The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-08-30
PLANS FOR BIG
S. S. CONFERENCE
SOME or THE SUBJECTS THAT
WILL BE DISCUSSED AT THE
BIG MISSIONARY CON-
FERENCE.

Grand Forks, N. d., Aug. 3d.
4 Arrangements are well under way
for the coming conference of the mis-
sionaries and friends of the American
Sunday school union OF the Northern
district comprising the state Of Min
nesota, North Dakota and Montana.
This coming conference j. D. Ferris,
the district superintendent OF Minne-
apolia, states will mean great deal
to the Sunday school people of North
Dakota who are interested i'm home
missionary work as questions of vital
interest concerning Sunday schools In
the rural districts will be discussed by
men who have devoted the best part
of their active life to home missionary
enterprises.
Rev. Geo. p. Williams, ID. D., Of
Philadelphia, who is now the secre-
tary of missions of the American Sun
day School union, was at one time
missionary for the society in North
Dakota. In 1884 Mr. Williams had his
headquarters at Bismarck, where he
organized a number of Sunday schools
UNCONVENTIONAL points, nine have been
taken over by churches of different
faiths. Ever since that time he has
been closely associated with the mis-
sionary work In North Dakota,
DIR. Williams will attend the confer
ence and will deliver an address on
The Distinctive Features Of the Amer
lean Sunday School Union. Rev.
Joseph Wells, district superintendent
of the central district of Des Moines.
Ia, will also be present and deliver
an address on The Problems of the
Country Church. Mr. Wells has been
in home missionary work connected
with the American Sunday School un-
ion for twenty-five years in Iowa and
other states. Out of a rich and ripe
experience Mr.. Wells win discuss the
subject assigned him. Rev. w. w.
tombstone, who was for a number of
years pastor of one of the prominent
PRESBYTERIAN churches of Chicago. Is
now the superintendent of the lakes
district, with headquarters at Chicago.
Mr.. tombstone will attend the confer
ence and among other addresses will
speak particularly Of The Evangelizing
Influence of the Country Sunday
School. other men, who have spent a
number Of years in home missionary
work will be present and have part in
the programme.
Other Good Features.
In addition to the above, addresses
will be delivered on How Can the
American Sunday School Union Aid
the Men and Religion Forward
Movement? The Missionary, What
Manner Of Man Should He Be, Work
ing With a Vision of the Future, The
Model Country Sunday School, The
Future of Our Schools. Many of the
visiting missionaries will deliver short
addresses and relate experiences con-
nected with their work. Rev. Walter
A. Snow, state secretary Of the North
Dakota state association, will be pres
ent and deliver an address on Cooper
alton Between the Educational and
Missionary Forces Of the Sunday
School.
Mr.. Ferris further states that he be-
lieves that this conference will bring
together the largest number Of paid
Sunday school workers ever gathered
in the state of North Dakota and GER
tainly no questions of more vital i'm
portance were discussed in public gath
erings than the ones before the con-
ference which will meet in our city.
A number of the missionaries wives
will also be in attendance and it is
planned to devote several hours dur
ing the conference to the work Of the
women In connection with the mission
airy Sunday school work.