Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-10-29
SAYS BOYS NEED
HERO TO WORSHIP
Bargain of Extraordinary Value Giving Every
@nrl $780,
A. N. ChesIey Advises Teach
ers in Talk a. Sunday
School Convention.

A boy il idealiStic. He expects his
sunday school teacher and his preacher
IF the court itself ma ybe changed In
director of the boys work of the Young
Mems Christian Association. in an ad-
dress on The Boy of the Junior De-
oartment" before the session of the
elementary Teachers Union of the Dis
trict of Columbia Sunday School Asso-
citation this morning at the Calvary Bap-
list Church
Teachers ought 10 be exactiug, have
Ig her ideas for thu boys. The profess
sional base ball players pugiiist, fireman
and policeman. are all the boys heroes.
he sad The col eye men have taken up
athletic sports as n profession, and now
the great game of base ball has gotten
cIeaner and thus these men are the ideal
heroes of our boys. Your opportunity Is
70 be the hero Tor your boys.
Says Boys Worship Heroes.
There are three things in a boy He
is positive, hero worshiping and ne is
emotional explosive" He said that at
evangeiistic services many boys stand up
and profess religion and within forty
eight hours are back to the traits which
they had denounced. This is your fault"
ne added The boy stood up at the re-
hgious services because he felt that way.
he is not a hypocrt. But it was the time
he needed You. You should have been
there TO aid him.
The services opened with Mrs. Washing
ton Topham presiding. Rev. w. ]. Meeks
led the devotional services Mrs. Mary
Foster Br1ner of Chicago. elementary
see etary of the In;e. national Sunday
school Association, delivered an address
on Suggestions for Correlated Memory
Work" .She exhibited pamphlets and
cards, upon which she explained it was
the purpose OF the scholars to write from
memory the lesson of each Sunday A
conference OF the cradle roll and
mothers meeting was after ward conduct
ed by S. Bryner. The services closed
with the benediction by Rev ~ w
Spooner.
Welfare OF the Child.
The United States gives more
thought to child welfare than any other
country" declared Mrs Mary Foster
Bryner of Chicago. an elementary sec
rotary of the International Sunday
school Association. in her address on
FIRST the Blade" at the session last
night
The Importance OF chiid-welfare work
IN the home. the community. the
church and in the country was dis
cussed by Mrs Bryner. Sne said that
al interested in the conservation OF
children should rejoice in the recent
creating of the cnildrens bureau as
"a federal agency
Rev George A. Miller, pastor of the
Ninth Street Christian Church, spoke
on The Organized Adult Glass in o.
Grafton He emphasized the point that
the Sunday school is not tae children 3
church. since il neither takes the place
OF the church nor is exclusively for
children. He said it brings message
and furnishes field of service
The services opened with song serv-
ice, under the direction of W. j. Pal
mer. A choir of fifty voices from the
Fifth Baptist Church rendered special
music Devotional services were con-
Quoted by Rev. F. j. Prettyman while
the prayer and bened. ction were pro-
nouneed by Rev. j. j. Muir.
Team Work Is Urged.
\ greater degree of team work in
the efforts to bring persons into the
Sunday schools was ADVISED by Rev.
w. p. Johnston in his. address on
Team Work" at the. session yester-
day afternoon. -. 49,.
IF our Sunday schools worked as
harmonious as tho. Philadelphia base
ball club we would have a great Sun
day school system he declared
Mrs. Bryner addressed the session on
Graded Instruction in, the Sunday
School" while Mrs. Wilbur F. Crafts,
delegate to the worlds seventh Sum
day school convention at Zurich, Swift
zerland, during the summer. told of
the work done at that convention.