The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-06-29
State Meeting of the Sunday
School Association Just
Closed Called the Best One
Ever Held.
LOCAL COMMITTEE
RECEIVED PRAISE
For Splendid Methods En-
ployed to Make Meeting a
Success-Closing Program
Was Interesting.

With enthusiasm at white heat
testimonials of appreciation from
every quarter of the state, two fine ad
dresses and much inspiriting and viv'
acious music from the soloists and the
audience, the forty-eighth annual state
convention of the Indiana Sunday
School Association closed a three
days session in the East Main Stree,
Friends church last evening
President Hall stated that this was
the best convention from every point
of view, ever held in the state. That
it's spirit, personnel, size and proceed
ings were unusual in the history OF
the organization and that it's entire
complexion was expressive of that al
trurian spirit which was gathering Inn
petus in every part of the civilized
world.
At the close of the program the ses
sion was opened to everyone, the
speeches and remarks made coming
from sincere hearts, whose expression
was of the most optimistic character
How many of those present are at
tending a convention for the first
time." asked President Hall, and the
majority of the delegates arose.
A Benefit to City.
Superintendents of the Sunday
school and departmental officers from
this city expressed the belief that the
convention had been a great thing for
the schools in Richmond, that it had
been an inspiration and implanted a
desire for future growth and more sys
tematic organization.
A testimonial of appreciation for the
work of the local committees was
| made from the platform and in the re
solutions given below and Mr.. E. NJ
Haas, head of the local management
was complimented by the President
| who stated that in no convention city
had such complete and successful ar
| rangements for the comfort and enter
tainment of the delegates ever been
| made.
DIR. Woelfkin, on account of having
| to take an early train, changed places
on the program with Mr.. Pearce, and
brought his series of brilliant address
es to close, series which has never
: ing presentation before any conven
ton of kindred character held in this
city.
This is a benedictory word" said
DIR. Woelfkin, "and my text the motto
you have adopted for the year, "A
Closer Walk With God
What Religion 10.
Religion" continued DR.. Woelfkin
'is not thing of mystery. Religion is
life that is conscious of the Divine pre-
sence. 1t exercises certain forms, bu,
these are simply aids to get us to
realize the presence of God and mean
nothing unless they help us to this
realization.
Religion does not need 70 be sub
jected to analysis. Things lose theiI
charm when you analyZe them" said
Mr.. Woelfkin. Il do not like to walk
out with the botanist because he picks
flowers and pulls them to pieces. Flow
ers are not made to be pulled apart bu,
to generate association or call up a
mood"
Let me call to your minds" said
the speaker, that verse in the 121s,
Psalm which says, The Lord will pre-
serve thy going out and thy coming
in from this time forth even forever
characterizing it as the religion of the
Threshold and which should be a
practical guide to the conduct of life
''On the outside said DIR. woelfkin
'is all the beauty, all the danger, all
the ferment of life. Within, the rest
the benediction, the table and the
fireside. And blessed is that man who
can make a tryst with God at the
threshold
What does this mean in modern
life? Simply the determination to leave
the outer world at the threshold and
enter into that of the home without the
formers handicap"
Addressed to Men.
DR. Woelfkin stated that his address
from that point was made to the men
rather than to the women and il con.
cerned the actual and ideal attitude OF
the sex toward society at large and
toward the individual domestic affilia
tons in particular, with comparison
of the influence of the two to make
or mar the lives of themselves and all
within their environ.
"Of all places in the world the man
should keep himself in splendid poise
in the home" said DR. Woelfkin, stat.
ing that, on account of the yicissi
tudes and complexities of modern so
ciety the majority found this poise SO
necessary without that none was left
for the life within the home
Incidentally DR. WoeIfkin touched
on the subject of the training of chill.