Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1920-05-27
idaho SUNDAY
SCHOOL CONVENTION

y II may De Oh Interest IlGSL TO SLdI
that the meeting that has been mucl
in mind and in the Payette papers TO
weeks, is a section of a world wide
activity. The inclusive name is THE
International Sunday School Associa
ton" That the name is not spread
eagle" is evidenced by the fact thai
the next general meeting is to be
held in Japan. Men like John Wanna,
make and Heinze of the "Fifty-seYen
varieties" give of their time to GO
to the ends of the earth to help put
Bible Teaching in the front where it
belongs.
This meeting at Payette, is a
State meeting (meaning the thirty
three southern cOunties.) The repre-
! sentation is from some twenty of
them. The delegations from near by
are large and that means not a mere
picnic. The registration fee is 81,
and the entertainment is heIf at
/ their own expense. The visitors are
I here to get instruction on the big
gest question confronting the world
today, and yet one that is ignored
by vast number of people who in
other respects would not think of
evading tasks due to our Nation. AS
the President of the Parma Friend
ly Mems Bible Glass" put it, the busi-
ness which the Sunday School is car
rying on is the biggest thing in Amer
icanization that is projected today.
And the mention of that "class"
makes this good place to say that
Payette and other towns along the
line have frequently paid several hun
dred dollars for ChautauQua attrac-
tions, that were nowhere near so at
tractive as the program they put on
Tuesday night, just to show how the
Gospel truth can be made the most
challenging thing in the world. They
put in time. talent, money, and count
it gilt edge investment. just as any
bunch of men will do when they get
inc wi iCNl NlCM VI lLAlllSo-
The new State Superintendent is a
man of large plans and something of
a phenomenon in getting them thru. |
The meetings opened as the clock !
struck the hour and so far there ]
has not been a ten minutes off sche- !
dule at any time. 1t is not possible /
to comment on the series of events
that filled the eight sessions. Our
home folks have been on hand for
everything needful to insure success.
Expense money, as most everybody .
knows was supplied by the CONNER
cial Club, practically all the homes
in town were opened gladly for en-
MIR. Nelson assembled
a choir loft full of singers when
needed, and some busy women have
put in full time placing delegates,
and worked overtime to entertain
delegates in their own homes.
The speakers were fully prepared
on the themes assigned them, experts
we should say in the various phases
Of Sunday School work so that the
messages they brOt us are all of them
method ready to use in our schools:
The exact attendance has not been
figured out There are near two hun
ired assigned for entertainment in
the homes. Several are at the hotels,
and each day brings delegations from
places nearby who drive and return
the same day. There were $40 people
in the audience Wednesday evening,
and that is not much if any above
The average. Many of these of course
are Payette people, but the attend
,nce from outside is at least three
hundred.
We go to press too early to men
ion the final events but it is safe
% say there will be no letting down
rom the high standard of the ses-
;ions already completed. The address
If Rev. A. B. Keeler on Wednesday
hight may properly be named as COM
the whole program. His
heme was Safeguarding the Ma
ion"
1t has been a great event to Pay !
,tte as we'll as to all the visitors. We
eel justified in the statement that
nothing of greater worth to the COM
nunity at large has come our way a..
Tor that we need expect anything
hat gets at the core of things es-
ential in a more thorough way than
he estate Sunday School Conven-
ion" \