The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1913-03-28
SUNDAY SCHOOL ASSOCIA-
TION WILL HOLD ANNUAL
CONVENTION AT SUMTEE
Aphil the End, 3rd and 4th are Dates
for the Great Gathering-Great
Parade of Men and Boys Will be
Held the Last Day-Reduced Rates
on All Railroads.

The State Sunday School Associa-
tion, the largest religious organiza-
tion in the State, holds its thirty
sixth annual convention in the city
of Sumter, April End 3rd and 4th.
This Will be remarkable gathering.
Every county in the State will be rep
resented. There will be number of
Chicago, will be present and heard in
number of addresses. Judge Jo-
seph Carthel of Nashville, Tenn, will
also appear several times on the pro-
gram. Some of the best speakers of
our own State will deliver addresses.
The music will be in charge Of
Messrs. Tullar and Meredith of New
York City. The main sessions of the
convention will be held in the opera
house which will give fine opportu-
nifty for attractive musical features.
There will be a local choir of one
hundred voices.
On Tuesday evening April 1, the
annual meeting of the executive COM
mittee will be held in the First Bap-
tlst church. After the busines ses-
sion the members of the committee
will be entertained at supper by the
State Association. Rev. J. B. Green,
of Greenwood, is president of the AS
sociation and will be toastmaster. A
number of after dinner speeches will
be heard. There are fifty-five men on
this committee.
Fifteen Hundred Men in Line!
On Friday afternoon the last day
of the State Sunday School Conven-
ton the great parade for men and
boys will take place. This will form
the climax of the whole convention.
This parade is being arranged for by
the Mems Bible classes of the State.
1t is not only expected that actual
members of classes participate in this
parade, but also men who are stand
ing by the Bible and the Bible school
and want to witness for the Master
in this way. To see this great body
of men, a concerted testimony to the
word of God, vital part of world
wide movement for Christian con-
quest, will be wonderful sight, but
to be one of the men thus witness
ing will be an experience worth COM
ing a long distance to have.
The parade will form at the cor
ner of Main street and Oakland ave-
nue., will march through the principal
streets and mass in front of the ba&'j
stand on high school green ani Be-
addressed for fifteen minutes by DR..
S. c. Mitchell of the University of
South Carolina. The parade will move
promptly at four o'clock. This will
give those expecting to leave on the
regular trains an opportunity to do
so. The stores and bubsiness houses
of Sumter will be closed from to 5
o'clock in order to give the business
men an opportunity to march in the
parade.
Following the parade at 7:3O in the
evening the final session of the con-
vention will be held in the opera
house. There will be special music
by Messrs. Tullar and Meredith of
New York city and local choir of
one hundred voices.
On Friday evening at the same
hour there will be a great meeting
for boys at the Y. M. C. A. building
in charge of Mr. Henry A. Wise, the
secondary division superintendent for
the State. The music will be in
charge of Mr.. Chester F. Harris for
merly of Cleveland Ohio, now musical
director for the Southside Baptist
church, Spartanburg.
There will be reduced railroad rates
from all points in the State. Sumter
is making splendid plans for the en-
tertainment of the delegates. The
Ministerial Union, the Chamber of
Commerce, and the Y. M. C. A. are
working together to make this the
biggest and best convention in the
history of the State Sunday School
Convention.
The men of Columbia have secured
a special train to leave that city at
noon Friday, April a, carrying 500
men and boys to Sumter for the pa
rade at four o'clock.