River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-07-09
The ChiIdren's Cause.

The meeting to celebrate the sixty-first
anniversary of the American Sunday
School, recently held at Newark, \. j.,
was presided over by Mr.. Morris X.
Jessup Of New York, and addressed by
Rev. }. ii. BarroWs, d. d.. pastor Of the
First Presbyterian Church, Chicago. and
Rev. j. L. Rankin, ID. d., late pastor Of
the Congregational Church, Washington,
u. q. No organization in the world has
done or is dong SO much for the neglected
children of our land as this Union. 1t is
an undenominational society, working in
the interests of all churches, on precisely
the same basis as the Young Mems Chris
tian Associations.
During the year just closed, it went
into l, 79y settlements and planted Sunday
Schools there besides assisting old
schools in 1904 cases, reaching 3Sl Dos
children and youth; j., 299 copies OF the
Scriptures, whole and fractional, were
given to those whom they found IN need
OF them: So 707 visits were made to
families and S,9S2 religious meetings
were held; and the entire expense was
Tess than $4,000.
Speaking of one feature of the work,
not generally enlarged upon, the report
says: THE perils of Il free country are
illiteracy, lack of morality and defective
religious principles. In some states, ~
percent of the colored people are litter
ate, and of the forty millions of the
population over six years of age in our
country, ten millions are without ade-
quate religious instruction. The Amer
lean Sunday School Union promotes
besides its Sunday School work-primary
education; it has prepared and circulated,
by sale and gift, millions of copies OF
Elementary Primers, Spoilers and Bible
Readers; it POUNDS and furnishes schools,
held upon the common Day of Rest, fer
the poorest laborer and his child; ii
enilsts persons to teach gratuitously the
illiterate and the Ignorant, and seeks to
promote sound morals and practical re-
hgion."
Such work, having the endorsement
and support of such careful men as Mr..
Jessup, and for years the late T.. Dodge,
jaw Cooke, Hon. Judge Strong, Alexander
Brown, b. b. Comegys, l.. 5. Jatfery, Jos.
Pollock, Robert Lennox Kennedy and in
the West. Levi Il. Letter, :. NJ, Moore,
Hon. Mark Skinner, Norman Williams,
Dr. J. H. HOLSTER, Marvin Hughitt, 7. b. |
Blackstone, John Crerar, \. ). Bouton, !
Marshall Field, Henry Phelps, John |
Deere, john T. Many, Hon. Samuel |
Merrill, Prof Geo. Churchill, Prof 7. q. |
Gillett, Timothy Hudson, \. 7. Dodge, !
Thos Officer, d. G. Bell, Henry Plant, /
Thos Cochran, y. Il. Moves, John J.. |
Wheat, s. NJ. Breckenridge, Thos i. /
Tootle. Gov. A. II Colquitt, and many /
othersj besides ministers representing /
the various denominations, should be |
given the sympathy and aid Of all who
love the children and our country.
ANY who desire can get the last Annual
Report, and the report of DR.. Barrows'
address, by sending three cents to +. q.
Ensign. Superintendent \. W. Depart
ment, $50 Madison Street, Chicago, ILL.,,
or to Rev J. NJ. Crowell, d. D., Secretary,
I122 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
Funds to aid the work may be sent to
either Of the above, or to
RICHARD AsIIHURsT, JR.,
1122 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa.