Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-06-22
American Sunday-Nchooi Union
Work of Inst Year,


One thousand one hundred and ninety.
Tour new Sunday hools have been or,
ganl2ed, and 49, $50 children, heretofore,
neglected placed under Bible instruction.
BESIDES this, 1897 other schools, most of
them poor, in which were 245, 1888 chill, ;
dreu, have been aided by grants of books
and periodicals publish ed by the Society.
Twenty. two thousand six hundred and
seventy five families have been visited
Tor religious conversation and prayer
and i,65l sermons and addresses haNa
been delivered.
This work has reached destitute or
frontier places in nearly all the States.
In New England. among the hill towns,
where population has been partly drains
ed by factory villages and emigration,
the missionary has found work to do, and
hundreds of conversions are already res
ported from the new schools in this de,
partment
The Secretary OF the New York de-
partment reports contineud and increas-
ed interest in the various phases of suns
dayNschool work.
Twent>niR 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 crown,
ed with encouraging success. Many
have been lead to Christ, and new
churches organized from the Union
schools
A new era is dawning upon Michigan.
The new settlers are being followed by
railroads, and Sunday.schooI missionary
labour proves hat the Sunday school is
the first lever Of church extension.
Three hundred and seventy five new
schools were organized in the Northwest
(lIlinois, Wisconsin, Iowa. Minnesota and
Nebraska), and already 26 churches have
grown out of them, and large numbers of
conversions are reported
In Missouri od Arkansas S,74l chil-
dren have been gathered into lS2 new
Sunday schools, and in the South 222
schools were started, and COZ others aid.
ed, aud multitudes of conversions are re.
ported as the first result
The work has extended to the Pacific
Coast and Al new schools have been es,
tabished
The Mission Of this Society is one Of
the most important and hopeful that can
engage the labours of those who love the
church and nation. 1t twaches the young
and puts the Bible into their hands, aud
teaches them to read it, and it does tins
for those who are unreached by any 9TH
ers. il is the helper of all churches, and
has laid the foundation for thousands of
the selt-sustaining and prosperous
churches of our West
II has done work that cannot 10
measured in its result for good. A work SO
catholic, so Chrlst-like, and so much
needed that it cannot fail to command
the confidence of the Christian public.
1t reaches those whom Jesus honorei
with His blessing--the children-and i.
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, az
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
It's usefulness especially in the ever in
creasng settlements of the far reaching
West and among the destitute and neg,
lected ones of the Southern States
This noble Society is located at ll22
Chestnut Street, Philadelphia.