Omaha daily bee., 1874-07-17

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from the Constitution is made.
Will County Secretaries and Super
intendents and Secretaries OF local
schools notice the items relating to
each of their departments? 1t Is
desired to ascertain:
l The total population of his
County by Precincts.
2 Numter of persons between the
ages of 3 and q years.
8 Date of organization of first
Sabbath School established.
4 Present number of Sabbath
Schools.
(The above for County Secretaries)
5 Number of Officers and Teach
ers enrolled.
6 Number of Scholars enrolled.
7 Total enrolment.
8 Total average attendance.
o Number of Scholars in Infant
classes.
10 Number of Scholars in inter-
mediate classes.
IL Number of Scholars in Bible
classes.
II Number of volumes In Libra
Is Number of Children's papers
taken periodically.
IA Number of Teachers papers
taken.
Is Number of Schools sustaining
Teachers meetings.
l6 Number of Schools open Sum-
mer and Winter.
II At what hour held.
IS Amount of collections for Mis-
sionary and other purposes.
10 Number of Conversions during
the year.
These are simple questions. If
you are not NOW able to answer
them all, make your records 50 as to
be able to answer as many as you
can next year. Few of the schools
in the State have their classification
so arranged as to comply with re-
quests m numbers 8, 10 and IL.
Number 6, you see answers them
| and should be the sum of all three.
Number Is asks for the number of
copies of children's papers taken in
your school, and supposing your
school has 10 copies of The Sunday
School Advocate for six months,
should read 10. not 80, which Is the
total number. A corresponding
meaning should he given to number
IA. Numbers Is and Is, changed to
meet a single school should read,
"Does your school sustain q teach
ers' meeting? Does your school
hold open summer and winter ?"
Try to he able to answer next year
with an emphatic YES.
The above reports are required to
be ready a. least one month before
the annual meeting. Blanks for
this purpose will be forwarded to
| School Secretaries in ample time. A
report from One-quarter or One-half
or even three-quarters Of the schools
in the State, is of little value. Do
not think your report will 10 us no
good. Do not think you will not he
benefited by sending one, Let our
Watehword this year be, ia voice
from every county, and from each
school in the county,"
County Secretaries will confer a
favor by sending me the proceed
ings Of the County Conventions, as
published in your county. newspa-
pers, or by your association. Any
posters, circulars, programmes Of
Conventions, or Institutes, and
other appliances which you may
make use of from time to time, will
aid me in learning the history of
Sunday School work in Nebraska,
for our State Convention in 1875.
Now asword of caution and en-
enlargement. Each County Secre-
tary will find it an invaluable aid in
gathering statistics to have q
blank book in which to enter every
item of information concerning
Sunday Schools in his field. Enter
these items as you gather them,
NEVER LOSE ONE. If you can not
visit all the localities in your coun-
ty, inquire of your county Superin-
dent of Public instruction, or the
| clergymen you know concerning
them. Often much valuable infOr-
nation may thus be secured which
otherwise would remain in secret.
A postage stamp and the free use Of
ink is also recommended.
/ invite and most earnestly urge
| correspondence from every part Of
the State. To effect all we want to
accomplish, this is necessary. We
can do much unitedly, singly, but
little. Ask questions, make sug-
gestions, give information freely.
Don't expect to accomplish a COM
plete and perfect record the first
month, or year. Persistent year
after year, determination will win
eventually, but if we ever do sue
coed in bringing our Nebraska to
the front rank in Sunday School
work in will be in part, because we
believe we areldoing the Lords work
to some profit, and therefore we ex-
peot we are going to succeed.
Fraternally your fellow-worker,
L. p. GAGE,
Statistical Secretary,
Nebraska State s. s, Association