Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-05-23

Protestant Sunday schools in the Die.
triCI.

INTERESTING STATISTICS OF THEIR GROWTH AND
PRESENT CONDITION.
The Sunday School Union or this city. which IN
composed OF the representatives OF the Protes.
tant schools, has Just issued a manual giving In.
teresting statistics In regard TO the membership
and the condition OF the various schools In the
Introduction 1t is stated that "from the table on
page COS OF the compendium OF the tenth census.
Ii appears that upon the 30th OF June 1880 there
were in the District OF Columbia 81 SIS persops
between the ages OF and 20, both Inclusive Be.
tween these TWO extremes will be found. {under
the present almost universal though mistaken
Idea that these schools are only for the youngJ
with here and there few exceptions, all our
Sunday school scholars Allowing for the In.
crease In population since the enumeration for
the census OF $780, there are not to-day In the Dis
tsc. more shan $500 persons whom we could
There are Log Protestant Sunday schools ana
Judging the entire number by the 100 whose re.
scholars, making 3s $50 in all our schools De-
Quoting from this possible 1880 that are dupii-
Gaeea Uy enroliment IN AFTERNOON as well as morn
Ing SCHOOLS and IL can be confidently claimed that
OUR l62 PROTESTANT SCHOOLS
are caring for over 81 600 scholars From the
5000 OF the Sunday school age" the manual saya
deducting this 81 GEO. and we have 10000 that are
either under Roman Catholic and Jewish influences
or may be yet reached by Protestants or this
number at least 10000 are controlled by the two
religions named leaving as the nnai result OF this
analysis only 5000, or less than one-eighth the
total OF Sunday school age that may possibly Sc
curate and much less disheartened picture than
WAs presented In our last manual and we believe
mat lt WIN be difficult to md city OF the Same
population as this Distect that has fewer persons
OF sunday school age not enrolled In any school"
HOW THE SCHOOLS ARE DIVIDED.
The summary gives the following distribution
OF schools among the various denominations:
Baptist-whte Is: colored. Is. Chrstian-white.
l. Congregational-white.l 4; colored, 4 Reformed
Church In L. S-white, I. Episcopal Protestant
q FpfS
l. Lutheran, German, Lutheran, English, z
Methodist EpiScOpal-yhite, 20; colored. 10: Ger.
man. l. Methodist Protestant-white, s Metho-
dist Free-whte, 2 Presbyteran-white. re-:
colored, 1. Swedenborg8n, l. Unitarian l. Uni.
versaiist 1. Undenominational, T. Total schools,
SOME OF THE LARGEST SCHOOLS
The largest school is that OF the Metropolitan
Presbyterian church, on Capitol Hill, with total
on the roll OF teachers and scholars OF 672 The
Memorial Chapel school (BaptlsO stanis next
with membership OF Ga The Zion school CBap.
tisp has 6l5. Asbury (M.E) 5s9. Lincoln Mission
SSngregasl0naD ss7 Calvary Bartlst sss First
Chapel Qresbyterian) AL, Wesley Chapel on RI
4as. Waugh Chapel Az. Assembly Presby terian
The Calvary school had the largest average AZ.
tendance, 4os, the Memorial Chapel school stand
poiltan iPresbyterianl Sl6.
SCHOLARS AS CHURCH MEMBERS.
During the past year 1876 scholars OF the Ham.
line IN. E.) school joined the church-50 from
Wesley chapel On. E), 40 from Concordia (Germah
Lutheran). S6 from the Calvary Baptist, ana 81
from the Epiphany EpiscopaD. Fourth street M
T. and MI Vernon (M E South) each. In the
Epiphany and Holy Cross schools both Episcopal
all the scholars are put down as church members
In the Calvary Baptist there 150 In the Chris.
tan, ITO: In the Wesley Chapel 100; in the Metro.
politan Presby terlan, 81; I'm the Foundry 81 ana
In the Metropolitan NJ. T., go
SUNDAY SCHOOL IJRR pYra
The largest libraries are the Assembly Presby.
terianJ 1,e70 hooks: Asbury ON. E.) LOO; New
York Avenue PresbyterianD sas; Fourth street.
IN. K y e42; Foundry IN. E, } Ss7; Epiphany Epis.
copal, 700; Berean Baptist, $50; Mount Vernon m
South) 72o, and Central (Presbyterian,) ZOO
The president OF the Union is A. II. Nelson, vice
presidents, John b. Wright and Weston Flint,
secretary, d. K. Simpson, and treasurer, j. u
johnson.