The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1899-06-30
Gu Nerala and Neaps
SUNDAY sCuOOL WORK IN SOUTH
CAROLINa.
AM Address Isaucd by tho Executive Com
miuc CO OF tho international Associat.
inn-Whilden Ketircr.

been issued:
TO tho Sunday School Workers Of
South Carolina:
The executive committee of the
International Sunday School asso
cinton has requested the under
signed to prepare letter to you
and through you to the Christian
people of South Carolina.
Owing to i'll health, Mr.. +. Il.
Whilden Of Charleston has been
compelled to resign his position rs
field secretary. His retirement from
tho field has been source Of regret
to his co laborers. 1t is the wish,
however,, Of tho executive committee,
that one or moro representative Sun
day School workers shall be present
at the meetings Of the County Sun
day School Associations, to be held
during the summer mouths. In ad-
dition to this, the executive commit
toe desires to bo regarded heartily
en- rapport with the county work and
trusts that a way will be open for Il
moro vigorous prosecution Of the in
teinational work throughout tho
State
We feel it to ho upqncstionably
truo that the times has como for
moro aggressive and progressive
Sunday School work in our beloved
commonwealth. We are awar" great
things have been accomplished by
this arm Of service IN tho Lords
cunse, hut we are assured, there is
still indiiferonce and in some in
stances absolute destitution, lament
able enough to call MS in clarion
notes to grcet"r cudcavor and to
arouse deeper consccratiou on the
part Of tho individual teacher
We dcplorc the lack of moro
complete organization in the State,
in some sections mono at ALL To
overcome this and to accomplish
creator results in the name Of the
Master, forward movement all
along the limo Of Sunday School
work is the scope and purpose of
this paper; nay, more, the heartfelt
desire and prayer of all Interested is
that the glory of God may thus be
promoted, and that teachers and
scholars may hc strengthened and
become better informed.
All over our country and in Can.
ada there is an awakening as has
never been ielt hitherto to the value
of and to the enlarged opportunities
of the Sunday School cause. Re-
cent statistics show there are twelve
and a quarter millions of evangeli-
cal Sunday School members in the
United States Of America, and near
~ three quarters Of million in Can.
ada. There has been an increase in
membership in the United States
alone. during tho past three years
of ono and Il quarter millions. What
mighty army, and SO potent al
agency Of the church in bringing
souls to Christ! And how thrilled
all Of us should feel when we con.
template that the great captain of
this army is no other than the Lord
Of Hosts! The wonderful growth of
Sunday Schools may be specially
noted in the primary unions, the
home class departments. the fold
workers association, house to house
visitations, all of which mark q new
ora and enforce better, moro thor
ough and systematic study Of the
Biblo than has ever been known in
tho history of the world.
In South Carolina, h. wever. we
lack in some OF these particulars,
hence, our earnest purpose to stimn-
late and to encourage those in Sun
day School work to fuller appre-
hension Of the nobility of the call
ing aul to the largeness of oppor-
tunity for tho doing of somo real
and substantial good.
The nterdcnominational Sunday
School Association brings together
all Christian workers upon the broad
Catholic platform of love, dissipates
narrowness and cements all workers
by the cohesive power Of unity, sym
pathy and fellowship. Thus al of
us learn to know and to vu)ue tho