Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-05-23
Common Form Of Service
Held in Every Cline
In Conjunction With The Sun
day School Convention.
Great Meetings at Washington
Missionaries In Pulplts.

| Washington May 22.-Churches IN
| every cline today echoed the precepts
of the Worlds Sunday School Asso-
citation, which is holding it's annual
| convention in Washington, by the OBJ
servance through common form OF
| service of the Worlds Sunday School
Day" ministers of the gospel in every
| land preached special sermons ringing
with the one theme, the value of the
Sunday school and the duty of parents
and guardians of the young in the mat
| ter of religious training OF the charges
! committed to their care.
Millions of boys and girls of every
| nation united in a service of praise fol-
| lowing in every detail a program of ex-
erciSeS, compiled by the executive COM
mittee of the association which had
been translated and printed in more
| than 100 languages and dialects. The
| order OF service prescribed, consisted
of singing responsive reading and
prayers. 1t was a worldwide observ-
ance designed to promote the work of
| the Sunday school and to be such de-
vine for the workers. @
In this city the scene of the conven-
ton, services were conducted in all the
Protestant churches. The devotions be-
gan at 100 O'Clock this morning when in
many of the churches the sacrament was
observed.
| Delegates from the executive commit
tee of the convention visited every Sun
| day school and mission rallies for boys
and girls during the afternoon and the
| evening. Missionary meetings in more
| than a hundred churches were addressed
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4 field.
| The Sunday school workers began with
q sunrise prayer meeting at one of the
principal hotels. The Rev. Samuel Zwem-
er, for many years a missionary in Ara
bia, presided and prayers were offered
for the Moslem world. All the services
were strictly international in their color
as we'll as ter-denominational. Prac-
tically every Protestant denomination
was represented and it was estimated
folk of 81 nationalities were gathered.
| Washington, May 22.-Delegates from
Great Britain to the sixth convention of
the Worlds Sunday School Association,
now in session here. declared in address,
es delivered by them today at several
| church services that the action of the
local committee in barring Negroes from
the Mems Bible Glass parade on Friday
| last was an unChristian action. They
said that such thing would not have
| happened in England, where the Negro
can occupy positions on an equality with
| his white brother.
| DR.. John Reid Shannon. pastor of the
Metropolitan Methodist Episcopal church.
| also criticised the action of the local
| committee. An open letter has been
addressed by a committee of local Negro
| ministers to the delegates attending the
| convention. fully generating the gener-
| al committee of the association of race
prejudice and placing the blame entirely
| on the local committee which had charge
| of the arrangements for the meetings.
| Communion. conservation. and conquest
| were the three watchwords of the OBJ
servance of Worlds Sunday School day,
morning, afternoon and evening, each
| having one Of the topics.