The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1856-08-14

! The Society. though publishing books. has
no means to send out men 10 establish, aid and
encourage Schools, or distribute books gratu
itously, except as the means furnished by
the friends of Christ and his Gospel, and such
contributions are used for no other purpose
/ The Board are obliged, with great regret, to
curtail the work the expenditures for the two
above named objects having exceeded the con
tributions and legacies. 5 l6,7l2
From the foregoing statements as to the
results of Sunday School missionary labor du-
ring the past year, II appears that IN round
mum mbers, more than ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND
CHILDREN and youth have been brought by
this single agency. in a single year. into ;wo
thousand five hundred Sunday Schools, or
ganized in as many different ueghborhoods.
and the scarcely less important result attained
of enlisting in the instruction of this great
company, no SIS than sixteen thousand sun
day school eachers.
BY aggregstins the labors Of the past FIVE
years, We find that there have been organized
by the missionaries IN agents OF The Society
in thai time. ten thousand three hundred new
Sunday Schools six y five thousand six hun
drrd new teachers enlis ed, aud four hundred
th"n>and scholars gathered in
Surely. in these facts may be found some
grounds for grafula ion; and shoaId we seem
NJ any time disposed undulv to magnify our
ofice our friends will bear with u~ when their
housh revert to these hundreds OF thou
aud, Of precious youth whose tender feet
.av- been lurned from paths OF folly if not of
So 1n.3 he 'ali Of the SUNDAY School
Lupesie~ are many ot the.a schools. how
uaaa as- ta-. be- er than the scenes of Sab
Oa.n assecraaon for which they are subetitu-
teui II "a be sad tia many Of III, &c schools.
af gr living a season. cease vii the winter
Mt 10 "pen. and Il. aimi-u ing tie a:,, we
should subtract one fourth ot the resu given
ab ve must on the other hand add the
mul rudes of schools starte! by the influence
puf forth by our missionaries. but not reported
by them. because not directly organized thro'
their agency. Moreover, we must take into
the account the fact that in many instances
the school organized aud reported with fifty
scholars swell~ in a few weeks to ei shty or one
hundred the success of the experiment be
comes manifest and is noi~ei abroad Nor
have we said anything of the thirteen thousand
five hundred schools visited and aided in the
same five years, INTO many of which As many
new scholars are drawn as into q school new
ly organized. If then we strike balance, we
cannot abate anything from our statement
that in five years the Society has led four hun
dred thousand of our youth into Sunday
Schools new organized by lis missionaries.
This has been no sectional work 1t has
embraced in its wide sweep the EXTREMIST
portions of our great country. The neglect
ed children of Name aud Of Texas. Of the
great Empire and keystone States. of the
Caroinas and Of the Northwest OF Minnesota,
Louisiana and Kansas. have shared in its ben
efts. and will, we doubt not. thank God for it
when safe on the shores of that happy land
sing through its agency. Some of them have
already gone thither. and now see facet face
Him whom they have learned to praise; and
thousands more are on their way to glory,
singing the songs of Zion, as ioretaste OF
that new song which viii then be put into
their mouths