Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1910-05-21
Worlds Sunday School Convention
Will Draw Large Crowd.
MEETINGS OPEN THURSDAY
Fifty Nations TO Be Officially Repre-
scented at the Convention, Which
Will Be a Cosmopolitan Gathering
A Spectacular Tableau to Be Given
Some of the Principal Speakers.

Philadelphia, Pa, May 16.-"The
most cosmopolitan gathering which
ever met on this continent" is the
way the Worlds Sunday School Con-
vention, which opens in Washington
next Thursday, is described at the
headquarters of the Worlds Sunday
School Association, in this city. For
more than a year lines from all over
the world have been converging in the
office of DR.. George w. Bailey, the ex-
ecutive head of the organization, and
he now announces that more than 80
nations will be officially represented
in 5000 delegates which will gather
at the capital May 1924. For four
months past the office in this city has
been refusing delegate credentials to
applicants, as the quota of the states
were already filed.
The largest organization in exist
ence-excepting only the Christian
Church, of which it is a parts the
Sunday School, say the leaders here.
It has more than 5000, 900 members,
found in every nation under heaven,
except possibly Thibet. White the
bulk of the schools. and all the mem
bers of this Worlds Sunday School
Association, are to be found in the
various Protestant denominations, the
Sunday school as an institution yet ex
lists, also among the Roman Catholics
the Hebrews, Mormons and Buddhists
In North A-nerila there are above 16,
600. 900 members of the Sunday school
and evrey state and province is com
pletely organized.
A demonstration of adult Bible
classes will be made at Washington
next Friday, when some 10000 mel
from all over the continent will pa
rade down Pennsylvania avenue Spe
cial trsins will bear delegates OF Sun
day school men from all the neighbor
ing states for this special occasion
On Saturday afternoon there will bt
a monster open-air song service OF
the plaza and the east steps of the
Capitol.
Another spec tacular feature of tht
convention will! be a living tableau,
in Convention Hall on the closing
night, when a congress OF nations
will be represented by Washington
children dressed in foreign costume:
and massed under flags of all Ilation:
and a map of the world. This tab
1eaux win be an exact reproduction
Of a painting Twentieth Century
Crusaders" which is being widely
used in the Sunday schools of Amer
ica and Europe, and which the World
Sunday School Association Will place
in every Sunday school in mission
matchmaking it probably the mos
widely circulated picture In ex1stencs
The regular sessions of the conven
ton will number ITS, with speakers
TO the number of 300, including Pres,
dent Taft, Ambassador Bryce, Johr
Wanamaker, DR.. J. Wilbur Chapman
Charles NJ. Alexander and many bisA
ops and other distinguished men ant
women from America and abroad. The
wife of Vice President Sherman will
preside over one of the a meeting:
OF women. Rev. F. b. Meyer, of Lon
don, president Of the Worlds Sunday
School Association. will preside. A
daily "rollcall OF nations" will be used
in order L enable all the larger ma
lions to find a place on the program
The British delegates to the numbe.
OF nearly 200 arrived in Philadelphia
today.
Next Sunday, May %, will be OBJ
served by churches throughout the
world as Worlds Sunday Schoo
Day" A uniform program has beer
issued by millions of copies, and trans
lated into more than 200 languages
and dialects.