The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1910-05-31

from the English Sunday schools, but
from the first were more entirely dc.
voted to religious instruction than the
Sunday schools ~ England. The first
Sunday schools united secular with
religious instruction. Sunday schools
were established In testant
churches in Scotland, ireland and
America In the years immediately fol.
lowing their establishment in England;
the Scotch Society for promoting Re-.
ligious instruction among the poor'
was formed in 1890, and the Irish sun.
day school society was founded il
1909, though o system Of Sunday
teaching had prevailed in ireland for
some years previously. In later times
Sunday schools increased rapidly in
COZ nection with Protestant churche,
throughout the world. Tho Sunday
school movement was not NJ first Look.
ed upon with ssvor by the people of
New England. II was regard: u" IA
n-sTtce to the sstrednesS of ,bc sun
day (Sabbath), and also rs an infringe
rent of tho home duties. In, Pho.
tes M; Sunday school, AZ 1t cX'sIn to-
6,N in the Un,trd States. ms., he said
to have had its real beginning in Phil.
adelphia, Dec. 1890, when II per-
sons held a meeting aud decided to
begin the work. Sunday schools had
been established in the United states
shortly after Raikes had begun his
work, but they existed more as local
institutions. On Jan. IL, 1901, a so
ciety was established in Philadelphia
which had for its object the support
Of Sunday Of the First Day" schools.
The president of the society was Bish'
op william White, and Matthew Carey
was the secretary. In New York, Jan.
Is, 1861, a woman s society for the
promotion of the work and in the same
place, on the Goth Of February of the
same year, q society OF men was organ.
lied for the same purpose. The Amer
lean Sunday school union is the out
growth of the Sunday and Adult school
union, established in Philadelphia in
1917. The new and broader organiza-
tion took definite form May ~, 1924.
On the 10Th anniversary, the American
Sunday school union had loO,92S Sun.
day schools with q membership of A.,
070,346 pupils ami 57S,6S0 teachers. 1t
had distributed literature amounting to
near $l0,000,000. The first national
convention was held in Chatham street
chapel, New York, Oct. 3, 1882. Ma
tional conventions were held May 20,
1888, and Feb. 22, 1858, in Philadelphia;
April 20, 1869, Newark, N. j.; April
10, 1872, indianapolis, Ind; May IL,
1875, Baltimore, Md. At the Baltimore
meeting the convention took upon itself
the name international, to which title
It had q right on the account of the en-
largement of the work both in aim and
territory. On July l, 1889, a world s
convention was held in London. Other
world 8 conventions have been held in
st. Louis, Mo-, Sept 3, 1898; London,
July II, 1898. The organization EN-
braces, besides the usual executive of.
fcers, lesson committees and different
department workers. In many of the
states are held annual State conven-
lions, county conventions and city con
ventions. The department of field
workers is most important. The Chau-
tauqna has been a very great aid in
tie enlargement Of tho work. In 1902
the Protestant Sunday schools in the
tinted states, including Hawai- and
Porto Rico, numbered 1887, with a
membership of 1902, 703 pupils, and
officers and teachers numbering j.
4l9,s07.
All the teaching orders in the Ro-
man Catholic church, in all countries,
give religious instruction in the regu-
lar school classes. The founder of the
FIRST normal school for the training OF
teachers, Saint John Baptist dc La
Sale was most earnest in having his
teachers prepare themselves well for
the work of teaching Christian doctrine.
The members of his order popular name
Christian Brothers) have charge Of
many sunday schools. Both Protest
ants and Roman Catholics has estab,
lished training quarters and normal
schools for Sunday school teachers,
In New York in 1901, under the a u
spices Of the Confraternity Of Christ.
inn Doctrina. N training srhool fO-