The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-05-17
SUNDIA}.ll A
SCHOOLS GATHER
Registration of 400 Said to
Have Been Record for
State
REV. JOHN L. CLARK
ELECTED PRESIDENT
ty in Vermont-Program of Business,
Addresses, Supper and Pageant in
Congregational Church.

Congregational Church
With an attendance of over 500 at
the evening session, and a registration
of 400, including is pastors, 53 teach
ers and p superintendents, the annual
convention of the Windham County
Sunday School association, believed by
many to be the largest Sunday school
convention ever held in the state, closed
at $50 clock last evening after a two
session program of stirring addresses,
conferences, short missionary pageant,
praise services, business hour and sup
per.
Nearly all the speakers, including the
State President Walter B. Glynn of
Saxtons River, had spent the three days
| previous in similar conventions in the
northern part of the state. They ex
pressed much satisfaction and appreci
| alton over the interest and attendance
at the sessions here as compared with
the smaller attendance in other coun
/ ties and said they never had attended a
county convention of such proportions
and that they would use the gathering
here as an incentive for the meetings
which are to be held throughout the
rest of the state. Windham county is
the only standard county in Sunday
school work in Vermont.
The convention opened at 9 o'clock
in the Centre Congregational church
with a halfhour devotional service in
charge of Rev Clark T. Brownell, pas-
tor of the first Baptist church.
hf pocfo,,
corresponding secretary of the Massa-
chusetts Bible society, gave stirring
address on The Book, dividing its con-
tents into six distinct sections-Crea-
tion, the being of God, the mystery and
remedy of sin, man himself, immortal
: ity in Heaven, and the record of words
tof Jesus Christ. He said the special
thought for the consideration of Sun
day schools was the teaching of The
Book and to expound the principles of
The Book, and having done the best
, that can be done in this way there will
be some, he said, who cannot be
reached Continuing, he spoke of the
work of the Bible societies and col
| porteurs in distributing Bibles in the
iremote sections, of the money avail
able to the Massachusetts Bible society
through bequest for this purpose, the
: income of which is too large for use in
o that state, and of the consequent offer
S made to the Vermont society. Rev. Mr..
: Manchester then announced that he al
so was corresponding secretary for the
o Vermont Bible society, but that after
$ July l he would be succeeded by Rev.
t George Hazelton Spencer, now of Bos
e ton.
k In his address on Why Everyone
n Should Study the Bible, Rev. Herbert
Up. Woodin, d. D., pastor of the Centre
e church. gave eight brief reasons, each
e of which as given was explained in an
S interesting and instructive way. as he
l. held closely to each point until the
i next was reached. These reasons We're:
Because of the place the Bible holds in
the life and civilization of our times,
lit being the best known and most large
ly circulated book ever published: be-
cause it is so poorly learned, and here
} he cited instances of persons showing
ignorance of some of the most common
references of this well known book
y because it gives information on tbs
most important subjects we can know
because of its influence on history ant
effect upon life; because no other bool
compares with it in the comfort it ca,
=, Ip1Ne. ana mere He SeNeIdl com
=, forting passages; because this hool
!; created the ideas of love, home, holi
- ness; because it has been the grea. in
=, lspiration for art, music and literature
- and because of the illusions of tn
% book.
ba Training for the Ministry of Teach
ing was the subject of an address abl
treated by Miss Mary Sherburne Wal
rem. superintendent of the Vermont eli
spoke of some experiences which ha
led her to believe in the power of til
= teacher. of problems in the countr
Sunday schools and in city Sunda
schools, and dwelt at some length Q
as the Northern New England School
mt Religious Education, formerly the Twi
OF State School of New Hampshire an
sat Vermont, which will hold its fifth a
~ nual session at the University of We
e. mont in Burlington from Aug. to
She gave a list of the faculty al
courses offered, and pamphlets were di
tributed concerning the school, dai
AZ schedule, expense, etc. She spoke
~ - brief concerning each member of Il
ie' -, faculty
Following Miss Warren s address Il
business was taken up and after a fe
=. Explanatory remarks by the presiden
PA oa Walter B. Glynn of Saxtons River, co
G Gss cerning the honor roll for schools pa