The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1914-12-04

bled at the Presbyterian church late
yesterday afternoon and heard q lee
tdre ON Sunday school work In varf
Gus parts OF the world Tie lecture
was given by Bert eastman Of Chi
cage. private secretary 10 Marion
Lawrence or that city. International
secretary OF the international Sunday
school association. The address, was
ACCOMPANIED with stereoptiean Views,
showing Sunday schools and their
pupils, teachers and surroundings IN
all countries where Christianity is
taught. It was really a mental trip
around the world and was greatly
enjoyed by the children. The session
was held as part Of the program OF
yesterdays Sunday school rally,
which was held with the assistance
of prominent Sunday workers, tray.
cling under the. auspices Of the, In.
tefnational sunday school association.
The children were also addressed
by Mr.. Lawrence, who sought to
impress Upon them the thought that
their lives were not determined by
their surroundings. He had them re.
peat after him, line by line, the fol.
flowing stanza: .--..'
ships salt east and ships sail west,
BY the very same winds that blow;
It's the set OF the, sail and not the
gale,
That determines the way we 60"
/ President HamIli In Address.
This was the address that DR.. Fl.
NJ. Hamill, delivered by d. NJ. =
M. Hamill, president Of the Interna.
tionai Sunday School association,
would have delivered had lie been
here?;
at has taken more than a hun.
bred years to rear the international
association. Its roots run back beyond
iRaikes into the intellectual and spir.
final destitution Of England and the
continent during the eighteenth cen
fury. Those who have brought II Il
its present form have been the choice
and master spirits Of Professionalism
Conspicuous among its founders
we're Wesley, the flower of uniyers
ity scholarship, and Raikes. the un
known printer and phiianthropist
who found in the Sunday school q
better way than converting adult
criminals in English iails. Here was
the germ; now. see the fuil-grown
oak. $40.
I'm 1856 there was one Sunday
school Of modern pattern on the Amer
icah continent. In 1914, at the
Chicago convention, there we're re
ported 175,000. A handful OF youths
constituted the first; host. nearly
twenty millions are the pupils c:
today. Along the Atlantic seaboard
for fifty years, the beginning OF
the International were made: bu,
westward to the setting sun lay
the wilderness with its savages. TIC
the first International convention In
New York in 1892. came 800 Sun
day school pioneers. showing now
profound was the interest In the
great organization there fully be
gun. Just three, Sunday school con,
ventions were held between 1892 and
1859, but since, the guns of the
civil war grew silent the assoeia
ton has so entered intoi.the educa
tional and religious life of the con
tinent that every triennium now
numbers 5S.4S5 conventions and
other Sunday school meetings OF, all
grades. g. jn
Methods Of Organization.
Note, too, how finely the methods
of International organization have
kept pace with its growth. At the
first the one International convention.
meeting precariously, afterward
every three years, was everything
In ways of organization, administra.
ton, or instruction. Now, once o
year, around the international Exec
utive table sit 100 picked men from
Canada. the United States, Aiaska,
Cuba, Mexico. tho West 'lndies and
South America, representing seven.
! y State, Provincial and Territorial
Sunday School associations. some of
these as finely equipped and con.
Quoted as Wanamaker's or Marshall
Fields department stores, and these
greater bodies ramify and widen un-
TIL they. include nearly 5000 or.
ganized counties. holding annually
about 10000 conventions and other
meetings. Louis Napoleon, before Sc.
dan. boosted foolishly that the last
button was sewed to the CATERS of
the last French soldiers, and that
France was ready What he said
after Sedan, Is not recorded. But
/ make bold to say that the Inter.
national general secretary, Mr.. Mar.
ion Lawrance. can press button
from the Chicago Office, the response
to which In week will rally FIVE
times as many soldiers for Christ,
as Europe has massed for carnage.
sf.ge Count the COST. .a
Next, count the cost of this vast
plan Of Christian activity, and bow
your heads with me In honor to the
unpaid men and women who by the
million are giving year by year the
best OF their time and effort to extend
the Sunday school kingdom and to
save and train the boys afd5eirls for