The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-08-13
OHIO SaBBATH SCEOOL UYIey
,st-r,, 20 fbe sabbath >ekoor. Of Ohio.
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T. The !Sf5jg,E .S-ls01Es of CiiD:
BELOVED: Facts, everywhere appar
ent. equally in city. village and country,
facts proven by actual investigation.
show that large proportion of the
children Ia Ohio are outside the Sabbath
School and without any religions in
> struc1ioi whatever. These hundreds
OF thousands Of children are our own.
AMI We must take care nf them. Il they
| are not saved to religion and the church
! they become dangerous 70 them, elves
| aud 70 society. inmates Of prisons,
! aSyi Il3.- and aims hDnses. i" save these
/ e!:ii:ir-ii and youth tie vaFiGn- eiCrrllrs
/ Of the lani arr. making IA noble -ii"rr,
AID nr. accomplishing nGcG. l'ut H
! sr-ri wGT:. remains that they caIino' do
Sin. y 81 - 10 do that work they have
cuiiihius-,! heir forces. and ihr result j.
the OHIO SABBATH SCHOOL UNION
United wa stanG-divided Ne fall is
as true OF enterprise as OF national poi
ify. In union there is strength il no
new discovery. To secure union OF
effort there must be organization organ
izafion reduces to system, and system,
well directed, insures success. To organ
iZe every County, Township, Ward and
District in the State; to visit every
neighborhood and family; TO place Il
good Sabbath School within easy reach
Of every person ana TO bring every person
into Il good Sabbath School; to hold
State, County and Township Conven-
tions and Institutes, ami by their means
to acquaint, awaken, interest, instruct,
and more thoroughly qualify workers
for their respective duties. These are
the worthy objects of the Union, to
effect which continual, persistent, de-
termined effort is being made every day
in the year.
Illinois, with territory onethird larger
than Ohio. and population nearly equal,
has all of its one hundred and two conn
ties organized, and, in forty-six of them,
every township organized.
On the 1st of July, 1875, Ohio had
still thirty four counties unorganized,
but, of this number, arrangements for
Conventions are already perfected which
will insure the organization of ten
before September 5th, and we trust
that during this calendar year all the re
manning counties will be visited and or
ganized.
In the Sabbath School department in
our great National Centennial EXhibi-
ton, in 1876, we are determined that
Ohio shall hold place second to no
State in the Union, in the extent and
efficiency of work done and results OBJ
tained.
Now, almost all of this great work is
done gratuitously, but, as any one can
see, it involves some expense of travel,
correspondence, publication, &c. To
meet these expenses and distribute them
equally, the convention at Norwalk, in
June 1875, suggested that a collection be
tdiicH IN each Sabbath School in the State
on the first Sabbath in SeJteBIGer-He
5M-dnd that eGch School be asked to
c0HtFiGHte at least the amount Of one cent
for edch member enrolled (and as much
more as they please and Immediately
forward the amount received by mail to
the Treasurer of the County Association
if there is One-otherwise, to DIR. W. N.
Reid, Treasurer of the State Association,
at BHcyruS, Crd0rf0Td County. The
Treasurer of each County Sabbath
School Union is requested to forward
the amount thus received to the State
Treasurer, above named, on or Jefore
the 30h IF September, 1875, who will
next State Convention the amount re-
ceived from each County.
This plan should not prevent any one
having "a heart and will to do so from
giving Ten D0LIGrS to the State Treasurer,
and receiving by return mail a Certificate
IF Life Membership IN the dissertation.
More money will insure more work and
better results. ''The earth is the Lords
and the fullness thereof" Ohio is his,
and we will go on to possess it in His
name.
Confident that all the Schools receiv-
ing this appeal will respond promptly,
and trusting that all into whose hands
or before whose eyes this circular may
come will give it aid in every possible
way, it is hereby sent on wings Of pray
er and faith to its mission.
&. NJ. NICHOLS, President.
WM. ALLISON, Chm EX. Com.
r. CowDEN, Cor. Sec'y.
July ii, 1879.