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El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1919-03-22
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Opinion del Tribunal Supreme
emitida por el Juez Asociado Sr Emilio del Toro

Juan Francisco Pacheco, q. az, Pc
ticiOnarios, vs.. Hon. r. Cucvas Ze.
queira, Juez dc Ia Cortc dc Distrito a.
Humaeao, Demandado.-No III
MANDAMUS.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-04
FIVE THOUSAND SUNDAY SCHOOL
 WORKERS ID ASSEMBLE
FOURTEENTH ANNUAL SESSION. OF THE
 SIJNDAY SCHOOL CONGRESS
ynrpocrrc GATHERING OF SUNDAY SCHOOL CIAN-FE DAYS A % To RE SPENT IN STUDY OF SUNDAY SCHOOL METHODS
Nashville, Tenn, Especial Correspond

Nashville, Tenn, Especial Correspond ence.)
 Fully fye thousand enthusiastic Sunday School workers will assemble fn Bessemer, Ala, June 11-16th. The occasion of their gathering will be the fourteenth annual session of the Sunday School Congress. Perhaps in no city in the United States the size of Bessemer will there be more DO tentious gathering of workers whose mission will have higher or loftier aim. These men and women will spend five days in the heart of the mineral district of Alabama, having as their first and permanent aim Sunday School Building" The Sun- day School Congress is made up of Sunday School workers, every indi' vidual interested in Sunday School work is eligible to membership. They are messengers meeting annually, de- livering fervent messages on the work that they are deeply engaged in. From the time the sessions were first held when the meeting was launched at Nashville, Tenn, in 1906 they have not failed to make an indel- ible impression upon the minds of the people in their respective cities. The second session was held at New Orleans, La, in 1907; the third ses- sion at Jacksonville, Fla, in 1905; vile in 1909; the fifth session met in Atlanta, Ga, in 1910; the sixth an nua1 session went to Meridian, Miss, in 1911; the seventh annual session met in Tuskegee Institute, Ala, 1912; the eighth session in Muskogee, Okla, 1913; the ninth session at Beaumont, Texas, 1914; the tenth in Birming- ham, Ala, 1915; the eleventh at Vicks- burg Miss. 1916; the twelfth at Nash vile, Tenn, 1917; the thirteenth at Alexandria, La, 1918.
 Three times the Sunday School Congress has met within the borders of the great state of Alabama, and, according to the predictions made by the Sunday School Congress Secretary, the third time is 10 prove the charm. It is reported that there are one hun dred thousand Negro Baptists in that particular district where Bessemer is located, representing more than one hundred different churches, and that their arrangements and preparation for the entertainment of the delegates al v,1o and that tha reception committee and the com mittee on entertainment have not ceas- cd to take care of every detail.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-04
PLAN CALCULATED ID REVOLU-
 T|ON|zE MISSIONS ON FOOT
MODERN SUNDAY SCHOOL METHOD IDEA
 TO BE USED
SECRETARY MAKING SWING AROUND UNITED sTATEsMsIoNs FOR COUNTRIES SOUTH OF Us-ISLANDS TO BE BENEFITED

Nashville, Tenn, Special Correspo ence.)
 With matured plans and a big pro gram for missions calculated to re- volutionize the Sunday School forces, bringing them up to the modern Sun day School method idea, the Secre- tary of the Sunday School Congress, Rev. Henry Al Boyd. of Nashville. Tenn. has come forth with his 1919 session to be held at Bessemer, Ala, June 11-16 declaring that those coun- tries to the South of the United States such as Panama, Guatemala, West Indies Island and even the main land of Central and South America will see a rapid transformation and feel the effect of this movement While he has been swinging around over the United States preaching the gospel of Front-line Sunday Schools, he has kept a constant eye on the develop ment of that territory in such close proximity to the United States The work of the Congress being in the nature of religious summer school, has as It's main feature the mission ary idea. The Baptists all over the country have for their Fundamental principles the divine injunction to go into all the world and preach the gospel Peculiar as a denomination, in that their governing body goes no higher than the individual church, they seem to be directing the force of their three million constituents to look upon he Sunday school as the leaven in the loaf through mission ary activities Out of the five thou sand Sunday School workers expect ed at Bessemer during the month of June at the Sunday School Congress. every department, every worker. every attendant has been urged by the Rev. MT. Boyd to focus their interest on modernizing Sunday School missions so that the simplifying of the gospel . through missionary agencies such as are found principally in the Sunday School as a beginning will develop and shape policies that will keep missions foremost and uppermost in the early life of the child. He states that this will amply fit them for their real serv- ices when they are finally converted and brought in the church. He states further that very little has been given to this mission work, but that they have struggled along for fourteen years, starring very small, gradually growing until now the Congress movement is confined to no locality. Every section of the United States. even in Canada, representatives come and spend the whole week in studying how best to serve in their day and generation. The meeting i'll Bessem- CT this year, according 10 the best in formed of the Baptist leaders. has loomed up in larger proportion than any of it's predecessors, and around in the Bessemer mineral district they seem to be only marking time wait ing for the opening session.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-04
DEPARTMENTS OF THE SUNDAY
 SCHOOL CONGRESS.

Nashville, Tenn, Especial Correspond ence.)
 Like a well-oiled machine the Sun day School Congress has gone on with It's various departments unceasingly from year to year Workers who have attended the Sunday School Congress that is to hold it's fourteenth annual session in Bessemer, Ala, June H. 16th have marvelled at the clock-like regularity of the departmental meet ings. Their conductors are selected annually from group of workers whose interest has never been ques- toned They hold their departmental conferences each day before the gen. eral sessions adjourn, and then they go to the places assigned and set apart where they take up their respective work. While the forces of the Congress are really found in the Bible Conference, which Is the first meeting in the morning hour, which is the opening, these spread through out the day In fact the departments of the Congress, according to the Con- gress Secretary, are as follows: Bible Study Conference from 500 a. m., to 500 am :. Teacher Training. 9:30 a. m., to 10:30 a. m. Home Department 10:30 a. m., to 11:30 a. m. General Session 11:30 a. m., to 1:30 p. m. In the afternoon the Metokas and Gale das meet at 800 p. m., the Advanced Teachers at 800 p. m., the 1ntermed- fate Department. the Primary Depart ment and Superintendents Department at BOO D. m., the Cradle Roll at 800 D. m Paraphernalia and Exhibits, A. F. Cadets at 500 p. m., the B. Y. P. U. Department at 800 p. m. In addi- tion to these departmental meetings there comes a general mingling of all these various Sunday School workers in the evening after a day of con structive work. when some special literary, musical or some other en- tertainment sandwiched in with force full sermons. is put on. The Congress Secretary has kept constantly in touch with departmental workers and lead CTS throughout the year so that the gathering of the workers at Bessemer will not mean heterogeneous mass of inexperienced, inactive force, but the real coming together, of trained co-workerj who know when, how and what to teach. even to the departments over which they are to preside.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-04
SPECIAL SPEAKERS AT SUNDAY SCHOOL
 CONGRESS
Nashville. Tenn. Especial Correspond

Nashville. Tenn, Especial Correspond ence)
 Special care has been exercised in the selection of the speakers for the various occasions at the coming ses- sion of the Sunday School Congress to be held in Bessemer, Ala, June H. 18th. While no effort is being made or will be made on the part of the Sunday School forces to divert from their well-beaten paths in conduct ing their methods for injecting modern Sunday School ideas. it seems that they have all along held in mind the fact that special speakers for various occasions were necessary to c1inch the instructions that the workers receive during the general sessions. On the first night of the Congress. which will be Wednesday, June 11th sermon will be delivered dealing with the Sunday Schools as missionary agencies. notable speaker has been selected for each night.
 On Thursday night speaker well versed in Baptist Young Peoples Union work, will appear.
 On Friday night a specialist for boys will talk on the boy problem, then on Sunday morning at the eleven o'clock hour the Congress sermon proper will be preached Sunday afternoon a special address known as the Sunday School Congress address will be delivered by one of Americas foremost orators, hence, the Congress Secretary has assured all that the special speakers this year will be on the highest order ever selected
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-04
BAPTIST EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.

Nashville. Tenn, Especial Correspond
 Advice from the President of the National Baptist Convention, the Rev. E. P. Jones, D. D., and from the Sec retary, the Rv. c. P Madison, D. D., Committee of their convention has been called to meet at Bessemer. Ala. June 11-16th. hTe announcement of this having been made seems to be another assurance to the Sunday School Congress forces that will con vene in the city at the same time, of a larger and more influeHtial repre- sentation. '"The Executive Com mittee alone" said the Congress Sec retary, twill bring between one hun dred seventy and two hundred repre- sentatives, as it is made up of the vice-presidents of each state and terri
 torial convention, the officers of the National Baptist Convention, the chairman and secretaries of the vari- ous Boards, both of the National Con vention proper and the Woman's Auxi- liary Convention working in conjunc- tion with the national body" Presi- dent Jones has also sent out, So the Congress Secretary states, an urgent appeal for a full attendance on the part of the Theological Training Sem mary workers and the National Bap- tist Educational Board to formulate their extensive campaign for $25,0oo cash fund so that the Seminary at Nashville, Tenn, can open in October.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-04
BOY CADET SUNDAY SCHOOL
 CONGRESS BAND.

Nashville, Tenn, Especial Corresponds ence.)
 After a training reaching over the better part of this year the Boy Cadet Sunday school workers of the United ready to make it's debut among the Sunday School Congress Band is now States. The Band is made up parti- cularly of boys. not one apparently over twelve years of age It is per haps Tennessee's first Lilliputian or ganization for dispensing music. This is silver coronet band. an organi- zation so thoroughly drilled and yet so small in their human make up. that they at once become the marvel of the musicians. By the putting of this band of Sunday School boys out in the line of Congress workers so sue cessfully has been termed by promin- ent folks here as the crowning event of the fourteen years active work along this particular line.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-04
MAKING STATISTICS FOR RELIGIOUS
 WORKERS

Nashville, Tenn, Especial Correspond ence)
 While the school of methods real ly evolves out of the Sunday School Congress, there are other equally as interesting facts to be developed in this great gathering" declared Rev. Henry A. Boyd, the Secretary of the Congress, "and we are going to bring them out at the session of the Con- gress in Bessemer, Ala, June 11-16." One of these" he says, twill be the statistics of the Sunday School forces. " Only some time ago it was shown at the Sunday School Council of Denomi- national Workers that the denomina- tions had very inaccurate statistics about their own work. The Congress Secretary, in order to correct this in his own particular denomination, has sent out to each of the twenty thousand Sunday Schools a special enrolment blank asking the number of conversions in the Sunday School each year, asking how many Sunday Schools are enrolled in the various departments going from the Cradle Roll right through the school to the Home Department. He is trying to ascertain the number of Bibles and the religious tracts in the library. "These blanks" so he stated, "are to be filled out and returned to me in order that the statistical record such as the government will use in it's compilation of religious data, can be available"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-04
JUBILEE AND PLANTA-
 TON MELODIES AT THE CONGRESS
Nashville, Tenn, Especial Correspond.

Nashville. Tenn, Especial Correspond ence)
 Original productions by Negro authors such as the old jubilee plan tation melodies will be some of the features of the great Sunday School Congress at Besemer, Ala, June H. 18th. There will be a chorus of not less than three hundred voices made up of the members of the various Bap- tist Churches In close proximity to Bessemer. This chorus will furnish the singing day and night. They will be under the instruction of national chorister who spends not less than three weeks In hard training of these voices. The chorus will be in Con- gress uniform with dark skirts, white waists and Congress caps. They will not only sing jubilee and plantation melodies, but anthems written ar ranged and composed by members of the race. The song books are furnish ed to the chorus by the National Bap- tist Publishing Board at Nashville, Tenn, which institution publishes more literature, song books and reli- ious helps than any other printing house in the world operated by Ne groes. The venerable founder of that institution, the Rev. R. H. Boyd, D. D., who Is an ex-slave. and who, al- though seventy-f1ve years of age, de- clared recently: We do not want the songs of our mothers and fathers that they composed in the cotton fields and on the nIantations of the South to ever die; we want to sing them with new life and vigor, so we are asking our young people to take up this work and push this music All the songs sung at the Congress ex- cept few have been put into little nrogram to he used for the occasion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-04
SPECIAL TRAIN TO THE CON-
 HRECC

Nashville, Tenn, Special Correspond
 There goes out from Nashville, Tenn, which is the logical Sunday School Congress headquarters, Sum- day School Congress special train each year, that is, whenever the rail- road officials find it convenient to supply the equipments For the past several years the Congress Secretary and his workers in leaving Nashville, have run this train to the place Of meeting timing themselves to arrive about noon. They are generally met at the station by the local workers and chorus of three hundred voices with brass band and accompanied to the church where the opening sessions are usually held. This year 1t is being planned by Rev. Henry A. Boyd to run the special right into Bessemer. Arrangements are being made with the United States railroad administra- tion for the Louisville and Nashville Railroad to run this special train to the Congress making only few stops between Nashville and Bessem- CT passing right through Birmingham where they will pick up smaller train, reaching Bessemer not later than 100 p. m.. Wednesday, June 11th Thetrain is scheduled to leave Nashville Tuesday night, June 10th, running through all the way over the L and N. Railroad
 Joining this special will not only be Congress workers but National Baptist Convention officials. Presi- dent E. P. Jones of Evanston, H., Rev. Jno. F. Thomas, the treasurer from Chicago. Ill.,, the workers of Missouri. Kansas. Illinois, Ohio and points north of Nashville will mobo- lize at Nashville and help to make up the special.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-04
SUNDAY SCHOOL CONGRESS CAPS
 AND REMNANTS.

Nashville, Tenn, Especial Corresponds
 The paraphernaiia that makes the Congress patriotic as we'll as ah er- thusiastic gathering is the real live paraphernalia made up of caps pen nants, badges and arm bands. Since these are all blended into national colors symbolic of the red, white and blue, 'Old Glory" the American Flag leads them all, and at the -places Of meeting the American dag of all sizes adorns the stage. The thou sands and thousands of workers throughout the five days are seen on the street and are known by the whtte duck cap, the Congress pennant. the Congress arm band and the badxe worn throughout the week. Bach worker who arrives at the meeting In Bessemer without the parapherna1ia. and some have gone 50 far as to call 1t the wedding garment, is to be sup piled from the department of exhibits and paraphernalia-
 the days. conferencing between times. doing little odds and ends that he figures will go to make a successful meeting.
 The characteristic of the Sunday School Congress Is that 1t Is not . del;berative body, no motions arc made, no points of order raised .-it Is a veritable school of methods, and wherever city entertains taem they always leave their imprint IT. the counr nunity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-04
LAYMEN'S LEAGUE TO MEET
 WITH CONGRESS.

Nashville. Tenn, Especial Correspond ence)
 With the cali for the special ses- sion of the Lay1ns.,'s League at Bes- semer, Ala, JuEe 11-16th, the Sun day School Congress forces have been assured thai their attendance at Bes- semer will be greatly augmented. The LAymen's League Is q movement head ed by Prof. H. B. P. Johnson. former ly of Muskogee. Okla. who is It's President, and Prof. R. McCorkle of Mouri Bayou, Miss Alter a con ference that they recently held with Rev. Henry A. Boyd, the secretary of the Congress. they decided to call a special maettng with the Congress forces In orSer that they might make dadnite plans for a greater meeting st Norfolk, Va, next September. Tho Congress Secretary assured the Lay mems League promoters, 30 1t is 1earued, that their coming together would encourage the Sunday School workers. so the call has gons out signed by Prof. Johnsea the presi- dent, for all the workers to meet as nsar as possible in Bessemer duzang tAs week q the Sunday School Ger
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-04
STREET PARADE AT SUNDAY SCHOOL
 CONGRESS
Nashville, Tenn. Special Correspond

Nashville, Tenn. Special Correspond ence)
 Coming as climax to the whole five days session of the Sunday School Congress at Bessemer. Ala, which opens June 11th, will be the great street parade of five thousand Sunday School workers that will be pulled off at two o'clock Sunday after noon. There will be thousands in the parade wearing white duck caps with black visors with the lettering Sun day School Congress" over it; there will be Congress pennants, Congress arm bands. Sunday School banners. The parade is to be formed by a military expert, one of the returned soldiers, who is an official in the American army who has been accus- toned to handling large bodies of people. A military band augmented by the Sunday School Congress Boy Cadet Band will dispense music These will be joined by thousands of work CTS who will sing religious songs as they march through the streets of Bessemer The parade will traverse tue pliuClpdl StIeels oi DesSeinei "The purpose of the parade" said the Congress Secretary. Was to as near ly as possible eliminate certain amount of supposedly false modesty on the part of religious workers who might by ashamed to let it be known that they are working for the king dom of Christ and following the ex- ample of the lowly Nazarene." Each of the Congress parades from year to year have grown in importance. The one held in Birmingham some years ago was reported as one of the big gest successes of the meeting
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-04
SUNDAY SCHOOL CONGRESS SUB-
 JECTS.

Nashville, Tenn. Especial Correspond ence.)
 When asked what was to be done at the Sunday School Congress to be held in Bessemer, Ala. June 11-16th, the Rev Henry A. Boyd. it's secretary, said: We are going to discuss the problems so common to the Sunday School world" In order to carry this out in regular order and without confusion, we have arranged a simple list of subjects We propose to allow every Sunday School worker to write a paper on these subjects, and read it before the whole body during the general session. The worker is to be allowed maximum of ten minutes After the paper is read 1t becomes the property of the Sunday School Con- gress they discuss it. they put the pionts on the blackboard; they print it in the National Baptist Union Re view, with a 50,000 circulation; they put 1t in book that becomes a text book in a school of pedagogy for Sun day School workers. These are the subjects to be discussed this year:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-04

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-04

EVERY MEMBER OUT OF EVERY FAMILY IN SOME SUNDAY SCHOOL" is the slogan of the Sun day School Congress Forces and through 1t his movement has as- sumed international proportion It's secretary is Rev. Henry A. Boyd of Nashville, Tenn. who has for four teen years championed the cause of the Sunday School forces. He has just returne dto Nashville. Tenn, after and extended trip thattook in the entire Southeast portion of the United States. Throughout this trip he was preaching the gospel of Front Line Sunday Schools. In this mes sage the Congress Secretary has been very earnest in handing out his recipe for the building of these schools Throughout the entire jour ney," declared the Rev. MT. Boyd
 there has been re-doubled efforts on the part of the local Sunday School forces to do improved and better Sun day School work Our years work in this drive for modern Sunday School methods will head up at Bes- semer, Ala. June 11-16th when we go from every part of the civilized world so to speak, to get an ocvular demonstration of what has really been accomplished since our last meet ing, and I have no doubt but that the representatives of the twenty thou sand Sunday Schools that make up our partocular denomination will be better prepared this year to carry out program of improved Sunday School methods than ever before. as we have been tireless in our efforts in modern izing the great work of the Bible School" were the remarks of the CJn- gress Secretary before the Ministers Alliance this week just upon his re- turn from his trip. Every year from the early part of January until June his has been life filled with activity, jumping here and there and every where speaking nights, riding through
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-04
SUNDAY SCHOOL CONGRESS SUB
 JECTS.

CD What the Sunday School Con- gress Has Done for the Development of Sunday School Work Among Our People.
 (2) How to Make the Sunday School Attract and Hold the Boys and Girls.
 (3) Why Sunday School Workers Should Read Our Denominational Papers.
 (D The Necessity of Good Music in the Sunday School and B. Y. P. U.
 (5) How the Literature of the Ma tional Baptist Publishing Board Is Aiding the Development of Charac- ter and Racial Ideals Among Our Peo- pie.
 (6) The Model B. Y. P. U. and How to Build It.
 CD Why Sunday School Pedagogy Should Be Taught in Our Denomina- tional Schools.
 (8) The Benefit to Be Derived from the National Teacher Training Course.
 (9) The Place of Missions in the Sunday School and B. Y. P. U. (10) The Value of the Cradle Roll and the Home Departments.
 CID The Advantage of the Organ ized Glasses in Our Sunday Schools. CPD Why the Sunday Schools of the Denomination Should Aid in the Maintenance of the National Baptist  Theological and Training Seminary.