The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-24

Known Sunday School Workers in | America, Who Will Be Here nt Bible Training School
 1 The composer of Count Your Bless | ings' needs no introduction in Birming- ham. An audience of 1900 music lovers gathered in the First Baptist church the | night of April 26, 1909, to enjoy the | leadership of this master director of de- svotional song After the meeting that night Uncle X,'' as he Is called, said Birmingham people were good singers and he would like to lead them again. For this occasion, when he will be here an entire week, the Birmingham Oratorio society and the Jefferson Male Chorus will join with the Birmingham Sunday
 school choirs, making a 10O0-voice chorus
 under the leadership of rofessor Excel.
 And Professor Excell will have with him
 his pianist, MT. Alvin Roper, who gained
 worldwide reputation at the World s
 Sunday School convention at Washing l ton, D. C., last May, where he held spell- bound again and again 6000 delegates and visitors from every quarter of the earth.
 The chorus will sing Sunday afternoon.
 December 4, and every night the rest of the week.
 The Sunday afternoon meeting will be
 open to the public.
 Training Class Course s The training school course consists of
 25 lectures The first will be on Sunday
 afternoon, December 4, by pr. McKin-
 ney on "The Cnlld for Christ" During
 the week the sessions will begin daily
 at S45 p. m. with song devotional serv-
 ice led by Professor Excel and will run through to o'clock, with an intermis-
 sion for supper. The ladies of the First
 Baptist church will serve coffee and tea
 to all in the basement of the church.
 Those attending will furnish for them- selves the rest of their supper. which | may also be eaten in the basement 1 All who attend and take satisfactory
 notes on 19 lectures will receive an h. ternational Training school diploma | Those who do so in all 25 lectures will be special honor graduates.
 Many out-of-town visitors will at tend. Sunday school workers from At lanta and Columbus, Miss, have indi-
 cated their intention of being here. DeKalb county expects to have 30 on
 hand. The officers of all the county
 
 Montgomery will be convened at the school for two days conference, and others will come from every part of Alabama. Out-of-town visitors who communicate with or come to the head
 quarters of the Birmingham Sunday
 School association, No. 1901 Empire
 building, will be assisted and shown every attention and courtesy by repre- sentatives of the association in securing
 satisfactory homes and any other mat ters.
 Friendly Rivalry shown Considerable friendly rivalry exists | among the different denominations as to the number of matriculates from the
 respective denominations. There will be a contest between them on the per
 centage basis, based on the number en-
 rolled in all the Sunday schools in
 Birmingham in each denomination. If
 the Meth odists have 5000 enrolled ano
 the Baptists 5000, and the Baptists ma triculate 600, which would be 12 per
 cent, then the Meth odists would have to
 matriculate over 720, which would be 12 per cent of their enrolment, in or der to win. In this contest each de- nomination will have a chief and under
 the chief will be division chiefs for the eastern, central and western di- visions of the city, and then repre-
 sentative in every Sunday school in the city. There will also be contests be- tween churches, upon challeges to one