Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-03-27
THE COUNTY SUNDAY
SCHOOL CONVENTION CONVENTION

The County Sunday School Con-
vention that was held last Saturday
and Sunday in Extra was great
success from the standpoint of in-1
|struction and inspiration. It will
mark the crucial point in the Bible
School work Of the county. It will
make the step from the haphazard,
Iunplanned school to the graded
well-ordered school; from the un-
trained leader and teacher to the
leader of vision and the teacher
with special training; from the Su-
!perintendent, Pastor, Officer and
Teacher that hibernate from one
Sunday to the next to the wide
awake working pastor, superinten-
dent and helpers working and talk
ing Bible School every day in the
week.
The hours with Professor Strana-
han In Bible Study are never for
getable hours and his series Of meet
lings beginning Friday evening with
Religious Education and Demo-
cracy" and closing Sunday morn
ling with ''The Church for the
Twentieth Century were outstand-
ing positive messages giving the
problems, solutions and victories Of
Christ and His cause.
Mr.. Walter Hutton, general Sc
cretary Of Sunday School work in
Iowa is alive to the needs of the
modern Sunday School. He is all
heart, soul and life in the Sunday
lSchool work. He was late in get
ting to the convention because Of
poor train connections and therefore
came from Atlantic by auto. He
Immediately began to fire big shot
at the Convention. The first was
j this 1T is the business of the church
to reach, teach, win and train young
lboys and girls to Jesus Christ
Il His last message Sunday night left
a hush upon the Convention as we
! thought Of the big possibilities in
| the boys and girls and our response
bility in helping them to find them
Iselves.
I, Miss Dean is authority in the
work Of the children's division OF
q the Sunday School. She is never
without illustration or object lesson
, that will teach and hold the inter
, lest OF the child. Her hour with the
) children, Sunday morning at the Bi.
!, bic School hour was one that kept
J the children at top notch atten.
ton all the time. When you stop
t and realize that she worked with
eighty-nine, while the ordinary
teacher has only ten or twelve, YOU
one question is How did she do it?'
Under the inspiration Of the Con
. vention the County Association ha
undertaken big things that will nev
j Ter let the Sunday School work slil
E back into the old ways. First,
J. Religious Census Of the County viii
E be taken gathering information a
d to the Religious affiliation Of ever,
d Iperson in the County. Second,
s conference of Older Boys and Girl
J will be held in order to reach th
h young people for Christ and t
n train them as leaders in the Sunda
hISchool and Church. Third, a Sun
J, day School picnic will be held fo
e the united Sunday Schools Of th
County.
The officers for the new year al
George w. VanDran, President
q George Z. Gore, First Vice Pres
: dent; Vim. Jensen, Second Vice
President; Audubon Shelley, Thir
= Vice-President;; Miss Mary Davi
y Secretary and Treasurer; Mrs. Va
I Dram, Supt. Of the Children's Div
IS sion; Professor McIntire, Supt.
I the Young Peoples Division; Pre
= fessor A. f. Burrows, Supt. of Il
Adult Division; George Laugher,
Of iSupt. of the Administrative D
es partment,
e. With these good officers we hol
ra fo ancnr,p1ieh oraat +b;prs in Gu,