Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1852-1852, 1852-04-27

| AMERICAN SUNDAY SCHOOL UNIoN.-The fol-
lowing article from the pen of DR.. Talmadge,
President of Ogethorpe University, is transferred
to our columns from the Southern Presbyterian.
Mr.. Editor: The volue of the great nation
al Religious Charities of our country to the best
interests of the nation, is not duly estimated by
those who have not examined the matter. When
ever dissolution of this happy and favored
Union has been agitated, have always thought
how inconceivable would be the loss from the
destruction of those great centres of moral and
intellectual light which good men have created,
by combining their concentrated strength, from
the length and breadth of the land, in rearing
the American Bible, Tract and Sunday School
Societies.
The last mentioned Society, the Sunday School
Union, has done and is doing great work for
the enlightenment and moral training of the
youth of the land and what is more vital to tho
perpetuation Of our Republic than the proper
training of the rising generation?
The Society has been very fortunate in select
ing such an Agent as the Rev. 7. L. Hammer,
who has been employed for some time past,
mainly in the Southern field. l have observed
with much interest the labors of Mr.. Hammer in
Georgia, during the past winter He spent most
of his time in Milledgeville, during the two
months of the late Session of the Legislature
He opened an extensive and we'll selected Depos-
itory of Sunday School books, and by judicious
and indefatigable labors succeeded in creating an
intense interest in his object among the officers
of the State, and members Of the Legislature.
By private conversations, and sermons, and ad
dresses, and also by public meetings secured in
the State Honse, at which many leading men,
from the Governor down, either presided or ad-
dressed the assemblies he scucceeded in awake
ming an almost universal interest in the object
among the influential men of the State.
Many of the members of the Legislature pur-
chased libraries for schools in existence in their
respective countless or with theintention Of offer
ing these libraries as motive to collect Sunday
schools. Mr. Hammer sold more than $500
worth ofSunday schools books, whilst in Milled-
gevilIe besides giving many away. He disposed
ofSl2OO worth of books whilst he was in the
State, during the winter. Besides what he did
in Milledgeville, he took every opportunity to
make occasional excursions to the villages and
churches in vicinity. And wherever he went, he
succeeded in awakening deep interest in his
object but among parents and children.
Mr.. Hammer is exceedingly felictious in his
mode of addressing children, and drawing their
attention. He is eminently man of"one idea
mean this in a complimentary sense. de Is
deeply impressed with the inexpressible value OF
right early training, and he strains every nerve
and is alive to every opportunity to impress upon
his fellow men the claims of the cause he pleads.
His visits to Georgia, have no doubt, will be
followed by the most valuable results. And it is
but right that he and the Society he represents
should know that his services are highly estima-
ted by those who have witnessed his indefagablc
abors B.
We understand that the Rev. Mr.. Hammer,
while making the Society known to thousands,
by circulating many of its publications, received
liberal and large donations in aid of its m'ss'on'
arY work