The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-02-08
WORKING FOR THE YOUNG
DR.. w. A. Duncan Tells the Taber-
naele Of the Good Work Of
the Congregation Sum
day School Society.

DR.. w. A. Duncan of Boston, Secretary
of the Congregational Sunday School and
Publication Society. addressed a large
audience in the Tabernacle yesterday af-
~ternoon.
THE hope of any people,, he said, lilies
in the right training of the children. The
place for seed sowing Dis among the young.
There are probably nine or ten millions
of children of school age in u land not
yet reached by the Sunday school or by
any Christian agency. Hence the need
of u a society as the Sunday school
and Publishing Society, which lis a mis-
sionary society and a bushes organiza-
ton. The society organizes Sunday
schools and publishes such literature as
will serve the ends Of the Sunday school
and church.
In 1882 the society was organized as a
union society; in 1852 it was organized
as al independent society: in 1882 it was
~reorganized. Last year "a missionaries
travelled $4,000 miles, preaching $500
sermons Since January, 1883, we have
organized about COCO new Sunday schools,
most of them where there were no evan
gelical churches or schools of any kind
before.
"out of these schools about 600 Congre-
g~ational churches have grown and a
large number of churches of other or
ders. Beside our church Sunday schools
the last year book shows 1,541 mission
schools with a membership of 71,S57. Our
Sunday school forces are more than 1884,
o00. In the year ending February rs,
$3.50 $751; I,ig in s ale 81. 547. and ShI IN 1885 sS ~, ass s.
and in 1896, $49, 03S.41, about 1000 less each
of these hard years.
port to the National Council, the society
organized 1,463 new Sunday schools. Dur
Ing the same period 1s1 Congregational
Shur s grew out Of the schools Of It's
nominations grew out of these schools.
The society aided over 1850 schools last
year. Last year about 5000. churches
and Sunday schools contributed $49, 033. Al
Tor this. work (949 as churches and 2,727
as Sunday schools and other organiza-
tons connected mn with the ehurches.l There
nearly as any Sunday school that did
not contribute a dollar to this society
last year.
This publishing business is conducted
upon business principles and is not only
no drain upon the churches, but is the
largest regular contributor to the mis-
slonary work carried ON by the society,
appropriating $1,000 a year for that pur-
pose and thus providing for the running
eH sThe sta I'll i ne o Msl f5e ,niss,d Dep a 7annns
show about 500 Sunday schools organized
each year. The missionaries have la
bored in the East, West and South. They
have gone into the pioneer regions. In
Pennsylvania they We're asked to come
among the Welsh people, a people. in
whose tongue an infidel or obscene book
has pever been published, yet their chill
dren wandered from the church and the
Sunday school through neglect. Seventy
two per cent. of all the churches in the
United States come out of the work that
is done among the young.
In Oklahoma the missionaries went
with the original occupants Of the terri
tory. They held pioneer services in Per-
ry on a lumber pile among the gyps.es
and Arabs, gathered there from all parts
of our land.
I'm the South there is a vast field for
work among the 5000, 900 colored people,
whose numbers have been doubled since
the war. More of them cannot read and
write than were unable to do 50 when
issued. I'm Georgia and Alabama the
life who need the gospel. The preachers
are heroic and are trying to give the boys
and girls a chance to be good men and
women. The mountaineers of the South
are needy. and worthy of aid. They
We're loyal in the war and helped the
boys i'm blue. The, Sunday School Society
is doing a limited work among them in
cooperation with the American Mission
airy Association"