The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-05-19

months ago another Presbyterian school IN Broskys.
mission Of DR. Duryea's Church, was broken up be-
cause OF a coudct OF authority between the pastor
same things are OF New YORK and other cities.
Teachers, capable and willing, are not SO abundant ~
10 warrant church officials the strong hand oil
power against them and hcace the Church, Tor the
sake OF peace aud harmony, must oiten yield poinu
70 the sunday scnool ins..aoes are w,tnla rseo'.
buding against nsubordnate sunday school teachers
and officers and the latter have gone on and
hlred room in the vicinity and taken the school with
them thus widening the breach and increasing the
trouble. In Methodist churches tho Quarterly Con-
terence has power over any supernIendent
ihat me teachers may elect by his election be boz
comes a member OF thai body ana they must approve
HIM every quarter, by tho law OF the Churcn they
can d,spiacc him. They also appoint committees Of
their visit tho school every Sapoatn anu report
wnat they like or dislike 10 tho exercises ana
mittecs snubbed again and again by experimenting
and teachers who were not IN harmony WIN me quar-
terIy Con Re renee Aud vet nothing could be done ex
cent " tho teachers themselves without forcing
conflict between church and school, when wa
not desirable. As IN Presbyterian SO IN bap
t,st gregational aud otucr churches tue
dencons, trustees and pastor have supervisory
powers. Tho better, II not the only way. V
sncompuss tho end sought In sucn is, II poss
bie get the teachers 70 undo Tho roa or seeming
wrong they may have done to the church oy tho cleo
ton 10 Office OF man inlmcal TO nis brethren. A
remarkable case bearing upon THIS point Was pun
Iished tue Southern Methodist press some month";
ago. A superintendent who had made himself OBJ
noxious pastor aud officers Of his church. and
VINO, having the teachers Of the school 10 hack MN,
refused 10 reSlku LIleu ny uvWos's.
100 and his place IN the scnool declared yaoan. ans
hi, name erased from lbe church records Ito wont
straiyntway 10 another Methodist church ~ sne sams
city aud was received on probation. IN low
weeks from that time tho it'nerant wheel
turned out the miaster OF the nrst church anu inc
Duushed ndcnt took lottcr from tho second
churcn, which no presented To the now pastor Of
No. l, who, by the law OF the Church. could not re.
fuse to receive It's bearer, and IN very Short
time The man was back az tho head OF the sunday
schoo again. The Quarterly Conference thus Dnlneu
ANA denod took an appeal tho Bishop presiding Ut
m ferc n ce
tor No. did wrong 10 receive tho expesd superin.
tendcnton probation, but that having done So anu
gwen him eli urcu altcrward the pastor Of NO.
could not refuse To receive him. Such cases mighs
be IN uItIpied indefinitely. In the Episcopal Church
is the supreme authority, uLd no can sum-
marty dismiss an obnu xious superintendent.
SUNDAY SCHOOL PRIZE BUSINESS.
The giving Ut prizes Tor new scholars, ny whlcn
means one school is rspenished by rubbing another
vicinity OF It's scholars and thus creating
jeaousies anu chickering's between CHURCHES and
SCHOOLS raising up class OF sunday school tramps
which about from one school 20 another, wher.
the biggest gwen or the
most Tree and frequent, 10 an evil That cannot DO
TOO strongly ueprccated and condemned. There IS
great difference Staros also where Sunday schools
are pushed more less vigorously. North Carolina.
tor instance reported 10 Atlanta Convention 1856
schools with IL S67 teachers and odcers and ,D20
scholars OF th,s number the Baplisls had oniy
% 400 in their SUNDAY whereas their churu
membership numbers l36,9o0 IN the state New
Jersey reported IN nor schools I66l5 teachers and
scholars 3l77S OF whom Ba?tists, az
against 31.a76 church members OF tho aenomlna
aliop. Tennessee reported 79l persons IN hes
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and schoinrs schools. Relatively 70 the popu.
latlon II Will DO what proportion are IN the Sun.
day schools and where the most vigorous pushing
curried on. BaLisis not seem to be as activs
IN cause as some other denominations. IL Penn
sylvana, Delaware ana California, IN Massachusetts,
Georgia, Alabama ana Florida, III kentucky. Virginia
North Carolina Texas they have 600 600 less mem
IN their sabbath schools than IN their churches
lu the other States the Sunday school students anu
workers either equal or outnumOcr the church Nom.
bers. This II great discrepancy IN the ngVres ana
shows an amazing lack Of interest OF tns dsnoMina-
sinn VII n a ia
schools have become. Tho Presbyterian Sabbath
schools In the lana nunber about "a 600 moro men,
beers Than are IN their churches anu the Netn0dista
about UU0 BY COMPARISON with these latter,
therefore, Will be seen now far behind the Baptista
are III Sunday school work from The position they
should occupy Withp the last aozsn years the
Fronds have takeu this feature oil church work IN
tn CIR associations when before tnoy had neglected,
but there Is yet DO done before all who ought
10 DO IN Sabbath SCHOOLS are gathered IN.
between this date and tho middle OF November
thirteen sunday school conventions are TO DC held 10
many States. During the past week one was held
a. Jonesboro, Tenn. Tue New York State Convention
will DO held al Albany June 40, and the New Jer seq
Convention ut Trenton November l2-1A These are
tho most convenient to this city.
The Greenpoiut Sunday SCHOOLS will have their an.
nunl purade June [, under the direction OF Mr. 4.
4. Gr,iilhs Grand Marshal, amt the Eastern Dis
trict schools VIII parade on The week preceding Inc
Baptist Sunday schools OF this city aud vicinity
observed their anniversary para1o last week. and
80 got ahead OF other sunday school organ cations.
SUNDAY SCHOOLS IN FOREIGN LANDS
There is Foreign sunday School Association here,
with headquarters III No. l30 State street, Brooklyn,
whore meetings hela on tno AFTERNOON OF Inc nrst
Thursday oil every mouth. Its OBJECT, rs the name
Indicates is to pant sunday schools III foreign lands
II has existed for Twelve years and done its work 50
quietly, ana win modcrato outlay, never exceeding
S., 900 year, that comparatively lew persons have
known vi its existence And yet 1t makes now par.
,iai report OF IT'S work, which Is exceedingly credit
able 10 the ASSOCIATION IL mas gwen Franco $50 more
schools than hal 1855, aud Holland 500 schools,
whom III 1864 tnero were none. Ia Germany. where
fourteen years ago there were no schools In con-.
necton with the State Church, there are now Lib
the aggregate membership in tho Sunday schools
OF those Countries now Is 1880 In Mexico and
south America there have lately boon begun th,rty
scuouls In Japan there now twenty-t hroe small
beginnings, unc IN China many more. Fiourishina
scnools also been established within the sans
period In SPAN, Italy, Portugal and especially Sweden.
exact statistics oi these latter countries We have
been able TO obtain. French Switzerland now re.
ports TOO schools, with $500 teachers and 80, zoo
scholars In England there are reported about 800 zoo
teachers aud 5,v00 900 scholars. In Italy the WAL
ocnses report schools With 1923 scholars,
the details oil the otncr cuurces at work there ara
not at hand, but would probably moro than douols
this number SUNDAY school papers have been started
una susianeb wholly or III part, Dy The association as
i0ilows:--l 10 French Switzerland; III Germany,
published in Berlin; IN Spain, published IN Madriul
/ in Poriuga. published IN Lsbon; ! in modern
Greck published In Athens; IN French, published n
PARIS; in I.alian, published IN Florence; IN Chit
nose, published nj Shanghai; IN japanese, published
Ut YoKonana. The society Is composed OF u band ol
ladios aud gentlemen Of all denominations, who
carry the work by means OF personal corre.
spondepce with CHRISTIAN workers vi any maine
abroad II thus, wnne essentially embodyng the
missionary idea, is not y distinctive missionary
agency, compelled TO meet tho inevitable expenses OF
home ana foreign salaries and interfering with the
work OF the various Doaras, but rather helping hand
20 those already in existence seeks to call out and
utilize tho latent force OF the iaymcn and women u
foreign churches VINO have not AS yet generally
learned that they well as their ministers have a
work 10 do IN the evangcizntiou OF The world. ana
strikes the root principle that II would elevate
society II must be from the bottom upward.
cniLDRKS's DAYS * ThE CHURCHES.
In the economy Of the churches tho sunday schools
IRE made 10 play important part IN the finances.
Tney contribute largely TO the missionary funds o The
same. In the Methodist Epscor Church their contri
bulions 10 I'll equal nearly half the entire
raised The PrcsDy terians Baplsts and others have
not hitherto kept tho records Of Sabbath school boz
nevoencc distinct IRON the church gfts, their
liberaty cannot be ascertained. lucy coming to
this poiut, however Tho second Sabbath In June 70
"Lhldren's DayD IN the Methodist Epscvpal church,
the BaptIsts, Pres5y tcrians Reformed and Uni.
vcrsaiists rapidly moving in the direction.
Special sermons are preached 70 tho chih
dicn on That day carly conversion,
Christian training, me Church relationship oil
cbidrcn, and their education tor active Ia
Tho churches. The idea lie especially developed that
tho sabbath school integral part OF The hurch
anu not distinct org,nization. W tho Mothodist
Sabbath schools and churches collections arc taken
up 10 increasc tho 'Chudren's Fund" winch now