Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-05-17
WAVE OF PROGRESS IN
C|TY'S SUNDAY SCHOOLS
Reports to Annual Meeting Of Rich.
mond Association Show Good
Headway Made.
NEW OFFICERS ARE ELECTED
Frank T. Crump Is President and r.
Q. Hawkins. DR., Secretary-Thom-
ms G. Diggs Tells of the Work Be-
ing Done in State mt Large.

ms G. Diggs Tells of the Work Be-
ing Done in State at Large.
Substantial progress IN Sunday
| school attendance, Sunday school he
heNolence and Sunday school activities
IN general. particularly since the boz
ginning of the present year, was in
dictated in reports made to the an
nuai meeting Of the Richmond Sunday
noon at Grace Street Baptist Church
Many schools reported increased
| membership ono of them, Tabernacle
baptist. reporting gain of so per cent
| since January l. others reported
progress in the form of increased con-
| tributions to missions or other causes
| several reported the establishment: of
! nurseries, where infant children arc
| taken care OF while their mothers
attend Sunday school or church
The reports indicated that n wave OF
| renewed interest in Sunday school
work had swept over the city since
the first of the year. and the leaders
in the work generally expressed them
selves as gratifed with the showing
| made.
s, Thomas G. Digs secretary of the
state Association, was present and
gave with respect to the State at large
similar story of progress and plans
| Tor greater work in the future.
enrolment and attendance by de-
nominations as shown by reports as
OF January 81, when the fiscal year OF
the association ended. were as fol-
! lows:
Observation-Disclosures, 1873; at
| tendance. 1898
| Observation-Disclosures. 573: attend
| anCc. 42G.
Observation-Disclosures S1A9. attopd
| ancc, J.G?2.
Baptist-Enrollment 1927. attend
ance. 1884.
christian-Enrollmcnt. 1915; at
| tendance, Oil
Observation-Disclosures 2.loo: at
Tho total enrolment with several
| schools missing was given BY the sec
| rotary rs hcinE 26,Sa9, with a total
attendance of 1924. or 81 2-5 per cent.
ALI. VOICES CALL
FOR UNITED EFFORT
Rev. III. d. c. Maclachlan, D. D., re-
firing president of the association. pre-
si"cd over the meeting. and In lieu Of
ihe presidents report made an inter
estinC address on the SUNDAY school
| work. He congratulated the associa-
! 'ioh on its Observation-Disclosures char
actcr This is an age, he remarked
| when we have gotten over dcnomina.
tiohal chickering's. II is time when
All voices are calling us TO get to-
Scthcr. There is n great field. ne said
| Tor dcnominational activity, but il is
important not to fail in the larger
association of Christian activities which
gamers up and unitcs the smaller as
| sociations in solid army. Tho best
| u"nominationalist. according to DIR
| Maclachlan. is not he who assumes his
! position in his own little corner Of
| the vineyard and confines his activi-
| ties there. but the man who labors for
| progress in the vineyard as n whole
we must not. like little Jack Horncr
| Said the minister. 20 into n corner and
| seitshly eat our pie alone Gods
pie nc declared, rs big enough for
| the whole world
The retiring president thanked the
executive committee and the subcom-
nittecs of that committee for the work
That they had done during the past
year. He emphasized the need for the
sunday school superintendent to be
| interested in the work OF the associa-
tion II the individual Sunday school
was to make good showing in the
| city association.
NAVY SUNDAY SCHOOL
CONVENTIONS BEING HELD
AT the conclusion of DR.. Maclach
lan's address, Thomas c. Diggs, sec
rotary of the Virginia State Sunday
School Association. spoke few min
| ltes telling of the work being done
through the State. He said approxi-
HlateiF leo Sunda% school district con-
V"ntions were held during the past
/ year. and that when the State is thor
! ouGhly organized the number Of con-
ventions will be largely increased
iiEhtcen thousand conventions were
! held In the United States and Canada
! during the past year, he, said
| Mr.. DiEGs told of the work of the
| district conventions and of the diff
| culties encountered In the rural dis
| tricts where In some cases the schools
keep open only n few weeks in each
year. One of the objects of the dis.
trict conventions, he said. was to reach
the workers in the localities where
! these part time schools are held and
! get them aroused
day schols were then made by rep
rcsentativcs and great progress along
| many lines was reported
y. G. Scott, chairman of the nomi-
mating committee, made the report of
III" selections by the committee for
new officers AS follows: president,
| Frank T. Crump; secretary, r. c. IIaw-
kins. Jr.; treasurer. Leroy Grant; vice.
presidents. S. T.. Bishop, DIR. w. p.
| Mathews, T. NJ. Hundley. Jacob Um-
Iauf. l.. D. Warren. Frank d. Bev-
cridGc; executive committee, ". c.
Scott, G.. Il. Massie. Lewis Pitcher.
| ~. ii. Saunders, Samuel b. Love II. w.
Ware. o. a. Hawkins, e. II. Ritenour.
y. ID. Smith, L. y. Thompson. A. p.
Wilmer Owsley Saunders.
i The report of the nominating com
mittce was unanimously adopted and
its selection of officers thus confirmed
as the choice of the association
The association adjourned with the
hencdiction by Rev. II. A. Smooth, d.
D., pastor Of Centenary Methodist
Church.