Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-09-17
SUNDAY SCHOOLS
IN A CONVENTION
Thirty third Annual Meeting of
County Association to Be
Held at Silvis.
OCT. a. AND 5 THE DATES
Several Workers Prominent in the
State Engaged to Give Instruc-
lions During the Two Days.
BY III. e. VAN DUzER.

The 33rd annual convention of the
Rock Island County Sunday School as
ISOLATION will be held Tuesday and
Wednesday, Oct 4th and 5th, at Silvis,
H., in the Methodist church. The con-
vention promises to be one of the
best ever held in the county, because
Of the able instructors that have been
secured to conduct 1t. All superin-
sendents and pastors should bear in
mind that they are delegates of this
convention by virtue of their office, and
each school should have at least
three delegates beside.
E. C. Knapp of Chicago will be pres
ent and make two addresses. He is
at present Sunday school lecturer in
Chicago Theological seminary. He is
also superintendent of Union Park
Congregational Sunday school, and 8
large mission school in that city At
One time he was superintendent of
Broadway Tabernacle Sunday school
Of New York city, also the Fourth Con-
gregational Sunday school Of Hart
ford, Conn, reported to have 1900
scholars. He is man thai can tell
rs how to do things, and one of his
subjects is How TO Build Up a Sunday
School, and the other, How to Hold
the Boy"
In Elementary Grades.
Mrs. Ida F. LYDIA Of Chicago, will
have charge of the elementary grades.
She is a most competent lady, and has
charge Of the elementary work of the
schools of the entire state. One of
her subjects will be Practical Plans
in Elementary Grades and the other,
Now Graded Lessons"
Another state worker who will be
here is Henry Moser of Sheridan, H.,
one of the best equipped Sunday school
men Of any state. He is the life of
any convention that he enters, and al
ways has new, fresh material to give
us. He will have charge of the nor
NAL work of the convention.
Another worker whose name 1 de-
sire to mention, and who is a thor
oughly competent instructor in her de-
partment, is Mrs c. w. Halves of Rock
Island. Mrs. HAYES is superintendent
Of the intermediate department of the
Broadway Presbyterian Sunday school.
This department Of school work has in
the past received less attention in our
convention than any other, and yet 1t
is one of the most important, for here
you find boys and girls ranging in ages
from Is to 16, the very time when
most of them join the church. Mrs.
Halves will speak on 1.-THE Important
Work Of the intermediate Depart
ment.''
We have also secured a very able
leader of singing who will be sent from
Chicago, and will bring with him some
thing new and inspiring in musical
lines.
Now, I am sure, after reading the
above, you will say, as a Sunday school
worker, We'll, 1 can't afford to miss
that convention" and you are right,
Those who do attend will receive in
Struction and inspiration that will
make their future work delight
Much Benefit Received
You will always find that a plodder
IN Sunday school work is one who
never attends a convention. One splen-
did lady superintendent of large de-
partment IN Rock Island, told the
writer that she received more genuine