SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 23d.
The delegates met at the Colonial Hotel and marched to the Epworth Memorial M. E. Church to listen to the annual sermon by Rev. Ward Beecher Pickard, D.D. It was a masterly production, so well filled with good thoughts, that it was constantly referred to throughout the sessions.
The theme of Dr. Pickard’s sermon was “God’s child, the criminal.” I refrain from any extracts as it is to be published for general distribution, as a leaflet, for a help to prison workers.
Sunday evening, at the Old Stone Church, Chaplain Rev. John L. Milligan, General Secretary, made the invocation prayer, Chaplain William J. Batt read the Scripture lesson, and the evening was taken up with short popular addresses on prison reform, by President Wright on the aims of work of the Association, Hon. Samuel J. Barrows on the International Penitentiary Congress, held at Brussels, Belgium, General R. Brinkerhoff of Ohio, Hon. H. H. Hart of Illinois Children’s Home and Aid Society, Professor Rev. C. R. Henderson, University of Chicago.