The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1910-05-13
FORT WAYNE GETS
NEXT CONVENTION
Sunday School Association Con-
cIudes Its Work.
$500 DELEGATES PRESENT
Resolutions Commend Temperance
Movement in Indiana and lndorse
Lsymen's Missionary Movement
Halpenny Is Given an Ovation.

Indianapolis The convention OF
the Indiana Sunday School associa-
lion 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 laymen's mis-
sionary movement was indorsed as be-
ing the greatest religious advance
I ment of the times. and IL was said
I that the present convention is the
! greatest that Indiana has ever had
I 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
c. \. Burnie. general secretary. in
his report compliments the various Of
ficers of the different departments on
tie showing they had made during the
year.
The Rev. T. 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,
building accommodations and base
ball
The three elements OF success for a
successful Sunday school are prepara-
ton, promptness and persuasion. &C
cording TO Mr.. Halpenny. Then" he
said. you must push and keep al il
always. There is no Sunday school in
the city or country that is successful
on any other plan. The teachers must
be excellent, faithful and devoted
the teachers and classes must see
after absentees. and should keep the
church neat and clean The classes
should hold picnics and entertain each
other.
The Sunday school life in the
country can be made the greatest
factor in its social life. All that is
needed in any community in the Sun
day school Is the persistent effort OF
consecrated individual" In closing he 4
read the poem Try Again" asking
each teacher TO make a practical ap- I
plication of it in his work
The closing address at the morning
session was given by the Rev. viii /
liam Henry Geistweit. He said in
part: There are two common interpre-
tations of life that we are likely TO
put to ourselves and before children.
The one Is that OF career and the
other Is the thought of a mission So
long as you talk to a boy or girl
about career just so long will you
direct them in selfshness and self
seeking. There is another interpreta-
ton. not so common and usually
comes to MS after we have lived for
years. to interpret life as a mission.
The great problem of life is to get IL
into the boy or girl that life should be
interpreted from the standpoint of a
career. Seek 10 discover the under
lying motive in that individual life"