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TRIBUTETo Memory of a Sunday School Leader.His Reputation Entended Far and Wide—Founded Chautauqua.The current number of the Ohio SumIh School Worker. contain* the following reference to the hue lion. Lewis Miller:When the twentieth annual conventionof the Ohio Sunday Softool Associationwag held «t Akron, on June .*1 r». 1K70. Mr. Miller was lt« presiding officer, auil for one year from ilint time lie served iih president of the A“*neln tion. hi 18UB lie was president of the memorable Seventh Intcrnntlounl Sunday School eonvemlon. which met In St. Louln. Mo.During the past 25 years. Mr. Miller linn Ikmmi famous as the Father of the CliHiitnmiim Movement; a movement which Iiiik perhaps dona more to i»opii-Uiritm education, tlmu nnv other educational activity In the 111th nuiiwrjr. Vet. long lwforc the Chautauqua As seiiihly was IiiiiucIhhI. Me. Miller had n reputation which extended far beyond the borders of Ills own State, as lt;Hilo’s foremost Sunday school worker. Back In the sixties he became superintend cm of the First Methodist Kplaoopal Sunday achonl at Akron, which office he held for .'15 years. Ii was during his connection with the school, that the new church edifice WAR erected. The Sunday school room was an Innovation lu church building. ft wan so new and novel, and so admirably adapted to Sunday school purposes, that It at once became popular; and the Akron Plan lias since revolutionized Sunday school architecture.
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Akron Daily Democrat
Akron, Ohio, US
Fri, Jun 08, 1900
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