The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-11-22
MUST BUILD KINGDOM
IN CH|l1RfN'S HEARTS
Rev. John ". shackford Speaks on
Report OF Sunday School Board
to Virginia Conference.
URGE HOLDING OF INSTITUTES
Report Shows That Rappahannock
District Leads In Gross Amount For
Children's Day-Easterp Shore In
Percentage Of Increase.

Percentage OF increase
The work OF building Up the king
dom OF God Is not so much a matter
| Of today or Of the next few years as
it is Of the coming generation" as
serted Rev John ". Shackford,
speaking in yesterdays session of the
Virginia Conference on the report of
the Sunday school board We must
create great army OF the church OF
Jesus Christ. we must recruit from
among the children. and the most i'm
| portant work now is in training them.
The recruits for the great army for
| world evangelism will come from the
| Sunday schools
| The supremest work. the most
strategic work. is building His king
| dom in the hearts Of the children"
Mr. Shackford strongly emphasized
the necessity tor giving teachers bet
| ter training, making them more oom-
| petent to teach the children. and
urged that the Sunday school period
be extended The thirty-minute Pc
Rod once each week. he asserted. Is
much too brief
Public Schools Leaving Out Christ.
This he stressed b. comparison with
the periods given in the public schools.
He deplored the fact that moro and
more the public school system is get
ting away from the religious side Of
education. is more and more leaving
Christ out Reasons why the schools
OF the State cannot offer Christian ed
ucatton,' he said. are obvious, 50
this education must be taken UP by
the church in the Sunday school"
During the reading OF the report by
Rev. Dr.. E T. Dadrun. chairman OF
the Sunday school board, Rev. DR.. 3.
II, Beckhann presided. Bishop Klgo
having called him to the chair. The
Sunday school board is composed Of
DR.. Dadnun, chairman W. T. WI
uanaa, secretary; c. F. Conner, treas
ure<. and L. Hunter Early. J. N Walk
er. g. e. Booker. E, r. GerneT. r
Frank Barr. E. s Emory. Paster
Il. H Smith. I. R Dyer, J. W. Hollo-
way, J. D. Hosier. T. n Jef1- J, w.
shackford and J. p. Jones.
The report OF the board. approved
by the conference. reads as follows:
Sunday School Report
Your board desires to reiterate It's
able summary OF the plans under
which the Sunday schools OF our
church are working. as printed in the
1915 Annual This statement, while
81 gned by your chairman. was written
and clear q view OF what our church
Is attempting that 7 cannot improve
upon It and viii only touch upon
few important points for emphasis IN
this paper.
In the great emergency which lay
before US the last year. when We were
IN such need Of = Sunday school field
secretary and had not the needed
funds 70 employ such an agent our
beloved brother. n CouEt.cs Scott, a
layraan Of this city, threw himself
into the breach and has carried on
that work, without money and with
out price, with greatest success and
usefulness. only c.rcuuscrtoed by the
limit Of the tine he was able TO spare
from his own business
New Field Secretary.
N accor ding with It's program ar
nounced at our last conference, your
board. having seen It's way clear 70
provide for the cost. has secured the
services Of Brother NJ. W. B-abh2n,
who has for five years been the &C.
tive and successful field secretary OF
the North Carolina Conference We
bespeak for this consecrated laynaan
the warmest welcome and most cor
dial cooperation which this great con-
ference can give
We are planning to meee our ex-
perses by the method which has been
used for many years In our confer
ence. though other conferences have
levied assessments TOR such advance
movements We suggest that when
the Ch!ldren's Day offerings are taken.
as ordered In every Sunday school by
our discipline. that each school set as
It's standard the raising OF not less
than an average Of TO cents per mem
Der.
Advance reports from the Joint
board Of finance indicate that the
Rappahannock District leads in the
gross amount for Children's Day this
year and that only two Of her charges
took no oftertng, Eastern Shore leads
~ escaped having an Offering nom
each charge. only one preacher fail
Ing to report an offering.
Plans Produce Results.
We desire to express our aopreela-
ton Of the assistance given US by our
presiding elders and to call special
attention to the work on two OF the
districts
On the Eastern Shore District spe-
cia! institutes have been held covering
every charge on the district. The pre-
siding elder planned and secured this
result.
The elder Of the Rappahannock Dis
trict has also held a local institute
IN connection with his quarterly con-
ferences
It is not strange that with this lead
ership these two districts lead the
conference IN their contributions to
conference Sunday school work.
We urge the holding OF district. re-
gtonal and charge institutes. and that
to this end district organizations be
formed and perfected
We call attention to the disciplinary
provision that ell Chudren's Day col.
Iec,ions are to be turned over to the
pastor and by him Immediately
tran shifted to the treasurer Of our
Sunday s. hool board, Rev. c. B.
Conner.