The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1911-05-03
THE KENTUCKY
SUNDAY SCHOOLS
Show a Gain of ESQ in Last
Three Years.
THERE ARE 3,745 SCHOOLS
In the State - Secretary of
State Association Makes
Report.
OHIO CoUNTYs BIG SHOWING

The Rev. George A. Joplin. sec
rotary of the Kentucky Sunda,
School Association, has complete,
the compilation of the census of tn,
white Sunday Schools of Kentucky
a work that has been in progress
since January l. Such a census Il
taken every three years and repOr
of the data obtained is made to the
International Sunday School Asso
citation, the headquarters of which
are in Chicago. The work Is inter
UNCONVENTIONAL, and, in this State
embraces the white Sunday School!
of all Protestant churches.
The census shows that there are
in Kentucky 3,745 Sunday Schools
a gain of 259 as compared with g..
4S6 three years ago. The enroll.
ment this year is 3OS,174. a gain OF
47,164 as compared with 161, 200
the enrolment in 1908.
~ Jefferson county has now 1876
Sunday Schools, with an enrolment
of 34,62S. Three years ago there
were 173 schools, with an enroll
ment of 3O.39O.
Next to Jefferson, our own Ohio
county has the banner enrolment
and number of schools of any coun-
ty in the State. The stupendous
number of 11S schools with a total
of S,193 attendants, go to our cred
it, although in the Courier-Journal's
summing up of this matter, we get
no especial mention.
Some of the mountain counties
have shown decided progress in Sun
day School work. Letcher county.
which three years ago had FIVE Sun
day Schools, with an enrolment of
233, now has ten schools, with an
enrolment of $50, and Lee county
has advanced from thirteen schools,
with an enrolment of $50, to TWEEN
ty-three schools, with an enroll
ment of $40.
Breathitt county has not done so
well in Sunday Schools as it has in
feuds. 1t has twenty-six Sunday
Schools, the same number that it
had in 1908, but the enrolment has
fallen from 1851 to 1,47O.
Fayette county's Sunday Schools
have increased from forty-six to
fifty, and its enrolment from 5,9S1
to 6,67S. Campbells schools in
creased from fifty to fifty-six, and
its enrolment from $3.50 to 1892.
McCracken shows an increase in
schools from forty-two to fifty-one,
and it's enrolment from 4,577 to 81
2O2.
Daviess county, according to the
census report, decreased in the num-
Der of schools and in enrolment.
Three years ago there were forty
Sunday Schools in the county, with
an enrolment of 5,335, while the
new census shows only thirty-nine
schools with 1927 enrolled. Hen
derson county lost one school dur
ing the three years, but increased It's
attendance. In 1908 there were
forty-three schools, with 4,267 en-
rolled, while the new census shows
forty-two schools, with 1923 schol-
airs.
The Sunday Schools of the State
are much better organized than they
were three years ago, according to
Joplin, and are doing
much better work. During that pc
riod several thousand teachers have
a special training course
by the State Sunday
School Committee, and there has
been a great increase in the number
of adult Bible classes, more than
400 new ones having been organic
ed since 1908.
There has been a great improve
hOhb III Sidulhb tue oNhOOiS anu III
their equipment" says Mr.. Joplin.
1.-THE Sunday Schools are be-
coming more and more real
schools where teaching is done. We
find that 85 per cent. of the MEM
bers coming into the churches come
from the Sunday Schools. Great
stress has been laid in the Sunday
Schools on a definite confession of
religion and preparation for, Chris
ian service"
County Statistics.
County School Enr'lmt.
Adair =. :. .....26 1,778
allen =. :. ....90 4,791
anderson :. =. LIB 3,sOS
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