Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-23
EDITOR DEFENDS
! YOUTH OF NATION
Or. Polling Criticizes Those
Who Seek to Indict Them
for Lack of Sobriety.
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Walter M. White Of Memphis, Tenn.
Robert M. Hopkins, New York City
William Robinson, president of Over.
dale College, Birmingham, England
George W. Buckner, jr., of Crane
Rapids, Mich.
Announcement was made by Jesse M
Bader Of Indianapolis, president of the
convention, that $500 out-oftown dele
gates had registered. Most Of these viii
leave Washington tonight after the
closing program, which will be featured
by an inspirational address by Hugh
Mcclellan of Winchester, KY.
Speaking on the question, Christian
Education In the Home" Mrs. White
declared that the real success Of the
church and the schools depends upon
the character Of the home.
II the home defenses are weak the
community, the Nation and the WORLD
ere In danger" she said. "If the home
defenses are strong the Nation il
secure"
Scores Neglect Of Parents.
Mrs. White scored the neglect OF
parents in regard to the moral and
spiritual culture of their children
Unless this neglect is speedily arrested
she said, it suggests alarming appre-
tensions from future generations.
DR.. Hopkins of New York Is general
secretary of the World Sunday School
Association. In his address on 1.-THE
Task and Trend of Christian Education
In the Sunday School" he called atten-
ton to the fact that 1880 marks the
1S0th anniversary of the beginning of
the Sunday school movement.
Appropriate celebrations Of this oc-
casion are being observed in various
parts of the world. said DR.. Hopkins.
among the most significant has been
the erection this year of two bronze
statues of Robert Raikes, one in the
city of Toronto, Canada, which Is a
stronghold of Sunday School work in
North America, and the other In Glou-
cester, England, the home of Mr..
Raikes, and the city in which he or
ganized the first Sunday School.
DR.. Hopkins declared that with the
proper training of childhood and youth
the church can be assured of that
Christian life which is so essential.
1.-THE Sunday school not only accom-
plishes that" he pointed out, but has
proven itself to be as well the most
fruitful field the church has for CO.
operative endeavor."
Throughout the world there are ST.
100000 Sunday school scholars, Mr..
Hopkins stressed, and the growth has
been about 100000 each year in the
past four years. In the United States
from 1916 through 1926, Sunday school
enrolment showed a growth of SIG
per cent, yet there were 27,000,000 young
people under 10 years of age, DR.. Hop
kins said, outside of all agencies OF
religious education.
BIames Students for Revolt.
Allusion to the revolutionary situa-
Gon in South America was made last
night in an address by Samuel Guy In
man Of New York, who said that, with
the single exception of Brazil, students
have been the initiators. This is of
deep significance" he said, "since South
American. students are the leaders OF
protest against fanaticism, imperialism
and national despotism. During the last
10 years they have been organizing in
Buenos Aires, Mexico City, Paris and
New York, and declaring that they
would no longer stand for the national
regimes that were selling out their lib
critics and riches for selfish purposes"
The recent upheavals in South Amer
lea, Mr.. Inman indicated, are to be re-
garded not as simply part Of Latin
Americas desire to revolt, but as q part
Of the world struggle to adjust itself to
an impossible situation. DR.. Arthur
Holmes, professor of psychology in the
University of Pennsylvania, was one
Of the principal speakers last night. He
attacked ''rapacious materialism" and
told the convention that the church is
too busy with its own materialistic prob
lens to have found or to offer aid on
spiritual problems"
At the conclusion of his address, DR..
Holmes tainted and had to be carried
on the stage. His condition was not
serious.
1.-THE church." DR.. Holmes declared,
s'has been controlled by professional re-
hgionists whose primary purpose has
been the preservation and promotion of
the ecclesiastic institution To that end
they have shaped their religion"
Folly to Destroy Machine Age.
DR.. Holmes said it would be folly to
destroy the machine age to seek inn
agined benefits of the Middle Ages. He
concluded his address with an appeal
for conference of all American Prot
estant forces In originating "a religious,
moral, social and economic reorgani-
cation for the worlds redemption"
John Wyclihe Black of Leicester,
England, elected president of the 1885
world convention, spoke on the British
Empires debt to the gospel The only
way. to discharge that debt, he said, was
for the whole British Empire to join
with English-speaking peoples in Amer
3oa and elsewhere to expand the powers
Of the Christian Church.
Speaking of the cultural missions"
which the government had established
In Mexico following the revolution, z.
T. Westrup of Monterey, Mexico praised
theee as far as they go, with the pros
pect pf producing contented people in
the future. Evangelism, the speaker
felt was the key to the religious stu
alton in Mexico and rural missionaries
were more needed than social workers
In the cities.