The Springdale news., 1909-08-27

tnallY cnuntenaneed by the clergy the germ of the modern Sunday School. proving true to it's kind, has multiplied until to-day no ma tion on the lace Of the globe is immune to this contagion.
 Significant of the great change wrought is the comment of Horace Bushnell. molder of theological thought. who had earlier earnestly tried to persuade a friend to give up Sunday school work. when short ly before his death in 1876. he said, Now We come to see that the work you are doing, is the greatest work in the world
 An institution born of d national mind, opposed to superstition and mystery. appealing to both child and man, the Sunday School is destined to be the great dispensary of Bible instruction
 The modern Sunday school is defined as "Ghurehlets i'll the church The nursery of the church The church at work" etc Someone has well said that The Sunday school lays the founda ton upon which all other ergani- zattons of the church build
 To my way Of thinking, the sun day school is the teaching and studying service of the church
 An organization of Bible students, favofing no particular denomination al creed. knowing no ritualistic formalities, exercising the tenet in it's denoainational work, of Peace on earth, good will toward men. -
 An organization encouraging study, investigation and interrogation up- on the part of the student thereby, developing and revealing the spir- itual needs, not so much the needs Of che organization but those of tfe individual
 An organization which has for its purpose national and logical development of the highest type of spiritual perfection consistent to mortal man.
 tDo not miSinterpret my meaning with regard to denominational work for l am a firm believer in denomi national schools in the denomina tional field.
 Having considered the vital pur- pose of Organized Sunday School work. We may now take an exter nal view of it's movement.
 The Sunday school was put upon the market in 17S0 in Gloucester. England Five years later society for the promotion of Sunday Schools was organized in the great city of London.
 The London Sunday School Union was organized in 1903 the Ameri can Union in 1S24
 The first National Convention was held in New York in 1882. that Of the world in London in 1889
 The International Lesson System was inangurated in 1873 and the first International Convention was held in Baltimore in 1875.
 The Religious Educational Asso- citation was organized in Chicago in 1903 and during the last few years our national government has is sued, from it's Educational Bureau, statistical reports relative to Sunday school work Gommendable work for religious nation
 From Robert Raikes school of less than one hundred children. has grown d juvenile army of Bible stu dents of over 29.000,00 Of this number the United States may boast of over 14.000. 900. nearly half of the total for the world
 Statistics show that S5 per cent of those, coming into the church. come through the efforts of the Sun day School Think of a total en- rolled working force of more than 29. 900. 900, students in the sev- eral departments of the Sunday school What a vast multitude en- gagged in the study of the most widely known book in the world the Holy Bible
 Organizations within organizations