The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-08-13

No Christian patriot can fail 70 he interested in
the work OF the American Sunda y School Union.
That work for the last year Is thus summed up in
the thirty.hlst annual report t6
The society Inns had in its aervice for part or the
whole OF the year. three hundred and twenty4 -four
missionaries or these, two hundred AMI fifty six
the Gospel ministry who devoted their vacations TO
this work.
The resus Of the lahors Of the whole corps Of mis-
fonaries during the year. are AZ follows
sunday schools organized where none pre-
yio,sl, existed. ...................... 2,44o
these schools .................... I6,62s
Children gathered into these schools. .,.. 37,15i
Sunday schools visited, supplied with books
and aided in different ways. .......... 3.iG3
Teachers IN these schools. ...........,. 1855
Scholars in these schools. ............... o7.755
Total OF Sunday schools organized or vi
sited ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 6.9O3
To these results are to he added the fruits oil the
,alora Of our actye and honored auxiliary the New
York Sunday School Union, whose increased useiul.
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 mission schools have been organized in New
York and Brooklyn. not included in the previous
summary. Into these schools about four hundred
teachers and four thousand scholars have been gath
eiod
In the cityof Philadelphia similar movement has
been commenced during the past year TO result,
trust in great and permanent good to the neglected
children ard 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.
Ii thus appears that through the agencies employ
ed by this society texcuding those operating in our
cities in one year, two thousand four hundred and
forty Sunday schools have been organized where
none previously existed that than sixteen
thousand persons have been induced undertake the
Sunday school teachers Office in these schools, and
that into them there have been gathered more than
niEetyseyen thousand children Including the labors
r. .lx.
gathered into new schools is over hundred thou
sand Yet striking, interesting and cheering are
these facts how very far do they fall short OF con
yeying a. the mind the whole truth as TO the good
effected by this simple agency! Who are these one
bundled thousand pupils thus collected for Bible
study Oh the Lords day? They are, in three
out OF four IL not in nine out OF ten, the on
snrng OF parnt either careless TO the whole mat.
OF personal religion. or, through vice, indclity
OF RCmanism rendered hostile to the Gospel plan OF
salvation. Left BY their parents to roam M shoep
without shepherd, they have now been led into the
fold OF the Sunday school. And where are these
schools formed? They in the bemiock woods Of
Maine; amorg the Green mountains Of Vermont ut
the foot u the Catskis: in the valley Of the Ale
Pbnny range from Pennsylvania To Alabama; on the
prarics OF the Northwest; and amid the forests OF
the Southwest; and everywhere they are centres al
religious iDnence, planted for the most part where
tiaicd ministry cannot be sustained; organized at
cost most srtng. sefsnpporting, acknowledging,
selfiBsgue,Bg agencies, they will live after the mis-
sionaty has lett thea to confer another nciphbor
hood the same blessing. We're every one OF these
schools Ia ri the end Of six months who would
no; say that in inducing sixteen thousand men and
women TO collect one hundred thousand neglected
but immortal children into more than two Thousand
Sabbath schools sabbath after Sabbath for six
month";. this society had done q work Of surprising
excellence and utility
Iut when We remember that they are not 10 cease
al the end Of six months but in the great majority
OF cases. experience has shown ~ go year al
ter year often to become the parents OF other schools
the gems Of evangelical churches and the nu>e-
RES Of Youthful picty. IL il difficult to oycrcstimate
tie do-rabcness OF this mode Of home cysnge
2atun.