Milford chronicle., 1923-11-16
SUSSEX SUNDAY SCHOOLS
In CONVENTION AT DELMAR


gates, representing forty-seven Sunday
schools of Sussex county. attended the
annual Sussex County Sunday school
convention, held in the Delmar Meth
odist Protestant Church on TbursJav
of last week. ''''''
Inc morning session, presided over
ny william b. Stephens, of Delmar.
president of the Sussex County Assoc
cation was opened at 10 o'clock with
devotional service under the leader
snip OF Rev. j. w. Jones, pastor of the
DeImar Methodist Episcopal Church.
heports from the several district
presidents showed that during tbe
year that seven district conventions
were held out of thirteen-one for
each dlstrict-that has been scheduI-
eu. 1hey all had an optimistic tone
and showed that Sunday school worI,
IN southern Delaware was ADVANCING,
rapidly. 80 o--'9
Little Creek District, as far as coun-
" work is concerned, carried off the
banner, reporting sixteen active
SCHOOLS out of which fourteen turned
IN reports of their activities during the
year to the county secretary. The six
teen schools have an enrolment of
z5lS scholars, divided among the
churches as follows: Episcopalian
TWO; Methodist Protestant, seven.
Methodlst Episcopal, six, and Baptist,
UHe. one church alone, Centenary
Methodist Episcopal Church of Laurel
showed an enrolment of six hundred
ana elghty-six, making it the largest
ScnooI south OF Wilmington with
georgetown First Methodist Profess
lant ranking second with an enroll
ment OF four hundred and twenty-five.
Report OF Corresponding Secretary
The report of the CORRESPONDING 500
retary, Miss Edna c. Barker. of Mil
lord, was as follows: 81 am snre that
tnGre is no county in Maryland having
Detter set OF district or hundred
workers. and know there are none in
delaware. 1t has been a pleasure for
me TO work with such faithful work
ers' In nearly every case they have
some over the top. There are two hun
oreds' however, that 1 have failed IN
near anything from in the Way of re-
ports, and one other where the sec
retary said he could not serve. Bit nm
the whole they have indeed been CO.
workers In every sense of the word
When 1 started the work set a goal
LOT the county; which was, 'everv re-
port IN and every convention held nv
the Time we met in Delmar.' did We
reach that goal and go over the ton?
am sorry to say that for once Sus-
sex county fell down; but she is not
gong to stay down, for feel sure that
she VIII strive to do all she can for
the children and young folks of tbe
county. -' u 'He
Little Greek Hundred was the first
" make any statistical report, while
Ceudr creek hundred was the first to
SEND a complete report. There are
only TWO hundreds that have been
unable TO get any response from
GumDoro and Broadkiln. 1 believe thew
Will IN time be heard from.
Inc following conventions were
4eld: Little Greek, Broad Creek IN
qlan RlVer, Georgetown, Cedar Greek.
Ge"es and RehOboth, Dagsboro and
Gumboro. anu
\, mere was an attempt made to hold
northwest Fork, but no one came bn+
Tue president, secretary and two coun-
" workers so the convention was not
heId. The interest in the work is in
creaslng, and l am sure that next
year Will lind many new things under
taken. These conventions have been
sood' strong ones, for requests are
coming to the county workers for leaf
let's, books and other help.
My report is from seventy-five white
schools as I am only reporting the
ones have received. OF this number
1Ity-seYen are very active, and report
La omcers and teachers with 1O,967
scholars. We have 40 cradle-rolls with
H4 members enrolled, 16 home de-
partments with an enrolment of asa.
making total of 1926 enrolled in
the white schools in the county; with
reports from eleven colored schools
showing 90 officers and teachers and
53S scholars, making a grand total of
elghty-six schools with 1887 enroll
ed' IWenty-six schools are yet to be
heard from.
Let US determine to make this COM
ing year the best we have ever known
and let us not stop until every man.
woman and child in Sussex county is
in some Sunday school.
0OpOIb VI treasurer
The report of the treasurer, Miss
Maggie S. Wilson, of Georgetown, was
as toIloWs:, Received from the former
treasurer, Mrs. Napoleon B. Register.
OF Lewes, $226.O9. Received from Sun
day schools, $257.1O, making a total of
S4S3.12. Disbursements: To State AS
ISOLATION, $1O0; printing, $21.OO SUD-
pnes' $lS.9S, making a total of $134.98.
balance in treasury, $S48.21. Moneys
from the twenty-six schools having no
reports is not included in the treasur-
er's report.
In outlining The program for lower
delaware for 1923-1924, Abner B.
Brown, of Baltimore, General Secre-
tary for Maryland and Delaware, stat
ed that only thiTty-nine per cent of the
people of Sussex county attended
Sunday school. Within the last dec
ade' he stated, the average gain per
year was $50, or one per cent. During
This time, the Methodist Episcopal de-
nomination had only gained three per
cent. He estimated tha5 about 1900,
white and colored, were enrolled in
sussex county Sunday schools and sci
the goal for a gain of 400, from now
until the time for the holding of the