The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1922-02-03
SUNDAY SCHOOL WORK.
Three Great Conventions-State
International and world.

The recent State Sunday School
Convention held in Baltimore was
attended by 1349 delegates, a NUM-
her practically equal to that of New
York. A year ago, at Frederick,
Maryland also equalled New York
in its attendance. A small state in
comparison, it intends next year to
surpass that great state and have
1000 delegates. The date of the
next State Convention has already
been fixed by the Board of Trustees
for October 1927 and will be held
in Baltimore. Already the process
OF engaging speakers for that great
event has commenced.
International.
The greatest convention held on
the American continent of relig-
ious nature is the International Sun
day School Convention, which con-
venes every fourth year. An
nouncements have been coming for
some time to the State Office, 1915
st. Paul St., Baltimore, setting forth
the next convention, which will be
held in Kansas City, June 21-2S.
Maryland has quota of 80 dele
gates. The representatives of twen-
ty millions of Sunday School people
will meet in Kansas City and some
OF the reasons why Sunday School
worker should attend such a conven-
ton, where everything pertaining to
the Sunday School work, from
Weekday Instruction and D. v. B.
S. to the Cradle Roll will be consid-
cred in those eight days are the
following:
/. AS a local Sunday School
worker I feel the need of coming in
contact with fellow workers from all
over the continent.
Q. In my duties as Sunday
: School teacher I feel the need of g
worldwide vision of what religious
education is doing.
3. I want to see the great exhibit
OF Sunday School equipment, publ
cations and requisites, and the pic
lures of activities sbeing carried OF
by Sunday Schools in the United
States and Canada.
A. / want to learn all about the
merging Of the Sunday School Coun-
Gil and the International Sunday
School Association to the end thai
all the Protestant Sunday Schoo
forces of the United States shall use
their energy and resources together
S. I want to learn the best there
is in music and pageantry for the
Sunday School.
s. want to see and hear thu
men and women who write for oul
Sunday School publications ant
whose lesson expositions hav'
studied so long.
z. I want to find out the fines
things that can be done by the Adult
Bible Glasses in my own Sunda.
School.
8. want to watch our great ex
perts in children's work as the.
confer, instruct and demonstrate
how we should do it.
8. want to ask some question!
Of those who are in charge of youns
peoples work.
10. I want to learn the mos
modern methods of Sunday Schoo
administration so as to help my
School strive toward perfection in
that phase of it's work.
World.
The Worlds Sunday School Con.
yention is held also every four
years and already meetings have
been held in Washington, London
. Geneva, Rome, Jerusalem and Toxic
The Toxic Convention was SO largely
attended that entire ships were
chartered to take delegates from
America. 1t made a profound i'm.
preston upon Japan and gave all
Christian work standing, which
otherwise it might have taken fifty
years to attain. City Governments
and Chambers of Commerce all over
Japan united to do honor to dele
gates in way that the world has
never known before even in a civil
ICED country. The next World s
Convention will be held in Glasgow,
1924 and, when the place was men
toned to President Ross D. Murphy
of Blue Ridge College, New Winsor,
he Immediately stated there would
be about eight to go from New Win
sor alone, himself included. Judging
from the attendance at the State
Convention, and especially at the
over crowding of many of the counts
conventions, there is little fear but
that Maryland will be we'll repre-
sented in all three conventions above
mentioned