The Kansas herald of freedom. [volume] (Wakarusa, Kan. Territory) 1854-1860, 1858-05-29
SUNDAY School Libraries.
OFFICE OF THE AMERICAN SUNDAY
SCHOOL UNION, No. 9 SOUTH FIFTH}
STREET, st. Louis, March, 1857

SCHOOL UNION, No. 9 SOUTH FIFTH
STREET, st. Louis, March, 1857
The undersigned would respectfully
call the attention of all the friends of
Christian education west of the Mississippi,
to the following liberal propositions
a Sunday School teacher in Boston has
authorized us to say, that he will supply
in part, with Libraries, the first two new
Sunday Schools that shall be duly organ
lied in each county, and report it to the
undersigned, to the following extent, and
on the following conditions, viz -
LII the school shall consist of five
teachers and twenty five scholars, he will
give the half Of a ten dollar kbrary-the
school, or its friends, paying for the other
half; or,
II.-If the School shall consist Of ten
teachers and fifty scholars, he will give
the half Of a t,0enty-dottar hbrary-the
school paying the other half.
ALI that part of the United States north
of the State of Louisiana and west of the
Mississippi river, is embraced in this prop
oSition, and It will hold good during the
year 1858.
The report must embrace the following
particulars, viz The name and location
of the school; the name and post-office
address of the Superintendent; the date
ofits organization the number of scholars
and teachers; How, and to whose care,
the books should be sent; the money re-
quired from the school must accompany
the application.
Each school should raise some two or
three dollars, in addition to what is re-
CURED for the library, for the necessary
Instruction Books, Hymn Books, &c. But
this is not condition of receiving the
donation.
On receiving the application, the books
will be Immediately sent, according to
directions, to all entitled to them.
The books with which these orders will
be filled, are the four ten-dollar libraries
published by the american Sunday School
Union, each containing 100 select volumes,
of from ~ to 2S8 pages, substantially
bound. The volumes are all regularly
numbered, and ready for use; and each
library will be accompanied by "a printed
catalogues.
The following additional books will or
dinarily do for a school of 25 scholars, viz {:
Six Union Primers, at cents; six First
Readers, at 8 cents; six Union Spelling
Books, at cents; six Union Question
Books, at cents; six Child's Scripture
Questions, at cents; twenty-five Sunday
School Child's Hymn Books; one Teacher
Taught; two Infants Library, at 121a
cents; one Union Bible Dictionary, IS
cents; Tickets. Total. $500.
/ am authorized by the Executive Com
mittee of the Missouri Bible Society, to
say that from one to two dozen Testa-
ments will be added to each Library sent
to Schools in compliance with the above
proposition.
The desire is cherished that all benevo-
lent persons residing in the above Terri
tory, who may chance to see this notice.
will use their influence to have the schools
organized in their respective neighbor-
hoods. and promptly reported. Address,
A. W. COREY. Agent, No. 8 South Fifth
Street, ST. Louis.
Y. BIZ the gentleman, to whom this
Circular is addressed, shall not find it con-
venient to organize the Schools, he will
confer a public benefit by calling the
attention of some suitable persons in his
county to the matter. Also, by request
ing the editor of the newspaper in his
county to give this Circular an insertion.
Rev. NJ T. Runnels, Missionary of the
"Am. 5. s. Union has lately returned to
the Territory. Doniphan and Atchison
counties are the only ones supplied this
year according to the above proposition.