The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1910-05-06
FORT WAYNE GETS
NEXT CONVENTION
Sunday School Association Con-
cludes Its Work.
$500 DELEGATES PRESENT
Resolutions Commend Temperance
Movement in Indiana and lndorse
laymen's Missionary Movement
Halpenny Is Given an Ovation.


Indianapolis convention o
the Indiana Sunday School associa
tion concluded its annual session here
by selecting Fort Wayne as the place
for the next meeting.
In the report of the resolution com
mittee. the fight that the state of In.
diana is making for temperance was
complimented. The laymens mis-.
sionary movement was Endorsed as be-
ing the greatest religious advance
ment of the times. and il was said
that the present corvention is the
greatest that Indiana has ever had.
Although only about seven hundred
delegates enrolled. IL was estimated
that fully 1900 delegates had attended
the convention at least a part OF the
time
6. y. Burnie. general secretary. in
his report compliments the various of.
hcers OF the different departments on
tie showing they had made during the
year
The Rev. +. W Halpenny. formerly
general secretary of the Indiana asso-
citation, who resigned three months
ago to become general secretary of
the Ontario Sunday School associa-
ton, received an ovation as he arose
on the platform to give his address
on The Country Sunday School" A
vote of the entire audience showed
that onethird were workers from
country Sunday schools and another
third, now in the city. began work in
the country Sunday schools. He gave
the following reasons for nonattend-
ance at Sunday school. showing that
conditions are not very much different
in the city and country: scattered
community. Sunday visiting. indiffer-
ence, toll WEAKNESS. bad weather. I
building accommodations and base.
ball
The three elements Of success for a
successful Sunday school are prepara-
ton, promptness and persuasion. ac-
cording TO Mr. Halpenny. Then" he
said, you must push and keep al il
always There is no Sunday school in
ne city or country that is successful
On any other plan. The teachers must
De excellent, faithful and devoted.
he teachers and classes must see
after absentees. and should keep the
'hurch neat and clean. The classes
hould hold picnics and entertain each
,ther.
The Sunday school life in the
COUNTRY can be made the greatest
actor in its social life. All that is
ieeded in any community in the Sun.
lay school is the persistent effort OF
onsecrated individual" In closing he
cad the poem Try Again" asking
ach teacher TO make a practical an.
lication Of IL in his work. ,
The closing address at the morning r
ession was given by the Rev. vii. ,
am Henry Geistweit He said in =
art: There are two common interpre. I
atoms OF life that we are likely 10 n
ut to ourselves ana before children =
ne one Is that OF career and the n
Their Is the thought OF a mission. So q
ing as you talk To a boy or girl
bout career just so long will Won
rect them in selfshness and self.
'eking. There is another interpreta. "
on not so common and usually IN
'mes 10 us after We have lived for "
ears, TO interpret life as a mission fr
he great problem OF life is 10 get n "
10 the boy or girl that life should he m
'erpreted from the standpoint OF a
reer. seek 10 discover the under n
ing motive In that individual life"