Excerpt from Organized Sunday School Work in North America, 1918-1922: Official Report of the Sixteenth International Sunday School Convention, Kansas City, Missouri, June 21-27, 1922 Among the fifteen varieties of conferences held in connection with the 'convention were several which were new, but which attracted considerable attention from the delegates. Among the conferences held for the first time at this convention were Church and Sunday School Publicity, Church and Sunday School Building and Equipment, Music and Pageantry, Daily Vacation Bible Schools, Community Training Schools, Weekday Schools of Religious Education, Teachers of Religious Education in Colleges and Seminaries. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III SECRETARY'S REPORT PRESENTED BY MARION LAWRANCE, GENERAL SECRETARY FROM JUNE, 1918, TO SEPTEMBER, 1920; CONSULTING GENERAL SECRETARY SINCE SEPTEMBER, 1920, TO THE SIXTEENTH INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION 1?Introduction To the Delegates of the Sixteenth International Sunday School Convention. Greeting: I have the honor to present herewith my seventh and last report as your General Secretary. It was at the Atlanta Convention, in 1899, that the election of a General Secretary was authorized and I was chosen to nil the place. In February, 1920, I was elected Consulting General Secretary, and entered upon the duties of the new office in September, 1920. Consequently this report covers approximately two years in each position, that of General Secretary and Consulting General Secretary. A little later in this report, I shall speak a few personal words concerning my relationship to the work. For the second time in the history of our Association, we are meeting in the State of Missouri. It was twenty-nine years ago that the Seventh International Convention and the Second World's Convention met jointly in the city of St. Louis, from August 30 to September 5, 1893. I doubt not there are some here today who were present at that convention. If so, they will never forget it. The great parade in which were carried the parts of a representation of the Tabernacle, full size, and which was later set up in the fair-grounds, presented a scene never to be forgotten. A reviewing-stand was erected on the corner of Seventeenth and Locust Streets and was occupied by seven hundred visitors. It would be interesting to recall the names of some who were present on that reviewing stand but who are not with as now. They included the president of the convention, Lewis M...