Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-09
SUNDAY SCHOOL
LEADER IS HERE
William N. Hartshorn in Los An
geIes on Business Connected
with International Meeting
STATE TOUR is MAPPED OUT
Boston Business Man Tells of the
Work Being Done by World
Wide Association

William N. Hartshorn of Boston.
chairman of the executive committee
of the International Sunday School as
sociation and first vice president Of the
Worlds Sunday School association, is
a guest at the Alexandria hotel after
attending a series of conferences on
Sunday School work in Mississippi,
Louisiana, Texas and Arizona.
Mr.. Hartshorn is accompanied on his
trip to this coast by his wife and
daughter, Miss Ida V. Hartshorn, and
by Miss Mary Houghton, Henry Up
ham, Miss Bertha Upham and George
w Penniman, all of whom are in
terested in church work throughout the
country.
Mr.. Hartshorn Is a business man of
Boston, who devotes q great deal of his
time and money to Sunday school
work, maintaining a separate office
from his business establishment. He
is president OF the Modern Priscilla
Publishing company. For several years
he has devoted. most of his time to
travelling about the country in the in
terest of Sunday school work.
The principal object of Mr.. Harts-
horns visit to the west is to join
Marion Lawrence OF Chicago, general
citation and general secretary for Amer
lea of the Worlds association, In tour
of California in the interest of the
Triennial International Sunday school
convention, which will be held in San
Francisco June 20 to 27, 1911, and which
will be attended by 1000 delegates and
hundreds of visitors, representing every
state and territory on the American
continent.
MEETS LOCAL MINISTER'S
Mr.. Hartshorn attended the monthly
meeting off the Baptist ministers Mon
day and later addressed the Congre-
gational ministers.
The Hartshorn party, with Mr.. Law
renee. will leave Los Angeles Novem-
ber TO- and on it's tour of the state
will visit the state convention at Santa
Ana, Stockton, San Jose, Santa Cruz,
Napa. Alameda, San Francisco, Santa
Rosa and Sacramento. The party will
return to Chicago via ogden, attend1
ing the Utah state Sunday school con-
vention en- route.
Mr.. Hartshorn was greatly i'm
pressed with Los Angeles yesterday
and astounded at the big growth of
the city.
81 was here twenty years ago and
find many wonderful changes" he
said. This is a country of even great
er possibilities and attainments. There
is an atmosphere of culture and re-
finement here.
"The International Sunday School
association rejoices in the prospect of
meeting in California next year. 1t
is the first time in the thirty-nine
years of the history of the association
that convention has been held west
of the Rocky mountains. This con-
vention will bring several thousand Wis
itors to the coast. representing the
slxty-ffve state, provincial and terri
torial associations that make up the
international body.
"Already plans are being laid for
special trains from various points. We
expect to have a trainload from New
England and in Alabama the other
day / found the greatest enthusiasm
In getting up big delegation from
that state. We believe the convention
will be the biggest and best ever held
by the association.
TO CONSIDER CONVENTION
During this tour we will consider
with the California leaders many mat
ters relating to the convention and its
program.
"The International Sunday School
association is the central or represen-
tative body OF the organized Sunday
school work in North America. We
recognize that the Sunday school is
NOT only IIle DlDiS sIuuy COuAS0 VI IllO
church but that 1t is the first force
and the most productive asset in the
church today
'grhe modern development of the
Sunday school idea, known as the or
ganized work, Is a far cry from the
crude beginnings made by Robert
Raikes and his ragged regiment in
Gloucester, England. in 1880.
i 1.-THE organized work embraces an
extensive series OF voluntary Sunday
school work, promoted by teachers and
other workers belonging to various
churches. These bodies have for their,
purpose the promotion of those inter
ests which are common to the Sunday
school work. They range from the
small and local organizations that are
made up of few persons of kindred
sympathies, spirits or purpose, up to
those that cover towns, cities, counties
and states.
"These organizations are practically
interdenominational and cooperative.
Sunday school work has been i'm
measurably advanced by the associa-
tion during the thirty-nine years of its
history. 1t is sustained by American
and Canadian Sunday school workers."