The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-03-04
SUNDAY-SCHOOL MEET
STATE GATHERING AT SPARTAN
BURG MARCH $3.50.
Preparations to Entertain Hundreds
of Delegates from South Carolina

Preparations to Entertain Hundreds
of Delegates from South Carolina
and Other States.
The biggest gathering Of Sunday,
school workers in the history OF
South Carolina, and one of the great.
est ever known in Dixie. will meet
in Spartanburg on March 2S, 29, and
80.
The thirty-fourth annual conFen-
ton of the South Carolina Sunday
sch ool Association will be. held at the
First Baptist church Of that city. Our
seven hundred delegates from all
parts of South Carolina and other
surrounding States are expected to be
present at this Convention. Already
the city is making extensive prepTra-
tions to entertain the visitors, and
the homes will be taxed to accommo-
date them just as they were last
summer when the Confederate Vet
eran Reunion was neld in that city.
Many leaders Of Sunday-school
work from all sections of the East
will visit Spartanburg this month,
and take an active part in the meet
ings. This Association is not con-
fined to any one church or creed, but
is interdenominationa and all OF the
churches and Sunday-schools in the
State will be represented by dele
gates.
One of the most interesting feat
ures of the Convention will he the
Mems Bible Class parade, in which
two or three thousand men are eX-
pected to participate. All of the
stores and other business concerns in
the city will be closed that afternoon,
thus giving all of the employees op-
portunity of joinin:; this parade. 1t
will be formed at Morgan monument
and the procession will march up
East Main street. These Mems BIZ
BILE Glass parades have been the feat
ure of many Sunday-school meetings
in all of the larger cities in the United
States, and great preparations TO
have the largest in the history of the
South are being made in this city.
Grant Colfax Tullar and Isaac Mer-
edith, both of New York city, and
both having national regulations in
conducting the music for an occasion
of this nature, have been secured to
come to Spartanburg and all of the
songs and instrumental music will be
under their skilfuil direction. An
orchestra, composed Of practically all
persons who play any kind Of musi-
cal instrument, is pTacticing each day
for this occasion.
The address of welcome will be
delivered by John Wood. secretary Of
the Chamber of Commerce, and sew
eral of the visiting delegates will
make responses. The message from
the executive committee of the Asso-
citation will then be given by the
chairman, Prof. Thomas w. Keith,
of Clemson College.
An address, "A Worldwide Vision
of .Sunday-school Work" will be next
on the program. j. Shreve Durham,
international secretary of home Vlsi-
tation, with headquarters in Chicago,
will be the speaker.
Elementary work in all of its
forms will also be discussed at
length, and the best way in which to
teach young children will receive
much attention at the hands of the
delegates. J. NJ. Way, of. this city,
will lead the annual division work,
and will be. assisted in this by M. B..
Cross, of Eutawville. Paul Quattle-
baum, of Conway, will lead the adult
Bible class conference. The Rev. G..
E. Burts, Of Edgefield, will lead the
missionary conference.
DR.. Henry Neloon Snyder, presi-
dent of Wofford College, and one OF
the most gifted speakers in the South,
will deliver lecture, The Bible IS
Literature" DR.. Patterson Wardlaw,
of the University of South Carolina,
will speak on "The Study of Child
Nature"
Other features Of the program are
equally as interesting as these, and
a ,reat meeting is expected.
Arrangements are being perfected
by a central committee composed OF
the superintendent of every Sunday
school in the city, and one other rep
resentative from each school. Many
subcommittee have also been ap-
pointed and the busiest of these IS
the one that is securing places for
the delegates to stay.