The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-18
LANG URGES WORK
 IN REL|G| |ON
Train Children Properly, Head Of Sunday School Body Advises "TempIe Of Fine Arts" Is Prov
 Feature

Importance of trains ildren in religious life and Chf >rey was stressed Tuesday whe, S.labama State Sunday school Stion met at the First Methe nurch by Dr. George Lang, p and also the University of S.a.
 T have no patiencS with mothers and fathers or preachers wno think boy or girl must sow his or her wild oats and then be saved" de- clared Dr. Lang. Rear your children so they will not have to make great turn from evil to be converted Men and women who are trained right make much better citizens and church members than those who are converted after they are grown. Such members as these are often lmpertinent in their criticisms of the lives of others.
 Parents should spend their time in impressing their children with the goodness of the world instead of its wickedness. Many parents are running their children in just this way"
 Challenge To Association.
 He then spoke of the great chal- lenge the Sunday school association mas in it's opportunity to save 250. 900 boys and girls of the state of Ala bama, He said the responsibility of the parents was far greater than the Sunday school for anything else In the childfs life. and parents should not shift this responsibility to tha Sunday school teacher or day school teacher Religious education should be supplementary to the home train ing of a child. he said.
 Dr. William $. Bovard of Chicago. head of the Sunday school work of the Methodist Episcopal church and member of the executive committee of the International Sunday School Council of Religious Education, ad- dressed the convention on Religious Education, the Surest Way to Really Christian World
 pr Bovard said real salvation was the only means of saving the whole life and this is the only hope of the world being saved for Chris tianity." He seconded Dr. Lang's statements.
 "A great many persons have de- clared that the civilization of the old world was crumblinh away, and the only way to save the world for this country to shoulder there sponsibility and save whole gem eration before 1t is lost" he stated ADeTCfOutDIe "A ADstuts
 Rev. W. M. McDonalo, secretary of the North Alabama Methodist conference, and Dr. Robert M. Hop lSins of St. Louis, chairman of the executive committee of the Inter national Sunday School Council of Religious Education, spoke in the absence of Dr. John w. Abercrombie. state superintendent of education. and l.. F. Sensabough, head of the Methodist Teachers Training work in Nashville Tenn.
 The meeting was preceded by one half hour of worship led by Prof II, Augustine Smith, director of the de- partment of Fine Arts in Religion" of Boston university. This service was followed by the convention prayer pronounced by Dr. l.. E. Bru baker, pastor of the Ensiey High lands Presbyterian church and presi- dent of the Birmingham Pastors union.
 At late hour Tuesday night more than 250 foreign delegates had reg istered. Every train entering Bir- mingham was being met by members of the association committees as- sisted by Troop 15 of the Birming ham Boy Scouts. who are also as sisting in caring for the visiting delegates both in the city and at the convention church.
 Immediately following the adjourn ment of the afternoon session, which included denominational conference at the respectives churches in the city the delegation adjourned to the Temple of Fine Ants" in the Sunday school building of the First -deth- odist church.
 The temple of fine arts contains more than 300 colored prints of fla nous master pieces and modef- art. the latter being especially em- phasized in this exhibit. In the col lection there is practically com- plete series of the pictures, in color, by William Laird Taylor, not13 ar tist of England. There is a.~> series of vivid pictures of th' Testament Pslams. The pictures range, according to the changing of years in Biblical history. The sub ject of these pictures are as fol- lows The Life of Christ, Great Characters in History. Gods Great Out of Doors, Child Life in the Max rg. and Adolescent Youth on the March.
 The exhibit was arranged by Prof. N. Augustine Smith. Trained guides will escort visitors through the re- ligious art gallery. Synchronized