The National tribune., 1910-05-26

Summer hats, the Kaleidoscope effeC
was almost bewildering.
But whensthey tang!
on' out You ought to have heard tina
. singing! Can you Imagine 5000 peopl
gathered from theuutmost parts of tn
leartn, singing with one great voice 4
& one accordsv Onward, Christian Sol
I diers?"
al Why, II You were the veriest SHINE
on earth, who did not believe in a Go,
ana really had not much use for your
sell, tnat mighty burst of music swellet
up and rolled among the rafters of tina
tremendous audience chamber woult
!, nave fired your soul with ambition anC
/ nlied your heart with love. You would
nave Joined in that song yourself, anC
you would have made just as mucf
noise as your lungs would let you, per.
maps, giving the lie to your whole pre-
V1ous life, and you would have com,
out of that Sunday School Convention
the better for having been there. Tht
singing of that great international Sun
day school song had all of the ringing
OF great battle cry in it, and it seemed
as tho they would never get enough o.
IL. 1T was meant that only one verse
should be sung, but at the end of that
Iand the chorus somebody in a remote
part OF the hall would start another
verse, and it would run with all the
force of electricity thru that great audi
Ience, and every voice again would have
been lifted until it had been sung over
once and almost again before the re-
liigous fervor had exhausted itself in
physical effort
| And then that night
| You would have declared that that
great hall could not have held another
oody at the afternoon session, but al
| night IT is estimated that in spite of
! the police 1000 people were crowded
into its confines and at least a thousand
on the outside clamoring for admit
tance. The particular interest for the
attendance that evening, and more
especially for those who came from
abroad, was the address that was to be
made by President Taft
As he entered the building the audi-
ence arose as one, and the cheering and
clapping was as the noise of a gr~.
army. The thunder of applause fhat
greeted the President was absolutely
deafening and rolled like the boom of
artillery.
Our great big, jolly, laughing and
good-natured President, as modest a
man as ever lived, was plainly much
moved by the demonstration. After
the audience had exhausted itself in
greeting the President it began to de-
mand closer view of Mrs. Taft, who.
tho she had accompanied him, had
quietly taken her place in the back
ground.
The President quickly escorted her to
the pulpit. and then in his strong, clear,
penetrating voice, said. This is the real
President of the United States" and
then a tremendous laugh convuIsed the
audience as Mrs. Taft, looking very
much confused, yet very attractive.
bowed to the audience and slipped back
to her seat.
If there were people who have
thought that President Taft is not a
christian, they would have speedily
changed their minds could they have
heard that ringing: address which fairly
gloWed with virility and religious fire.
He spoke of the missionary advance.
the trials, tribulations and rewards of
d sunday school teacher, the necessity
Tor religious training, and the value of
great international congresses as a
means of developing concord and amity
among the Nations
1t SENS work of supererogation to
talk about the advantage of beginning
moral and religious instruction with the
earliest youth" he said. I'VE do not
nave to convince each other that that
which we learn in youth lasts longest
with u.s.
AS the twig is bent, so will the tree
grow. Youth is the time to inculcate.
Tor lasting results, moral and religious |
IDEAS. Our public school education. un-
der the system which, with various de- |
we are Obliged to adont
s only secular teaching, with the teach
ng of morality in general But that is
not enough. There are those whose I
opinions L highly respect, who feel as If |
{ were dangerous to have education at
all unless associated with religious edu-
;ation; but we in our country, under
our system, have not found 1t practical
20 have public education associated
with distinctly religious education. and
therefore we feel even more than in
countries where that is possible. the
necessity for Sunday school education
ma for Sunday schools. No matter
What views are taken of general educa-
lon' we all agree-Protestant, Catholic
md Jew alike-that Sunday school edu- l.
cation is absolutely necessary to obtain
moral up lift and religious spirit"
On saturday evening, day that had |
'een glorious with sunshine and prom
sed an evening of delight, it had to go
nd ram And, my patience, how 1t did
'our! we OF Washington would not
lave thought anything about IL. be- |,
ause we don't really care, being used
o It; but 1t was the afternoon sched-
lied for the great worlds Sunday 6
chool parade, and those of us who did
lot want to join in the parade wanted
o be able to watch it's progress up the
reatest avenue in the world
The Big Parade.
We watched It all right, because the
arade was right there There was {
O.00O of it. There is not any doubt at
ii that there were fully 10000 men,
,omen and children in that parade {
here were dozen bands in it also. 7
nd there were just about 10000 UNI
relas. When you were sitting up in l
ne windows looking down upon it. 1t s
'oked like procession of animated |
mbrelias. They moved from Conven-
ion Hall down 10th street and then l
own Pennsylvania avenue and around O
he Capitol up to the broad plaza on c
no east front There this wonderful n
recession met fully 5000 women as t
'ell as men and children, who had
cen camping on the Capitol steps and t
round the front Of the Capitol for two I
ours. v
Again it is impossible to tell what q Q
iagnifcently inspiring spectacle that {
reat congregation of people presented h
ne rain had not dampened their ardor '
l the least e
Each State and regiment had a flag t.
r banner, and some of them carried
score of these. As they marched each il
sang the songs of its State Il
: nationality until they reached the 81
apitol front. where Onward. Chris b
an Soldiers" was taken up by eyerv- N
he. With the women was a drum "
rps of girls, all dressed in white. with u
drum major In a. dress supposed to he Il
itriotic because Il was made of dags r.
Congress had adjourned as a courtesv h
the Sunday School Convention. and e.
In that tremendous crowd on the D