Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-10-28
WORK BY SYSTEM
URGED BY LEADER
Address Before Sunday School
Association Today-Routine
Business and Reports.

with the problems of the home depart
ment and home visiting Of the Sunday
schools" declared Mrs. Foster Bryner
elementary secretary Of the Internationa
Sunday School Association. in an address
this morning before the twelfth annua
convention of the Sunday School Associa
ton Of the District Of Columbia, now il
session at the Calvary Baptist Church
Sth and II streets northwest
Mrs. Bryner spoke Of the work done
| by the women In obtaining Sunday
| school pupils. but declared that the
| men of the church Cannot do enough
of it She urged those in attendance
to enlist the services of the men in the
work. Men are needed, she said IA
| they can better talk to the men anG
| boys who we want In our Sunday
| schools"
! Mrs. Byrner also spoke Of the mothers
department in the Sunday schools. sht
declared that the mothers ought to take
UP the training Of the children in the
| Christian work at home before they are
able to attend Sunday school.
| reelected for the ensuing year as fol
! lows: Mrs. Emily L. Newton. president
Mrs. Margaret r. Ernst, secretary, an6
Mrs David NJ. Ogden. treasurer.
Should Work by System.
The better plan Of doing this work is
to do 1t in systematic way" she de.
clared Zach visitor should be given a
district, and he or she ought to be held
responsible for that district. In that way
the work being accomplished by each
visitor to the homes can be compiled
| The session this morning was opened
| with devotional services conducted by
Rev. c. E. Fultz. Following the singing
| Of Come, Holy Spirit" Mrs. Newton
| the president. presented her annual re-
port, in which she told of what had been
accomplished the past year. She de-
clared the work of the home depart
ment requires great deal of study anC
that the training of the chi .dren ought to
| be done when they are young. Wher
| they are older. she said, they look bach
upon those days as the best of the lives
Mrs. Ernst, the secretary, made heI
! annual report, which showed 5.297 mem
bers enrolled with 416 visitors. She stated
| that ten members died during the year
! The report of Mrs. Ogden, the treasurer
was also given.
| A unique demonstration Of home de.
! partment work was given by Mrs. HI. M
Kendrick The session this morning
| closed with the benediction by Rev
| Charles F. Steck.
| The afternoon session convened at 2:3t
o'clock, when Rev. w. w. Barnes con-
Quoted devotional services. Mrs. Brynel
| is to deliver an address on Seven Points
| of "a Graded Sunday School," Others who
are scheduled to address the session this
afternoon are Rev. w. P. Johnston
Team Work. and Mrs. Wilbur F.
Crafts, who will make a report flom the
worlds seventh Sunday school convention
at Zurich, Switzerland.
Another session is TO be held tonight, a
which Rev. George a. Miller will be the
primo. pal speaker. His subject will b.
THE Organized Adult Glass in Opera
ton" The sessions will continue through
| tomorrow night.
influence Of Christianity.
If the divine truth of Christianity could
be instilled at this moment into the hearts
of Mexicans, said William E. Andrews
auditor for the Treasury Department, a.
| last nights session. the present fratricida
| war would end at once.
| The first disobedience of man, when
Adam and Eve ate of the apple, he said
citing the Bible record, brought dealt
| into the world. If. all mankind hao
lennium would be here and death put t.
flight. Obedience would bring the evan
g.iization of the world.
| The church and sunday school, he de
clared, form the most potent inf1uenc.
| in the United States. The church an.
the Bible, he asserted, made the america
| flag and the American nation.
Leauersnlp in christianity he outline.
as made possible by efficiency in know
ing the truth and in imparting 1t to
others. Childish curiosity, he said
taught the Bibie truths In an attractive
way, would insist on probing to the
bottom of this we'll of truth, IN it's in
terest would retell the tales, and children
would become missionary factors.
Christian progress, he said, must be
measured by the work Of Christian
| leaders in the Sunday SCHOOLS 1t is for
the teachers to lead the enid mind into
the paths Of knowledge of the divine
truths.
Declaring that knowledge of the truth
gives the emancipation power, he said
that the leaders OF men are those VINO
see that the truths OF Christianity are
the inspiration of the progress of the
world.
Large Sunday School Roll.
The president of the association, w.
w. Milan, read his annual report. He
Cited the fact tnat tnirIy-one sunday
scnoois Of " washington nave more lnan
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~ rIcs.ucut Nai.Aall, as AUlloMs:
Sai.aIy Dap,isI. l,0ua; rum sDapllot,
I,ooo; 4slnln 81 Get CHRISTIAN, l,Ulo; I'm
| Alls.uuei hdpt,s4 oIs; tlrse n esuylerlan,
oil; Mount Peasant Congregaliunal, $50 j;
T.lnity METHODIST kpls.opai, oIs; t'oun-
dry Methoolst Episcopal, 7y7; Douglas
Memorial Methodist Episcopal 15I;
Fourth Presbyterian, 1856; Vermount Ave
nue. Christian. 10; Peck Memorial Pres
| pyterian, 7U; West Washington Baptist,
| 6S4: Metropolitan Baptist, $50; New York
| Avenue Presbyterian, 637; Rhode Island
Avenue Methodist Protestant, SIS: Mount
| Vernon Methodist Episcopal South, 613:
Grace Baptist 500: st. Johns, George
town, p otestant Episcopal, 500; Ana
costa Methodist Episcopal. 5S5; Calvary
Methodist Episcopal, 5S5: Petworth
Methodist Episcopal. 5S1: st. Stephens
Protestant Episcopal, 56S; Hamline Meth
odist Episcopal. $50: Second Baptist. $50;
Keller Memorial Lutheran. $40: Metro
| no'itan PRESBYTERIAN 528: st. Paurs
| Methodist F,pisconal So.-th 51f: Memo
rial United Brethren. 512: Church of thu
Reformation. Lutheran. 507: First Re-
| formed. !nO.
1 Tribute was paid to the 1ahors Of F. G.
| Croxton. field worker. for the statistic.
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