The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1918-06-07
CONGRESS DELEGATES AND
OFFICIALS LEAVE MONAY MIGHT
WILL BE JOINED AT MEMPHIS BY SPECIAL DELEGATIONS
OUTLOOK FOR A GREAT MEETING BRIGHT-PR0MNENT
SPEAKERS WILL BE PRESENT.

Sunday School Congress represen-
tatives and officials will leave Nash
Vile Monday night to attend the
thirteenth annual session of the Sun
day School Congress which cDnvenes
at Alexandria, La, June 12-17th-
Already the advanced guard of Con-
gress workers are in Alexandria.
The musical director, Prof. H. B. p.
Johnson, left some days ago, and ae-
cording to information given out by
Rev Henry Allen Boyd, secretary of
the Congress, who was in Alexandria
last week, the city in Northern
Louisiana has everything in readiness
for the opening. Quite a delegation
is already scheduled to go from this
city a special standard sleeper has
been ordered and Secretary Royd
states that already the space has
been taken and that the delegation
will leave, routing themselves by
Mckenzie and Memphis over the N.
. G. g. st. Il. and the l.. Il N. Railroad,
From Memphis they take the st.
Louis, Iron Mountains & southern,
leaving Memphis at 9:20 Tuesday
morning, arriving in Little Rock at
! 3:35 Tuesday evening While in Lit
tie Rock they will be entertained by
the Arkansas delegation, remaining
in the capital city of Arkansas until
$3.50 Tuesday night Here they will
be joined by Arkansas, Oklahoma,
Illinois and Missouri, and it is given
Ina drtt at.to hat
the Chicago delegation will leave
Chicago at noon Monday, picking up
the Missouri people at st. Louis and
reach Little Rock just ahead of the
official special. Here they viii wait
and all so down to Alexandria in a
body.
The Kentucky, OHIO and West Vir-
ginia delegates will Join the Nash
vile party at Memphis. Most of
these will leave Louisville Monday
night at 9.O5, while the Virginia
people will come down over the
Memphis special as far as ChatR-
noOga and take the N. C. & st. l.. into
Nashville, arriving here Monday eve
ming at $3.50. The Chattanooga
people will come over on the Dixie
Flyer Monday, so in leaving Nashville
it is expected that one Of the most
enthusiastic delegations in the his
tory of the Congress will go with the
party Upon their arrival at Alex
andria they will be met by the entire
Congress chorus and with their PEN
nants and Congress paraphernaiia
, they will put on a parade through the
, streets of Alexandria from the station
, to the Shiloh Baptist Church, where
, the opening session win be held.
Chairman Clark and Director r. H.
Boyd were both very confident this
week of a successful meeting. They
both feel that the Sunday school
forces have been well informed, and
that they will be represented as
never before. The Secretary of the
Congress said upon his return, I'VE
had just secured a very low round
l trip excursion rate from all sections
of the United States for the Sunday
A School Congress at Alexandria. Both
the Southwestern and Southeastern
Association Territories made conces-
sions and the individual lines put on
special rates. | had letters and tele-
i grams announcing these rates. These
came while l was In Texas, but
hardly a week had elapsed and the
newspaper had given notice of the
rate when the general order from
the Director General, Mr.. McAdoe,
, issued for patriotic reasons an order
1 raising the rates and countermanding
, all excursion fares The Sunday
!, school people are patriotic, anG | can
assure you that the forces working
> for the Sunday School Congrcss will
not only pay this increased fare, but
that they are going to do other things
in Alexandria that will help us win
the war Throughout this trip have
seen nothing demonstrated but patri-
otism on the part of the SUNDAY
j., school forces. Those who are not
? able to go or send some one are regis
tering. We viii have no slackers
They are all going to serve and are
. pledeing their support. There will
hardly be a Sunday school in this
. city that will not be represented Dr
. register with the 1918 session"
y It was impossible in the early part
= of the week to get an exact list DI
;, all the delegation, but enough have
u already been secured to fill one stan
. dard sleeper with its day coaches. Il
= is also learned at the secretary's OF
- flee that the leaving time Will bt
:, Monday night at 1910 from the UniDI
E Station, and that all tickets from
VI Nashville will be routed ~ C. C st
- - L. to Mckenzie; L. &c N. from McKen
~ zie to Memphis; st. Louis, Irol
- Mountains and Southern from Mem
70 70 phis to Alexandria via Little Rock
=, Ark.
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