The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1917-02-09
COY. RYE MAKES
PROCLAMATION
Easter Sunday Set Aside As "GO to
Sunday School Day" In Tennessee
ALL URGED TO ATTEND
Noah W. Cooper and Judge Carthel
Officers Of Stlte Sunday
School Association, En-
dOrSe Plan


proclamation to the people of Tennes-
see, setting apart Easter Sunday,
April s, as go to Sunday School
Day" for Tennessee, on which day all
Tennesseans are urged to attend Sun
day school. The proclamation in full
is as follows:
ITO the People of Tennessee: No
state can truthfully boast of true
greatness and wealth, unless that
state is great in its moral develop
ment and rich in the Godliness of its
people, hence the eXacting demand
and important duty of every common
wealth is to bend every effort and
exert every energy to the thorough es-
tablishment of the great forces which
produce Christian character
The study of the Bible is necessar-
lily sacred duty, for the reason that
a knowledge of Gods word is essen
tial to the development of Christian
character and good citizenship.
The Sunday schools of our state
are strong right arms Of our church
es, dealing deadly and effective blows
to the evils that seek to destroy child
hood, home, state and nation. This
being true, our Sunday schools de-
serve all praise and encouragement
and should be attended by all our peo-
pie. The child naturally follows in
the footsteps of more mature years,
therefore our men and women should
turn their steps toward the Sunday
school, in order that the children may
there learn lessons which shall make
them worthy citizens. If the time
ever was when the Sunday school was
but place for children, that time has
passed, for under the guidance of the
good men and women who are giving
! their lives to this noble cause, there
is now place for all ages, from the
Cradle Roll" for infants to the Home
, Department" for those unable to at.
tend, and duty calls all to take their
place in the Sunday school.
81 could wish for no higher compli
ment or greater honor for our people
than to have it said that every citi
zen Of the state is a members of the
Sunday school. Thousands of OH
children are already on the highway
to ruin, because father, mother OF
somebody else did not direct their
tiny feet into the paths that lead to
the Sunday school.
PRINCE OF PEACE.
There has never been a time when
the importance of Sunday school at
tendance was not realized and appre
clated, but 1t seems to me that, III
view of recent events, the impor.
tance of Sunday school encourage
ment and attendance is emphasized
We did not desire tive could not
help tive have even prayed that it
might not come, but, despite all this
we are today walking in the gathering
gloom of lower war-clouds, and We
need to know more of the teachings OF
the Prince of Peace and His will con
cerning us.
Believing implicitly in the great
WORK now being done in our Sunday
schools, desirous of encouraging the
efforts of those who are contributing
their time, energy and money to this
holy cause, and being advised that the
Tennessee Sunday school association
has designated Sunday, April s. as &c
to Sunday School Day" now, there
fore, !, Tom c. Rye, governor of Ten
nessee, do hereby proclaim and sci
apart April s, 1917, as Go to Sunday
School Day" for Tennessee. On thai
day, l earnestly urge all Tennesseans
as well as all visitors within her Dor
ders, to attend the Sunday school o.
their choice, and trust that those moi
heretofore attending may, on that day
resolve to begin to cultivate the habit
of regular Sunday school attendance
believing as | do, that from this habit
will spring countless blessings tt
every home in our state. ..r
In Testimony whereof, have here
unto set my hand and caused the
treat Seal of State to be affixed
at Nashville on this, the fifth day o.
February, nineteen hundred and sew
enteen.
OSigned' TON c. RYE, Governor.
MR.. CoOPBR'S STATEMENT.
In relation to the Governors pro
clamation, Noah w. Cooper, presiden
Of the Davidson County Sunday schoo
association, makes the following state
ment:
! Our 'Go-to-Sunday-School Day was
a tremendous success here in Nash
1 vile in 1916. Now we want to cove
the whole state, and have everybody
4 in Sunday school on Easter Sunda!
AS president of the Davidson count,
association, / urge every county office
and every Sunday school teacher anC
scholar to keep this day in every
body's mind, and in every newspaper
from now till Easter Sunday"
JUDGE CARTHELL ENTHUS-
q IASTIC.
i Judge Joseph Carthel, general secre
tary of the Tennessee Sunday schoo
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