The development of the Sunday-school, 1780-1905 : the official report of the eleventh International Sunday-school Convention, Toronto, Canada, June 23-27, 1905 . alem to the great feasts. AA^ecannot estimate the effect that those feasts had, bybringing together the tribes in Jerusalem, upon thenational and social and religious life. And I havewondered if this were not the great feast of to-day, whenfrom the forty-five states of America and from theseven provinces of Canada come the representatives ofthe great King to study together about plans of workfor saving the boys and girls. We are looki
The development of the Sunday-school, 1780-1905 : the official report of the eleventh International Sunday-school Convention, Toronto, Canada, June 23-27, 1905 . alem to the great feasts. AA^ecannot estimate the effect that those feasts had, bybringing together the tribes in Jerusalem, upon thenational and social and religious life. And I havewondered if this were not the great feast of to-day, whenfrom the forty-five states of America and from theseven provinces of Canada come the representatives ofthe great King to study together about plans of workfor saving the boys and girls. We are looking forwardin this country, as I believe you are, to a mighty believe that the time is not far distant when we aregoing to have a great revival; and it seems to me thatin a convention such as this might be struck the keynotewhich would touch the hearts of people all over thiscontinent, so that in the months to come we should seesuch a revival upon this continent as we have not hithertoseen. Again I bid you welcome — welcome to our city,welcome to our hearts, welcome to our homes. And Ibid you godspeed in the great work in which you Responsive Addresses 129 Responsive Addresses Rev. ALAN HUDSONPastor First Congregational Church, Brockton, Mass. In vour kindly words of greeting,sir, you spoke of our Anglo-Saxonbrotherhood. That is now a phraseto conjure with in the land of Wash-ington, Lincoln and Roosevelt. Itis destined to become in this twen-tieth century the Christian battle-rrv of the English-speaking Anglo-Saxon race is betterfitted than any other to realize theRev. Alan Hidson note of this convention and win thisgeneration for Christ. We are betterfitted in resources. The wealth of the world is in thehands of the English-speaking peoples. God does notgive wealth to a people without a purpose. That pur-pose is not personal indulgence. It is to spread thetruth of Christ along our frontiers, in our cities andthroughout the nations which ha
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