The Redwood gazette., 1935-10-31
PAGEANT CLOSES
BIG CONVENTION
Delegates Praise City for
Hospitality; Many at
2-Day Session

the city, of Redwood Falls as a
thoughtful host, the state Sunday
school convention closed its two
day session Friday evening with
the successful presentation of the
pageant, "Stream of Life" and
the delegates and visitors who
gained much by their attendance
departed for their homes in many
sections of the state.
D. R. Ward of Winona was re-
elected chairman Of the Minneso-
ia State Sunday School associa-
tion in the final business session
Friday afternoon. Other officers
who will again serve are Mrs.
Jean. E. Hobart, Minnewashta,
honorary chairman and George M.
Palmer and Bishop Stephen E.
Keeler, Minneapolis, vice chair
men. Mrs. M. ", Shutz of Owa-
tonna surnlants Manfert A.
Johnson of Rochester as third vice
chairman.
Faribault county with II dele
gates was awarded the county
attendance banner on a basis of
the number of miles travelled to
attend.
DIR. j. C. Acheson, president Of
Manchester college, st. Paul and
head of the Minnesota Council of
Religious Education was the prin-
cipal speaker Friday afternoon.
He explainet~t the general purpose
of the councils work and = plead
for more financial help and inter
est. $A#
"Qod intended America to be-
come the greatest country in the
world" asserted DR.. F. w. Otter
bein, Chicago, pastor of the
North Austin English Evangelical
Lutheran church, in his address
Friday morning. Foundations
were laid by the small group of
discoverers and early colonists,"
he added.
"Get the world back on the old
foundations God intended, to bring
peace and the right kind of pros
perity and. contentment," he con-
cluded.
Because his teachings struck
at customs and precedents estab-
lished through the ages, and
threatened to leap over all OBJ
stacles in an effort to reach indi-
viduals, Christ was unpopular
among his own people," DR.. P.
P. Hayward declared in his
Thursday evening talk.
"His ideas were the most dar-
ing and revolutionary that had
ever been introduced into the
sphere of human living" he said,
Gin that they sought to discover
and emphasize human values"
Continuing DR.. Hayward said, a
church and Christianity is success
full in proportion to it's ability to
reach persons and to get behind
the barriers which have been de-
veloping for centuriesev
Y DIR. R. M. Hapkns of New York,
general secretaxy 1of the World
Sunday School assaciation, giving
the view point of the larger or
ganization, pointed out the de-
velopment of the nationalistic
idea, the materialistic trend and
communism as the three greatest
foes Of Christianity today. $50
Wet Russian youth, whose slogan,
"A New World is the same as the
youth of our organized Christian
ity, offers the. greatest challenge
to the Sunday School movement
of the world today" he said. OPP
timistically, DIR. Hopkins closed
with the statement. that the
Christian movement is increasing
in spite of adverse conditions.
Because e. handful of Christ
ians have dared to take Christ
seriously, society has improved
through the ages DR.. P. r. Hay
ward, Chicago, told the delegates
Thursday afternoon.
eve have done away with the
degradation and oppression of
women and children; the liquor
traffic is under rigid control and
the unlawful sale of narcotics is
being swiftly wiped out" he said.
He advised his audience to think
their way afresh into what Christ
sought to make effective In the
lives of men, to compare their
present program of life with
what they desired, and to change
their way Of living according to
that comparison.
Over 700 pexsons nacked the