The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-06-19
EXPECT 1900
WILL REGISTER
FOR S. S. MEET
Big Convention Opens in
Fargo Wednesday At
First Methodist
PARADE rs BIG
OPENING DAY EVENT
New Plans Are Announced
for Pageant at $50
O'clock

The twenty seventh annual conven-
ton of the North Dakota Sunday
School association will open Wednes-
day morning at 900 o'clock at the
First Methodist Episcopal church.
For three years past Fargo has made
an effort to secure the convention and
now it is here. BY Wednesday noon
it is expected that there will be close
to 1900 people who will have regis
tered and paid their dollar for admis-
sion to this splendid series OF meet
ings.
John Il. Alexander, one of the big
gest men in Sunday school work In
the United States, will be the leading
speaker at the opening session to-
morrow morning. Mr.. Alexander is
q business man who without COM
pensation is giving his entire time to
the Sunday school work. he IS at
present the owner of a business in st.
Louis, Mo-, which makes him q good
living, so that he is able to do Sun
day school work without expense to
the association. His speciality is work
with the boys. For a number or years
he was chief scout Of the Boy Scouts
of America and it is planned that
some time while he Is in the city he
will have an opportunity to say some
thiny about the Boy Scout movement
and its aims and methods. 81
DR.. w. D. Schemerhorn. of Chicago,
and Prof. M. A Honline. Of Dayton,
o., are both to appear on the program
tomorrow morning along with Mr..
Alexander. DR.. Schemerhorn is said
to be one of the best and sanest
Biblical scholars in America today.
He will have charge of the Bible work
during the entire convention. DR.. II.
III. Frost, pastor of the First Metho-
dist Episcopal church, knows DR..
Schemerhorn will and speaks in the
highest terms of him and his work.
There are few. men in the country
who know the subject of religious
education better than Prof.. M. a.
HonIine. OF the Bonebreak Theological
Seminary. of Dayton, or He has held
this position in this leading theolog1-
cal school OF the United Brethren
church for a number OF years and his
influences grows year by year.
At noon Wednesday will be held the
series of luncheons for the workers
~ the Vafaous fieEdA e Sunday eeh00l
EFFORT. Unless otherwise announced
these Iuncheons will be served in the
churches where the conferences or
these same departments will be held In
the afternoon. The purpose OF the
luncheons is to get the workers to-
gether in a friendly, social way In Or
der that they may be prepared to get
the most out of the conferences Wnlcn
follow in the afternoon.
One of the features or greatest
popular interest in the modern sum
day school convention movement is the
parade. Many people imagine that
the Sunday schools are small anairs
but when they see a parade or sew
eral thousand people marching down
a street and thus expressing their In
terest in the Sunday school work they
are quite likely to have to revise their
estimate of matters.
Parade Wednesday Evening.
The parade will be held Wednesday
evening at $3.50 o'clock. Hon. Smith
Stimmel is commander. The parade
will form on north Broadway ana
march south. The exact line OF march
will be announced later. All the Sun
dav schools of the city are making
plans to be presented in this parade
and some with very unique and in
teresting floats. A large number or
the schools and counties from various
parts of the state have phoned in and
written for trucks and various other
material which they may use in the
parade.
to be the leader of song. Mr.. Will
Iiams arrived in the city this morn
ing and has spent the day in getting
in touch with the singers Of the city.
There are to be two great choruses.
The first will be made UP Of children
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