The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-06-15
Work OF E.a ST Year.

One thousand one hundred and ninety -four new
Sunday-schOols have been organized, and 49, 582
children, hitherto neglected, placed under Bible
instruction. Besides this. 3,997 other schools,
most Of them poor, in which were 245 1913 children
have been aided by grants OF books and periodi-
calls published by the Society.
twenty-five thousand six hundred and seventy
five families have been visited Tor religious con-
versation and prayer, and Z 65l sermons and adj
dresses have been delivered
This work has reach d l0s,itute or frontier
places III neatly all the StQies In New England.
among the Till towns, where population has been
partly drained by factory villages aud emigration
the missionary has fJand WORK to do, and hund-
dreds of conversions are Already reported from
the new schools III this department.
The Secretary Of the New York department re-
ports continued and Increased interest IN the
rious phaees Of Sunday choul work.
INVENT zine new schools nave been establish
ed in the pines OF Sew jersey. rom waich very
many hopeful conversions are reported. large
number in the destitute places Of Pennsylvania
have been brought in, ard IN OHIO and Indiana
the WORK OF the OCiety has beeH crowned with
encouraging su cess. Many have been led to
Christ, ana new churches organized from the I'm
ion schools,
A new era is dawnIng upon Michigan. The
new settlers are being followed bJ railroads, and
Sunday SCHOOL missionary labor proves that the
Sunday school is the hrs+ lever OF church extern
sion. ,
Three hundred ard seventy five new schools
were organized in the Northwest Qlhnois, Wis
consin. Iowa, Minnesota and Nebraska), and al
ready 26 churches have grown out Of them, and
III Missouri and Arkansas 6741 children have
been gathered into 1872 new sunday schools and
in the South 222 schools were started, and 697
others aided, and mult1U6eS Of conversions are
! reported as the first result
| The work has eXteudea to the Pacific Coast, and
! A new schools nave been c-tablis' ed.
| The mission OF this society is OF tho most
important and hopeful thar can engage the laOors
OF those who love the church and the nation 1t
reaches the young and puts he Bible into their
hands, and teaches Chem to read it, and it does
this Tor those who are unTeaChed by any others.
1t is The helper Of all he churches, and has laid
! the foundation for thousands Of the self-sustain
| ing and prosperous churches Of our great West.
| 1t has done work that cannot be measured In
its result for good
A work so catholic, so CHI ist-like, and SO much
needed that it cannot fail to command the conf
dence OF the Christian public. It reaches those
whom Jesus h0nOred with His blessing the
chidren-anG it teaches those whom he came to
seek and to save-thp lost and neglected ones
the word OF life
All who love hri,t aud his cause, as well as all
who love their Country, VIII rejoice to know that
this great National Society so much h0nOred and
blessed in the past much needed in the pres
cnt and for the future has recently adopted means
calculates 10 Increase and extend its usefulness,
especially ia the eve" increasing settlements of
the far rpnclina We; ana among the destitute
and nnglcctc ID 0rrs at iha southern states.
This nozzle So-jetE i located at 1922 Chestnut
Street PLiladtph'a