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ard Sabbath School Conference
began yesterday and will continue
through the week ending August H.
next Saturday. The Director OF
this Conference is the Rev. j. W..
Carson, and it's object as set forth
lin the official announcement is Gin
struction, inspiration, training" The
Initial service of this Conference
consisted last night of the formal
opening of the Bon Clarken Assem-
blv Grounds with appropriate and
deeply impressive exercises. 1t is
announced that "the atmosphere of
the Conference will be missionary;
that the officers of the Board of
Missions, the missionaries at home,
the missionaries under appointment,
the missionaries who have volun-
teered for service will all be
present.
A Faculty of seven distinguished
teachers under the direction OF
Professor j. L. Mccain, Phi. D., OF
Erskine College, will take care of
the teaching part of the Confer
ence; eleven of the most eminent
"inspirational speakers" will ad-
dress the Conference from day to
day; the courses will cover Bible
study, Mission study, training for
Sabbath School Workers, and train
ing for Y. P. C. U. Workers. Spe-
cial instruction in singing will be
igiven by MI. D. S. Edwards, and in
the Song Service, which will be one
of the most interesting features of
this Conference, prominence will
he given to the great old tunes that
have inspired the Church in all
ages" And to make this "promi-
nence" all the more effective it is
taken for granted that the great
old Psalms will go with "the great
old tunes"
The second of the Conferences at
Bon Clarken will begin tomorrow
'week-Sabbath, August 10, and will
continue until and during August
20. 1t will be called the Bible Con-
ference and in it many able men
will take part, among the teachers
being the Rev. Thornton Whaling,
D. D., LII. D., recently of the Pres
byterian Theological Seminary at
Columbia. William Jennings Bryan
has been invited to make two ad-
dresses at this Conference and it is
assumed that he will be present. 1t
is certain that there will be "stand-
ing room only" at Bon Clarken dur
ing the first two weeks at least of
its new career, Manager Brownlee
having arranged for three and four
in a room so that he might take
care of the tribes of Gods chosen
people who are going up to the hills
to worship Him in "the beauty of
holiness"
There have been many changes
in the lifetime of the Rev. DR..
Francis Young Pressly, President of
the Geological Seminary at Due
West, in the methods and services
of the Associate Reformed Presby-
terians. He will take a very impor-
tant part in the Conferences at Bon
Clarken and he could not wish a
more interesting topic than the
changes that have taken place in
his Church since he began life in
the "Holy City," as Due West has
been called by DR.. William Watts
Ball, of the Columbia State. The A.
R. P.'s held to the practice of close
communion then, as was the rule
with the Baptists. They held strictly
to what was called "a Scriptural
Psalamody"-they do still, we be-
Ilieve, but none of the fathers would
recognize the Psalms as the most
of them are now sung out of the
new "Book of Praise" or whatever
may be it's title. A long time ago,
as DR.. Pressly will recollect, in the
Church at Due West the Psalms
were lined out two lines at a time.
There were two clerks, a clerk who