The International Sunday School Association's Scope and Minutes Addresses of Welcome and Responses-Presenta- tion of Reynold's Picture-Greetings-Resolutions. The Open Bible and the Uplifted Cross-The Preparation of Our Very Selves for Soul Winning-Starting Right-Seek- ing to Save Those Near Us Our Responsibility for Souls- Value of Early Training-Possibilities Wrapped Up in a Boy -Carelessness Concerning Myself and Surroundings-Conse- cration Service. V. DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATION.. Report of the Executive Committee-The Report of the General Secretary-Statistics-Report of Rev. W. C. Merritt. Report of Mrs. Bryner-Honor Roll of Graded Unions- Progress in Organization-Progress in Graded Instruction- Progress in Graded Unions-Impression Translated Into Ex- pression A Teacher's Parable-Effective Use of Graded Les- sons in the Elementary Grades Elementary Conferences- Report of Secondary Division-The Teen Age, A Liability Report of Adult Division-Adult Bible Class Demonstra- tion-A Man's Job-My Brother and I-The Obligation of the Sunday School to Young Men-Twin Meetings for Women Report of Teacher Training Department-Report of Com- mission on Education-The Sunday School as an Educational ences. Report of Visitation Department-Report of the Home Department-Religious Education in the Home-Chicago's 11 Report of the Missionary Department-Missions: The Mes- sage The Christianization of North America-Home Mis- sions in Relation to Our World Responsibility-Mining Camps and Cattle Ranges-Missionary Work in the Logging Camps-The Needs of the American City-Our Brother in Black-The American Problem-Striking Illustrations of Effective Home Missions-Among Bohemians-Mulberry Mountain-Rural America-Home Religion in a Canadian Community-The Chinese-The Preacher Among the Miners -Children of the Forest-Oriental Demonstration-Missions: The Messenger-Canada and the Home Mission Task-The Report of the Department-Temperance in the Sunday School-The Federal Government and the Liquor Traffic-Our Report of Lesson Committee-The Sufficiency of the Bible as the Text-Book of the Sunday School-The Material of the Graded Lessons-The Graded Lessons from an Editorial Point of View-Principles on Which the Graded Lessons Are Con- structed-Some Methods of Using Graded Lessons in Schools of Different Sizes and Conditions-How to Use the Graded Lessons with the Older Grades-The Training of Teachers for The Sunday School and the Negro-The Achievements of the Sunday School Among the Negro-The Negro's Debt to Open Parliament of Sunday School Superintendents-The Pastor's Place in the Sunday School-From the Layman's Three Hundred Years of the English Bible-The Bible and the Common People-Men and Nations as Affected by the Teachings of the Bible-The Sunday School Unifying Prot- estantism in North America-The Sunday Scho Christian Conquest of North America-The World View of the Sunday School-Sunday Schools in the Orient Today- 547 ..587 ..609 HISTORICAL NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL CONVENTIONS At a conference of friends of Sunday-schools, held in Philadelphia during the anniversary of the American Sunday-School Union and the General Assembly of the Presbyterian church, May 23, 1832, thirteen states and two territories, numbers suggesting the beginning of our national independence, were represented. A resolution was adopted recommending the superintendents and teachers throughout the country to convene to consider the duties and obligations of officers of Sundayschools, and the best plans of organizing, instructing and managing a Sunday-school. A committee was appointed to prepare lists of questions covering the Sunday-school effort as then understood, to be sent to Sunday-school workers over the land. The committee prepared seventyeight questions on thirteen different sections as follows: Schools, organization, discipline, visiting, modes of instruction, union question books, other question books, libraries, other means of success, superintendents, Bible classes, adult classes and miscellaneous. Three hundred answers were received, many of them copious, and the collection is preserved in a quarto volume of twenty-four hundred pages, in the library of the American Sunday-school Union, Philadelphia. FIRST NATIONAL CONVENTION ence. The first national convention was held in New York, in the Chatham Street Chapel, October 3, 1832, as a result of the Philadelphia conferHon. Theodore Frelinghuysen, of New Jersey, one of the eminent men of the time, was chosen president, and two hundred and twenty delegates were present, representing fourteen of the twenty-four States and four Territories of the Union. Hon. Gerritt Smith was one of the vice-presidents, and the body was a notable one, including many of the religious leaders of the day, both clergymen and laymen. Among the topics considered were: Infant Sunday-school Organization; Qualifying Scholars to become Teachers; Organization of County and other Unions; and the Propriety of having more than One Session a Day. The sessions of the convention were continued through three days. "The novelty of the occasion, the stimulus of large audiences, the sub |
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