Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-17
SUNDAY SCHOOL
ASSOCIATION PLANS
GREATEST RALLY
Program for Annual Conven-
ton, Which Opens Here
October 70, Includes Many
Interesting Features.

Advance plans for the 22d annual con-
vention of the Philadelphia County Sun
day School Association, which is to be
held in the Messiah Lutheran Church.
18th and Jefferson streets, on October 26,
27, % and 80, indicates that it Is going
to be one of the biggest meetings the or
ganization has ever held. Every effort
has been made by the officers to make
it rousing success as a means of en-
couragement to the Rev. George G..
Dewey, the new general secretary, who
has come here to take charge of the
work In addition to the advance work for
the evangelistic campaign Of the Rev, W.
A. Sunday.
The first day is to be Officers day."
the second is to be elementary day" the
third Secondary division day" and the
fourth and last will be convention and
adult department day"
BIBLE STUDY SESSIONS.
The convention will open with a Bible
study period on the afternoon of Oc-
tober 26, with the Rev. William L. Pet
tingill as teacher. This will be followed
at o'clock by the regular afternoon
SSoSlOilt Hiltll tie new a. Il. IldTTlS VIII
preside. Speakers will include Allan
Sutherland, Thomas r. Patton, Alfred c.
Garrett and A. Lincoln Hall. In the
evening the speakers are to be the Rev.
c. A. Hauser, Mrs. NJ. ]. Baldwin, Miss
Meme Brockway, Mrs. S. w. Layten and
the Rev. Linn Bowman. Wesley II. Hoot
will preside.
On Tuesday morning, October 81. DR..
r w will he - ~
preliminary Bible study period, and
Charles E. Beury will preside in the after
noon. The instructors for the latter serv-
ice are to be Miss Rose Russell, Mrs.
John Loman, Mrs. Emile f. Kearney,
Miss Cora n. Coates, Miss Josephine
Kessler. Mrs. NJ. ]. Baldwin and others.
In the evening Mrs. Robert n. Warning
of Newark, N. J., will be one of the
leading speakers, and conferences will be
conducted by the Rev. Frank S. Dobbns
of the American Baptist Foreign Mis-
sionary Society; Mrs. Baldwin. Mrs. War
ing and Mrs Ermina L. Cooper, of Lans-
downe.
o. R. Palmer will be the teacher at the
Bible study session on the third day
and the speakers in the afternoon will
include the Rev Mr. Dewey. Harry E.
Barlow, the Rev. E. Norris Ferguson and
the Rev. H. A. Musser. At 3 o. clock there
will be an open conference, with Mrs.
Emile f, kearney as leader. Walter o.
Smith will preside.
Charles Frankenberger will preside in
the evening, and the speakers will in
clude Prof. Calvin o. Althouse, of the
Central High School. Following the reg
ular meeting the delegates will divide
into conferences for boys workers and
girls workers. Speakers at the boys
workers conference will be George H
Streaker and William Ellenberger, and
those at the girls workers conference
are to be Miss Constance Du Bos and
Miss Daisy Dean.
John Walton, the president of the asso-
citation, will preside at the closing ses-
sions on Friday afternoon and even
ming. At the former session officers will
be elected and the annual reports will be
heard. This will be followed by a con-
ference on adult department work, when
the speakers are TO he the Rev. Dr. John .
\. Blair, the Rev, Charles a. Oliver su-
pertntendent of teacher training for the
Pennsylvania State Sabbath School Asso- |
citation, and DR.. Frank W. Lange gem |
eral secretary of the Philadelphia School !
Of the Bible.
In the evening there will be a grand |
rally for BILLY" Sundays campaign |
when the Rev. Mr.. Dewey is to speak OF
the part the adult Bible classes can play
n the proposed revival