The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1916-04-13

The song service led by Mr.. Excel
and Mr.. Roper was the opening fea-
,ture of yesterday afternoons session
of the state convention and Fourth
Vice President Beason was in the
chair. DR.. w. A. Borum took for his
subject Faith, the Currency of the
Kingdom of God" assuring his hear
ers that according to your faith so
shall it be unto you," as every Chris
tian is supplied with blessings and
prosperity in Christian life. according
to the amount of faith in God that he
has. Some people try to limit the
blessings of Jesus Christ by lack of
faith. Among other things. the speak
er showed how If we have the faith
we have the currency, and as there is
no limit to His power, so we can say
TO the mountain, BE thou removed"
According to your faith it shall be
unto you.
j. L. Neal Methodist Sunday school
worker, told of the Relation of the
Child to the Kingdom of Cod" quoting
John Sharp Williams: mississippi is
famous for her crop OF feecy staples
and babies" and using that to plead
for the education, morally and men
tally. and developing physically. of the
babies, as this crop of babies will be
the grown people Of later years. The
/ baby must be trained III the home
first, then in the Sunday school, the
Sunday school not being intended to
| take the place of the home training.
God determines the relation of every
| baby to His kingdom. these babies
coming with God-given characteristics.
| In the nine statements coming from
| the lips Of Jesus concerning children,
every one indicates that the baby will
inherit the kingdom of heaven. Not
giving the baby the proper physical,
social and religious life is being
stumbling block in the life of these
! little ones. A grave warning was
spoken against leaving the child's
spiritual welfare to its own discretion.
THE home actually determines the re-
lation of the child to the kingdom of
IGod. so if the home fails to do its work
1.-THE Sunday school should step in. If
he Sunday school teacher does not
lmow God how can he introduce the
baby or the parent? were some OF the
points brought out
w. D. Hawkins. president OF lauder
dale county Sunday schools, gave a
brief outline of the work accomplished
by the Flying Squadron" and the
splendid results coming from the visit
OF these workers to the Sunday
schools, as they carry their messages
Of cheer, not only to the beat conven-
tions. but to all the schools, with Me-
ridian as a base. He urged the putting
of more enthusiasm and of more peo-
pie into the work of organizing to OBJ
tain results Mr.. Hawkins then intro |
duced to the convention, in compH- |
mentary terms, the oldest members. !
Mrs. ]. S. Poythress and Mrs. NJ. E. |
Parker. of Meridian.
Miss Susie Juden, of New Orleans, |
elementary specialist for Louisiana, |
and Van Carter, general secretary i
from Louisiana, were introduced to |
the convention. Miss Juden spoke |
briefly, saying the great aim of organ |
lied Sunday school work is to bring |
men and women to Christ. She urged |
definite organization, begging the
workers not to let the little child go !
forth from the Sunday school before
he knows the way to heaven" Mr..
Carter, just from the Louisiana con
vention, brought good wishes for the
greatest convention in history.
The report OF the apportionment
committee. read by w. A. Chisholm,
was adopted. 1t provided for the rails
ing of $500 by apportionment among
he counties.
]. c. Ross told what the Conven-
ion Did for GGlfport." saying it put
Iulfport on the Sunday school map
as an up-to-dat, Sunday school town.
He pointed cut the difficulties. To-
al. along the coast, such as Sunday
sxcursionists who simply come for a
good time. ali day Sunday, and the
church people from the inland towns
who do not s. to church wheA G the
coast. and II prevalence of the Cat,
)lics. who are in the majority, saying
that when the convention came to
Iulfport although it was a church ,
own, the Sunday schools were dead,
cut the convention talks and compan-
onships have changed all that, and
he Sunday schools are now fine and
sending delegates to other conven-
ions to derive more good.
nooo. nros;da,t IF. tho CaorpQ |