the Light of the World that His rays may reach yonder and meet the need of the sleeping giants of the Orient.

RESPONSES TO THE WELCOME

A. B. McCRILLIS: Now for a fitting response to the addresses which have been made we turn to the southland, and introduce to you Dr. H. M. Hamill, of Nashville, Tennessee, Superintendent of TeacherTraining work of the Methodist Episcopal Church South.

Mr. President:

Dr. Hamill's Response

Certainly a man must do well within the compass of ten minutes or less to respond to these most gracious addresses of welcome.

California is a great State, great to those who come as well as to those that dwell here. Down on that splendid trip from Portland the other day, a gentleman with unusual enthusiasm pointed out to me the natural features of that great route over the Southern Pacific. He said, "Here is a mine from which one hundred and fifty million dollars of gold has been extracted and given to the world, and over here are the bubbling streams that give you soda water without charge," and I thoroughly enjoyed it; it was the most delightful drink I ever had. He said, "When we want a well in California we simply pull up a carrot."

We have had a great welcome. The flowers-God's thoughts incarnate they are so beautiful-the sunshine, smiling upon us, the weather like paradise to a man that has come out from the presence of the thermometer ranging from 100 to 102-the cordial welcome, the splendid equipment, the magnificent provision made for the housing of this great Convention, the right hand of fellowship, the warm-hearted fraternity and the grace of San Francisco and the great Commonwealth behind it, make us feel entirely at home. We are glad to be here. We come not like the Argonauts of old, the founders of this great Commonwealth, who came across the plains, and climbed the mountains before they were tunneled, and crossed the streams before they were bridged, and did not have the shining steel rails of the great transcontinental lines to bear them in luxury in sleepers, but we come as the Argonauts of a new era, as Sunday-school crusaders, bearing the open Bible and the uplifted cross in our hands We come not with the water of irrigation that has made your State to smile with beauty and to give forth in luxury; we come with the Water of Life which you need and which doubtless many of you have. We come not to

look upon your great and stately trees of the primeval forest; we come with the tall trees of righteousness. We come not to dig gold out of your mines, but to bring you the pure gold of Christian character. We come not to lay tribute unto ourselves upon your smiling fields where the great ploughs and reapers are passing day by day, but we come to bring you the Bread of Life.

Welcome us for the sake of the sections from which we come! From far above the shining waters of the St. Lawrence as it goes singing in music and sunshine to the sea; and from the far-away Mississippi which flows onward to the Gulf; and from where the dawn uplifts itself beyond the forests of Maine down to where the mocking-bird is singing day and night in the savannahs of the South, we come with warm hearts loving you, with churches united, and with a great host of a million men added to our Sunday-schools in the last five years. We come with the grace of the best institution upon the face of the earth to help save your cosmopolitan population, for it is the touch of grace that makes the whole world kin.

A. B. MCCRILLIS: Now having heard the eloquent response from the Southland, who can respond for the rest of the country so well as the Hon. Justice J. J. Maclaren, of Toronto, Justice of the Court of Appeals of Ontario, Canada.

Mr. President:

Justice Maclaren's Response

It is difficult to find words adequately to express the appreciation of the International Sunday School Association of the very hearty welcomes which have been accorded to its delegates by the authorities of the State of California, of the City of San Francisco and by the representatives of the commercial and religious interests of this city. Many of these delegates are visiting your Commonwealth and city for the first time, and all of us are very deeply impressed by the extent and magnificence of your territory and resources and also by the wonderful progress you have already made in their development. Especially are we amazed at the courage and rapidity with which the city has arisen from its ashes since its recent calamity to its present magnificence. San Francisco may have in the past welcomed even larger conventions than the present one; but I venture to say with confidence that it has never welcomed one more representative of the highest and best interests of this North American continent. This is no mere body of holiday excursionists; but is composed of carefully selected representatives of the Sunday-school workers in their respective states

and countries, each of them a leader in his or her own locality. Each State in your Union is entitled to send four times as many delegates as it has members in the two houses of your National Congress, while Canada and other outside countries send a proportionate number according to their population.

These delegates are the representatives of 1,500,000 officers and teachers who are actively engaged Sunday after Sunday in training the 15,000,000 of pupils under their care in the important principles of the Word of God that will qualify them for the highest duties of citizenship in their respective countries. And be it remembered that these services are rendered without fee or reward. I venture to claim on their behalf that this is the most powerful moral and religious force on this continent today. We have come to your city not only to transact the business to be done at a triennial convention; but also to learn how you are grappling with some of the problems such as the Christianization of the Asiatics and other problems that are felt here more acutely than in the East. Some of us had hoped that our coming here might also be of some assistance in impressing upon this great Commonwealth and city a higher appreciation of some of those great Christian principles which we have in common both East and West, but after listening to the glowing description that has been given us by his Honor, the Mayor, of the high state of public and civic morality here, I am of opinion that most of us have been made to feel that we ought to be able to learn much while here, and that we will go back to our respective homes determined to work more earnestly to secure the adoption of high standards there. (Laughter.) On behalf of my fellow delegates I beg heartily to thank you for your very cordial welcome.

Coronation of the King of England

MR. MARION LAWRANCE: I move that our Chairman be requested to appoint a committee which shall tonight draft a suitable resolution that shall convey our love, our confidence and our high esteem to the incoming king to be crowned tomorrow in Great Britain.

The motion was seconded, and it unanimously prevailed. The delegates sang "God Save the King" and "America."

Then followed the two great addresses of the evening, "The Sundayschool in the Christian Conquest of North America," by David G. Downey, D. D., Chicago, Corresponding Secretary Board of Sundayschools, Methodist Episcopal Church, reported on page 569, and "The Open Bible and the Uplifted Cross," by J. Wilbur Chapman, D. D.,

New York City, Corresponding Secretary Presbyterian General As sembly's Evangelistic Committee, reported on page 91.

Prayer and benediction by Rev. W. H. Bagby, San Francisco, Pastor West Side Christian Church.

THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 22

Rev. H. H. Bell, D. D., presiding. Prayer was offered by Rev. Orville Coats, D. D., Oakland, Cal., Pastor Tenth Avenue Baptist Church. Rev. E. M. Sein, General Secretary for the Republic of Mexico, made his report (see page 530).

The West Indies and Central America were next reported upon by Rev. Aquila Lucas, International Secretary for these fields (see page 533).

Rev. W C. Merritt, Secretary for the Northwest, having been detained in Hawaii, his report was not presented to the Convention but will be found on page 160.

Coronation Demonstration

At this point the Canadian delegates marched into the Convention hall in a body singing "The Maple Leaf Forever." They filed on the platform, the audience standing and giving them a Chautauqua salute. The Canadians gave three cheers for the King and three cheers for America. Then the audience gave three cheers.

The report of the Temperance Department was presented by Mrs. Zillah Foster Stevens, Secretary of the International Temperance Department Committee (see page 430).

THE CHAIRMAN: Yesterday at the International Executive Committee meeting our dear Brother Hartshorn was taken suddenly ill and had to take to his bed. In his absence his report will be read by his Secretary, Mr. George W. Penniman (see page 115).

At the request of the Chairman, Mr. W. C. Pearce, the International Superintendent Adult Bible Class Department, offered a fervent prayer for the blessing of God to rest upon Mr. Hartshorn.

THE CHAIRMAN: The following will constitute the committee to prepare the resolution of congratulation for their majesties, King George and Queen Mary of England: Mr. Justice Maclaren, Ontario; Principal E. L. Rexford, Montreal; E. K. Warren, Three Oaks, Mich.; W. N. Hartsorn, Boston, and Bishop E. H. Hughes, San Francisco.

It was moved, seconded and carried that the gentlemen named constitute said committee. Later the committee met and sent the following:

Message to the King and Queen of England

"Four thousand delegates in Triennial International Sunday School Convention, assembled in San Francisco, representing a constituency of sixteen millions in the United States, Canada, Newfoundland, the West Indies and Mexico, respectfully tender their most hearty congratulations to their majesties on their coronation."

Partial Report of Nominating Committee

Mr. Eudaly, Chairman of the Nominating Committee, made a partial report, bringing in the nominations for President, Vice-Presidents, Recording and Assistant Recording Secretaries, Treasurer and Assistant Treasurers and representatives for the eleven districts. For names see page 33.

Death of Herbert Moninger

MR. MARION LAWRANCE: There was a man in Sunday-school circles to whom our eyes always turned with joy and our hearts with love. I have been asked to read this telegram which has come into my hands in the last ten minutes and words cannot express my sorrow. It reads, "Herbert Moninger died last night."

DR. JOSEPH CLARK, OHIO: In the face of this very sad message I claim the privilege, as Secretary of the Ohio State Association, in our great sorrow, to suggest this message to Mrs. Moninger and family, and as I do so I recall the fact that eight years ago this young man came to his Sunday-school vision under a message which fell under God from my lips, and he has always called me his Sunday-school father. As a father mourns over a son so do I this morning mourn for Herbert Moninger, and I suggest this telegram of loving sympathy to the family: "Mrs. Herbert Moninger and family, Cincinnati, Ohio. The Thirteenth International Sunday-school Convention in session is sorrowing with you and praying for you in the home-going of your beloved husband. May the God of all comfort, sustain and strengthen you." I move that this telegram be sent.

MR. LAWRANCE: As a mark of sympathy let us not put the motion in any audible way, but those who favor it will quietly rise and be seated.

The motion was unanimously adopted, the Convention being hushed to silence.

A Survey of the Field

Mr. Marion Lawrance, General Secretary, then read his report, which will be found on page 119.