The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1910-06-03
GREAT meeting.
Worlds Sunday School Con-
VGntiOn at Washington.
Report Of the Greatest Religious Gath
eTing Ever Assembled in
the World.

The Louisa delegates and visi-
tors to the Worlds Sunday School
at Washington have re-
turned: They are loud and unani-
nous in their praise Of the big
meeting and regret neither the time
nor the money spent in attending
a gathering which has passed into
history as the grandest meeting Of
the kind ever held in America.
Unprecedented for its cosmopol-
itAnism, unequaled in the magnitude
of its constituency, and unsurpassed
as spectacle, the Worlds Sixth
Sunday School Convention in Wash
ington. d. c., May 1924, marks an
event in religious history.
President Taft was not alone in
expressing amazement over the size
and character OF the Convention.
He looked out over a sea of
six thousand faces on the opening
night, while outside the
Convention Hall a still
larger number of persons con-
gregated, unable to enter. Nearly
twenty-five hundred of the official
delegates wore red ribbon badges
with the legend North America "
Some five hundred others wore blue
badges bearing the names of more
than fifty different nations, as re-
mote as China and South America,
Turkey and Australia. In addition
to these three thousand official and
representative delegates from every
State and province in the United
States and Canada and from foreign
lands, there we're about seven thous-
and unofficial delegates or visitors,
Sometimes three and four ST.
multaneous Convention sessions
we're inadequate to hold the
throngs.
1t was a spectacular Convention
The great Mems Bible Glass Pa
rade on the afternoon of May 90
opened the eyes of Washington tC
the virility and masculinity of mod
ern religion. In order that some
members Of Congress might march
in the parade, as they did, and thai
others might witness it, Congress
adjourned early on the day of The
demonstration. Torrential rains i'm
mediately preceded and FOLLOWED
the parade, largely reducing tn,
ranks; nevertheless five thousant
men in a hammered procession
mile long marched down Pennsyl
vania Avenue, and were reviewed a
the Capitol by a throng OF tel
thousand persons.
All these marching men belong t
the Sunday School, and the thoush
{ uppermost in the minds of many o
the spectators who lined the side
walks was expressed on one banner
Where the men lead the boys vii
follow"
| Another spectacular feature c
r the Convention was great nren-ai
4 gathering on the east steps q
=, the capitol, when multitude {
I people joined in the singing
Christian hymns,
The demonstration accorded Pre-
ident and Mrs. Taft--whom tn
former introduced to the chrC'
ing throng as the real President
stirred the nations Chief Exec
tive greatly. He declared his b,
lief in the fundamental importanC
of religious training of the yout
of the nation through the Sunda
-. School.
The Convention sat with 10
ster map of the world before !
eyes. The official button shove
the globe with red cross superiD
posed thereupon. Part of eaC
n day was given to a Roll Call
4 Nations" The ends of the earl
came together at Washington.
II On the closing night of the Coz
vention there was tableau of Sc
enty-five children reproducing Il
picture which this Convention hi
made famous; THE Twentlet
: Century Crusaders The childrC
e OF many nations gath Led under II
Q Sunday-Scho flag. At the san
; time delegates from many lands
: Korea, China, India, Japan, Mexic
Brazil, Turkey, etc.--gathered Q