The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-03-08
N. D. WORKERS TO
Big S. S. MEET
PARTY OF EIGHT HAVE REGIS.
TERED TO ATTENDTHE WORLD
SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION
will BE HELD AT ZURICH,
SWITZERLAND.


The Sunday School world is inter-
ested in the coming seventh world
convention to be held in Zurich,
Switzerland, July S-15, 1918. Already
eight North Dakota people are
registered to attend the convention
and 1t is expected that several more
will join the party.
The convention is to be held in one
of. the most beautiful and interesting
cities in Europe and it will be attend
ed by representatives of the Sunday
schools over the whole world. There
will be representatives from the
China Sunday School association,
which has a general secretary giving
full time to the work. Graded lessons
are printed and used in the Chinese
Language. There will also he
representatives OF the Japan Sunday
School association attending the con-
vention. The India Sunday School
union which prints 100000 pages of
dialects to supply $4,000 Sunday
schools, will have official representa-
ton. The South American Sunday
School union will have. a generous
delegation. Then of course from all
European countries there will come
delegates in large numbers. North
America, the field of the International
Sunday School association is expect
ed to send 1000 delegates.
This will be the seventh Worlds
Sunday School convention. The sixth
was held in Washington, ID. c. in 1910;
the fifth, in Rome, in 1907; the fourth,
in Jerusalem in 1904. All of those
conventions have been attended by
North Dakota delegates and it is ex-
pected that the delegation to Zurich
will be larger than ever before.
The official route of the North Da-
kota party will be designated tour No.
3A, will last fortY-five days and the
fare will be $3.50 which includes all
necessary expenses, except lunches in
cities where extended stops are made.
Tn party which will be headed by
Walter A. Snow, general secretary of
the State Sunday School association
will sail from Montreal on Saturday,
June Fl on the Allan line S. S..
S%cotian, due to arrive in London
July 2. Two days will be spent in
London. Leaving there the evening
of the second day the party will go to
Brussels via Harwich. One day will
be spent in Brussels with a carriage
drive. On Saturday, July 5, the party
will be in Cologne, leaving hat even
ing on a Rhine steamer going to Bic
brich, thence, by rail to Wiesbaden
where the party will spend Sunday,
July 6, leaving Monday via Bale ar
irving in Zurich. Seven days will be
spent in that most interesting city
attending the convention and on
Wednesday,, July 16 at the close of the
convention the party will go to
Lucerne, whence there will be an ex-
cursion to the summit of Mt. Rigi.
Thursday, July II, will go via Brunig
pass and Meiringer to Interlaken.
July IS and 10 will be spent at Inter-
laken with an excursion to Grinde-
valid n an afternoons journey to
Montreaux via Zweisimmen. Sunday,
July 20 viii be spent in Montreaux.
Monday morning there will be a
steamer ride on lake Leman to Geneva
where there will be a~carriage drive
in the afternoon. July %, the party
will take the day express to Paris.
-Four days will be spent in Paris with
two days of carriage drives including
Versailles. The party will leave Paris
July % for HaYre and sail by Allan
line steamer Sicillian for Montreal due
to arrive Aug. 4. ... o.
Tickets are good for one year and
any one desiring to take stop-overs.
at n point will have the privilege
of doing so. Mr.. and Mrs. Griffith and
Mr.. and Mrs. Snow will leave the
party at Paris and take a trip through
Wales, the ancestral home of Mrs.
Shows parents.
The party includes to date Mr.. and
Mrs. r. B. Griffith, chairman Of the
executive committee of the State Sun
day School association, Grand Forks,
N. D.; Walter A. Snow, general secre-
tary; Mrs. Ella M. Snow, elementary
superintendent of the state associa-
ton; James Austin; president of the
Cavalier County Sunday School as
ISOLATION, Hannah, N. D.; Henry Ham
merly, president of the Towner Coui-
ty Sunday School association, Cando,
N. D.; Miss Isabelle Kemp, of Gales
burg, n. D. and Miss Maggie Sillers
of Calvin, N. d. Several others are
contemplating Joining the party but
have not yet made their reservation.
1t will be a jolly party and the con-
vention and the trip viii be one of
the most delightful that could be i'm
agined. There is still place for a few
more delegates on the Scotian, al
though the berths are, almost all
taken.