The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-02-22
CONG. MISSION WORK.
Rev. Dr. Duncan of Boston Tells the
Howard and the Davenport Congre-
cations About the Work.

W. "a DuHCdn, IN, H., OF Boston, yes
terday morning addressed the congre-
CATION Of the Howard avenue Congrega-
tlonal church and in the evening the
Davenport church, in behalf Of the
congregational Sunday school and
Publishing society, of which he is the
field secretary.
He said that the hope of any people
lay in the right training of its chill
dren. The place for seed sowing Is
among the young. There are probably
nine or ten millions of children of
school in our land not yet reached by
the Sunday school or by any Christian
agency. This comprises that portion
of the community which can be mould
ed. Hence the need of such society
as the Sunday School and Publishing
society, which is a missionary society
and business organization. The So
ciety organizes Sunday schools and
publishes such literature as will serve
the ends of the Sunday school and
church. The most important work is
furnishing aids for the study of the
Bible and for the religious reading of
the young. There are also books which
are important in the carrying on of the
church, prepared for PASTORS clerks
treasurers. etc, as we'll as volumes
historical and doctrinal for the educa-
ton and information Of its members.
DR.. Duncan gave instances of the or
ganization of churches in Dakota and
Minnesota, which started as Sunday
schools. The greeting given some of
the missionaries in the west Is that of
gratitude for their coming, but of re-
gret because they have been so long in
coming
In 1882 the society was organized as a
union society; in 1852 it was organized
as an independent society; in 1882 1t
was preaching $500 sermons The SUI
perintendents are like mining prospec-
tors. They go into promising locations
for Christian work and find out what
can be done They gather the children
and adults into Sunday schools, organ
ize them with officers of their own
choosing, and supply them with lesson
helps and papers from the start. They
preach the gospel in these communities
and secure the stated visit Of the near
est pastos, If they can. They CORE
spond, revisit and reorgafize, If posi-
ble until the time comes when, from
this beginning a church is developed;
if this time never comes, at any rate,
the seed has been sown.
II does moi overlool, tho need Of as
10 h,isbed oburnbas ana communities
see1ring ~ anconroea tbe former TO
moro thoroupb methods of Sunday
school worl, and IN tho latter to studv
an tbe Moods ~ naw dietricts where az
Ton largo nonuIa lions have gathered al
len+1H ma n ant,ra dastit,,tion of 70
,ie,io,,s rri,,,1osas c,noa January 1899
~ have oroanizad shout & nm new SIM
dev scbools most ~ them where there
1vara ~ evanpaliral churches or schools
of anv hind before ont If those schools
aho,t coo C,orgraoa tional churches
bsva crown and largo number Of
,,,,,ro,,a. ~ o+bar ordars
pasida o,r obnrcb sunday scboo1s
+ha ,.st yeo,. boa1r elbows 5a1 mission
sobools, With mambarsbin of n s57
0u,, Sunday school forces arc more
40, IA nm In +bs yaay ending Fehr,,-
AN, % 1909 no CONGREGATIONAL
cb,,rcbes gave ,s s5e 500. In 1894 AKA
5a7 apd IN 1Sa5 s5o ORR and In 1895
s4a oe9 al abaut 80 0O0 less each Of these
.h.rd ya.rs
In tbe tbrae vears covered in its re-
nort ~ tha national council the society
orearized 4s9 raw Sunday schools
D,,.t,,o tba .. mo na,io5 tqt rsonsreea-
tion.t c,,,rci,es grew mt If tt7e schools
of its n,anting MANY churches Of other
danomiantions, grow ont Of these
schools The society aided over go