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On my way to Indianapolis, I
rounding country. In the after- school workers-from var rious States McGarvey, of Kentucky.
2. Two lectures . on “ Lessons stopped for a little while at Rich
noon Bro. Isaac Errett preached an is in response to the request of a
__ ■ ■ conference which was held in the ( from the History of Sunday-school mond, Ind’, and called on Bro. J. L.
excellent sermon. His sermon was
Parsons. I had but little time to
address
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____ by city of Indianapolis, Indiana, March j Work,” by J. M. Atwater, of Ohio.
■&- T-w<>a*l< 1 r ns ties ju H 1‘.T1>< ‘ Sun- inquire in regard to the church in
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thcFtr’*'WOi if
Presid'ent W. K. Pendleton. “ Sei-
day-school Library/ by J. W. Mon-
ence and Religion ” was the theme present S. P. Lucy, C. C. Cline and
I did learn, that its.struggles for
which furnished entertainment and P. H: Duncan, from Kentucky ; L: ser, of Missouri.
4. An address on the “ Relation success are not yet ended.
L. Carpenter, from Indiana / J. H.
instruction to the audience.
On my arrival at Cincinnati, I
The evening session was wholly Hardin, from Missouri; Knox P of the Church to the Sunday
was glad to meet and . -to greet
occupied by Jiaines G. Encell, now Taylor, from Illinois; and F. M. school,” It^jfJ. S. Haynes, of Illinois.
Thomas
Murnell, fresh from the
5. An address on the “ Scope and
~■gnntpt------ — Given, from’ Obit), besides others
With Bro. Encell’s lecture the from Indianapolis and Ticinity/ Purpose of our Sunday-school Mis- ..field in Kentucky, and the beloved
J. H. Garrison, just home from
Ministerial Association closed its That meeting had its origin in a sion<?4n the Several States/ by J.
England.
work for this year. I did not call previously made by brethren ■ H. Hardin, of Missouri.
If .any complaint is made con
G. An address on “ Music in the
learn whether an arrangement was Lucy, Cline and others, who desired
such a confercHce. When . these Sum lav-school,” by C. C. Cline, of cernin'; this letter, 1 am sure that
made for another meeting or not.
it will not be because it is too short.
But I must now speak of the last brethren came togatM^r for their Kentucky.
F. M. G reen .
The programiiic was interspersed
of the series of meetings held at conference, they organized with S.
A Speck of Pollution.
Island Park.
. . P. Lucy as Chaiiman, and J. H with discussions and the business
of the Association.
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The General Christian Sunday- Hardin as Secretary.
We read last week of a gentle-
school Association is a new candi
“Three questions were present
The purpose of the Association is man wild" was bitten by a fly. He
date for the favor of the Sunday- for consideration and action :
defined in general terms by the was sitting in a chair when the fly
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school brotherhood of the churches
“ 1. Is a general Sunday-school constitution wliiclr„was adopted. lighted on his arm. feeling the
' - bf Christ. For several years there association desirable ? This huc . v ! Specifically, its purpose is educa
sting he brushed the fly away and
has been a sentiment growing up tion was thoroughly ^considered, tional.
thought no more about the matter.
that our great mass conventions are and was decided in the affirmative
The work, of the Association is Shortly the arm became painful
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1 Mtniianent Valût and swtdkdT- and. .the man became__
• our Sunday-school workers. It is sirable, is it practicable ? This ques to the Sunday-school, because the
seriously ill. Xhe only explanation
very pleasant for a speaker to greet tion was also answered in the affirm thoughts presented by those who
that the physician could.- give was
a large and enthusiastic audience ative.
may address it are good, and worthy that the fly had probably I teen at
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“ 3. Shall.this conference do any- of life. This feature of the Associa
some tainted meat, and at the mo*
of his eloquence, but after all it thing to realize this desirable and tion can not be too strongly em
inent of biting the arm left a” little“’
r
amounts to but little in the “ long practical object ? To this third phasized. Sufficient experience has
of the pollution in the flesh.
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run.” “Strains of lofty eloquence” question the following answer was noW been had by the great com
The human lx>Jy is very intoler
do very well occasionally, but they given:
pany of faithful Sunday school ant of any pollution within the
make sad havoc sometimes with
“(<l) A committee was appointed, I workers among ourselves an<I others
system. Boils or the symptoms of
those who do not jieed enthusiasm, of which S. P. Lucy was chairman, to entirely justify the expectation
blood poisoning speedily follow its
but sense. Nearly all of the State to prepare a programme for a gen that what is now done shall be
introduction, and health is not
Associations are compelled to look eral meeting of Sunday school work i done in wisdom and knowledge
restored till it be expelled. A
after the matter of ways and means ers. The work of that committee The lectures and addresses at Island
physician of this State a year ago
to prosecute their work, and but resulted in the programme of exer Park were fair samples of what can
allowed a knife which had been
little time can be devoted to the cises for this meeting at Island l>e'done and of what ought to be
ised in the examination of a corpse
educational questions which must Park.____
done, so far as faithful and intelli to slip ami cut his finger; he is
“(6) A Committee on Organiza gent preparation and skillful pre
be considered and understood in
tion was appointed, consisting of F. sentation of subjects are concerned hardly well yet from the blood
order to any real progress.
poisoning which resulted.
The General Christian Sunday- M. Green, of Ohio ; L. L. Carpenter,
The Association starts out with
It may well l>e that God has de
school Association is an attempt to of Indiana ; and J. II.‘Harttyn, ,of an excellent ami wide-spread public
signed this sensitiveness of the
realize this educational feature, as it Missouri, who were to report on the 1 sentiment in its favor. It has at
has never yet l>een realized among question assigned to them at the I this writing (August 18) seventyr body to the presence of anything
that savors of decay, to teach us
the members of the churches of first general meeting
five members; and nearly all of the necessity of purity of the soul.
“ (c) Responding to the invitation ) these have paid their membership
Christ.
The injury done to the soul by the
The history of the movement is of the Christian Sunday-school
! fee. Its membership is not now, slightest pollution may not be so
briefly as follows: The “ General Association of Indiana, it was de
neither is it desirable that it should evident, but is it not as real ? The
Christian Sunday-school Associa cided to hold the first general meet
ever be, confined to preachers. The taint may be communicated to the
tion ” was formally organized Au ing at Island Park, in August,
“ laymen ” already among its mem soul as easily, as unsuspected ly as
gust 11, 1882, at “ Island Park,” 1882.”
bership are not a few, ami of Chris in the bite of a fly. Let us be on
This, briefly,
■ Indiana.
— Christian Observer.
tian women there are quite a num our guard.
There were representatives pre- this movement
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ber.
It
is
not
a
preachers
’
associa
’ The simple pleasures of home are
,
sent from Ohio, Kentucky, Mis permanent organization
tion
;
but
an
association,
rather,
sweetest
and last longest. Happy
souri, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan,
The following puisons were
the
man
who is never so happy as
Iowa, West Virginia, New York, chosen to serve the Association where every workman in the church,
of whatever class; may find er hearty when he opens the Bible to read and
Pennsylvania and Mississippi.
during the sessions at Island Park :
pray with his wife and children, or
A temporary organization was President, S. P. Lucy ; Vice Presi welcome.
sits at his own table the chief fig
Sunday, August .13, 1 sjient in ures in the eyes of those who sur
formed, with S. P. Lucy as Chair- dent, N. S. Haynes; and Secretary,
Indianapolis, preaching morning round him Happy, we say is such
‘ man, and J. H. Hardin as Secretary. <1. H. ll&rdin.
and
evening at the Central church. a man if, when lie looks into the
The following is the programme
In introducing the import of the
eyes of such a circle, he forgets
Committee on Permanent Organiza of exercises, as it was presented In the afternoon, with Bro. S. J. himself in his love for them. The
Tomlinson, 1 went to hear the church life of such a family is really
tion, F. M. Green, Chairman, made succeeding the organization :
1. Two lectures on the “ Geogra “ Mountain Evangelist,” Rev. G. O. part of its home life-—C’Ztrittfmn
the following statements ; “ This
Advocate.
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meeting of representative Sunday - phy of Palestine,” by Prof. John W I Barnes, preach to the children.
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