The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1923-11-08
STATE SUNDAY SCHOOL
CONVENTION LAST WEEK
At Hagerstown Had Over Nine
Hundred Delegates Present
(By SARA R. GETTY

/ (By SARA K. GETTY
/ No one being present with the crowd
I of eager, faithful workers at the Sun
day School convention at Hagerstown
on October 30th and 31st, would ever
doubt the growing interest in the work
of the Kingdom. Almost all OF tie
! fourteen counties on the Western
/ Shore were represented, the number
of delegates, including pastors, super
intendents and other workers, being
over nine hundred A convention
/ held the same week at Salisbury, Md,
covered the other end of the State, the
! officers and staff going directly from
/ Hagerstown to Salisbury.
The meetings were under the direc-
ton of the beloved General State Sec
rotary Abner B. Brown, of Baltimore,
the different sessions being presided
over by cOnsecrated pastors aEG lay
men eager to aid in carrying out the
| theme of the convention which was
Go We into all the world and preach
the Gospel to every creature The
meetings were held in the beautiful
new Sunday school building Of st.
Johns Lutheran church with addition
al meetings in the First Christian
church across the street. Rev. !. Ed
ward Harms is the pastor Of the I.uth-
eran church and right royalty did ne
and his people as well as the )ther
churches and all Hagerstown extend
/ 4 welcome to the visiting delegation.
/ The music was in charge of J. Harold
/ LOWden, musical director Of tie Re
! formed Publication Society OF Phla-
/ dclphia, Pa, assisted by one II the
/ II 10 l.,
! who is an artist at the keys the
/ beautiful tones OF the wonderful pipe
organ, production Of Hagc"stoWn
genius also, filing the sacred editice
with volume Of music that was IN
itself worth going miles to hear.
AS more than so prominent speak
ers took part in the great meetings,
it would De impossible to tell of ali
the big intellectual treat the general
secretary and staff had planned Tor
the convention, but the two days were
filled to overflowing.
/ in the keynote address, "ObjectiveS
in Christian Education OF Youth" r.
/ a. Waite of Chicago superintendent of
Boys Work, brought out fOrcible The
significance OF relation between up
reach and outreach i'll the work If the
/ Master, giving many incidents Of his
own work among boys all over thu
/ States with deep revelations Of The
child heart. Mr.. Waite addressed the
young peoples conferences in The
| morning and afternoon, and the audi.
ence was privileged in hearing him
again III two more eniightcn;ag i'd
/ dresses, youth and its Development"
given on Tuesday evening, and Youth
and the Kingdom Nision," Wednesday
morning.
J. VIM. Eldredge, whom the Gar
rett county people had the pleasure
Of meeting at Deer Park last Septe.n-
Der, told the story Of Raleigh county
and its surprising and wonderful
growth in Sunday school work IN she
past four years, during which tim" he
has been general secretary Of Sunday
school work in that county. Mr.. IL
dredge addressed the meetings in the
morning and afternoon upon problems
iii small Sunday schools, bringing
many practical solutions, and again in
the evening session gave a very UNIQUE
and convincing address on Are YOU a
'possum?" bringing a live oposs an
upon the stage as an illustration.
There were five simultaneous con-
ferenCes, all under the able direction
Of noted workers in the following de-
partments: Children's Division, Young
Peoples Division, Adult Division,
Week Day Schools and Pageantry and
Decentralization. While it was impos-
slble for each delegate to receive the
benefit Of all these sessions, yet in di-
vidlng numbers from each school, a
report could thus be obtained.
While General Secretary Brown
held an executive meeting with the
members Of the state cabinet and coun-
ty officers in reference to the things
of Importance to them, Rev. Maurice
NJ. Hamm ed the meeting of the adult
division with the aid of many promi-
nent workers.
The unexpected illness of Col. Cud-
lipp, the untiring and jealous worker
of the Young Peoples Division, made
it impossible for him to be present.
a message of sympathy and good
cheer being sent to him by the staff
and convention body, with hopes for
his. speedy recovery.
An elementary luncheon was serv-
ed at noon on Tuesday for the work
ers of the Children's Division, Miss
Lillian Mccormick being the toast
mistress. About forty were present
at this gathering.
On Tuesday afternoon the audience
was greatly privileged in hearing DR..
Goodell of New York, executive sec
rotary committee on Evangelism and
Life Service, in his address present
Task of the Sunday School," told with
compelling and tender pathos and a
quaint humor held his audience to the
last. In the evening the audience
again felt the force of his personality
in his address "The Book we Teach"
a beautiful, stirring story of the Book
with throbbing, pulsating pages of
human interest and tragedies, coupled
with the divine love of the New les
lament. DR.. Goodell also spoke at the
adult conference in the afternoon.
DR.. F. B. Plummer told briefly and
to the point of the need of bette en-
torcement of the Eighteenth Amend
ment because of the far-fung defiance
to this enactment by the many enc
mics Of prohibition. Secretary A. B.