Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1916-10-26
SUNDAY SCHOOL
CONVENTION II
Report Of the Meeting at Quincy
October Is and II.

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The Grant County Sunday School
Convention convened at Quincy,
Wash. on the evening of Oct 10th,
1916, with Mrs. D. s. Evans, the coun-
ty president presiding.
After short and inspiring temper
ance song service conducted by Rev.
Dolph of Wenatchee the devotional
exercises were conducted by DR.. JAG
OBJ Yutzy, of Trinidad. -
The first address of the evening
was given by Rev. Dolph on the SUBJ
ject, 1.-THE Kind of Preparedness the
Sunday School Needs" The address
was a very practical one and the
three points emphasized were: First,
vision of the possibilities Of the
Sunday school. Second, make the
Sunday school real school with
certain standards and grades to be
acquired by thorough preparation and
completion Of lessons assigned, and
third, nothing worth while can be &C.
complished in the Sunday school with
out the enduement of power from on
high.
Mrs. E. C. Knapp then addressed the
convention on the subject, "The OPP
tomist, the Pessimist and the Possu-
mist" This splendid address was CIV
en- as only Mrs. Knapp could give it
and was full Of helpful suggestions
and wise advice to people to never say
things cannot be done but rather say
we can do things and then by spirit
Of kindness, determination, and per-
sistence and cooperation press for
ward and do them.
The first session the following day
was opened with a conference. A
short time was taken up discussing
the things which prevent the best
success in the Sunday school.
Among those discussed were: Lack
Of discipline, hardness, irregular at
tendance and lack Of teachers.
The devotional exercises were con-
Quoted by Rev. Devin, of Coulee City.
For the next forty minutes round
table meeting was conducted by Mr..
KNAPP on the subject of "Live Sun
day School Problems" Nearly all the
delegates present took part on this
conference and many helpful sugges-
lions were made along many lines of
work.
The morning address Christian CO.
operation was also given by Mr..
Knapp. This should have been heard
by every person who really want to
help christian work along and make
it a power in the community.
Before adjourning for the noon
hour the president appointed the fol-
lowing committees:
Resolutions
Mrs. R. J. Armstrong.
MIS-. II. M. course.
DR.. Jacob Yutzy.
Nominations
Wesley Johnson.
Mrs. Kate Roberts.
Mrs. Russell, Of Gibson.
Mrs. Seger.
The ladies Of the church served
dinner in the annex and a very en-
joyable hour was spent by the visit
ors and local people.
In the afternoon after a short song
service a short talk was given on the
topic, my Experience with a Train
ing Glass;
After this Mrs. Devin gave a splen-
did talk on my Experience with a
Christmas Program" In this address
great emphasis was made on the ne
cessity Of making Christmas have it's
true meaning, a time when all should
.hink of what the coming of the Christ
child meant to mankind.
The address next given "How to
Finance Sunday School, by Mr..
KNAPP was full of many useful sug-
gestions for taking care of the many
expenses of the Sunday school. He
pointed out also that lack of sys.
tenn may make the expenses of
Sunday school a burden and a waste.
The roll call of Sunday schools
was as followsA
Pledges for Effici-