A Big Sunday School Convention

A BIG SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION

WILL BE HELD IN JERUSALEM IN MAY 1904

A Miniature of the Holy City will be Seen at World's Fair St. Louis

World's Fair, St. Louis, Aug. 25. - The Rev. E. Morris Fergusson, general secretary of the New Jersey Sunday School association, writes as follows to the World's Fair authorities at St. Louis, concerning the proposed model of Jerusalem for the Exposition of 1904:

"Singularly enough, the Sunday school forces recently in convention at Denver have resolved, and the resolution will probably prevail, to hold the next great World's Sunday School convention in the actual city of Jerusalem, probably in May, 1904. The advertising of this occasion will reach several million scholars and teachers in the United States and Canada, to say nothing of the rest of the world. Of the great number who will hear of this gathering and long to attend, not more than six or eight hundred, at the outside, will be able actually to go; and at least a hundred thousand Bible students, whose wish in this respect cannot be gratified, will learn with enthusiasm that a miniature Jerusalem, a faithful likeness of the real, awaits them at St. Louis as one of the reasons for attending your Eposition. To thousands this will be the determining point.

"I know the Sunday school world well, both in my own field of New Jersey and throughout the International field. I am sure that you will make no mistake in counting on the lively interest of Sunday school workers, provided the exposition of Jerusalem is large enough and complete enough to be a worthy substitute for an actual visit to the Holy City. Give them the twenty acres, if it can possible be done."

Another letter on the same subject is from the Rev. Frederick E. Taylor, pastor of Central Baptist church, Brooklyn, N.Y. He writes: "I have seen the article relative to the proposed plan to have the City of Jerusalem represented. Permit me to say that I heartily approve the plan and wonder that something of this kind has not been done before. A World's Fair ought to seriously consider the idea of placing before the people the city which has had the most wonderful history in the world. Thousands of church people will be glad to see this feature, I am Sure."