Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-20

The worlds sixth Sunday school con-
vention divided into three sections for its
first sessions today and three mammoth
meetings were held simultaneously Presi-
dent F. b. Meyer of London conducted
one in Calvary Baptist Church and Past
President Edward X. Warren presided at
another in the First Congregational
Church. The third was held in the Mount
Vernon NJ. E. Church. Thomas f. Brown.
president of the Leicester Sunday School
Union, presiding.
The roll call of nations with responses
and reports from their field was the fea-
ture at all three meetings. At the first
the Rev. G. n. Simmons spoke for Rus
sia. the Rev. T. T. Holway spoke for
Bulgaria; the Rev. l.. L. Marek reported
for Bohemia. and Mrs. Layyah Barakat
told of the Sunday school work i'm Syria.
The Rev. Henry Collins Woodruff. presi-
dent of the Foreign Sunday School Asso-
citation, made an address.
Reports From Foreign Lands.
At the second meeting. where Past
President Warren held the chair, reports
from Algeria, Egypt and Turkey were
made. Three representatives from the
largest Sunday scnool in the worid-at
Stockport, England-were presented to
the meeting and received loud applause.
They were Francis Connell, the super
intendent, and J. w. ConnelI and John
Hancock.
The work OF evangelization i'm Japan
was described by the Rev. y. Tamura.
who dwelt at length the effective
operation OF the Worlds body with the
National Sunday School Association in
Japan, where there are 1,5sS Sunday
schools with an enrolment of more than
100000 scholars.
Rev. George Heber Jones of Korea
spoke of the sunday schools i'm the Her
init kingdom at the third meeting at Mt.
Vernon NJ L. Church, and others repre-
sented i'm the roll call of the nations were
Prof ]. r. Chitamber, India, and Rev
John w. Butler. Mexico. Gov. Mann OF
Virginia made the principal address be-
fore this meeting.
In Memory Of Deceased King.
At all three morning sessions the hour
between IL o'clock and noon was devoted
TO a memorial service in honor of the
late King Edward VII of England. The
programs, which were identical at all
meetings. was prepared by the British
delegates to the convention.
Ihe AFTERNOON session was also OlNlueQ
into three sections. At the first, in CAL
vary Church, Vice President Justice j. J.
MacLaren of Toronto. Canada, presideu.
Reports of work from the field were pre-
sented The Rev. Frederick Brown.
speaking for China, told of the forty
missionary societies active there, and a
total of 1.SO0 Sunday schools with an
enrolment of 1900 pupils. The Rev. r.
W. Post reported for Siam and the Rev.
Irwin III. Richards told OF the work in
East Africa
India, representing one-fourth the popu-
lation of the entire world, is showing
British section which has the co-opera-
ton of the National Chinese Sunday
School Union, which was organized in
1907. Since then a vigorous Sunday school
has been carried on there, Prof.
j. r. Chitambar, B. A, reported.
Cooperation Desired.
At the second afternoon meeting. pre-
sided over by President Meyer. the Rev.
Frank johnson. editor OF the Sunday
School Chronicle OF London. made an ad-
dress, and the Rev. E. NJ. Stein. secretary
for Mexico. told of the vast work being
done there by the National Sunday School
Of Mexico. He declared that
the worlds convention must continue to
cooperate with 1t for the present at
least, il the good work was to go on with
present results.
Among the speakers at the Mount ver-
non M. E. Church this afternoon were
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