The Washington times., 1910-05-19
Head of Christian Conven-
ton Thinks EvangeliZation
Of Young Paramount.
GREAT GATHERING
OPENS WITH SONGS
Representatives Of 81 Nations Are
Present, With Thousands of
American Church Workers.

With the great Convention Hall pack
&c in every nook and Granny, church
men Of ffty-One nations with thousands
Of Christian workers in q song service
Of praise, formal opened the sixth
Worlds Sunday School Convention this
afternoon
Eminent lay religious workers and
ciergymen from nearly every corner Of
the globe, missionaries from far-Off
Korea, from darkest Africa, from super
stitIous Oriental cIimes, and even from
ICY Greenland came TO Washington 10
attend the worlds convention. and gath
cred for the first time in Convention
Han today.
Practically all the delegates. and as
Ty,any visitors as the han would hold,
were in their seats By. 30 O'Clock. Pro
Ionged applause greeted the appearance
on the platform Of the Rev Dr- F. B
Meyer. the distinguished president Of
the association. who only recently com
rlcted q world tour on behalf OF the
world 6vangeliZaIiOn movement
Greatest Of Song Services.
Many cIercymen in the audience who
had ATTENDED great gatherings in vari-
Gus parts OF The world declared they
had seldom experienced such an inspira-
ton as tt { furnished by the service %
song with which the meeting opened
The singing program was arranged, and
conducted under the direction OF Prof
z. 0. Excel and Prof Percy s Foster
The scripture lesson Eas read and
prayer delivered by the Rev Earl Gran
ston, .. D, Bishop OF the Methodist
Episcopal. Church
The Convention SeTomu-
The event Of the afternoon was che
convention sermon preached By Dr.
Meyer, who took for his text the sec
ond verse OF the eighth Fsalus which
reads, out Of the mouths OF babes and
suckIings Thou hast perfected strength
that Thou mightest still the enemy and
the avenger-
Dr. Meyer made a plea for the reH-
EiOu Of the child That religion ne oe-
Clared, was the type that must Uiti-
Tnately overcome the world.
The heather idea. suggested By the
aRnostfc," DR.. Meyer said, was that
the dignity Of God was SO great that he
could not interest himself in the affairs
OF men But surely, the greatness OF
God implies his willingness TO stOOD
even 10 the most minute When Christ
took a child n his arms II seemed 10
be the symbol Of the way in which the
Almighty IS always stopping over the
fresh yong generations as LLlsy PoLL
forth 10 pay their part for a brief time,
IN the world
EyangeIize the Children
1T was Christ who discovered the
child. He tCId US the latent possibilities
that sleep within II and has given the
clue to IS evangeIiZation-
to-, Ionz have we concentrated our
selves extensively on the degraded and
the oI1tcasts- Tie church viii be better
rouuensated i she throws more ener-
Zy into that great mission for which
the SUNDAY school convention stands
Dr. Never said there were strong
FoT..ez for the Gfsintagra-ion OF society
of heather lands lay in the children
when they had been broSht under the
power Of Christ
Il Is not enough to educate only, Dr
Never declared Children must be evan
EzIized He said that Christ must be
formed in the heart Of the child and
that there was 10 limit 70 the posi-
buitles IN its maturity
The Worlds Sunday School COuven-
ton, - the speaker continued. means
the inspiration OF hope for the world
through the child
Following the address Of Dr. Meyer
the report OF the chairman OF the execu-
tive committee was read by Dr. George
W Bailey
Report Of the Executive Chairman.
The report consists Of a review OF a
work done by the association and COW
ers tEenty-three printed pages. The
portion OF the report listened TO with
greatest interest were the UecOmmenda-
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