Arizona republican., 1913-10-20
CONVENTION
 COMES ID END
Three Mass Meetings Held Simultane ously in a S Many Churches Closes Successful Gathering in Blaze of Glory

held last night in the interest of the l Sunday school work in the state of | Arizona the sixteenth annual con- vention of the Arizona Sunday School association was brought to close. It ] is estimated that the audiences yes | terday were just about double what was expected, and that the crowds 1 attendant upon the services were double those that have attended any i previous sessions of the convention. l Crowds from all over Maricopa coun- l ty swelled the numbers that would | naturally have attended from the city 1 of Phoenix, and those that came from 1 the other counties of the state. Dear | old Cochise" was on hand with a big | delegation as was also Pima and 1 Tavapai counties. Pinal was not t0 | be snuffed at and Yuma was on hand 1 with a strong force.
 1 To meet so representative a gath ering it was particularly appropriate l that the Sunday school forces should l send some of it's biggest men. Dr. 1 Brown of Chicago, with Dr. Queen of California and pr. Bulla of Nash | vile, Tenn, are in the forefront of l Sunday school work in their respect 1 i've sections, and these men last night demonstrated by sterling and uplift- 1 ing speeches just why it is so much 1 confidence is placed upon them and why they have risen to the high places they hold.
 The visit of Dr. w. C. Merritt, of Cotton, Cal, who is the field secre- tary for the southwest, was also one tends these conventions nearly all year, and speaking of this one he said. Tt was just fine; one of the ] best I have ever attended" :"
 Mass Meeting at High School
 By having present at the meeting of the Sunday schools convention 1 yesterday a larger representation. both as compared to the enrolment of the school and in numbers, the Sunday school of the First Baptist church took the banner for attend ance from the First Christian church and will retain it for the next year. ! The banner is one handed down at the meeting of the yearly confer ence and is the honor banner. denot- ing the denomination turning out the best representation at the con- ventionaI meetings. The Baptist school had present yesterday 1S0 out of an enrolment in the school of 320. or a percentage of possible attendance equal to .56. The First Methodist Sunday school held sec ond honors with 3S per cent, and the Central Methodist with 26 per cent.
 The attendance at the convention was record breaking. There were in the auditorium of the high school. where the meeting of the afternoon was held, over 1.50O people, five times the attendance at any of the previous meetings of this year, and | than hp attendance at the similar meeting held one year ago From the roll call insti- tuted by the Rev. pr. William A Brown to ascertain the thorough rep representativeness of the audience, it was found that there were pres ent. pastors, Sunday school superin- tendents, officers of various kinds in the schools, superintendents of cradel rolls. teachers of all classes from the tots to the adults, super intendents Of home departments. in structors in teachers training classes. members of the temperance committees. missionary superintend- ents. members of the schools from the cradel roll to the adults. and in fact representatives from every phase and angle of the Christian work and life. It was perhaps the most representative audience of workers for the cause that has ever assembled in this state.
 Actresses. some short in the forms of announcements merely. some more lengthy. were delivered by Revs w C. Merritt, Earnest Hall of San Francisco. Charles N. Queen and William A. Brown.
 Rev Charles w Queen. who is the superintendent of the home and visi tation department of the California Sunday School association, devoted his moments largely to a plea for more men in the work of the church. There are two million more men in the United States. MT. Queen stated than women. and yet the attend ance and the roll of those actually interested in church work shows that there are three million more women in Christian surroundings than there are men. The Sunday school. and after it the church, are the biggest benefit to society the country affords, and are the ulti- mate salvation of society. Where fore the lack of men? Is there something wrong that the men need fixing? Let us have more men," were the words MT. Queen used to | express the need of men, and he ended with a plea for men, bigger. better men in the church and the 1 work of God.
 Dr. William A. Brown entertained the children and at the same time the grown-ups with his stories. To the children the stories were inter 1 esting as stories and had the moral brought out at the end for their younger minds. But there was more | than the moral in them to the adult for they gave a lesson to be 1 remembered as well. He illustrated 1 the worth of a Sunday school as an educational center where the seed may be placed in the chi1d's mind and where proper natured and ] cultivated that SC q will multiply 1 ,,,ooifo1 q m the cbildren MT