The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1917-06-22
OVER FIVE THOUSAND SUNDAY
SCHOOL WORKERS IN PARADE
Climax Of Sunday School Congress Reached Sunday
AT Ryman Auditorium.

O'Clock afternoon the public square
was mass of humanity. Conserva !
tive estimate places the crowd on the
S luare and in the streets intersecting
at over twenty thousand. Then came
the mammoth street parade. Led by
General w. H. Crawford, of Austin,
Tex, who had worked out every detail
of the parade, they formed in the fol-
lowing order: two mounted assistant
marshalls, young ladies of Nashville,
who were in riding habits of khaki,
who kept the streets and line of march
clear; General Crawford, DR.. r. Il.
Boyd the director of the Congress, DR..
c. H. Clark, the chairman, DR.. S. S.
JONES' the Adjt, General, and Henry
A Boyd, the Congress secretary, were
Immediately in front; then came the
fearless and brave Company sc" of
the Tennessee National Guard under
the command of Lieut.. Joe Boyd. AS
they passed they were cheered by the
masses, white and colored. Then
came the Boy Cadets in two divisions
AS the boy cadets passed through the
streets they showed the real training
they had received by the execution
of the most difficult cilitary orders,
swaying this way and that, first
single file, then in columns of fours,
then by platoons; and then came the
Boy Cadet Band, lending inspiration as
they dispensed such music as Nashville
had never heard as they swung down
Fifth Avenue. Following this were the
Sunday School Congress officials, the
National Baptist Convention repre-
sentatives. Then the chorus number
ing over three hundred wearing white
caps and singing the Sunday School
Congress song. Next came the forty
Sunday schools with banners floating.
They were from three years of age to
seventy-three. They marched, they
never seemed to tire. Following this
came six hundred Metoka and Galedas
with Sunday School Congress caps,
Metoka and Galeda pennants andarm
bands in national colors, passed in
view, singing "On, On, Metokas and
Galedas." Immediately behind these
came the Sunday School Congress
brass band with its inspiring music.
Then came hundreds of Sunday School
Congress delegates. The early morn
ing trains had brought in four specials,
which completely thronged the streets
of Nashville. The parade moved at
2:45 o'clock, circled the court house
and the market house, marched west
on Cedar Street to Fifth Avenue and
South on Fifth Avenue to the Ryman
Auditorium. On both sides of the
street an appreciative public made up
of both races cheered as the workers
passed. Every departmental conductor
was there to represent their particular
work. Society girls Of the highest rank
of Nashville put aside their false
modesty and timidity and Joined in
this religious demonstration. The
Sunday school workers in the parade
wore tags and as they reached the
auditorium they marched in and were
seated by ushers. When the parade
reached the auditorium and was march
ing in the two last divisions had not
left the public square. Mrs. M. A. B.
Fuller, of Austin, Texas, who took up
a position near the center of the
parade, held her watch and stated
to the Sunday School Congress sec
rotary when she reached the auditor
ium it had taken just forty-two
minutes to pass the review stand. At
the auditorium the singing such as had
never been heard before in Nashville
inspired the seven thousand that made
up the great gathering. As soon as
they had finished marching in, Chair
man Clark called the meeting to order
and DR.. R. H. Boyd, the "old young
man." often referred to as the giant
oak in the forest of the Baptists, who
is the director of the Congress, made
several statements and the great audi
ence went wild. The National Choris-
ter, H. B. P. Johnson, then had hiss
chorus to sing such selections as
Ezekiel Saw the Wheel" Praise the
Lord" an anthem, Hail the Baptist
Congress, the Metoka and Galeda
Song and several other selections.
Very little time was lost in preliminar-
les. Chairman Clark then introduced
VIM. Henry Harrison. At the mere
mention of his name banners went up,
caps raised and the chautauqua salute
given. He spoke for forty minutes,
giving what is easily admitted as the
most eloquent address ever heard in
Nashville. His subject was "A Man
Needed" He drew pen pictures and
painted them with words of eIouuence
on which the seven thousand people
hung breathless. AS he reached climax
after climax he was interrupted by
prolonged applause. He was cheered
for five minutes after he had finished
his address, The Sunday School Con-
gress secretary, Henry A Boyd, then
awarded the two prize banners for
front line Sunday school work. The
national banner was awardedto the
Ebenezer Baptist Sunday School of