The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1921-10-13
SUNDAY SCHOOL ASSOCIATION
TO CONVENE IN BALTIMORE

MARY lana SIdIiGiSSS New 1 OTk 10 ES-
tablish Record of 1000 Delegates
Baltimore City will welcome with
open arms the delegates who attend
the convention Of the Maryland State
Sunday School Association in that city
on November 8, 9 and 10. The various
Sunday schools throughout the State
are hard at work in an effort to secure
1000 delegates. Maryland has chal-
lenged New York, which expects 1860
delegates to her State convention this
year at jamestown.
For seventy-nine years the Mary.
land Sunday School Association has
been developing Sunday school meth
DDS and exchanging ideas that aid in
bringing additional members and in
creased efficiency into the Sunday
school. Through district, county, city
and State conventions, Sunday school
work has been definitely organized,
working througout the State along
modern lines.
The success of organized effort in
Maryland is made manifest through
the fact that 952 Sunday schools were
organized between 1865 and 1900 by
the Maryland Sunday School Associa-
ton, number equal to half of all
| Sunday schools in the State. The
Maryland State Convention held last
year at Frederick, gave to the 1925
delegates who attended, inspiration
and vision that they carried with them
throughout the year. The addresses
by the leading Sunday school workers
in the United States drove home to the
delegates the Importance of system
attic work and what can be accom-
plished by it. In the school of meth
DDS, Sunday school teachers become
familiar with the most effective meth
DDS of solving their school problems.
1t is hoped that the efforts of last year
will reward the Association officers
by stimulating the interest of those
delegates who did attend sufficiently
to insure the presence of 1000 dele
gates to the convention in Baltimore
City.
The Sunday School Association is
the pioneer and parent of all co-opera-
tive Protestant Christian work in the
State. It's arms spread throughout
Maryland and bring into the Sunday
schools those who need Christian edu-
cation. The convention lays the foun-
dation upon which Sunday school
workers may secure these increases.
The coming State convention in Bafti-
more will be of such interest and its
business so attractive as to assure all
delegates few days well invested in
this work. If the delegates who at
tended last year could wildly inter-
pref the benefits they derived, Mary
land would be at the peak of Sunday
school activity in the United States.
Throughout the world, stretching
from far away China and India to the
civilized countries of Central Europe,
there are 30,000,000 members enrolled
in Christian Sunday schools. Of this
vast number, our country the United
States, has over one-half of the total
enrolment within its borders; the lat
est census shows an enrolment of
100000 members. Few people, even
those who are active in Sunday school
work, knows of Maryland's important
position in the Sunday school world.
Maryland, whose population and area
is way down the list and is classed as
one of the smaller states of the Union,
holds the coveted position of 9th, with
250,000 members enrolled and $4,000
officers and teachers.
Not only to meet New York's 1921
delegation and beat out that sister
state, but to be the leader in Sunday
School Association activities is the
Maryland Associations ambition. A
large delegation should go to Balti-
more from Garrett county, many to be
present at every session of the con-
vention, others to attend only special
sessions relative to the branch of
Sunday school work in which they are
particI1arlv iyStaractad