Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1916-04-29
STATE CONVENTION FOR
ADULT BIBLE CLASSES
FIRST ANNUAL SESSION TO BIB
HELD IN DALLAS FEB.
- "a TO ~.
RALLIES IN OTHER TOWNS
Main Feature VIII Be Banquet for
1000 Workers on Friday Night,
Februar- rs.

Dallas, Texas, - THE frs'
annual State convention Of adult and
teen age organized Bible classes al
Dallas, Feb. "a to n, is being adver
tised this week by the most complete
visitation campaign ever attempted II
Texas.
Teams Of workers from Dallas and
Temple and other pivotal points are
making trips to county seats and the
larger towns, where rallies are held
with the local Sunday school work
srs. Then committees are formed In
each Of these county seat towns who
are preparing to send out othei
teams Of workers to the villages and
towns in their respective counties.
In this way a majority Of the l.
06s, 900 men, women and children who
are enrolled in the $500 Sunday
schools Of al, denominations In Texai
will have the opportunity OF hearing
something Of what the big convention
In Dallas will mean.
These rallies that aFe being held
IN the smaller towns are interesting
and Instructive Sunday school con
fereuoss, led BY experienced worksri
and will serve as . ~forstaste OF the
real feast.
At the convention which will begin
here at the First Presbyterian Church
Thursday morning, Feb. -, the
worlds greatest leader Of adult Bible
classes, w. C. Pesrce Of Chicago. will
speak many times in mass meetings
and in group conferences on all phases
OF organized Bible class work.
Mrs. W. G. Moody Of Galveston, II
one OF the leading women speakers
and the Rev. Charles d. Bulla OF ths
Methodist Episcopal Church, South
will bring messages OF new IDEAS.
Watch for your rally to be an
nounced in your own Sunday schoo
and do not fail to attend, as the bea
con lights OF Christian progress II
Sunday school work are being light
ed in this series OF rallies. which vii
reach the climax at Dallas at tn,
State convention.
Among the convention features vii
be a great Sunday school workers
banquet Friday night at $3.50 o'cloc
at the beautiful Scottish Rite Cath'
dral on South Harwood street, on
block from the convention church.
This banquet will be one of tn
great events OF the year In Sunda
School activities. NJ. II. Wolfe G
Dallas, one OF the greatest Baptis
laymen in the South, a man OF CON
manding commercial, financial and n
ligious position in the Southwest, an
president OF the Texas Sunday schoC
Association, will be POSTMASTER.
Cullen II. Thomas. a leading lawye
OF Dallas, will speak at a great mas
meeting for men Thursday night o
"rhe Men OF Texas for the Man G
Gallilee."
Many towns are to be visited thi
week. See II your town is anon
them. They are: Farmersville, c,
leste. Commerce, Wolfe City. Paril
Honey Grove. Bonham, Whitesbort
and Weatherford.
Sunday rallies will be held In thes
towns: Sherman, Van Alstyne. Cl'
burne, Mineral Wells. Terrell, Will
Point, Handley, Arlington. Furne.
Gainesville, Pilot Point. Fort Wortl
Midlothian. Hillsboro. Milford. Cors
cana, Rice. Mesquite. Grand Prairi,
Cedar Hill. Lancaster. Hutchins. WI
mer, seagoville. Kleburg. Irving an
Carrollton.
Next week these towns will hay
rallies for the Sunday school worl
ers: Kemp. Kaufman, Grand Salin
J Mineola, Rockwell. Royse City, Gree
willie. Sulphur Springs, A~ivarado. F.
Z mis-, Itascs, L~ewisville. Denton. Dec
tur, Bowie. Henrietta, Wichita Fall
Tehuacana and Mexia.
Read the names carefully for yot
own city and watch for the dates
) be announced by your sup~erintendei
or pastor.
Mr.. Wolfe. the State president, ~
William Nehemiah Virgins. Stat
;. secretary. are leading an army
n organized volunteer workers In DallI
, and throughout the State who loo
forward to the greatest Sunday scho'
" meeting ever held In the Lone ST.
State.
The convention will demonstraI
that the Sunday school for "womS
n and children alone" has developed 1
20 a mammoth training school tn
enlists some OF the biggest, brainie
, and best men in Texas or in Il
world.
There will be new ideas, new II
ing. burning messages and new pr
grams OF Christian progress ouuin,
d at the Dallas meeting that will maj
e q new era In Texas organized ella
work.