St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-06-23
NO RECORD EVER LIKE IT.
An Interview With a Pioneer Sunday
School Missionary.
THE GROWTH OF TEN YEARS.
Dakota Has a Thousand Sunday Schools
and $4,000 Children in
Them.
Special to the Globe.

Special to the Globe.
HURON, OAK, June pa few days
since d. 2. Ward, of Sioux Falls, was
in the city, returning from a convention
of Sunday school works, of Faux
county. Your correspondent CHANGED
to meet him at the depot, and in brief
conversation CLEANED few items rela-
tive to his work that are quite interest
ing. Mr.. Ward is the pioneer mission
airy of Dakota, the present being the
tenth year that he has been engaged in
the Sunday school work in Dakota.
In speaking of the progress of
his work Mr.. Ward said:
| There are to-day as many
| Sunday school scholars in Beadle, Sphinx
| or Brown counties to-day as there were
in the whole territory when began my
and buggy, a missionary could visit
| every Sunday school in Dakota in two
or three months. He couldn't do it now,
| though, for we have over
| THOUSAND SUNDAY SCHOOLS,
with total membership of more than
| $4,000 scholars"
| How will Dakota compare with the
| Eastern states in this respect?
| "COmpareI Why. not at all. In no
part of the country has there ever been
such growth in Sunday school work.
1t is the most remarkable record the
world ever saw. Besides the work is
| and increase continually. Few people
| realize the magnitude or influence of
| this work.
Is there any special significance at
| tached to this?
| Most certainly. 1t proves to our
friends in the East that we are building
| for the future, and on the most
| substantial and sure founda-
ton. 1t speaks well for the in
| telligence of our people; it reflects their
moral and religious standing; it places
| them in the front rank as an enlight-
ened and Christian people; it says to the
whole world, Dakota is building state
| that for morality and noble qualities
will
| OUT-RANK ALI. OTHERS
| Has any particular organization ma
| terially aided in this work?
Eyes. the American Sunday School
union was the pioneer in the Sunday
school work. 1t is the best friend of
| Dakota children. By its efficient local
| agent, Jere Kimbali, of Huron, much
has been done TO bring about this splen-
did condition Of the work. The union
| Is generous anu Willing 10 ala, ana MI.
| Kimball is persistent worker, thor
| ough organizer and true Christian gem
| tleman: they work grandly together.
| Mr.. KimbalFs work is that of a mission
| airy for this particular locality and he is
especially adapted to it,"
''What are the various denominations
doing?"
..They are all at work; all making an
extra effort to establish and maintain
| denomiuatlopal schools. l think more
| than double the number of Sunday
| schools will be organized this year than
| in any previous year
"What is the Dakota Sunday School
association doing?'
1.-THE Dakota Sunday School asso-
| citation is doing good work. Its
| object is to help every Sunday
| school in the territory. 1t has
done double the amount of work
| this year that it did last. If Iowa and
| Illinois hope to lead Dakota in their
especial work the next three or five
years they will have to be far in adj
vance of what they now are. am
| crowdlng my part of the work as rapidly
as possible, holding conventions and or
ganizing county associations. In the
| past six days l have held twelve meet
| ings and travelled over 400 miles. ex-
| pect to go to the Black Hills soon and
assist i'm the work there. The outlook
was never better than to-day. '.Happy
is the people whose God is the Lord.