The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1921-10-31
SUNDAY SCHOOL
CONVENTION PLANNED
mdAy School Workers From
Canada and United States
to Meet in June

Sunday school officers and teachers
rnbering 1,677 ,695, and IL, 036 ,246
piis III the United States and Cana
Ore already planning for their del,
ates to the sixteenth international
nday school association convention
ia held in Convention hall, Kansas
~. NO., June 81 to ~, 1877. Ana
executive secretary, DR.. Marion
wrence for over 20 years secretary
THE association is devoting his time
setting up and perfecting the ar
1pements for what is expected to
the greatest and most significant
nday school gathering ever held. y
Eight thousand official delegates
IN fifty-four state Sunday school
-,ociations in the United States and
mine provincial Sunday school as
stations in Canada are expected to
present. Even at this early date
has been necessary to limit the
mber of delegates that each state
q provincial association can send
one for every 1000 Sunday school
.mbers actually enrolled.
Unusual significance is attached TO
Is sixteenth international sunday
aool convention due to the tact
Is it is the first time in the history
Sunday school work that all Of the
tional and international forces have
IN united in their work. For q num-
Z of years there have existed two
-oat SUNDAY school organizations,
! International Sunday School asso
lion which is organized into state
dcounty associations and the Sun
" School Council of Evangelistlc
nominations. This latter body is
imposed of representatives Of thir-
two denominations, while the for
81 has worked through these same
Nominations and non-denominatior-
schools.
The bringing together of these two
dies into one organization and the
flying Of all efforts q and plans
,kes possible an educational COM
ttee which is now preparing COM
extensive plans of religious educa-
N which will bear abundant fruit
the lives Of the next generation
american and Canadian citizens.
lis committee will present its pro-
am on the afternoons OF Wednes-
", Thursday and Friday, June Il,
.and 20. 5 aE,,S, :;;s@y' s l.. IL. .,
Moreover, the sixteenth interna-
nal Sunday school convention will
i Be a convention of speeches only.
:perts Of national and international
me will be heard but considerable
iount Of time will be given to.insti-
Ee work by groups. This makes It
ssible for Sunday school workers
TIL children, or young people or
tilts to get instruction for their par
nlar need. It also gives opportunity
rsthose whose work is of an admin
ratiye character or among special
pes Of people or in the field Of
ssions or temperance, to study their
h particular, problem in group
ding itself to this task alone. There
II also be conferences of those who
-epare the lesson systems, those who
lite the helps for the Sunday school
ssons, and the publishers of lesson
IDS and dealers in Sunday school
pplies. M .ssg.
It is planned that there shall he
M'sassociation day service" in all of
eSSunday schools Of the continent
convention day, Sunday, June rs.
II this day the conventioners will
tend the Sunday school of their
difference in Kansas City, and many
Hsther1 will supply pulpits in the
win Cities. The evening meeting will
given over to the work of the
torlds Sunday school ASSOCIATION Of
itch HON. John Wanamaker is pres
-ant and Frank L. Brown is execu-
ae secretary. This program will I've
lepared and presented BY the Off
lis Of the Worlds association.