The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1871-06-08
47th Anniversary of the American Sun
day School Union.
ENTHUSIASTIC MEETING AT THE
ACADEMY OF MUSIC, PHILA-
DELPHIA, MAY 80, 1871.
Addressed by the Chairman, George H
Stuart, Rev. Drs. Armitage, Of
New York, Harper and
Newton, of Phila-
delphia.
WORK OF LAST YEAR.

One thousand one hundred and ninety
four new Sunday-schools have been or
ganized, and 9,5S2 children, heretofore
neglected, placed under Bible instruction.
Besides this, 3,997 other schools, most of
them poor, in which were 245, 1888 chill
dren, have been aided by grants of books
and periodicals published by the Society.
Twenty-Five thousand six hundred and
seventy-fve families have been visited for
religious conversation and prayer, and
1861 sermons and addresses have been
delivered.
This work has reached destitute or from
tier places in nearly all the State. In
New England. among the hill towns,
where population has been partly drained
by factory villages and emigration, the
missionary has found work to do, and hun
dreds of conversions are already reported
from the new schools in this department.
The Secretary of the New York depart
ment reports continued and increased in
terest in the various phases Of Sunday
school work
Twenty-nine new schools have been
established in the pines of New Jersey,
from which very many hopeful conver-
sions are reported. A large number in
the destitute places of Pennsylvania have
been brought in, and in Ohio and Indiana
the work of the Society has been crowned
with encouraging success. Many have
been led to Christ, and new churches or
ganized from the Union schools
A new era is dawning upon Michigan.
The new settlers are being followed by
railroads, and Sunday school missionary
labour proves that the Sunday school is
the first lever of church extension.
Three hundred and seventy-fv new
schools were organized in the Northwest
(Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota and
Nebraska), aud already 26 churches have
grown out of them, and large numbers
of conversions are reported.
In Missouri and Arkansas SAL chill
dren have been gathered into 1872 new
Sunday schools, and in the South 222
schools were started, and 697 others aided,
and multitudes of conversions are report
ed as the first result.
The work has extended to the Pacific
Coast, and Al new schools have been es-
tablished.
The Mission ofthis Society is one of the
most important and hopeful that can en-
gage the labours of those who love the
church and the nation. 1t reaches the
young and puts the Bible into their hands,
and teaches them to read it, and it does
this for those who are unreached by any
others. tits the helper Of all the churches,
and has laid the foundation for thousands
of the selfsustaining and prosperous
churches Of our great West.
1t has done a work that cannot be mea-
sured in its result for good
A work SO catholic, so Christ like, and
so much needed that it cannot fail to com
mand the confidence Of the Christian pub
lie. 1t reaches those whom esus honoured
with His blessing-the children-and it
teaches those whom he came to seek and
to save-the lost and neglected ones-the
word of life.
All who love Christ and his cause, as
well as all who love their country, will
rejoice to know that this great National
Society, SO much honoured and blessed in
the past, so much needed in the present
and'for the future, has recently adopted
means calculated to increase and extend
its usefulness, especially in the ever in
creasing settlements Of the far reaching
West, and among the destitute and neg
lected ones of the Southern States.
This noble Society is located at 1922
Chestnut street, Philadelphia.