The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-11-18
MANI A[RfADI
SENDING WORD
they're COMING TO
S. S. CONVENTION


Sunday school convention in hand,
reports that already a good many
delegates IRE writing that they will
be here next week, and prospects for
about 500 delegates being here is the
outlook. AS stated before, the con
vention will be held in the First
Baptist church and will be inter-de-
nominational The sessions will COM
mence next Thursday. OF the con-
vention, yesterdays Jacksonville
Times-Union says:
| Jefferson B. Browne. recently
elected to the supreme court of Flor
ida, will be one of the speakers at
the Lakeland meetings of the State
Sunday school convention. Mr..
Browne will speak Thursday night,
Nov. 23, his theme to be The In
fluence of the Sunday School Upon
Civic Life. Those who have heard
Mr.. Browne know that splendid
| treat is in store for them.
| Bishop H. G.. Morrison of Lees
/ burg is the principal speaker for
{ Sunday afternoon, Nov. &c. His sub
ject will be For Such Is the King
(, dom. = AS platform orator, Bishop
! Morrison has few equals His address
{ is planned to be the clicaX of the
entire four days of contemplation and
study.
Prof. Daniel j. Blocker of Stetson
university, President r. Fl. Alder
man of Southern college and Prof. G..
NJ Britain of Columbia college are
all well known educators and ora
tors Each of these men will bring
wealth of knowledge and learning
to the convention. and will give to
! the listeners things worth while.
o. E. Maple. State secretary Of
the Young Mems Christian Associa-
ltion, and ] G.. Lanier, president of
the Baraca- Philathea Union, will also
be present at all the sessions
p. e. Green of birmingham,
Ala, is a man known throughout the
Southeast as thoroughly proficient in
Sunday school work. He is to be
present and address the convention
ION such splendid themes as What
Older Girls and Boys Expect from
the Sunday School, The Harvest
Vision of Tomorrow, and other sub
jects.
Rev. c.. l.. Collins of DeLand, for
merly superintendent of the Anti
Saloon League of Florida, will de-
liver am address at the temperance
conference on The Sunday School
Part in a Saloonless Nation
The principal speaker of the CON
vention will be John L. Alexander of
Chicago. who is known the world
over as a teen age specialist. He is
the international Sunday schools
secretary. Among the many themes
to be used by Mr.. Alexander may he
mentioned the following: Why I Am
a Sunday School Man, Training for
II leadership, Dad, Mother, the Parson
and the School Ma'am, The Men of
America for the Man of Galilee.
Among other specialists who will
take part at the Lakeland conven-
ton are Rev. A. II. Cole, field secre-
tary of the Methodist church, South,
Rev. G. " Albertson, Rev, F. NJ.
Baldwin, Rev. C. W. White and man.
others.
r.. c. Weidler spoke enthusiastical-
" today concerning the coming con-
vention. He said:
"The fifteenth annual convention
Of Florida Sunday schools which will
cpen in Lakeland, Nov. %. promises
10 be the largest in numbers ever
held in this State. We expect Sunday
schools from practically all of the
state to be represented. Reports are
coming in to our office daily giving
names of delegates already elected.
Those counties in the west end Of
the State will naturally send their
delegates to the convention in De-
Funiak Springs, which opens Nov.
20. At Lakeland convention, how
ever. all the business of the associa-
ton will be transacted. Officers will
he elected and state wide plans out
lined. All over Florida business and
professional men are taking active
interest in this work, and one of the
features Of the Lakeland meeting
will be the large number II business
and professional men who Will at
tend. Every school in the State is
entitled to one delegate to each fifty
enrolment, while, of course, all Wis
tiers will be gladly welcomed. Spe-
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