The Springdale news., 1909-08-27
Proprietor
ORGANIZED s. $. WORK.
Address Delivered by F. =. Root
 Before County Convention.

The following address was deliv- cred before the county Sunday School Convention at West Fork recently by Prof F.S. Root, and l. published by request Of the con- ycntlon:
 MT. President, delegates to the Washington County Sunday School Convention, friends honorins this esteem 1t not only priv permitted to have a part ID pro- gram prepared for all assembly of Sunday School workers
 To meet you face to face, to bring you greetings as worker and as a friend; to lend but single word to aid the cause for which you convene, is the wish Of an humble layman
 In this day of modern ideals and of studied conceptions, II IS more than fitting, it is highly commend able. that you meet among these beautiful hills and verdant valleys dotted, here and there. by peace I thought of the day demands that you be close to nature and amidst those environments most conducive to intelligent and deliberate reas- oning You meet to discuss such moral and religious questions as concern the Sunday School Nature and a people known to be saeredly devoted to the cause for which you meet make West Fork an ideal place for holding this. the 26th an nual convention, of Washington County Sunday School workers
 Fellow-workers, let each of us do his part, however small. toward making this one of the best Sun day school conventions in the history of our grand old country
 Mr President give your orders well obey
 To me has been assigned the pleasant duty of saying few words with regard to "OrganIzed sunday school Work Not knowing the special reason of your committee fer assigning this subject, have chosen as our historical study of the Sunday school. the evidence through it's every movement. of it's purpose to attract, to interest. to elevate mankind
 The Sunday School of to-day loud ly proelaims the inevitable influence of all phases of the child's life ap- on the later man. It is permeated with the sentiment of the following lines:
 No change in childhood's early
 day,
 No storm that ragged, no thought
 that ran,
 But leaves track upon the clay, That slowly hardens into man Keeping this thought in mind leJ us turn our attention to the path of progress along which path q great moral and religious movement The Organized Sunday School has boldly yes, divinely trod We may notice q few events along this course which mark 1ne character the purpose. the force of this great movement. The obstacles and dis .eouragements with which it meets the conservation. unity Of effort and special preparation of its workers. and the divine flexihility of it's creed. All of these, i'll connection with the undenied certainty of it's success, make it possible for the modern Sunday School 10 reach any l and all of mankind
 Like sturdy oaks which bear the scar that marked the way for early travellers. so many of these events. crude and defective though they be. show us the course along which this great juvenile army has at tained world d-wide nenown
 For centuries students of social science have been striving to in- crease the happiness. the better ment. the elevation of man Ger tain of the wise men. of the phi ] losophers, of the Cody, of all ages,