Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1911 — Carpenter's Address Pleased Audience at The M. E. Church. [ARTICLE]

Carpenter's Address Pleased Audience at The M. E. Church.

The address of W. E. Carpenter at the M. E. church Friday night was very instructive along lines' of successful organization in Sunday school work, as well as the power that association has foi- the accomplishment of any good purpose. Mr. Carpenter is a banker at Brazil, Ind., and for the past twenty-five years he has been the superintendent of the M. E. Sunday school at that place. The fact that one-third of the entire population of Brazil is enrolled as members of that Sunday school indicates the success of his work. It was largely through his efforts that saloons were wiped out of Brazil and he was indignant that Thomas Marshall, governor of Indiana, had signed a measure that declares all the counties of the state “wet” which had voted “dry.” Mr. Carpenter did not speak from a republican standpoint but from the viewpoint of a man interested in practical temperance and the exclu 1 - sion of the licensed saloon from Indiana. His talk on methods of creating interest in the Sunday school was interesting and encouraging. He told of the great opportunity that the superintendent has and of the great influence for good that the Sunday school has. } He told how his own school had set out to do that looked weir nigh impossible but that were accomplished because of the determination and the fact that right was on their side. The address was heard by many from other churches and all seemed to consider it as of great importance because it canie from a man of business judgment.