The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-06
SUNDAY SCHOOL
CONVENTION NOTES.

Tomorrow is the last day of the con-
vention-and the busiest day. From
$3.50 in the morning until 1880 at
night the convention is in one grand
session. This grand session has been
termed the General Session of the
annual convention.
opens at the Auditorium with the
| usual excellent song service led by Mr.
Grant c.. Tullar. The Bible medita-
ton at 10 O'Clock and "a Look For
ward at 1915. During this Look
Forward the annual report of the con-
reports Will be reviewed and the grand
reports viii be reviewed and the grand
series of announcement will be made
by the officers and lti,s committees These e
| announcements VIII contain number
| of important features concerning the
| future work of the convention. Mrs.
| NJ. S. Lan1oreaux will give her third
| lecture at 11:15 and the meeting Will
adjourn These are the contents of the
general meeting.
The conferences in the morning will
undoubtedly draw a large crowd from
| the delegations. These conferences at
| the First Baptist church will be of
great value to the Sunday school
| teacher and the worker interested in
the cause. The adult Bible classes of
/ a Sunday school are always the hard
est proposition of the church. They
are hard to organize, hard to teach
and hard to keep a growing interest.
And it is admitted by the Sunday
| school workers that a good Bible class
| is one of the greatest incentives to a
good Sunday school attendance. Their
| influence and their presence always
| insures recognition from the younger
| pupils NJ F. Gable, a prominent
| Bible classman of Holton, Kansas, will
preside at this conference from to
/ $50 in the morning at the First Bap
| fist church W. D. Stem and Rev b.
| F. Rhoades of Ashland, Ohio. will give
| short lectures on the subject Both
| men are specialists along this line ana
| their lectures are awaited with in
terest
After the Bible classes have been
discussed the elementary grades will
be taken UP by the assembled dele
gates. Special emphasis is to be laid
upon the cradle roll of the Sunday
school. Mrs. RoXana Beecher Preus-
zener will preside at this meeting and
| Mrs. NJ. S. Lamoreaux, specialist in
Sunday school work, will give the
| leading talk.
Friday afternoon at the Auditorium
the usual song service by Mr.. Grant
c. Tullar will be conducted This VIII
| be followed by one Of the very inter
| esting topics of the convention
| Music in the Sunday School" Mr..
Tullar with many years experience
and the leader of the music for this
convention will give this address He
has had several Sunday schools under
| his supervision. and at the present
time is in New York city:
! An address and a talk concerning
the work of the pastor in the upbufld-
/ ing of Sunday school work Will con-
stitlte the platform program. Mrs
| M. S. Lamoreaux will give her fourth
| lecture-tfe subject not given.
| In the conferences after Rev. Chas.
| M. Sheldon of Topeka VIII PRESIDE and
the work of the Junior and intermed1-
ate grades will be reviewed Many
leaders and specialists will talk under
| this head
The work of the evening in detail
| will be given in the state journal TO-
morrow afternoon.
| One of the very important addresses
/ this evening to be given at the regular
| session in the Auditorium will be by
Dr.. Frank Knight Sanders, of Wash
| burn college DR.. Sanders will talk on
| the relation of the college to the Sun
| day school AS president of one of the
| greatest colleges in the country, Dr.
| Sanders is we'll ACQUAINTED with the
| subject. He has served as dean of the
Yale University Divinity school and is
a man of national and international
/ fame. His career as religious WORK
| er. a professor, and an editor sparkles
| with brilliancy and his talk at the
| crowd. Dr. Sanders has been giving
| lectures at Washburn college which
filled the chapel His reputation as a
lecturer and talker is well known in
| the east as well as the west.
1t is expected that a large number of
the Sunday school superintendent and
delegates will stay in the city over
/ Sunday to attend the Topeka Sunday
/ schools and churches. One of the su-
perintendents from the western part OF
the state said this morning that he had
heard considerable concerning the
work of the Sabbath schools in this
!, city and he was going to desert his
l school one Sunday in order to witness
the operation of a large we'll regulated
school There are many Sunday schools
in the city with many hundred schol-
ars and they are under the best OF
i teachers and superintendents. The
Il delegates to the city will consult the
Saturday evening State Journal for all