Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-14

resentative Christian leaders from all
climes.
Moving Pictures and Curios.
The convention will have an interna-
tional flavor at all sessions. and series
of moving picture exhibitions of scenes
in mission lands will be given on the
afternoons of the convention in differ
ent sections Of the city for the Sunday
school children of Washington. In ad-
dition. an exhibition of Sunday school
methods and missionary curios from
all lands will be maintained throughout
the convention in the armory. There
will also be display of missionary
moving pictures in Convention Hall
Saturday night.
Shop meetings will he held at noon
every day of the convention. led and
addressed by the delegates. These will
not be evangelistic meetings of the sort
frequently conducted among work
people, but they will have Bible study
for their theme. As this is the basis of
all Sunday school organization and
work. Every person present at these
meetings who is willing to promise 10
read IL will be given pocket Tesla
ment.
A woman's mass meeting. with the
platform full of missionaries. and y
mems mass meeting are other program
items The afternoon sessions will be
foreigners. and these will be caHed "a
congress of the world.
A World Congress.
Nobody knows how many foreign
delegates will be present at the con-
vention. or American delegates. either.
Oficial representatives of many coun-
tries have already been appointed.
At the Jerusalem convention in 1904
there were seventeen countries and
fifty-five denominations represented by
1.50O delegates. The meetings were
held in a great tent pitched near the
traditional site of the crucifixfon. The
1907 convention was held in Rome. with
session in the Coliseum, more than
100 delegates being present. The 191"
gathering in Washington will doubt
less be the largest OF all.
The man behind the cOnvention-with
all Difference to a long and imposing
list of officials. scattered over the whole
earth-is DIR. George w. Bailey. Phil
adelphia layman. AS chairman OF the
executive committee he is really max
ing the arrangements. and il is his
hard sense and cosmopolitan spirit that
is giving the program it's breadth and
originality.
A Unique Sunday.
The idea of having the entire 10000
600 members of the Sunday school
everywhere use an identical program
on Worlds Sunday School day. May
30, 1910. has been worked out by
DR. Bailey. An order of service mas
been prepared and it is now being
translated or has been, into more tina
100 languages. The denOminatiOnal
publishing houses will use 1T In their
lesson helps. which have a circulation
of millions. The ministers of all Pro-
testantism have been asked to preach a
Sunday school sermon that day.
At the Washington convention Sunday
the threefold theme will be Com
munion, Conservation. Conquest" In
the morning the Washington pastors
will be requested to occupy their own
pulpits administering the communion
and preaching on Christian unity. John
I1-o1 being suggested to all as a uni
form text At 3 o'clock there will be a
series of children's meetings. and at 4
o'clock ten or more equipment serv-
ices for the delegates. Prior to these
the delegates will have visited by ap-
pointment the Sunday schools OF the
city not TO speak, but to observe. Sec
tiOnal sessions of the convention, with
the uniform theme. The Sunday School
and the Great Commission" will he
held in all parts of the city Sunday
night.
credence to the prophecy that this will
be the most imposing religious cOnven-
tion ever held in America.