The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1913-07-10
1000 CROSS SEAS
FOR WORLD SUNDAY
SCHOOL GATHERING
Convention at Zurich a Notable
Event In Contemporaneous
Religious History.
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Two Thousand Americans, some OF
them now on the seas. and ON has
tening to Switzerland, via Asia. ana
the Others scheduled to sail this
month. are delegates to the worlds
seventh Sunday school convention, to
be held in Zurich. Switzerland, July
8 to, 10. 1T
Visitors from all parts OF the known.
world will foregather at Zurich upo
this OCCASION, s. many Municipalities
being represented that alongside OF 1t
the polyglot crowd at Pentecost will
seem provincial In addition to the
European delegates, there will be Sun
day school workers IN attendance from
all6the leading countries of Asia and
Africa. The mission fields always send
o large contingent oe missionaries to
these conventions, a
From the beginning, Sunday school
work has been dominated by Ameri-
although the organization was
founded by Robert Raikes, an English
man, more than 100 years ago, Today
1t has greater strength in North Amer
lea than in all other lands combined,
and a Philadelphian, DIR. George w.
Bailey, is worlds president. The man
sagernent of the Zurich convention has
really been In this country.
An Enormous Movement
There is no other organization on
the planet, except the Christian church
itself, which approaches the magnitude
of the Worlds sunday School union,
The figures are fairly staggering. At
the Washington convention three years
ago the total enrolment was more
than rs, 900, 900. the figures having been
gathered from 1875 of the 1872 countries
and groups OF island into which the
world Is divided. This was an Increase
OF approximately 9, 100000 in the tri-
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vention. Since the three years now
ending have been the most vigorous IN
the Sunday school history. Ii is ex-
pected that at Zurich the worlds mem
bership will be reported as considerably
larger than 800 900 900.
OF the total enrolment at Washing
ton, mere than 5000, 900 was credited
to North America. and 10000 600 to
Europe. In this country, the organiZa-
ton has been perfected to q remark
able degree or efficiency In states,
counties and DISTRICTS Only at the
times OF presidential elections do the
political parties approach anything
like h degree of completeness of Or
~ganfzation which exists in the Sunday
school, enabling the general officers to
reach the remotest crossroads school
with their plans and ideals, ~ r
More important than the size OF the
Sunday school Is the fact that the
bulk Of its membership is made up OF
children and young people. although
there are E,500. 900 reported as officers
~andAteachers. This that a verg
considerable section or the worlds pop
ulatlon In its plastic period Is having
its ideals shaped for religion. Presi-
dents and kings and statesmen have
repeatedly testified to the civic in
fence which the Sunday school is TX
erting upon the civilization Of our
day. 49,
The international lessons.
Tho greatest co-ordinating factor In
the Sunday school greater than the
form OF organization itself, IS the In
transitional series OF Lessons, which
J schools OF all lands and denominations