The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-01
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Episcopal Boys in First COnyen-
ton of Its Kind.
Is Preliminary to Annual Con-
vention of Church Sunday.

A long. doubIe-breasted line of boys
of all ages under 81. reaching half
way across the Bethany school cam
pus. marched to mess at noon today
They were delegates TO the first boys
convention of the Episcopal church
ever held in Kansas and proba bly, in
the entire United States. They are in
Topeka for today and part of Sunday
and are making themselves at home in
sixteen large tents on the Bethany
grounds.
This afternoon the boy delegates.
numbering nearly 200 from all parts
of Kansas, were taking part in an ath-
letic meet.
The boys convention is preliminary
to the sixty-first annual convention of
the Episcopal diocese of Kansas,
which will open in Topeka Sunday
morning at Grace Cathedral, to be at
tended by fifteen hundred delegates.
including clergymen and men and wo
men laymen of the church from all
parts of the state.
The boys camp. the chief interest
of today. is being directed in military
fashion by Capt. W. P. Mclean, head
of the Boys Industrial school, who
served overseas with the Thirty-fifth
division. and by Chaplain Otis Gray.
who went to France with the Eighty
ninth division.
That religion does not make a
sissy of a boy. that boys can give
invaluable religious and patriotic serv-
ice in their own country and state
and city were among the convincing
thoughts brought out by Maj. Henry
r. Sanborn of Nevada, also known as
the Rev. Henry r. Sanborn-who ac-
eomplished the difficult task of hold
ing the close attention of nearly two
hundred active boys in the Guild hall
of Grace cathedral this morning.
jor Sanborn. He entered the Canadian
army two years before America took
part in the war. He was an agnostic
when he began his army service, but
at the end of the war he asked how
he could become a clergyman" re-
fusing permanent commission as ma
jor in the regular army. He is now
serving as an Episcopal clergyman
among railroad shopmen and college
students in a little town in Nevada.
Other features OF the morning enter
tainment were music by a seven piece
orchestra from St. Pauls church. Kan
sas City. Kan, and catchy and tuneful
vocal and guitar duets.
The Rev George Craig Stewart. D.
D., l. H. D.. rector of St. Lukes
church, Evanston, ILL.,, will be one of
the principal speakers of the conven-
ton. He will give the main address
at the service tomorrow morning at
1880 o'clock. The Reverend Stewart
is a former overseas Red Cross work
er. one of the leading speakers of the
church and a university lecturer. He
will deal on the five fundamentals of
religion in his series of lectures during
the three days of the convention
4 prominent layman who will give
addresses is George K. Gibson of Chi
cago, H.. who will present, as a sue
cessful business man. THE business of
religion in the religion of business"
There will be no Sunday school at
Grace cathedral tomorrow morning
because of the convention The an
nual meeting will end "Wednesday with
4 dinner at $50 o'clock.
The afternoon and evening program
for the boys camp follows: 12:15,
recall: 1880, mess: 1880. sport tactics.
600. mess: 7:5o. assembly; 800. re-
call: e:15, church call: 1000, taps.
Tomorrow's convention activities
will be: $50, reveilie; 1880. holy
communion: 1890, morning service
George Craig Stewart. George X.
Gibson: 400. the bishops annual sd-
dress; 500. evening service-George
Craig Stewart, Henry r. sanborn.