Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-09-02
Three Thousand shecp aud the Tales
Behind Thorn.
ABOUT the BORDER rnouBnn-
Unhappy Husbands aud Wives Who
Want the Gordian Knot OF We'd
lock cut--DeiegAtes 10 Lewelling-
Hogg Conference Appointed.

NfN'Nf $3.50 f1Nit - N'NN'fHsN = 49,
following TX the report made yesterday
IN tho tnt,,n,tlo,nl sunday school neso.
i.,i, III a. ,.,ls "a.
v"Voh now IN session VI - LOUIS NV"
by Professor Curtis T. Coc state super
intNidpnt Of Texas SUNDAY school work:
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II Is my pleasure TO render tue report
FROM the largest field represented by
any ana atat, ,e,rhor me siao az lpxns
80 ~ S''''N "''NSN .s
V''h OF evlnprehnhueu GUY ny WmpnH7
son, II Is lnrgcr than tlo following
rlcven s,atea ali togeiher, Missouri All
NJ t,,,..,',,. 49,. ~, ,,,.,.,l,',,,,.
NV nNs''nu' ~" .'NN' i'''nSs sN,'"'@,
Maryland and South Carolina. Or "
we cross tAc Atlantic and compare with
nrr,n.nn ,s,,,,,,o. ~. sna /, ,onr, thou
~ 'i'N"" N'p"'i'''' w ui'u' +" NN' '"''i
twice me HlEo OF me thrush Isles OF
larger than France, Germany or Russia,
The longest straight line that can he
drawn Ia the state will r'ach from this
hall to New York City or 10 Denver or
viii extend far beyond Charleston or
New Orleans,
We hive M counties, seventy OF
which, agEragatlng an arcn t,NlcV that Of
tho state Of New York, have no rail
roada The population II 100000, In
Guiding 5OOO 900 npnrocs and 100000 for.
NaAil hNlN NNNNWIl0liHt
Texas Is enormous In other re.
specls, having the largest school fund OF
any OF the states Of the Union She
employees annually not fewer than th0OO
public schuul teachers who teach at lcast
100000 students. She las SlkO protea.
iani churches, numbering Oh. 2sD MON.
| hers and 20l Catholic churches with
lu5, lbs comnlunlcnnts
There arc AZ presont 8Ta9 sunday
| schools, with IA totni eurollment of DID
| 1tlD. Judging from tho laYt report Of
The yuperiutndcnt of public lnstrnr-
! tons ,htrc are ct icnsi i,a6l,O0O young
people IN the state between b and II
| yAnrs of age. fully t,OupOOO of whom
| AFRO still 10 be reached by the sunday
school work
Ia 1870 eighty counties were renurted
| nrplnlgNl hut 1 have heon unnGlr 10
| nnd more than apventnen thnt Vor,, nnih.
| Aiang an Organization preNlnua 10 ~,
| entering The work ono wear ago tomor.
| row, Since thai time pyrnty.6ys nor.
| lions have been orennlsed, ana. anypral
| thnt Ind moi previously affiliated With
| the state association have becn induced
| 10 hpcnnn auxiliary thereto AT lanst
| forty county conventions have been held
| mos Of which / hive attended neepon-
\ ally. We have bcbn. ahlr 10 uxteni nc
/ Hat az h1nUer touutica frnin one la 1870
| TO f1nrtbnn al Tho present time Tho
counties TINT nfe Organized hold regular
conventions, most OF them annually, hut
few hold quarterly tneptlnrB.
| Besides the work 81 our nssorlatinn
| Inc different denominations nrn actively
pushing Inc SUNDAY school cause. The
| Bnptisia l,nya state snpcrintendrnt and
about twenty-five Sunday school mis-,
slanarios employed aud bold an annual
| stale Sunday school convention, They
also hnyn several county Sunday scliool
| associations. Tho Nibth0dlsts are nisa
| nnying much attention 10 the work, and
hold district Sunday school conventions
from time 10 lime. The Disciples have
sunday school mA,lunnrins pmplnyed ami
| Tho Cumberland l'reahyterlnus have d
| special SUNDAY school bnani.
Polk county has placed d county Sun.
day school missionary In the Held for
hlH full time aud several nthnr counties
| nre looking forward To ilat end. Ia Jim.
nary we undertook the publication Of a
slate sunday arhool Journal. which WI
hnye found very beiphl III sprendip,
Information concerning the state nseocin'
lion and In work. II has also bron thp
means of bringing some money into Tho
irohairy.
We anticipate setting a honso.to.h house
visliatOn day for The state this fail,