The National tribune., 1910-05-26
THE
SUNDAY SCHOOL
WORLD.
Great international Meeting of
Outstanding People-All the
Nations of Earth Represented.

Washington has been in possessio
or, perhaps it would be better to pl
It, possessed by one Of the bigges
brightest, best-dressed, brainiest ar
jolliest crowds for the last week tn;
ever invaded its historic environment
The Worlds Sixth Sunday Scho
Convention met here Thursday, Ms
10. 1t divided into three sections fc
it's first days session and three man
moth meetings were held simultaneous
| ly. One was conducted by Presider
F. B. Meyer, of London, in Calvar
Baptist Church. Passed President Ed
ward K. Warren presided over the sec
ond in the First Congregational Church
and the third was presided over b
Thomas e. Brown, President of tn
Leicester Sunday School Convention
and held in the Mount Vernon NJ. /
Church.
One of the wonderful things of tn
convention in the afternoon was tn
roll call of Nations, with responses an
reports from each particular field b.
men whose names are used to conjur
with in the Sunday School world. Rev
G. A. Simmons spoke for Russia, tn
Rev. T. L. Holway spoke for Bulgaris
the Rev. L. E. Marek reported for Bo
y
of the Sunday school work in Syria
The Rev. Henry Collins Woodruff, Pres
ident of the Foreign Sunday School AS
sociation, made an address.
Reports were also heard from Al
geria, Egypt and Turkey. The work o
evangelization in Japan was described
by native, the Rev. -. Tamura, VIII,
dwelt at some length On the effectiv,
cooperation of the worlds body witt
he NTat; ,nI 81 -.
in Japan, where there are 1888 Sunday
schools with an enrolment of more
than 100000 scholars.
Rev. George Heber Jones, of Korea
spoke of the Sunday schools in the Her
nit Kingdom, and others represented
in the roll call of the Nations were
Prof. J.. r. Chitamber. India, and Rev
John w. Butler Mexico.
Three representatives from the larg-
est Sunday school in the world-at
England-were presented to
the meeting and received loud applause
They were Francis Connell. the Super
and ]. w. Connen and John
Hancock.
The Rev. Frederick Brown, speaking
for China, told of the 40 missionary So
cieties active there, and a total of 1890
Sunday schools with an enrolment of
10000 pupils. The Rev. r. w. Post
for Siam, and the Rev. Erwin
Fl. Richards told of the work in East
Africa.
India, representing one-fourth the
population of the entire world, is show
ng great progress under the care of
he British section, which has the CO.
operation of the National Chinese Sun
lay School Union, which was organized
n 1907, reported thru Prof J. Z. Chit
tmbar, B. A.
The Rev. E. NJ. Stein, Secretary for
Mexico, told of the vast work being
school Association of Mexico.
Rev. DR.. ]. P. McNaughton, a mis-
ionary worker in Asia Minor, brought
message from the $4,000 Protestant
christians In that corner of the world.
lie declared that the Mohametan prob
EN- is the greatest obstacle to the
spread of Christianity, and said that
he present is the accepted time" for
ne initial work of bringing about the
ollowers of Islam
DR.. McNaughton's assertion that in
turkey the Christian Church maintains
unday schools six days in the week"
'as received with tremendous applause.
1t has been a wonderful meeting all
he way thru. Occident and Orient
ouched elbows literally and figurative-
!, and it must have given the "exclu-
Ion advocates an awful Jolt to see the
'ay in which the black-eyed and alert
apanese Sunday school workers lab
cred with th" "tclid Britons, while
ark-skinned Hindoos and the darker
mes yet from Africa, the little brown
rothers from across the sea and the
opper-colored Indians and the yellow
err all lifted their voices in the same
acred hymns, all imbued with the
anne fervor and fire for the Sunday
chool cause, and the jolt must have
early Jared the teeth loose in the
louths OF some of the exclusion Phob-
IT'S when Rev. N. Tamura, a little bit
1 rat Jap, whose soul is consumed
18th zeal for the cause Of Christianity
eclared with that odd stacato-Ifke In
ection which is noted particularly in |
ne japanese people:
Don't worry about Japan. japan is |
u right. She will surely be a Christian |
ation In Gods good time. It will not |
just yet awhile, but it is coming
buddhism is dead, Confucianism is dead |
nintoism is dead; Christianity is alive. |
ne japanese are sensible. They know |
nat no Nation can build moral charac-
r without religion. They have tried |
ie dead pagan religions. and they will !
y the living Christian religion next"
A Wonderful Meeting.
Indeed. it was a wonderful meeting.
40 as you passed around among these
essed Christians and heard the con-
lsion Of tongues you almost felt as
10 you were barking back to the days
babylon and the Tower Building.
III there was no heresy in the thought
n one could but feel that the stupeu-
ous tower that these Sunday school
orkers are building has for its base
lie Rock of Salvation, and that the
'htuslon OF tongues does not arise
ON CONFUSION OF minds or from self
eslre or vain ambition, and that the
agnifcent structure which the people
the civilized world is building upon
is ROCK or Salvation reached right
ralght up to Heaven, and that no mat
what wrack or ruin may come to
overnments or Nations this tower will
and until the heavens are rolled to-
.ther as q scroll
Not only was the confusion of tongues
mething wonderful. The cosmopou-
n minglfng of races was even a great
surprise. There was the turbaned
'legate from Lucknow, India. There
as the straight-haired Representative
the American Indian, the almost
daverous face of the delegate from ,
nina, the chubby, red-cheeked bows ,
I'd girls representing Sunday schools
ON our own people. There were the ,
tie men from Japan, there were the :
eer hats of Siam, the picturesnue :
ess of the Syrians, with the slender. :
representatives from Brazil. !,
iraguay, Chile, Argentine Republic, q
ID indeed representatives of almost \
cry known civilization, and yet they r
arly all spoke English; that is, they
uld speak it fairly well, altho they
re, OF course, more at home with t
cir nwn fnnnun - |