The San Francisco call., 1899-05-27


Sunday schools on the Pacific Coast. with 22-
COO members
The first colporteur of the Publication So
elety was Rev. Richard Cheadle, who wa, was
appointed for Oregon in 1853. Rev. Orin Crit
Ien9en; now residing at Mountain view, was
a faithful colporteur of the Publication So
c4eIy IN California in the fifties
", Inc first Sunday school missionary was Rev.
w ). Loughry. appointed for Oregon in lSiz.
On On the LIST of October 1895. your speaker
Go commenced tI work as Sunday school missionary
OF the Publication Society for California In
no,,,,is I9oKng up new fields have been in many
sunday school missionary.
In the spring of 1896 1 visited Stanislaus ana
duolumne counties with brother Henry Jack
SON. a colporteur of publication society:
we drove over 200 miles in cart, and held
meetings in mining camps, school houses ana
private houses. One place visited they nau
hdq Dut four sermons in eighteen years we
visited another place where we found sixty boys
service OF any kind in the community; Inc Inc
children all held up their hands and said we
want the Sunday school, Brother Jackson
returned the following Sunday and organized
a Sunday school.
In the fall of 1896 I visited the northwest
part OF the State, and held meetings with
our people in tDe great redwood section. Men
docino County has the largest per cent OF
BAPTIST SUNDAY schools of any county In the
In June, 1898 in company with Robert Whit
aker, AS our. general missionary, and II. Il.
ADAMS, OF gospel wagon work we made
TOUR INTO the northeastern part of the State.
IN SHASTA County / spent a couple of days In
town Where there were several hundred men
working in a copper mine. and scores OF boys
ana girls there, but no Sunday school or
church service Of any kind whatever.
we ORGANIZED Sunday school there. In
TINS same county, in company with Brother
Mozart, we organized a Sunday school in seven
days.
A large part of the time of your Sunday
school missionary has been occupied in visiting
Sunday schools and in holding Sunday school
Institutes. We need better Sunday school
teaching and MANAGEMENT much we need
more Sunday-schoois- good, live sunday
school SnnS Sa institute is one of the best things
But perhaps the meetings that your speaker
has enjoyed the most of all have been the
to take this Pacific Coast for Christ 1t will
he done by reaching the boys and girls in our
homes and our Sunday-schools.
In three years and seven months have or
ganized fifty Sunday-schools, distributed 1892
copies of the Scriptures, visited and addressed
Sttutes and given 1883 addresses and Travelled
g 075 miles.
We need a genuine revival of interest in
he Sunday school work on the part of church
members. Every Christian that Is able to
school every Sunday How shall we hold the
problem than how shall hold the boys.
We need a missionary spirit In our churches
in planting and sustaining new Sunday schools
IN needy fields in the vicinity of our churches.
Last. but not least need a half-dozen
colporteurs Of our publication society of the
Uncle John Nassar type going from house te
house and from town to town, loaded with
Baptist literature and Bibles and Testaments,
aodng boys and girls meetings and organ
.zing Sunday schools. The BaptIsts. of this
coast appreciate the interest OF the publica-
don society in sustaining a few laborers on
this coast, but what are these among so many
our State Sunday school Association reports
200, OC0 boys and girls of school age IN this
state not in any evangelical Sunday school.
- a single county there are forty nine school
houses in which there is no Sunday school or
religious service in the community. Let us
not give less for foreign missions In fact. let
ia give more; but let us not forget the boys
and girls that are perishing for the bread of
life at very doors.
The following officers and managers of
the American Baptist Publication Society
were elected: