The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1920-04-01
SUNDAY SCHOOL
CONVENTION
TO CONVENE IN GREENvILLE
MAY 4. 5, 6-STRONG ROSTER
OF SPEAKERS SECURED

OF SPEAKERS SECURED
|. Spartanburg, March 30.-The great
est array of specialists in religious
education ever brought together In
South Carolina has been secured for
the State Sunday School Convention
at Greenville, May a, 5, 6, according
to a statement from the program COM
mittee. With the convention theme,
Facing the New Day in Religious
Education" in mind, the committee
has secured seven outstandh g leaders
in North America to bring to the
largest gathering of religious workers
held annually in this State messages
of information and inspiration. The
program is considered the strongest
ever presented at a gathering Of this
kind in the State.
DR.. E. Y. Mullins, president of the
Baptist Theological Seminary at
Louisville, KY, has been secured for
the Bible half-hour each day. DR..
Mullins is one of the greatest Baptist
scholars of the day.
Prof. M. A. Honline, Dayton, Ohio,
educational superintendent of the In
ternational Sunday School association,
formerly connected with the Bone
brake Theological Seminary at Day
ton, will give a number Of lectures on
different phases Of religious educa-
ton. He is one of the leading child
psychologists of the continent. He is
member of the faculty of the Inter
national Training School at Lake
Geneva, Wisconsin.
DR.. w: E. Chalmers Of Philadelphia
is the outstanding Sunday-school
leader of the Northern Baptist denom-
ination. He is possessed of pleas
ing platform delivery, and is a popu-
lar convention lecturer. His work at
the convention will be along the line
of religious education for the young
people.
Mr.. w. C. Pearce of Chicago, field
superintendent of the International
training school for Sunday-school
leadership at Lake Geneva, Wiscon-
sin. For thirty years he has been a
prominent Sunday-school worker,
travelling in every State in the Union,
in all of the provinces of Canada, in
Europe, Asia, and Africa in the inter-
est of Sunday-school work.
Another International worker at the
convention will be DR.. William A.
Brown, formerly Missionary super
intendent of the international asso-
citation. For the past two years he
has been connected with the mission
ary work of the Methodist Episcopal
church. He will conduct the early
morning conservation services at the
State convention, and speak. on Evan
gelism before the entire convention
and at the conference periods.
Mrs. w. NJ. Walker, Of Birming-
ham, superintendent of the beginners
department af the Advent Episcopal
Sunday-school, comes as a specialist
in work with children. She has had
work in the local school in both pri-
mary and beginners departments.
She is an instructor in the Birming-
ham Graded Union, City Children's
Division superintendent, and has been
an instructor in schools of method in
many places in the South during the
year.
For the music, Prof. F. o. Sellers
of New Orleans has been secured as
director. Prof. Sellers is an instruc-
tor in the Baptist Bible Institute at
New Orleans in Sunday-school work
and music. In addition to directings
the singing at the convention, he will
take part on the convention program.
Rev. Daniel Iverson, of Charlotte, N.
c., will, be the pianist at the conven-
ton. He will speak also at the ad-
ministrative conference.
Workers in every department Of the
Sunday-school will receive from these
speakers much that will help them in
making their schools more efficient.
The greatest blessings will come to
them, however, by personal contact
with those who are giving their lives
that all the people of every State may
be brought into the Sunday-schools
and churches and have their lives en-
riched through the teaching service
of the Sunday-school.
Meeting of Teachers Association