The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-05-14
A BROAD AND GRAND WORK
TIE AMERICAN SUNDAY SCHOOL
UNIONS FIELD.

Tho seventy-seoond Anniversary of Its
Existence Appropriately COMMUNICATED
at the United Church in This Clty-A
Glance at the Great Work 1t Has Accom-
plished-A Brilliant Address by Rev. Or.
Boynton of Observation-Disclosures by DIR.
Crowe1 and Rev. DR.. Foster.
The seventy-second anniversary of
the American Sunday School union was
appropriately commemorated in this
city last Sunday evening at the United
church. The presiding officer was Nor
ris X Jesup. Esq, of New York presi-
dent of the society since the death OF
Justice William Strong of the United
States supreme court.
Following is verbatim report Of the
exercises.
After the opening devotional exer-
cises Rev George S. Dickerman of this
city, temporary presiding officer, said:
We all of us very greatly regret DIR.
Munger's enforced absence this even
ing, and none of us regret it more than
DIR. Munger himself. He has written to
Secretary Foster a note expressing his
feelings, which I will read.
at regret that a severe cold prevents
me from attending the service this
evening and offering in person the hos
pitality of the church to the Sunday
TJ,,ia &C. f6oa I hep
you to accept instead this written
word through which we wish to offer
you our congratulations upon your
seventy-second anniversary and ex-
press our hopes that the great work in
which the Union has been engaged so
many years may go on with increasing
energy and power. In my early life l
was greatly indebted to the Sunday
School Union for what it did in eleva-
ting the school in which l was reared,
and / have always thought of it with
gratitude and love. deeply regret
that / cannot in person extend a well
come to the distinguished gentleman
who honors the society by accepting its
presidency. 1t is pleasant to us in
New Haven that he should come
among us in this capacity, and link his
Christian charity and labors with our
own.
With sincerest wishes for the pros
perity of the society which you repre-
sent, Very truly yours.
r. T. MUNGER"
(Reading from Isaiah LXI@
Mr. Dickerman. At the request of
DR. Munger, and in behalf of the Chris
tian people of this city 1t gives me
great pleasure to introduce to you the
president of this society," Morris K
Jesup, Esq.
Mr.. Jesup. Dear friends, will you
rise and sing, please, the 469th hymn?
ssWork, for the night is coming"
(Hymn sung0
Mr. Jesup. Before introducing to you
the Rev. DR. Crowell, who is to speak to
you tonight and to give you an ac-
count of the work of this great Ameri-
can Sunday-Scho Union, / wish to
return my thanks to DIR. Munger for his
kind reference to myself, and / want
also to say that it was with very great
diffidence on my part that / felt called
upon to accept the presidency of this
great organization. There are times
when things come before you, dear
friends, which you cannot escape from,
when duty presses itself upon your
heart and upon your conscience; and
although 1 am very busy man, and
have great many interests to care for,
yet felt that could not throw off the
responsibility which was so kindly and
so unanimously, and so unexpectedly,
thrust upon me So here I am, presi-
ding for the first time as the president
of this Sunday-School Union.
This American Sunday-School Union
took hold of my heart when I was a
boy. ] remember very Well-one of the
earliest recollections of my life was
when my father (and was then Con-
necticut lad), when my father told me
about this Sunday-School Union. 1t
was then just established. I particu-
larly remember well that my father be-
came so interested in it's work that he
contributed towards the expenses Of a
missionary, who was then sent into the
state Of Virginia to care for this work
and to bring children into the Sunday
school
like this work also because it is so
catholic. 1t is a type of what we want
as Christian unity. I like it also be-
cause it is so thoroughly evangelical. I
like 1t also because it has stood the
test of these seventy-two years and has
never been found wanting 1t is q
great thing, in these days of change
and of uncertainty and of unrest to be
linked with something that stands upon
the roek,--that is firm and enduring. 1
like the Sunday-School Union because
it has fixedness of purpose, and because
1t has principle behind all it's work.
And, dear friends commend the work
of this institution to your kind sympa-
thy, to your Judgment and to your
heart I am not going to make an adj
dress tonight, but it is my duty, as
we'll as my privilege, to introduce to
you the Rev. DR.. Crowell. who is our
secretary of missions, and who will
give you a brief statement of what the
work is to-day.
DR.. j. NJ. Crowell. In coming to hold
our anniversary in the city of New
Haven, we all feel. my dear friends,
that we are coming home. I know of
no place where the officers of the Amer
lean Sunday School Union have more