The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1918-07-05
OHIO HEARS CON-
GRESS SECRETARY
Y. M. c. A. Band in
Parade.
STATE CONVENTION IN SESSION
EXCELLENT PROGRAM CAR
RIED OUT-0RGANIZED IN 1879
BANNER YEAR FOR THE
STATE OF OHIO.

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Cincinnati, O., Monday, July L.
Boiling over with Sunday school en-
thusiasm and unsurpassed by the
amount of actual work done, the
First District Sunday School Conven-
ton closed it's annual session in this
city yesterday. The event was cele-
brated and goes down in the history
as the greatest session in the history
of the Western Union Baptist Sunday
School Convention of the state, COM
prising the First District. There
were a number of distinguished visi-
tors here throughout the week, and
all of the sessions were held at the
Antioch Baptist Church, known
throughout the country as DR.. Wyatt's
church on East Ninth street
From the opening session, Friday
morning, June 2S, until the close Sun
day afternoon, there was one contin-
uous round of Sunday school activi-
ties. But it as conceded by all that
on Sunday afternoon the climax was
reached, when a mammoth street
parade, about four blocks in length,
in which over twenty Sunday schools
and representatives participated,
and where two brass bands dis
pensed music. The bands in the
parade were the Young Mems Chris
tian Association Band and the Ma
sonic Band, both from this city. The
parade was formed by Grand Marshal
d. l.. Watson. a former superinten-
| I;nn ,f froUprcnh
some of the principal thoroughfares
of Cincinnati. Veterans of the Sun
day school world, in point of age, as
evil as experience, were on the street
and in the parade; notable among
them were the Secretary of the Sun
day School Congress, Henry Allen
Boyd. of Nashville, Tenn; Rev e. W.
D. Curry, of the Urbana Industrial
Institute, Urbana; Hon. George w.
Hayes, EX-President and Organizer of
the First District Convention; Mr..
w. II. Jackson, President of the First
District Convention; Miss Clara Por-
ter Nelson, the Secretary; Rev. Drs.
Scott, Walker, Williams, Jones and
host of other associate ministers
and pastors. The zeal displayed by
the Sunday school workers was not
diminished, even when the parade
was overtaken by a dOwnpour OF rain;
the bands continued to play; Old Glory
was unfurled and the Sunday school
workers, with their pennants and
banners, marched to the tune of "On-
ward Christian Soldiers without de-
serting their posts or breaking the
line of march. When the parade
had reached the Antioch Baptist
Church, they marched in, while Prof.
John Smiley conducted the cOngrega-
tional singing. There were solos by
little Miss Marian Hayes Hawkins,
Miss Matte Johnson, Mrs w. Augus-
tus Jones and Prof Smiley, after
which the President introduced Prof.
e. w. d. Curry, who spoke for one
hour and twenty minutes, dividing his
address into two divisions. When he
had finished, the President then in
troduced Rev, Henry Allen Boyd, who
had been invited to the Convention
to deliver an address on Sunday
School Work; he spoke for forty
minutes. The curtain on the occasion
really descended at the close of the
night session. Many were the COM
pliments paid to Mr. Jackson and
Mrs Nelson for the work they had
done. AS Prof Jackson Is serving
his tenth consecutive term as presi-
dent.
The First District Convention was
organized in 1879 by Mr.. Geo, W.
Hayes, who served for five years as
its president, and retired in order to
take up a larger work. The next ses-
sion of the Convention will be held
at Addison, Ohio, and already plans
are under way for great gathering
J, It is understood that the Executive
: Board will recommend delegate to
u u the Sunday School Congress for nex'
= year.
The following officers were elect
ed President, Bro. w. T. Jackson;
secretary, Sister Clara Porter Mel
+ son; corresponding secretary, Sister
q Alice Prosser; treasurer, Sister Han
y nah Graham.
O Precinct Presidents.
n A-Brother l.. e. Brown.
B-Brother Peter Brooks.
# C-Sister Maggie Craig.
D-Sister Eudora Tyler
A. Program.
!. First Session, Friday Morning.
\. lO:00-Song service, New Unity
a Franklin
!. 10:S0-Roll call and enrolment o
1. inessengers
11:00-Welcome address
II l0--Response, Bethel, Dayton
q 11:20-Duet: st. Paul, College Hill
11:45-Reports of officers:
!" Presidents annual address
ID Appointment of committees.
n Offering, benediction
Second Session, Friday Afternoon
a 2:00-Song service; First Walnu
n Hill, Calvary, Hamilton
a 2:30-Institutional Work, Prof. E
n. w. B. Curry
If 4:00-Election of officers
II Offering, benediction
le Third Session, Friday Evening.
In 7:00-Prayer service: Zion, Cincir
n natl; Mt. Pisgah, Dayton; Hartwel