The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1914-04-28
MAY 8 SUNDAY
SCHOOL DAY
GOVERNOR MccREARY ISSUES
PROCLAMATION FOR oBsERv-
ANcE OF DAY.
ATTENDANCE OF 100000.
Expected in the Churches of All De-
nominations in Kentucky Next SUM-
day-city and County Organizations
at Work to Bring About Success.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Louisville, Ky.-Under direction of
The Rev. George A. Joplin, the general
secretary, the Kentucky Sunday-school
association is conducting a campaign
the object of which is to bring at least
! 100000 persons to Sunday-school in
the state on one day, the first Sunday
IN May. In order to insure success
DR.. Joplin has made an effort to en-
list the interest of every newspaper,
and large majority of them are TAX
ing it up. The workers of the Sunday
schools are also being enlisted. There
are county organizations under the
state association in every county, and
the officers of most of them are rally
/ ing their forces. Some one will be
asked to act in every town and then
! to send in the reports after the day.
/ The first executive proclamation
ever issued in this country officially
designating a day for Sunday-school
attendance was signed by Gov. Nc
Creary, designating May as "Go-to-
Sunday-school day." by the issuance
of the proclamation, which follows:
Whereas, the supreme need in our
state to-day is that the forces which
! make for character and Christianity
shall control the forces which make
for intelligence and patriotism, and
one of the greatest forces which
make for character and Christianity
is the Sunday-school.
Whereas, in an effort to produce
a Greater and Better Kentucky the
Kentucky Sunday-school association
has appointed May as a "Go-to-Sun-
day-school' day, hoping to have one
million people in Sunday-school that
day.
Whereas, the Sunday-schools of
all denominations will observe this
day with appropriate exercises and
are issuing invitations to ali our citi-
zens- to attend Sunday-school.
! And, whereas, those who are in
| tereSted in the welfare of our state
should work together to produce the
best citizenship.
Therefore, 1, James B. McCreary,
Governor of Kentucky, call upon all
Kentuckians and the visitors within
our borders to attend Sunday-school
in the church of their choice on May
|
/ agement and honor to those who
teach in these schools, that they may
see the work that is being done and
that they may in this service worship
their God.
In testimony whereof l have caused
these letters to be made patent and
the seal of the Commonwealth to be
hereunto affixed. Done at Frankfort,
the 23d day of April, in the year of our
Lord one thousand nine hundred and
fourteen, and in the one hundred and
| twenty-second year of the Common
wealth.
Thousands of posters and invita-.
lions will be sent out to be placed in
prominent places and given to people.
Many organized classes will endeayor
to have each member bring at least
one new member that day. The move
ment is interdenominational, its object
being to secure the attendance of ev.
cry person possible. There are, ac-
cording to DR.. Joplin, at least three
persons outside of the Sunday-school
for every one in.
There are about 1000 Protestant
white Sunday-schools in the state,
with $4,000 officers and teachers and
325,000 pupils. There are $4,000 in the
colored Sunday-schools. Large rallies
have been held lately, when single
schools have had present at one time
from 900 to LAT. Two years ago
there was not a Sunday-school in Ken
lucky that enrolled as many as 1000
members; now there are number.
There are 1,141 adult Bible classes in
kentucky. and many of these have
doubled in the last few months.
The officers of the association are:
President, c. F. Huhlein, Louisville;
vice president, President R. H. Cross.
field, Lexington; treasurer, Clarence
4 Watkins, Louisville; chairman of the
state executive committee, Huston
: Quin, Louisville. The association en-
ploys five persons who give their en-
tire time to the work. the Rev. George
A. Joplin, general secretary; the Rev
: T. c. Gebaur and w. J. Vaughan, field
3 workers; Miss Maude L. Dance, ele
{ mentary field worker, and Miss Fran
= ces L. Grigsby, Office secretary, while
4 E. S. Boswell is employed about one
5 sixth of his time.
: The aim of the association is IS
: greater and better Kentucky" Dur
q ing the year every part of the state i;
e covered with conventions, Institutes
S rallies, special meetings, visits tt
t schools and churches, and by litera
e ture sent out from the Office.