The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-05-22
Searchlight Turned on Meth
DDS, and Delegates Will
Make Reports.
SERVICES ECHOED
IN ALL TONGUES
Great Gathering of Workers Here
Uses Universal Form-City
Churches Thronged.

The Sunday schools Of the world are
echoing today in every language of
mankind the service of praise that is
being held in Washington under the
auspices OF the delegates to the great
est convention Of church workers in
history.
Under the blazing tropic sun, in the
frozen Businesses of the Arctic circle,
in the desert, IN the jungle, wherever
the word of God is preached and
taught, there are being enacted
scenes that find an exact duplication
IN the Sunday school rooms Of the
Washington churches, where $4,000
teachers and pupils are reciting the
lessons and responses prescribed for
the worlds Sunday school day service.
Form Used Throughout World.
The order Of service, consisting Of
singing, responsive reading. and pray
ers and hymns of praise, is that desig-
mated by the executive committee Of
the Worlds Sunday School Associa-
tlon. II has been translated into 100
different argUages. and is spoken in
as many dialects by men, women. and
children of every race and denOmina-
ton. united for the spread of the
Christian gospel
IN sunday schools in every part OF
the world this service is not only read,
but followed, as in Washington this
morning, by sermons emphasizing the
value Of Sunday school training, and
urging upon parents and guardians the
Obi
world in the knowledge of the Scrip
lures.
AT the hundreds Of churches Of Wash
ington this morning, following the read
ing Of the service, teachers and classes
were held up, as II were. 10 the inspeC-
ton Of the entire Sunday school world.
Delegates familiar with Sunday school
methods were appointed TO visit the
classes OF the Capital for the purpose Of
studying the methods IN vogue.
Will Make Reports.
These committees will make observa-
tiOns II writing to Mr.. William G.
Landes. chairman Of the special COM
mittee, at the Ebitt House tomorrow
morning at O'Clock.
Justice Harlan. Of the Supreme Court
Of the United States, had his regular
Bible class at New York Avenue Pres
byterian Church swelled 10 500 pupils,
when lawyers, teachers, and other pro-
fessional men and women from all parts
Of America, any many foreign lands,
attended. Among the visitors were the
Rev. Mr.. Chink, OF China; Justice J. J.
Mac Laren, OF Toronto; Judge Seth
Leet, Of Quebec; Principal Patrick. OF
Manitoba. the Rev DR.. Charles WOr-
den, Of Philadelphia; the Rev. DR.. Ball,
bull, editor Sunday School Times J. L.
and Mrs Griggs, and others.
Justice Harlan's Address.
Justice Harlan read and talked Of the
death of John the Baptist, Matthew
14:1-12. and five-minute talks were given
by Justice Mac Laren, Judge Leet, Prin-
cipaI Patrick, and the Rev. DR.. Charles
Worden
Following the Sunday school services,
thousands Of the delegates thronged the
various churches Of the city. in the
most Of which the pulpits were filed by
The churches own pastors.
At the Church Of Our Father Unlver-
EaliSt, at Thirteenth and Z streets, Rev
John Van Schaick. jr., took for his sub
gect The Great Convention" and for
bis text the words from Romans 1871.
The Worlds Sunday School COnven-
ton said DR.. Van Schaick. 'stirs
Washington as no other convention ever
held mere we are used TO conventions.
We have them almost every week.
Few Of US have any time 70 give 70
the majority of them. But the World s
Sunday School Convention compels our
attention. 1t fills the city with dele
gates; 1t packs our largest hall; it
brings subject Of deepest interest
home to US all. II will undoubtedly
have a great influence in stimulating
interest in Sunday school work here in
Washington and in compelling better
methods OF instruction
Two great thoughts lie at the basis
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