LOOKING FORWARD.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20426, 5 June 1928, Page 8

LOOKING FORWARD.

INCULCATION OF IDEALS. . WORLD'S SUNDAY SCHOOL ASSOCIATION. (Sfkciai, to Daxlt Taras.) AUCKLAND, June 4. “ In our work we are looking 50 or 100 years ahead. We are tackling the children of the world and inculcating into them a spirit of peace and brotherhood, a spirit of friendship and understanding with the nations.” This, in the words of Dr W. C. Poole (president of the World’s Sunday School Association) is what his organisation is trying to do for humanity, and it is meeting with great success in carrying it out. Dr Poole arrived from Sydney by the Aorangi to-day in the course of a world tour, and will spend about two weeks in the Dominion. He was accompanied by Sir Edward Sharp, who has had a lifelong connection with the Sunday school movement in England, and who is chairman of the British Committee of the association. “We want tjie children to be loyal and grateful to their own countries and to appreciate other nations,” said Dr Pool& “We realise that co-operation is as vital as is competition. We are creating programmes calling attention to the universal Fatherhood of God and to His universal love- What you teach today becomes the stock-in-trade of tomorrow, and we are spreading the doctrine of peace, understanding and magnanimity as opposed to hatred and vengeance.” Speaking of the work of the Sunday School Association in Great Britain, Sir Edward Sharp said he was strenuously opposed to any sport or any other form of recreation on Sunday. He believed - it was impossible to have two atmospheres and they must create the right atmosphere for spiritual work on Sunday. Dr Poole and Sir Edward Sharp are leaving Wellington on June 19 for San Francisco. Dr Poole will preside at the tenth world convention of the association, which commences at Los Angeles on July 12. He stated that all countries would be represented.