Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-06-03

The KEYNOTE:OF
BIBLE SCHOOLS
Executive Committee of State As
sOcSationJ in First Session An
nOunees Theme.

The 61st annual convention of the
Illinois Sunday School association
opened this morning at Augustana
college with the business session OF
the executive committee which gave
out as the keynote of the convention
the theme Forward Together" and
the convention text is For we are
laborers together with Cod Cor.
SO.
Cooperation is to be the thought
Of the entire convention, and the
fact will be emphasized that this Is
the time for cooperation. The lead
ers are confident that better results
can be accomplished this year Dy
working in unison than by attempt
ing to accomplish results singly.
The state association will aim to
instill in the county organization
leaders the necessity for united eff
forts and through them the town
ship and individual schools can pc
reached. The state Sunday school
association was organized in 1851.
Conventions have been held each
succeeding year, but never before
in Rock Island. There are in the
state, 6,5S1 Sunday schools, with a
total attending membership OF
766, 3S2..
Fifteen members of the state
executive committee attended the
session held this morning, among
them some of the most prominent
business and professional men of
tn state. The president of the as
sociation is w. S. milford of Peoria
and other members who are here
SO far are: DR.. S. A. Wilson of Chi
cago, the treasurer and the follow
ing members of the executive COM
mittee: ]. H. Hauberg of Rock Is
land, H. H. Morse of Neponset, Rev.
]. S. Dancey, D. D., of Chicago,
Prof. ]. H. Collins of Springfield,
J. M. Dunlap of Quincy, W. s.
Rearick Of Ashland, C. W. Watson
of Kewanee, 7. B. Stephenson of
Sparta, Charles Wetzel of Rock
ford, Dr. A H Andrews of Chicago,
Rev. r. H. Beattie, D. D., of Chi
cago.
Department heads in attendance
laboring in the interest of the as
sociation the entire year are Miss
Pearl L. Weaver of Chicago, su-
perintendent of the children's di-
vision; D. H. Wing of Chicago, field
secretary and young peoples di-
vision superintendent, and Mrs
Jessie Taylor Hannigan, Miss Marie
Just and Miss Hattie kuebler.
An interesting fact in the regis
tration of delegates is that the first
to arrive came from the extreme
southern part of the state, there
fore assuring the large registration
which has been expected, some l.
900. Up until noon today there
were only 100 delegates who had
arrived and registered, but the
large majority Of these are ones
who had not made previous regis
tration. The weather will no doubt
have a serious effect on the dele
gates which would have come from
various points in the county and in
the district, who had planned to
make the trip by machine. These
delegates will however, be able in
all probabilities to come for same
of the last session or the conven-
ton. There are some $50 registra-
lions from Rocd Island county and
a large proportion of this number
are expected to attend the meet
ings.
The Denlnann Memorial library is
being used as the administration
building. A postoffice, information
bureau and a registration booth
has been Iocated in the lobby of the
library, and the executive commit
tee is holding its meetings in the
executive rooms. Everything is be-
ing done for the convenience of the
visitors and to help them feel at
home at the convention headquar-
tiers.
Sessions of the convention prop
er which started this afternoon will
be held in the gymnasium and the
college buildings will be used for
committee and department meet
ings.