The development of the Sunday-school, 1780-1905 : the official report of the eleventh International Sunday-school Convention, Toronto, Canada, June 23-27, 1905 . theelection of Marion Lawrance, ofOhio, as general secretary; Prof. Hamill, of Illinois, as field secre-tary; and L. B. Maxwell and SilasX. Floyd, both of Georgia, as work-ers among the colored people. Hoke Smith Jacobs, asking retirement from activeservice as chainnan of the executivecommittee, was made honorary chairman for life, andHon. John Wanamaker, of Pennsylvania, was elected tosucceed him. Mr. Wanamaker afterward
The development of the Sunday-school, 1780-1905 : the official report of the eleventh International Sunday-school Convention, Toronto, Canada, June 23-27, 1905 . theelection of Marion Lawrance, ofOhio, as general secretary; Prof. Hamill, of Illinois, as field secre-tary; and L. B. Maxwell and SilasX. Floyd, both of Georgia, as work-ers among the colored people. Hoke Smith Jacobs, asking retirement from activeservice as chainnan of the executivecommittee, was made honorary chairman for life, andHon. John Wanamaker, of Pennsylvania, was elected tosucceed him. Mr. Wanamaker afterward declined thehonor, and Mr. Jacobs continued in service. Tenth International ConventionThe first session of the tenth international convention,at Denver, Colo., June 26-30, 1902, was a memorialservice commemorative of the life, work and characterof Mr. B. F. Jacobs, the acting chairman of the Inter-national Executive Committee, who died three daysbefore, at his home in Chicago. The tributes were elo-quent and sincere, and made a strong impression uponthe convention and its work. Rev. B. B. Tyler, ,of Denver, the second clergyman in the history of the. Xaiioiial ajiJ Jiiiciiuilioiial Conventions 107 national or international work to be so honored, waschosen president, and Mr. W. N. Hartshorn, of Boston,was unanimously selected as the suc-cessor of Mr. Jacobs, chairman of theExecutive Committee. There wereeleven hundred and sixty-eight dele-gates enrolled, and they came fromfifty-five states, provinces and terri-tories. Mr. F. F. Belsey, presidentof the British Sunday-School Union,was a distinguished guest of theconvention. The plan of lesson se-lection was one of the great themesof the convention discussion, and the final action of the convention was in the adoption of aresolution which read, That at this time we are notprepared to adopt a series of advanced lessons to takethe place of the uniform lessons in the adult grades ofthe Sunday-school.
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