New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-08-11

BEGISSIyG At THE BEGINNING. Prom the Thirty
fins. Annual Report of the American sunday-Schoea
Union we learn what that Society u doing for cnh-
dren. We present their sketch of
MISSIONARY LABoRs AND REsULTs.-The Sooety
hns had in its service for part or the whole OF tho
wear three hundred and twenty-tour MISSIONARIES. w
these two hundred and hitysix were students, mosJ
in of preparation for the gospel ministry VINO
devoted their vacations 10 this work.
The results of the labors of the whole corps of mus
sionaries during the wear are as follows;
Sunday organized where none previously existed t
Teachers induced aud conduct these schools l6szs
Children gathered into these schools v,sss
Sunday sohoo visited supplied with books and AIDED 40,
Teachers in these schools. 2iss
Total OF sunday school. organized visited ss
To these results are 10 be added the fruits OF the
labors Of our active aud honored auxiliary TIE Nec-
York Sunday. School Union, who Increased usefui-
meas during the past year has cheered and stimulated
the friends of Sunday School Missions in great cities
Through the efforts Of this auxiliary some twenty mus
sion schools have been 0rZa lied In New-fofk ana
Brooklyn, not included in the previous summary:
Into tn 80 schools about four hundred teachers and
four thousand scholars have been gathered.
In the City Of Phladelpbia a similar movement has
been commenced during the past year. To result wa
trust in great and permanent good 70 the neglected
children and youth Of this city forty thousand OF whom
are uncared for by existing Sunday-Schools. Through
the agency of this Association three schools have been
organized.
liz thus appears that through the agencies employed
by tins Society, excluding those operating in Our
cites in one year, trO thousand four hundred and
fOrfy Sunday schools hare been organized where
previously existed, that more than siIiecn thousand
DersOns hare BEEN iRduccd 10 undertake the Sunday
school teackers cce in these schools and that int
them Their have been gathered than ninety serea
thousand children. Including the labors OF aukil
iary ties, the number Of children gathered into nes
schools as OUcr ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND. Yet strik-
ing, interesting and cheering these facts, how
very far DO they fall short OF conveying 10 the mind
the whole truth as the good effected by this simple
agency Who are these one hundred thousand pupils
thus collected for Bible study the Lord day They
are in three out OF four II not in nine out OF ten,
the offspring OF parents either careless as TO the whes
matter of personal religion Or tbrou vice, inddety
or r. maDism, rendered hostile 70 the Gospel plan 0fsa
vat0n. Left by the parents TO roam sheep with
out Shepard they have now been led into the fold Of
the SUNDAY school And where these schools form
ed They are in the b. mlock woods Of Maine among
the Green Mountains of Vermont; at the foot OF
the Catskills; in the valley Of the Allegheny
range from Pennsylvania 10 Alabama; on the prairies
of The North west and amid the forests of the south
west and everywhere they centers Of religious in
ut nee planted for the most part where stated min
slry cannot be sustained; organized at cost most
tiif e sefsupportinK acknowledging, selfinstructing
agencies they will live after the missionary has left
them to confer on another nelghborhood the same
blessing. Were every of these schools TO cease at
the end Of six months, who would not say that In In
ducing sixteen thousand men and women TO collect
OF hundred thousand neglected but immortal ohidreR
into more than two thousand Sabbath-Schools, Sab
bath after Sabbath for six months this Society had
done a work Of SURPRISING excellence and utility.
But when mber that they not ~ cease a.
the end Of six months, but in the great majority Of
cases as experience has shown, 10 20 year after
wear often to become the parents of other schools the
germs Of evangelical churches and the nurseries Of
youthful piety il ia difficult to over-estimate the de-
sirableness OF this home eyaugellzatiOn.