The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-10-18
GOOD MEETING OF
s. s. ASSOCIATION
At KNOX CHURCH.
MANY STRONG ADDRESSES FEA-
TURED TWO SESSIONS OF THE
MEETING, AND WILL MEET
NEXT AT BRENT.

were held yesterday at the Knox
Presbyterian church, in this city, and
both sessions were featured by adj
dressed along certain lines, all tend
ing to encourage the Sunday school
and the work of the workers in that
branch of the churches.
At The late afternoon session, Jas.
3. Perkins was elected president; j.
R. Bradley was elected vice-presi-
dent; w. A. Boyett, secretary-treas-
urer. The executive committee was
composed Of Messrs. w. P. Cunning
ham, w. H. McDayid, L. w. Hardy,
G. 2. Carter and H. j. Mackey.
At the same session it was decided
to hold the next meeting which will
be on the second Sunday in October,
1916, at Brent, the urgent request of
Miss Ray, who was present, having
been accepted. The city church offer
ing to care for the convention at that
time was the First Christian, at the
corner of Gadsden and San Carlos
streets. The convention, however,
decided to accept the kind invitation,
and the urgent request of the lady
named.
The afternoon session was featured
by several musical selections, Mrs.
Benn rendering a vocal solo, "The
Lord Is Ny Light" and a quartette,
composed Of Messrs. L. C. and S. NJ.
Phillips, j. A. Hicks and George +.
Smith, adding to the interest of the
last half of the days session by sew
eral selections.
The attendance of delegates was
not as large as had been expected,
several reasons accounting for their
absence. The president of the asso-
citation, L. w. Hardy, was unable to
remain throughout the session. A
very sick child detained him in the
early morning, but he managed to
catch a later train in the morning
over the c., F. & A. road, and ar
rived after the proceedings had been
advanced very much. Unable to stay,
he made short speech to thsAcon-
vention, among other Things saying
that he had been attending the meet
ingS for the past five years, and did
not want to break his record yester-
day, although he left at the first OPP
portunity to return to his home,
where his little girl was very i'll. In
his absence, Jas. B. Perkins of this
city, was chairman for the day.
The Morning Session.
An address of welcome to the Wis
iting delegates was feelingly and
happily delivered by G. F. Geek, the
superintendent of the Knox Presby-
terrain Sunday school. This was
spoken earnestly, and the hope was
expressed that much good would be
the outcome of the association which
it was the Knox Sunday schools priv
ilege to have meet there.
The response was to have been de-
livered by President Hardy of the as
ISOLATION, but in his enforced absence,
the acting chairman, Mr.. Perkins, re-
spondcd, saying how gladly were the
delegates, both from city and coun-
try, to be present in the coy little
church, and he also held out the hope
that the good work which the associa-
ton stood for would be even fur
thered by the fact that the meeting
was being held in the city of Pensa-
cola, and especially in the new little
church building in New City.
"How to Promote Sunday School
LOYALTY" subject in which there
was very general open discussion,
was led by Mr.. Perkins, in the alb.
sence of Mr.. Bradley. This subject
was first ably handled by Mr.. Per-
kins. who made the point that one of
the reasons for the lack of loyalty on
the part of the child was the lack Of
example on the part of the older
folks, and by illustration made his
meaning more clear by holding up
the picture of the child being driven
to the Sunday school in the morning
on the Sabbath day, but never taken
to the church or the Sunday school
by the parent, ordinarily. This was
one reason, the speaker inferred, why
the child loses interest in the Sunday
school and neglects or leaves the good
training just as soon as he is able
to do so.
One of the highly interesting and
strong points made in the open dis
cussion which Immediately followed
was that by Mrs. M. E. Grove, who
is here for the winter, and who
showed that one of the very best
ways TO inculcate the interest in any
undertaking was to make proper and
correct use of the instrument at hand
to do SO. She said that by the sword
of the spirit. the young people could
more easily and acceptably be learned
in the Sunday schools, ard the use of
such sword was the proper thing
needed if made use of to the advan-
tage sought. Mrs. Grove also spoke
in the open discussion of "How to
Make the Mems Bible Class Success
full" which shortly followed. Mr.
Zeek Rev. Chas. Dickerson. Fl. ]