Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-10-05
THE BAPTisTs.
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Arm" Among the points made by the
| preacher were. the following.
'The church of the next 10 or 25
years is among the children and youth
Of today. The majority of the member
ship of our Sunday schools are under
| 20 years of age. They begin to quit
uate,' not graduate, before they reach
| that age. About so per cent. of CONVEX
sions occur between the ages of IL and
20 and about 80 per cent of the addi-
| tions to the church come from the Sun
day school. 1t follows then that the
strongest hope for the coming church
is in the present Sunday school. Those
| in the Sunday school must be con-
verted while there or the chances are
exceedingly against their conversion.
The wisest thing pastor can do is to
interest himself intelligently in the
Sunday school. If he does this he will
find that some other things upon which
he has depended may wisely be laid
aside and he will learn to appreciate the
Sunday school as his strong right arm
in doing his church work"
Mr. Fuller is a convincing and logi-
cal speaker and was listened to with
the closest attention by the pastors
| and laymen present He has been for
number of years a Sunday school
secretary in Vermont
Young Peoples Convention.
The entire evening session was given
over to the Maine Baptist Young Peo-
pies convention, which includes the
Baptist Unions and Christian Endeav-
or Societies connected with the Baptist
churches of Maine. The attendance
was very large, the auditorium of the
church being filed long before the SER
vices begun, requiring the bringing in
of extra chairs and settees, and even
then by the time the meeting was well
under way a number were standing in
the back part of the room.
The services of the evening opened
promptly at 7.15 with praise service
led by Rev. +. A. Davies of South
Paris The devotional service was con-
Quoted by Rev. Harold Hanson of
Rumford Falls in the place of Rev.
Charles Hargrove of Bluehill, who was
unable to be present Prayer was Of
ferred by Rev. F. A. Robinson, pastor
of the Central Square church. Port
land. In the absence of the president
and vice president, Rev. J. K. Wilson.
d. D., of Portland, editor of the lions
Advocate, was chosen chairman of the
meeting.
. The report of the corresponding sec
retary, Miss Bernice Sinclair OF Brew
er was read and accepted. This report
showed a gain in membership and be-
nevolences. The report of the record :
ing secretary, Miss Linnie Belle Tread
we'll of Portland was read, giving the
record of the last annual meeting of
the convention at Brewer. The report
of the treasurer, Herbert w. Rowe of
Brewer, was read by Rev. George c.
Sauer of Bangor and showed the pres
ent amount on hand to be $20.70. The
| following committees were appointed
Platform-Rev. w. S. Holland. Liv-
ermore Falls; Brooks E. Carter, Au-
gusta; Mrs. w. Q. O'Brien, Bath.
Nominatiops-Rev. H. H.t Pringle,
Milo; W. II. Rowe. Yarmouthville; Mrs.
Alice Whittier. Jay.
The platform committee later in the
| evening presented tentative report,
but the discussion of the planks had
not gone far before a general desire
was manifested to have the report re-
ferred back to the committee for fl
! nal report this morning. The report of
the committee on nominations was also