Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1919-08-13
SOME SUNDAY SCHOOL NEWS.
Sunday School Workers win Attend
Sessions ut Lake Geneva.


executive committee, will be in
Cleveland, Ohio, Oh June "a and %,
attending an important meeting OF
the executive committee Of the In
ternational Sunday School Associa-
tion. From Cleveland Mr.. Webb
will go to Lake Geneva, Wis, where
he will attend conference Of the
employed workers Of the various
State, provincial and international
associations which Is followed by
a ten days training school. Mr..
Webb has the distinction Of being
the first South Carolinian to gradu-
ate from this training school, this
being his fourth year. The inter
national traing school for Sunday
school workers, which Is in session
from July to IA, Is regarded as
the highest authority on Sunday
school work. South Carolina will
have several representatives at this
school this year.
Miss Cora Holland, children's di-
vision superintendent, and Miss lone
Alverson, Office assistant of the
State association, expect to go to
| Columbus, Ohio, on June 2l, to at
tend the Centenary celebration, re-
naming in Columbus for several
days. From Columbus they will go
to the employed officers conference
and training school at Lake Geneva.
Miss Polly Alverson, of Spartanburg.
will accompany them.
At the recent State convention
held in Florence, George r. Koestcr
| representing the churches Of Green
vile as we'll as the business interests
Of that city invited the 1920 State
convention to meet in Greenville.
This invitation was enthusiastically
accepted and the date for the con-
vention is announced as May I-5-G,
| 1920. Plans are on foot to make
this bigger and better conven-
tion than any yet held in the State.
There were Il few people at the State
convention who attended the first
State convention, which was held in
GreenvilIc forty-two years ago.
1t is announced by the State as
sociation that Prof. NJ. T.. Mont
gomery, Of kingSlree, has been Sc
cured as Il field worker for the State
association during the summer
months. Prof. Montgomery is
teacher Of English at Kingstree. He
is graduate OF the Presbyterian
College, at Clinton. For six years
he has been teacher OF teen age
classes; is a Boy Scout leader, and
is considered a very efficient Sunday
school worker. lie will assist the
two State field secretaries in attend
ing county and district meetings,
and helping in Institutes and CON
ferences.
Beginning on the 18th of July,
practically all of tho county sun
Gay school conventions have been
schedule for the summer and fall.
The following coT"ty conventions
will be held in July: Cherokee,
Newberry, Abbevllle Mccormick.
Edgefield. Saluda. Lexington. Sum
ter. Chesterfield, Kershaw and Lam
caster. During August it is expected
that county conventions will be held
In the following counties: Chest 2r,
Fairfield, Spartanburg, Union,
Fairfield, Bamberg, Spartanburg,
Orangeburg, Greenvlle, Oconee and
Laurens.
| Why Cooperate?
The Sunday School Association
which invites the voluntary co-pera-
ton OF all Sunday scohols has re-
ceived the smile Of God and the
commendation OF Christian leaders
Of all denominations ior eighty-two
years.
II the Sunday school is any better
or more popular now then in the
da%s If our grandiathers. 1t Is due
largely to the cooperation Of the
| Sunday schools. Marion Lawrence.
There are interests common to
all the evangelical denominations
which can be conserved better than
otherwise by il general body like
the international Sunday School
Association. -. President T.. Y. Null
lins.
Every denomi.ational Sunday
school stands IN two rclations--.a de-
m.n;ti"lal rel, lion to the great
church o: which it is Il part. and a
ter itOrial relation to the whole body