Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-05-15
SUNDAY SCHOOL WORK
UNDER DISCUSSION
Convention of County
Association Held Yesterday
Underhill MethOdists Lead in
Raising Quotas. A. Lewis of
Charlotte Elected President

Representatives of the Sunday schools
or Chittenden county held very inter-
esting annual convention at the Baptist
Church in this city Tuesday including
AFTERNOON and evening sessions. Several
speakers of prominence were present and
addressed the assembly. Supper was
served in the church parlors from six
until seven o'clock. and the evening SEES
sion was taken up with an address by
the Rev. John e. Prince of Bellows Falls
on THE Young People and the New
World Order" and a missionary program
under the supervision Of Miss Florence
Hemenway Wells. assisted by the local
Sunday schools. On account OF delay
during the early part Of the evenings
program, the pageant which had been
planned was not given.
Officers of the association for the COM
ing year were elected as follows: Presi-
dent, Scion A. Lewis of Charlotte; secre-
tary. Miss Harriet NJ Wheeler Of Bur-
ington; treasurer, George p Cole of
Burlington; missionary. Mrs. Cora Chaplin
OF Burlington; elementary superintendent,
Miss Ida Gocher of Richmond; secondary
superintendent, Mrs. Josephine F. Rugg
or Essex junction. The adult home de-
partment and temperance superintendents
VIII be chosen later by the executive COM
mittee. which consists of the above
named officers.
feature of the meeting was the an
nouncement of the honor roll list, which
consists of the schools in the county
which have raised their allotments of
ten cents per member during the Uast
year. These schools are Colchester Con-
gregational, Colchester Baptist, Hunting
ton Center Baptist, West Bolton Baptist,
Charlotte Congregational. Underhill Con-
gregational, Underhill Methodist Jericho
second Congregational. Winooski Metho-
dist, Williston Union, Huntington Union,
ana East Charlotte Baptist. Underhill
methodist led all the others, going over
Its allotment by large margin.
The program for the afternoon session
was carried out as follows Devotional
exercises; address by the Rev. G. IL.
spencer. ID. d., of Boston, secretary of
me Vermont Bible society, on 1.-THE
Book; address by the Rev. c. C. Merrill.
vermont secretary of the Congregational
Domestic Mission society, on why
Everybody Should Study the Bible. adj
dress by Miss Mary Sherburne Warren,
superintendent of the Vermont elemen-
lary department, on Training for the
Ministry of Teaching address by Nellie
Towne Hendrick of Nashua, n. H., dean
OF the Northern New England School
OF Religious Education. on the program
OF the school for the coming summer.
the session of which will be held at the
University of Vermont from August
TO 10, inclusive.
AT the business session which followed
walter Il. Glynn of Saxtons River, presj-
dent of the Vermont Sunday School as
ISOLATION, gave n brief talk. Other talks
were given by the Rev John C. Prince
OF Bellows Falls, Miss Warren of North
Pomfret, and by Miss Florence Hemen-
way Wells of Brattleboro, superintendent
of missions for Vermont
Nellie Towne Hendrick smoke both at
the AFTERNOON and evening sessions re-
garding the summer session Of the North
ern New England School OF Religious
Education, to he held at the University
OF Vermont this summer. She said that
TINS school Is considered one, of the best
OF It's KIND in the East and that IL will
'hclude THIS year lectures by the ablest
men OF -FOUR colleges, Yale the University
OF Vermont. Dartmouth and Brown. The
slogan Tor the school is AT least 800
students Tor this session Of the Northern
New England School of Religious Educa-
ton All people in the city and the sur.
rounding country who can possibly at
tend these lectures were urged to do so