GREAT SUNDAY SCHOOL WORKER.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 752, 26 February 1910, Page 9

GREAT SUNDAY SCHOOL WORKER.

■■, Tho ranks 'of Sunday -school, workers have suffered a serious loss, by the: death l of v ilr.- Charles ; Waters (70), after-an (states the "Christian .World"). He'was'bornat Haidstone, arid as a lad' began workin the Sunday school. On his removal to London* fifty, years'- ago, "' he '■ became;associated with' the Metropolitan Tabernacle. Sunday-School, aiid , carried on there the largest Bandi of: Hope>'in v London. Being-sent as 1 a representative to.tho .Council of : the.; Lambeth Auxiliary, of the Sunday School; Union, he found an occu.patiou just to his liking in'the:organising and administrative •,"■ work 'of; , -, Sunday, schools.;- : Hβ held practically every, office to ; which, he could ■'• be-. : ap-' pointed,'and rendered an immense.amount of oiit-of-sighbiervice.' As a, member'of thc'sSundoy. School'Union 1 Council he did" much for the Continental Mission, and it was due to his.'initiative,/ in- spitp of a. good deal of opposition, that the.Christian Endeavour, iiioyeiriont was introduced ; to England. ■'He , was'its .first secretary; ,the third president • of. the British-. Christian Endeavour Union,.and,for many.years its' treasurer. He will bo chiefly remembered,' however, as the founder and honorary sec.'rctaryof tho International.Biblq Reading Association.' Formed in.. 1882, to 'eiicpurngo daily Bible reading.-among users : pf, the International Lessons, its membership' grew bj , ; leaps and .'bounds,' till ■it now .issues', cards ln-thirh'-fiv'e /languages;' vto. 960,000 members, , .while probably four times as many use its daily readings,-which are' printed'.weekly in "The.'.Sunday School i Times""and widelydisseminated in connection ■ with helps.for tho.lnternational' .Lessons'.''■:':■"':':■■'' Cv- ■■-:' '■:■:■;■'' > ; .:--;'"'.: I