| Show HEV REV B F JACOBS he lie will lead load tho the sabbath school hosts at st louis on wednesday august SO 30 until wednesday september 6 st loula louis will be filled with perhaps the largest number of sabbath school workers that have ever congregated three separate organizations n za tion will 11 b hold conventions on aai awi august u gs g s t pa h the fie field I 1 d workers gather A august tig 1 tal hi marks r I 1 tho the opening of the seventh e Y mt h I 1 international n t ern I 1 sunday school convention of the united states while the second worlds sunday school convention will hold its it first session on monday september ath the sessions ot of the conventions will be held in the music hall of the st louts exposition building the delegates tes from the state and territories riep will ve be sent seat at the ratio of four to every population and from canada and newfoundland the earne fame the tile number from foreign lands is not limited but is restricted to such as bear credentials credentials from national and international sunday school organizations where they exist in all however the delegates are limited to visitors to the conventions will greatly swell the number mr edward towers of london has ell charge ar 0 of the foreign force while rev B F jacobs of chicago is at the head of americas representatives and chair man of tho tile I 1 international riter national sunday school committee mr jacobs lias has been baen actively connected with sunday school work for many years he is tho the eon of a baptist sunday school superintendent and was bora borit at paterson N NJ J in ima 1854 when he be was 19 be he went to chicago first into the wholesale fruit b business and later into real estate in which he has been moet most successful ifo ile was interested terea te in sunday school work from the start and during the tile war was secretary for the northwest of the tile chr christian alan commission while chairman of the worlds executive committee and also of the international executive committee mr jacobs lias has been a superintendent perin for thirty years he be har had charge of a sunday afternoon class for ten years |
