The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-03-28
More in West Virginia C onfer-
etlce of Mett1o dist Church
Than in 0tfler States.


known official of the v M est virginia
Confer nte Of the Methodist Eipiscppal
church, writing Of the SunIay school
meeting to be held IN this eli y on
-Marth -. gives the fo flowing state
ment in regard TO the growth OF sum
day schools in the West ginia con.
ference. He sAEa:5
is not generally known that the
5N stsaVtrginia conference haB tai lar
GER number OF Sunday schools than
any other conference of the Methodist
Episcopal church in the United States
but such is the fact. AT It's annual
session last fall, the West Virginia
conference reported 941 Sunday
schools, and the next largest number
reported by any conference in the
United States was s6s lSorth east Ohio
conference There we're two confer
encess however, in the Methodist Epis
cnpa church, which reported a larger
number of Sunday schools; and both
of lnese conferences were in what we
are pleased to call a. III eat hen Il India
the ga North Invest India conference re
p PC 0oissunday schools, and next
toa thu msswas the West Virginia con
ference with AL Sunday schools.
Received Great Impetus.
The Sunday school work IF The
Methods Epf scopal churchs has re
ceived "a igreatrimp sfuss since the orr
ganizat ton OF Ettie board g.of Sunday
scool by the, general confefenc Of
1908 sI1uIin he7 Years which 9 have
interviewed since then. lie fnlssiDnar-
les emp ipyed by he board 4pf. Sunday
schools have estaib1i shed nearly 2,0eD
new Sunday schools. ON Ewh icti more;
than SOD Meth dist EJpiscopa /. church
esa have been organized. Since eos
The Sunday srhoo1 Ii of the Method
Episcopal church have Increased more
than l!1 .0G0, GOO in III arb ssrsi1ip; 11are,l
reported near ri a COO 600 Scholars !;
converted; and! llaveFcont rfbllfed more I
lt tn fourtmilli Hons OF !do llarssto tomei
and foreign missions s.
ne boa Fd of Sunday chools OF the |
Methodist let 'Episc opal church keeps
from tWenty . thirty missionaries at
work or ms the United States. \, @
Men are becoming more and more
I 2 Ter in Sunday school work
through the sMethod dist Bl:othe rhopdi
and a Adult Bible Class Organizations.
rolled IN Methodist Episcopal Sunday
schools. The Methodist Brotherhood
has recently been consoldia ted VIM
the board OF Sunday schols. Dr.. VIII
liam s. Howard. formerly secretary
OF the brotherhood, being now thel
very ef1cl ent stlpelin tendent or Sthest
a 9 department. OF tfleS board OIL
Sunday schools.
Progressive State.
V. w est Virginia is one Of the most
Pro r,ogressiye@ofSa all the states in SUM-
lay school work This is due partly
20 .e, The excel lent work which has beenSE
zone by the State Sunday School, AS
so 'ss'E and partly to the increasing
lnteFes which issibeing taken in SUM-
1ay school work by the leading de-
comma pm ma tons. The Methodist Episco-
pal church has had a special SUNDAY Il
'chool worker in West Virginia in the
g: Of the Rev. Milton r. sEas TAX
OF OF over a year. He is a, regular.
~ member Of the West Virginia con fer
e =. released from pastoral work for H
his special duty He works under tho
l1reclon OF the board OF Sunday
'cho OILS, " frlch supports him. The sue
s :7:S OF his ork has ben cry Erati-
yang: During the year before he va
ppo1nted when there was no special Nj
sunday school worker in the West
Y ~ irg 1nla% conference TERRITORY. tho con-
ere Nc reported a net gain OF. four
sunday schools. AT the close az his
lrstg year of service the conference II
ported a net gain Of forty one SIN:
lay schools; sixty having been Or
sanized during the year. This work E
las been done under the deDa pm asI,,,t AZ
,f extension of the board 81 snndav
schools. which, stands for more SIM.
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