The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-07
VISIT THE SLUMS.
Kansas City Sunday School
Teachers Seek Object Lessons.
Make Round of Kansas City, Mo.
North End.
9 THOUSAND PARADE.
State Sunday School Delegates
Have Big Time.
Big Rainbow Rink Couldn't Ac-
commOdate Crowd.

| Kansas City, Kan. April Tone
thousand men from al parts OF Kan
| sas, delegates to the Kansas State sun
day School convention being held IN
| Kansas City, Kan, marched -FOUR
| abreast down Minnesota avenue IN
this city yesterday afternoon. iney
went from the First Presbyterian
church at Seventh street and Nebraska
avenue to Fifth street and Armstrong
avenue. where the Rainbow rink mas
| been converted into an auditorium lor
the Sunday school convention meet
tngs. While the men marched more
than a thousand women delegates
stood in the crowd on the sldeWalks'
cheering and waving hanokerciiieS
Crowds Were Turned Away.
| NO., @,arsons who wanted to attend
the meeting in the Rainbow auoltor-
| Jun last night were turned away -oe
cause all the seats and standing room ON
in the building were takeH tbare also
was an overflow meeting. Inc iAee'
ings were held simultaneously.
Marion Lawrance, general secresal -,
of the international Sunday Scnool
association. and the Rev. Francis Way
land Russell, pastor Of the Westmiin-
ster Presbyter an church in st. LOUIS
addressed the meeting az the auol-
torium. Mr.. Russells adoress wa nrt
He requested that more money De
given for foreign missions.
How to Deal With Big Boy.
There are one biiaon n9n-Chr s.
tians in the world" nc Salo. i Las
wear America gave Is million dollars
| to foreign missions. That is only one
and one-haIf cents for each non-Chris-
| tan person"
s.'The Big Boy and How to Deal With
Him. was Mr.. Lawrance's subject;
| 'rYou should find out something about
the bow" he said. eff you want TO
learn something about the big boy
consult his mother. She knows more
about him n a day than his father does
in a month. 1t seems as if the devil IS
let loose for the boy. The boys are into
all that is good and all that is bad. In
the Sunday schools there are three
girls to one boy over IL years old. Inc
rest of them should be there.
when Sunday school people get
awake to their job and train for It, Just
as the ball player trains for his part IN
the game, the boys will line up Tor sun
day school The primary department
has been furnishing boys to the Sunday
schools for years, but the minute they
grow up enough to wear a stano-up
collar they get out.
srWha+ fools are people who say that
children cannot understand the word OF
God,'' said the Rev. DR.. E. B. Meyer ol
London last night in beginning his
speech on Sunday school work before
the second conference at the conven-
ton of the State Sunday School asso-
citation in the First Presbyterian
church, Kansas City, Kan.
There is no boy or girl alive today
who with the education offered by our
public schools cannot understand Gods
word and derive as much from 1t as an
older person. 1t is no longer mys-
terry to them"
The sessions Of the convention will
end today.
Visit Slums at Midnight.
Thirty delegates to the Kansas State
Sunday School convention. in session
in Kansas City, visited the North end
at midnight last night to see the
slums. The visiting party included five
men and rs women from the farms
and towns of Dickinson and Marion
counties. They went to police head
quarters at 1880 O'Clock and asked
for an escort to take them through
the North end
1--WE want to see it all" S. L. Arm
strong, a banker of Hillsboro. Kan,
who was spokesman of the party. said.
Sleeping on Iron Stats.
First they visited the police station.
They were surprised to see the men
prisoners in the holdover sleeping on
the iron Stats instead of feather beds.
but they were more surprised when
they visited the womens quarters. A
woman jumped up from a bench
where she was sleeping and cursed
them for waking her.
They visited the Bohemian and
Greek hotels on West Fifth street
The proprietor of one of the ombined