Dawson county all this
week. He first held Il most success
fui institute at Wibaux and was
then billed to speak at Sidney. But
the stage to the latter place was SO
crowded with earlier bookings that
Mr. Afford was obliged to foreso the
latter event.
Rev. w. T. Groom. who WAS to as
sist Mr. Afford in the Sidney insti-
tute. dealing with the work of the
Anti-Saloon league. of which he is the
state superintendent. had gone To Sid
ney day earlier. Consequently he
was able to take Mr.. Affords place
on the Sidney program as wei! as his
own.
Reports from Sidney are To the eff
feet that the institute there was
great success. delegates being in at
tendance from both Mount Pleasant
and Fa!rview.
During the county convention Seq
rotary Afford delivered n number OF
helpful addresses on the work in the
state. He made the statement that
there are 10000 non-church members
in Montana today. and that there are
SO, nnl children who do not attend any
Sunday school.
As illustrative Of the gigantic prob
lem confronting workers in the cause
in Montana, he said lie had fornu-
lated some statistics recently. and
figured that If we We're to place i6
. persons on every acre of Montana
the entire population of the world
! could he contained within the bound
/ aries of Montana.
/ Secretary Afford especially urged
+ the formation Of adult bible classes.
I the presence Of the men in the SUNDAY
+ school being the best possible infiu-
+ cnce for holding the boys.
! In his discussion of the relation of
the sunday schools tn the work of the
/ Anti-salonn league. Mr.. Groom stated
| that the boys are aware that IL Is the
work Of this organization that is Vi
1 talizing the temperance lessons of the
/ Sunday school So.
If YOU were To place the Sunday
school scholars of the country in Il
procession. eight abreast. and keep
them walking rapidly. day and night.
II would take them thirteen months
To- pass a given point" he said. "Hy
drilling the temperance lessons into
the minds of the children we are
bringing up n generation that will
out the saloons ont of business. The
| Sunday schools will lift nightly in
/ the solution of the temperance prob
! lem"
I Rey. Herman Sell discussed the
''Stundist'' movement in Russia. tell
ing how these German colonists in the
czar's domains. i'm spite of perseeu-
! ton. have preserved the faith of their
/ fathers for 80 years. and also dwelt
upon the influence those people will
I have on the religious thought of this
{ country. since they are now migrat-
/ ing Ia the United States by the hun
lreds.
In Il brief address James \. Met
/ cuff of Glendivc emphasized the i'm
/ uortance of the Sunday school work in
/ Dawson county. Among other things,
{ he said:
7 Net only the future existence Of
the church itself. but the character
! of our citizenship Is involved in this
: SUNDAY school problem. We boast of
the public school system as the foun-
1 datian of onr liberties. and it is true
that the church and the school have
/ gone hand i'm hand in the march of
/ civilization. BUT every now and then
/ the moral sense Of the community is
shocked by the startling revelation Of
immoral conditions among the children
\ ny our public schools. II is our iutv.
! in view Of these conditions to do
/ everything possible To counteract these
I evil influences in the lives of the
Z young people aud to surround them
/ with the helpful environment of the
I Sunday school
/ Officers of the Dawson county as
/ sociation for the ensuing year We're
4 elected as follows: President, T. y.
/ Fleming. who presided At this conven-
/ ton: vice president. MISE. y. Eng
I lish: secretary, II. F. johnson: SUPER
( intendent nf elementary grades. Mrs.
Il. + Young all Of Glendive.
Members If the executive commit
/ tee: Prof. +. =. Rair,i NihauS: Los
: Sic Dave. Sidney: Lester Brown,
Bloomfield
! Til. musical features Of the, cenven-
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