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Show SPEAKS TO CROWDED HOUSE The Flirt M. E. church was crowded crowd-ed to the doors lnt night, wheu tbo mass meeting of the State Sunday School convention began at eight o'clock. The hour opened with an organ recital by Mrs. F. O. Kelly, of Provo, and after the devotional and business exercises.' Mr. Marion Lawrence Law-rence secretary of the World's Sunday Sun-day School Association was introduced by" Rev. J. E, Carver, tbo chairman of the evening. Mr. Lawrence announced that he would speak on a telescopic view of Sunday school work. Ho spoko in part aa follow: "In 1903 I stood in a room in Gloucester, Glou-cester, England, smaller than this platform, where 130 years ago Robert Ralkcs organized the first Sunday echool. Today there are 275,000 Sunday Sun-day schools with 28,000,000 members. "Every Sunday morning as you f n-ter n-ter your Sunday echool there are 200 moro Sunday schools than there were a week before and 20,000 more scholars. schol-ars. Every day of the. year 750 new member join our churches from the Sunday school. These figures show the marvelous magnitude of Sunday school work, Raike Started First Sunday School. ' Robert Ralkes saw the first root of tho Sunday school, liko the root of a lily; today we see the lily in full bloom. ' "I remember well tho day when men nailed up the doors of the churches, to keep Sunday schools out: today It is the biggest Institution of the church. One person out of every thirty-eight In Buropc is In Sunday school; one out of every six in the United States is in Sunday school, and down in Oklahoma in two counties, coun-ties, one in every two. "The first great Sunday school convention con-vention In America was held in 1832, but it was not until 1SG9 that the great International Convention in America came to stay, and next June the greatest convention in this continent con-tinent ever held will meet in San Francisco, when it Is expected 10,000 delegates will cross tho continent to the Pacific coast and meet in that city, for which San Francisco is making mak-ing tho greatest of preparations. It is hoped Utah will fend a special train to join tho great procession of trains across the country. 17.000 conventions con-ventions of Sunday echool work met In North America this year, with 1.000,-noo.'n 1.000,-noo.'n attendance, but the San Francisco Fran-cisco convention will be the climax." Tells of Experiences. Mr. Lawrence then vividly portrayed his experiences in Sunday school conventions con-ventions in Mexico, Cuba and around (hp world. He said the greatest Sunday Sun-day school country In the world was Now Zealand. Some of tho largest Sunday schools on earth were In Japan Ja-pan and Korea, and that In Korea the poor native Christians gave to Christian Chris-tian work at the rate of what In our money was worth $70 apiece a year. Mr. Lawrence's portrayal of the terrible terri-ble condition of the pirls of India and the needs of China touched nil hearts. He cloyed by p'cturing the great world's convention in Rome, Italy, where amid cheers tho granddaughter of Garibaldi, welcomed them and the aged son of Garibaldi said. "My father tried to redeem Italy with bib letg. but you hnvc come to redeem Italy with Bibles." At the close of the addrp?s Mr. Law-rencc took an offering of $20. for the State Sunday school work In Utah th coming year. The convention program for today Is as follows, closing this afternoon at 4 o'clock: Thursday Morn'ng. Rev. V. W. Fleetwood. Episcopal church presiding, 9 3u a. m Devotional; Devo-tional; 10:00 a m. Our Problems, Ten minutes addresses. Thursday Afternoon, Rev. WT.dman Murphy, state president, presi-dent, presiding. 2:00 p. .m Utah Standard for 1011. Rev. Wlldman Murphy; Mur-phy; 4; vo p. ru. Devotional. F. J. Lucas. |