Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1889-03-14
Sunday SCHOOL WORKERS
INTEREsTTNG LBOTURF ON THn
RORK By WILLIAM KEYROLDs.
The Sunday schools Efforts Toward
the PerpetnattOn of Our Governs
nienf-Maanitnde of she sunday-
schools tn This Country.

schools tn This Country.
The Sunday school tenchsrs' and work.
ers' conferences INST at Union M. Il.
Church st o'clock yesterday afternoon
week for two houfL' conference. William
Reynolds Of Pecri', ILL.,, president of tho
international sunday School Association,
led discussion ON the various practical
interests Of the hunday school. Among
those who participated were Joseph Pyle,
Charles Baird, solomon Hersey, W. K.
Crosby.
At the evening msss-meeting ct Union,
Church the building was crowded to
exoess. Exercises were opened by Prest-
dent Joseph Pyle inviting the audienca
to sing the hymn, "Ali hail the power OF
Jesus name," following which the Rev.
J, E. Bryan offered prayer, when the
Rev. Adam Stengle read the passage,
Matthew VIII, /, IA. Mr.. Pyle then in
troduoed Mr. Reynolds the speaker Of
the evening. He said Oh every Sabbath
day in the United States lac, 900 Sunday
schools are opened, 1900, GOO teachers
are .. work, and not one of them, to the
speakers knowledge, gets ore single cent
for his services. There are 10 0J0 900 Of
the youth Of the land in the schools. No
such evangeliz2tion has been witnessed
since the beginning of TIE world.
For church three things are necessary
"a building, pastor, and constit-
uenoy. But no expense ia nesded for o
Sunday-school. No public school was
ever refused for the purposes Of Sun
day-schooi, and as for children to attend
the Sunday school the speaker, in all his
travels, nsyer came ACROSS part CT the
United States whore they did not exist.
Sabbath schools are everywhere. In
Chicago there are three Anarchist Sunday
schools. They are attended by 1000
children. This schools were established
less than year ago in order to keep the
children out of the evangelical schools.
They are taught that the Bible is lie
and that all property should be held in
communion.
There is standing order in the laws OF
the International Sunday school Associa-
tion to furnish all schools that ere unable
to pay for them witn Bibles and gospel
hymn books. Mr.. Reynolds thought that
the future of the church and Sunday
school indicated that one sermon day
would be enough for any clergyman to
preach. With his other duties it would
be enough for him and for his eongrega-
religious dyspepsia. The old gospel is
mon q week is enough for us
not get that. [Laughter. The speaker
sight to see the whole family, fathers and
mothers in the school. How can the
parents wonder at their children drifting
away from church and Sunday school
when they don't go there themselves.
The plan at the afternoon school would
be 70 have che pastor m5 7srat0r aud seEe..
man like Mr.. Pyle or Mr.. Baird as leader.
What pleasure IL would be to see one
OF them speaking OF q business mems
meeting. you've got Christian lawyers
among you here [laughter1 that is hope
you have, and physicians who could talk
about the Gseat Physician"
In southern Illinois, called Egypt, the
country seat of Hamilton county, place
of 1,500 inhabitants, for so years they
had neither church nor Sunday-schooI.
The speaker found more grog shops there
than in any otter place he had been. He
found the jail full OF prisoners and q
number chained to the wall outside as
there was no room within. The weather
was warm and those were the imperative
arrangements. I said to my friend,
Colonel IDgersoll: "You don't like
churches. You'd better go down to
Egypt where there are none"
found three Christians in the place.
We organized county Sunday
School Association. One was president,
the second, secretary, aud the third,
executive committse. That exhausted
the supply, like Artemus Wards army,
all the members of which were made
brisadisr-generais in order not to excite
jealousy. Seven years after the Hamilton
County Association had five churches
Qhere are seven now. There is not
grogshop III the town and the Jail ID
literally empty. ASK the oitizsns how
the change came about. They will ALI
tell you to-day that it was the little
Sunday school that was started there.
There il no organic stion in the United
States to day that is doing moro for the
perpatuation Of our government than the
SRuda school. In his resent book on
this country Max O'Rell said /: 'tI find in
America a vo uutsry organization called
the Sunday sebool Association, where
they teach about Jesus Christ, aud in re-
gard to which, whatever else we may say,
we must concede 10 be tho Highest ltylei
OF morality, and which Is a teaching, be-
yond civil, political, ejucatiouai, or any
othsr kind, that tends above all to par-
petuats for ever the sentiments of
freedom-loving people, ths country
thereby basipg itself On tho strongest
possible foundations, !"
The speaker then instanced the status
Of Sunday school liteFsture and journal
ism, contributed to by the leading minds
OF this country and England. In 1887
So per cent of the additions 10 the evan
gelioal churches were direct from the
sunday sohool5. Two. thirds of the
population of the United States arc
nominal Christians. In the last - yeara
Sunday sohool work has increased SO per
cent throughout the land
In closing the meeting Mr.. Pyle gave
notice of the State Sunday school con-
ventton to be held at West Presbyterian
Church, April 1lth and 18th.