The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-03-14
CIR { AT SUNDAY
SCHOOL CAMP A|GN
Monster Gathering in ST. Paul's
Church Sunday to Perfect
Plan.

Comprehensive plans for the most
siShntir sunday school enrolment cnm-
raiEu ever conducted in this city, n
campaign which viii touch Indi,ld-
child in Richmond In ~ ncrs0uuI why.
viii he perfected sunday afternoon Ut
conference of the cit. sunday >ch"oi
jr8d crs 10 be held In st. pnui's Church
III $3.50 o'clock. This conference. 10 he
made UP OF ten elected delegates from,
cnch sunday school In the city. will
draw together $40 enthusiastic sunday
school workers In the first meeting or
il. kind ever held In RIchmonL.
Taking the slogan ".\ll Richmond in
sunday school" for its battle cry tile
,Conference will proceed TO perfect de-
}.ails OF the campaign. in which every
church of the city, without regard
70 creed. sect on denomination, is to
work shoulder TO shoulder for the gen
fcial good The campaign VIII be moth
ling less than tsac stupcndous under
taking of n census of every white man..
woman and child in Richmond listed
according 10 the respective denOmiua-
Itional affiliations. While only the reg
Iularly elected delegates Will participnt"
lin the deliberations OF the conference
sunday afternoon. the general public
OF Richmond Is heartily invited to at
tend the session in order TO become
ultimately acquainted with the plan of
campaign TO be evolved.
The census pian, briefly Is this Di-
vidin:: the entire city into relatively
small districts. each church Is TO he as
signed Il certain district which viii he
covered In one OF TWO days by its staff
OF volunteer euumcrators.
These enumerators, all working on
Tho same day, Just as in the ease OF
lhe national census taking. VIII list
every white resident Of Richmond, hrst
as 10 the Sunday school attended; see
only, III event none is attended, what
church is preferred. These thousands
OF cards, bearing the religious denom-
national preference of each white cit
Af h. ,it, So no ~ a.
10 large central committee which
will sort thoItI out and distribute than
10 the respective churches.
Although the undertaking al 0rst
blush sounds almost impossible -of cN-
'ccution, the same plan has been work
Cd with unqualiiied success in rh'lad"i
phia Chicago and san Francisco. where
the enumeration 20 ne mad" is INN.
jte!y larger than in Richmond IN all
1hrec of tho cites named above the
census taking and its consequent sNs-
suited in the addition OF thousands Of
names TO tic various sunday school
rolls Of the churches. In every city
where the plan mas been tried the work
las been mapped out Thoroughly IN al
vance and the rcnsus-thking don" sNs-
't"natically al-1 enumeration should
ID accomplished. III tsro days al least
The meeting Sunday afternoon Is
hclny arranged 10 arouse a high tidr
Of enthusiasm Huong tho DELEGATES
present In addition 10 special pro-
gram OF music winch IS 10 be rcuder"d.
there Will br -four addressed 'rhr rev.
A. !. rnllps. y. -. SUNDAY school
SECRETARY OF tho southern Presbyterian
cnurch tn Eev Thomas G. Diggs
state Sunday school secretary. the Rev
Joseph r Watts, STATE secretary 81
the Baptist sunday schools. aud thu
Rev W Russeli Bowie. rector Of St
TauI's Episcopal church. VIII sneak. II
is expected thar the whoie work. %
the conference. c.tu be Accomplished
within Two hours.
the census taking ,ampiFn Is 20 draw
into harmony the iHdiyiduai ana soine-
times anla@ouistie efforts of thy %u-
to uuiJe Ia, dv"r,iN"d Uuiis nto pn.
StTotc WoIE!u. body, IN" daN -!
1he ccnsu. taking Twin D." used SUNDAY
afternoon by tie conference