The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-02-24
cOlONhA PRESIDENT
Of STATE SUNDAY
SCHOOL ASSOCIATION
Body Elects Newport News Man As
Its Chief Ofiiccr, and Accepts
Roanoke's Invitation.
i. L. n. SPENCER, OF RICHMOND,
is ELECTED TREASURER
Delegates Hear Numerous Practical
Addresses On Sunday School Topics.
Newport News Hospitality Enjoyed.

Newport News. Va, Feb ga
feature of the morning session of the
twenty-fifth annual convention of the
Virginia Sunday School Association al
the Newport News Baptist Church to-
day. was the election of officers, which
resulted as follows:
President-W. B. Colonna, Newport
News.
Vice President-E. l. Coruthers
University of Virginia.
Treasurer. X. Spencer. Rish'
mond
Executive Committee-R. l.. An
drews, Rev. +. II. Lacy. w. II. Rus
sell. ]. A. Garbor, A. Lee Knowles, b.
X Hay, J. p Mcconnell. Jacob Um-
iauf, c. F. Lohr and Park p. Deans,
chairman.
These officers and committeeman
were named by the committee on nom
ination and the convention elected
them unanimously.
Rev. MIR. Lane Opens Exercises,
The morning session was opened
with devotional exercises. conducted
by the Rev. Fl. G.. Lane, rector OF 81.
Paul's Episcopal Church.
These exercises were followed by an
address by y r. Israel, of Fairfax, on
THE Care of Boys In the Teen Age"
He said he advocated men teachers
for boys. and women teachers for girls.
because they will be interested In their
class The speaker said: I'VE must
love those under our tutelage, or we
cannot expect to teach them"
Mr.. Nicholson, of Botetourt County
spoke a few words on the need of lead
srs for, boys during the week. He en-
phasized the fact that man who will
lead the boys during the week will not
look after the boys on Sunday. Our
need is for leaders who will teach on
Sunday and look after the week day
activities of those same boys Teach
ers OF an organized class must not
give up the care OF the boys but
should meet with those boys in their
week day meetings or they might go
sstray," declared the speaker.
Remarks were made by several OF
the workers for boys of the teen
age" telling how they did the work.
They laid great stress upon the work
that can be done through the confer
ence for boys in county and district
conventions.
Mr. Ayrcs Speaks.
The Rev, W. A. Ay. es. of Newport
News. addressed the convention on
Soul Winning Through the Sunday
School" He said: Leading the lost
TO Christ is the main work for The
Sunday School. but II is necessary first
here to state plainly. what we mean.
There is but one way of salvation. The
child having crossed the line of re-
sponsibility is lost until he voluntarily
surrenders to Christ. The task of the
teacher Is to so instruct the child
that IL wifi gladly accept Christ. when
He is presented to him The world Is
learning that the only great thing In
this world is saving and developing
human life Rockefeller and Carnegie
are spending their millions in this
work because they have realized that
this Ia the only way TO e great. But
the Sunday School is called 10 the
business of saving souls and life. This
let us know what kind of teachers
we ought to have. They must be
trained Cl~sses Will not study when
teachers do not study.
We need trained teachers, We
need trained intellects but we also
need trained hearts. Put jesus first.
both in life and In teaching. In doing
tf1fs. teachers nnHst eire-ap- whatever
stands in the way OF winning souls 10
Jesus"
Mr.. Hudson speaks. /
Mr.. Hudson. OF Charlottesville, adj +
dressed the conventior on "A Neigh
borhood Survey" He said: 1T is
securing a knowledge of those out OF
Sunday School and enlisting them In
the work OF Sunday Schools, that
should be our aim. We must know
peoples condition before we can help
them. To gain this knowledge we
must do careful work. Look at the
church roll and then divide the COM
munity into districts and appoint COM
nittees to see those who are not In
any Sunday school In the Char.
lottesville presbytery many were found
who did not go to any Sunday school
other sections were almost as bad.
We found 234 within FIVE miles of one
Sunday School.
work was started, schools were re-
vived and now they are kept open all
winter. The teachers must go to the
poor and needy as we'll as the well-to-
do"
Business Sessions.
At this juncture the business SEES
sion was gone into and the first mat
ter brought 10 the conventions atten-
ton was the introduction of the dele.
gates from each county numbering
more than 200.
The report of the nominating COM
mittee was next had and the officers
and members of the executive COM
mittee recommended in the report,
were unanimously elected as gwen
q bove.
The report of the committee on Gre