The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1913-10-28
Sunday School Convention.

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the Burlington County Sunday Schoo
! Association, which was held in Mount
Holly on Thursday, was the most largely
attended gathering of the association
and encouraging reports were received.
An addition of $50 was made from the
county to the state work and the associa-
ton awarded another flag, making the
third consecutive one the organization
has received for excellent showing.
The session was held in the Baptist
church, with nearly three hundred
registered delegates present. The con-
vention next year will be held at Penn
berton, in the Methodist church.
The session in the morning opened
with devotional service, greeting and
responses, followed by reports of the
various departments. The address of
the session was made by Rev. Abram
Duryea, of Jersey City, on the subject
Evangelism. The speaker stated that
by use of the graded system many of the
problems before the school will be solved,
as it was proving to meet the
demands and is also instrumental in
furnishing teachers.
The report of County Secretary Robert
A. Semple Jr., was most gratifying; out of
III schools, 80 had reported; and from "a
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ported. The membership in the various
departments showed the following gains:
intermediate, Irom IL, 373 last wear to
15,036; the cradle roll had increased by
H. and the beginners by BOB. Besides
the increase in the Sunday schools an
increase had also been made of SO per
cent. in the church, through the eff
cheney of the school.
Miss Hamlin, the grade superinten-
dent, spoke of the necessity of making
the church the centre of social work and
to have same in close touch with the
home.
Rev. w. E. Foote, teacher training
alluded to the changes
being made in the various lines of school
study, and stated that the Sunday School
was meeting this need in their line of
work by the teacher training system.
He also stated that the proper way to
hold the boy or girl and win them was
to make personal application of the
lesson to hold on to the life of the in
dividual.
During the afternoon session a most
gathering of children was
held in the Methodist church, when Rev.
r. p. ID. Bennett, of Germantown, spoke
on what | tell my junior congregation.
The meeting was attended by five hun
dred children of all denominations, and
a large number of foreign birth were
present. The gathering was pronounced
by the promoters to have been the great
est yet held by the association.
The address of the evening session was
given by the Rev. William Barnes
Lower, of Wyncote, Pennsylvania.
The officers elected for the ensuing
Uoar Drocidonf Il norr;oIx -
first vice president, Theo-
dore f. Wolfe, Burlington; second vice
president, Andrus c. Ridgway, Delanco;
third vice president, Datis Reed, River
ton; fourth vice president, Joseph w.
Colkitt, Mount Holly; corresponding
secretary, Joseph w. Newell, Pemberton;
recording secretary, Robert Assemble, Jr.,
Mount Holly; treasurer, Forrest c. Mac
Corkle, Burlington; member state execu-
tive committee, w. f. Derrick Moores-
town.
Township secretaries, with post Office
address, follow: Beverly, I. Sherman
Borden, Beverly; Bordentown, j. Edward
Lame, Columbus, r. D.; Burlington,
Milton Baker, Burlington; Chester, Roy
d. Cole, Moorestown; Chesterfield,
Thomas w. Ridgway, Chesterfield; Gin
Durell T. Mason, PALMYRA;
Delran, Miss Lizzie Conover, Bridgeboro;
Jervis S. Zelley, Mount
Holly; Evesham. Clifford Atkinson,
Florence, Mrs. Kate Stout,
Miss May 1. Shinn, Med
ford; Mansfield, Joseph Ridgway, Col
Medford, to be supplied; Mount
Laurel, Edward Godfrey, Moorestown;
North Hanover, Miss Rachel d. Carr,
New Hanover, H. p.
Davis, Wrightstown Northampton, Miss
Mary Sooy, Mount Holly; Pemberton,
Herbert Lloyd, Pemberton; Plumsted,
Miss Mildred Cowperthwait, New Egypt;
Riverside, Miss Elizabeth Arndt, River
side; Southampton, Miss F. o. Dobbins,
Springfield, Howard Birk-
ett, Burlington; Shamong, Mrs. H. c
Bowker, Tabernacle; Willingboro, Miss
Ella Jordan, Beverly