The Washington herald., 1911-05-21
All Sunday School Leaders
Look Toward San Francisco


More than 100 representative men and
women of North America will be heard
at the International Sunday school con-
vention, San Francisco, June 20 to q, on
the value and method Of Christian edu-
cation for the youth and the adult. 'The
open Bible and the uplifted cross" will
be the theme, and special emphasis will
be laid upon these great factors Of Chris
tian service and Sunday school progress.
Evangelism will also be emphasized, and
the Rev. Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman will be
heard twice daily.
Previous to the convention there will
be missionary conference for workers
west of the Rocky Mountains. with de-
nominational discussion Of problems and
mass meetings in the interest of home
missions. Following, by Sunday school
workers themselves. will be departmental
conferences with leaders Of worldwide
experience.
After the formal convention opening,
with addresses by the governor Of Cali
fornia and the mayor Of San Francisco,
there will be two addresses, one on the
theme Of the convention itself, already
given, and the other by the Rev. DR..
David g. Downey, Of Methodist Sunday
school work. on THE Sunday school In
the Christian conquest Of North Amer
lea" Day sessions following are to be
devoted to earnest presentation Of SUM-
day school problems, involving as they
do all America, in some respects all the
world.
The tercentenary Of the King James
version Of the Bible will have as speak,
ers the Rev DR.. Charles F. Aked, Prof,
H. M. Hamil, and the Rev. Dr.. Robert
F. Coyle Late one afternoon there will
be a parade, when II Is expected that
5000 members of adult Bible classes OF
North America will be IN line, each car
rying a Bible furnished by the Gideons
of America, who. by the way, are COM
mercial travellers organized for Chris
tian work. At the close Of the parade
Bible will be stacked on the platform
and later are to be placed in rooms OF
San Francisco and Pacific Coast hotels
for the permanent use of guests.
The Sunday covered by the convention
win have two afternoon mass meetings
and one great public meeting at night.
One Of the former will be in the Greek
theater at Berkeley, the other two In
San Franciscos Coliseum. On Monday
will be decided many questions concern
ing tne fnternatiOnai leSsOuS, stuuieu uy
100000 children in North America and
8.0G0,C00 throughout the world
Monday evening is to have a great
mass meeting, with Bishop Hendrix. Of
the Methodist Church South. on the sub
ject Of The Sunday as the unifyer Of
Protestantism in North America" Bish-
'op Hendrix Is president Of the Federal
Council OF Churches. which represents
100000. Protestant Christians in the
United States. There will be near the
close q pastors congress, Invitations to
which have been sent to the 1900 Protes-
tant ministers OF the Coast. There will
also be conferences on missions, on semi
naries. and greetings from world-leeoeS
in Sunday school work.
This International convention b the
thirteenth to be held. the first west Of
the Rocky Mountains. Represented In 1t
are organized Sunday school workers In
practically every county. almost every
township. Of every State IN the Union
and nearly every rural eommuaiI e