The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-10-10
SUNDAY SCHOOL
WORKERS MEET
Discuss Problems of Saving the
Boys and Girls
TALKS ARE INTERESTING
The Rev. Frank Marston Makes Able
Discussion on "The Big Boy
ProbIem.-Other Practical
Discussions
TALKS ARE INTERESTING

me central DIVISION conference VI lne
Birmingham Sunday School association
was held yesterday at o'clock, joint
ly with Northside, Southside and North
Birmingham district conventions, at the
First NJ. E. church, south. There was
a social session beginning at O'Clock
and lasting for an hour and a half be-
fore the evening session was begun.
The devotional exercises of the after
noon session were led by Lee Bonner,
after which the main speaker of the &C.
cason, the Rev. Frank Marston, gave
an able discussion on THE Big Boy
Problem" interpreting his seemingly am
biguous subject as meaning The prob
lem with which the workers with the big
boy, have to deal"
The Rev. Marston held that the prob
lem of the big boy is not solved by get
ting him inside of the four walls Of a
church, nor by securing his attention
in a Sunday school class, but by the SAL
walton of a human soul plus the saliva
ton of a human lfei taking salvation
to mean not the saving of the soul from
hell, but the saving of the life for use
and to ones God.
Time to Save Boy
Many people," he said, think it inn
possible TO save a boy during the age
of from IL to 20 years, and also believe
that the sins of a boy are excusable on
the grounds that he is a boy. The sins
of boy are just as inexcusable as the
sins of man
To the prevailing conditions in the
home, brought about by the Indifference
of the father and mother. DR.. Marston
said the righteousness of the young
men was due.
Home, school, daily associations and
the church are the four forces that
work together in shaping the boys life.
and the one hour of weekly religious in
struction brought to bear against all the
worldly influences of life is problem
for the best of us.
Boys VIII BE boys
AT the age when 1t is said, Boys will
be boys God is laying His hand on
boy and bringing him back to Himself,
as statistics will show that the greatest
will be between the ages of ~ and 20,
while the curve of frequency Will reach
16. BY Boys will be boys people must
mean that boy between the age Of Il
and 20 must be a devil"
Quoting DR.. c. II. Parkhurst of the
Madison Avenue Presbyterian church. in
New York. who said, Anarchy is bred
in the home" and the Rev. Josiah
Strong. formerly of Birmingham, as say
ing, 1.-The only seat of authority in the
home is lodged in the hands of a little
child" DR.. Marston closed his address
with a plea for the Sunday school TO
work toward bringing about a wholesome
atmosphere In the home so that the boy
may be saved not only from hell, but
from a life of degradation.
Among the features on the musical
programme were: Where Is My Boy To-
night?" solo by Miss Sarah Mallam. and
Tell Mother I'll Be There" solo by Ill
mont Williams.
Miss Minnie f. Kennedy gave an in
teresting and entertaining talk on "A
Girl in Her Teens
Evening Session
The evening session of the conference
was opened with devotional exercises
conducted by T. H. Johnston. after which
two able addresses were delivered by ].
E. Ramsey and d. NJ. Marbury, respec-
lively on Winning Souls in Bible
Glasses" and Birmingham for Christ
Mr.. Ramsey spoke mainly of the in
fiuences of Sunday school training be-
ginning even in the poriod of childhood.
and illustrated the great responsibility
of the church for the large number OF
young men always drifting into Birming-
ham, by giving Instances from his per-
sonal experience in the work Of one soul
that had been won here and another
there.
Mr.. Marbury, the speaker following,
developed further the subject of Sunday
school work. expressing his belief that
theb effectiveness of the Sunday school
would be greater IL greater personal
efforts of the men and women were COM
bined with the general work Of the or
ganization, and stated that while the
Sunday school furnishes so per cent OF
the church membership, it nevertheless
loses CD per cent Of its own original men,