The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-08-04
Sunday Reading.
ONO SABBATH.sCHOOL UNION.
JHdsnGm national One in Christ BETTER W6Ts
for Christ. and More Of it,
CIRCILAR.


was organized seventeen years ago, with
the following constitutional provision
Its object shall be to unite all evan
gelical Christians throughout the State
in earnest effort to promote the cause
OF Sabbath schools. and, for this pur-
pose, to cause, rs far as practicable
the promotion of county and township
Sabbath-school organizations through
out the STATE, to cooperate with this
Union ia this great work"
The practical work of the association
is entrusted to it, President, six Vice
Presidents, Executive Committee Of
five members, one Corresponding See
-etary and one Recording Secretary. Il
Treasurer, and thirty-three District
Secretaries, representing the Senatori
al Districts of the State The last an
nual convention and election of officers
was in Dayton, OH the 9th, 9TH and Sth
of June.
hiA VI bAi' tliC SttttN.
cept ten, have been organized under
the constitutional provisions, but over
nine hundred townships remain unor-
ganized. We hope to accomplish much,
ifnot all of this work this year, and
solicit Sunday school workers in such
localities to commence the work at
once, aud report action to Mr.. Robert
Cowden, Corresponding Secretary,
GALLON, Ohio.
There are nearly 5000 Sabbath
schools in the State of Ohio, with over
800, 900 scholars enrolled, and an av-
erags attendance of 260, 900 scholars,
besides about 1000 officers and
teachers. The annual expenses of Il e
schools nre about S95, 900. About
$50, 900 are annually collected and paid
to home and foreign missions, and
about 1000 members of the schools
are yearly added to the communion of
the churches. In 1870 the population
OF the State was 2, 665 200 souls
Only one out of every seven of the
inhabitants of the State is connected
with Protestant Sabbath schools.
Only about one of every ten and a
half of the population of the State is
i'm regular attendance at the Sabbath
school.
For every eight dollars expended in
Sabbath school work, soul is mus
tered into the Church, and three
dollars is returned to the Missionary
Treasury to carry the Gospel to the
heather, or the destitute in our own
State.
A meeting of the officers of the
Union was held at kenia on the 11th
inst. Among other business, the fol-
lowing resolutions were adopted:
"ReSOlced, That the District Secre-
tararies be directed to organize and
hold mass meetings and normal insti-
tutes in their respective districts during
the current summer and ensuing fall.
"Where0S, The annual meeting of
Sabbath school workers at Chautau-
qua, New York, is productive of great
good; and,
"WhereGS, Similar meetings upon a
less expensive scale will result in great
advantage to the cause.
"ReSoiGed, That the Corresponding
Secretary be directed to correspond
with the Secretaries of the Sabbath
school Associations OF Indiana, Ken
lucky, Tennessee, and West Virginia,
with view of arranging for such a
meeting to be held next year at some
convenient place in Ohio.
'ResOLUed, That we enter our solemn
protest against the closing of Sabbath
schools during two or three or six
months in the winter and i'll the sum
mer, IA causing break in the lnterna-
tional series of lessons, besides doing
other serious damage to our work
"ResOlCed, That the Sabbath schools
of the State he, and they are hereby
requested to contribute to the Sabbath
school Union the amount of the
collection OH the fifth Sabbaths of the
months, (making four collections a
year, for the expenses and mission
work of the Union. and that it be the
duty of the District Secretaries, aided
by the County President and Secreta-
ries. to see that the same is collected
and paid over to the Treasurer.
"ResOlUed, That the committee will
not undertake any further work
involving a pecuniary obligation Tex
cept necessary correspondence, at a
cost not exceeding $3.50 until the
necessary money or guarantee for the
same is provided"
Brethren and friends of Christ and
His Church, you see, by the facts
above given. what great work is TO
be done in Ohio. The responsibility
L. mud SftnnIl
not be shirked. We are striving to do
what we can in the Sunday school part
of the church work, but the officer
and Committee of the State Sundays
school Union can do nothing without
your personal cooperation and
pecuniary aid. The minimum annual
expense for effective work is 81, 800.
The Treasury is empty. We are Op-
posed to running in debt, as being
wrong of itself. and injurious to the
cause. We, therefore, can do nothing
until we are provided with money.
We submit the above financial scheme
as practicable, tried. proved, and not
at all burdensome. 1t is simply to give
to the Sabbath school mission work in
Ohio so much of yOur missionary col
lections as is taken on that Sabbath
which happens to be the fifth of the
month, namely. in July, October and
December of 1876. and one month of
the coming year QS79), previous to our
next anniversary, beiI four cailec
tions for the year.
If any school is not in the habit of
taking a collection every Sabbath for
missionary purposes, we advise that it
be done, and request that every school
contribute four collections annually TO
the Ohio Sunday school Union Sun
day, July 80, will be fifth Sunday,
and we solicit every School in the State
to make a special collection on that
day. or soon after, and send it to Mr..
Peter A. SCHNEIDER, Treasurer, Spring
field, Ohio.
Your committee will thus be prompt
ly put in funds, and pledges diligent
effort to the extent of is ability, and
the co operation of every Christian in
the State.
The results of Sabbath-school work
in Ohio are cause for thankfulness.
and encourage us to renewed exertion.
But, as We behold the immense WORK
yet to be done, the thousands of
precious souls to be saved by ChriSl
through His Church, and thereby made
better citizens for the State, how i'm
peratively are we urged to renewed
and untiring effort in this branch of
church work. Better work for Christ
and more of it, " is our motto, and we
call upon all TO help.
Let us strike for the evangelization
of the State of Ohio, and the bringing
of every soul under the saving power
of the Gospel.
All that we desire may not be ac-