Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1911-05-05
And Tn.
teresting Sunday
School Facts.

organized in 1925.
The international Sunday School
Union was organized i'm 1881.
nation we must save the children. ="
''The world will never be converted
by going after the old folks"
More than ninety five per cent of
all the preachers and church workers
81 per cent of all the church mem
bers, came through the Sunday
schools. Seventy five per cent of the
churches began as Sunday schools, af-
forwards developing into churches.
SUNDAY SCHOOLS AND PENI.
TENTIARIES.
The astonishing statement was
made in an address at Washington
last May by great Sunday school
teacher that lone out of every three
or four inmates in penitentiaries had
been at sometime in their lives mem
bers of Sunday school class, and
one out of every nine a Sunday school
teacher. This statement is found in
one of the special addresses, printed
in full in the proceedings of the
Worlds Sunday School Association,
and presumably. correct. Most people
have believed that child brought up
in Sunday school was safe and the
statement has often been made hasti-
ly and upon second hand information,
Branches of the International, inter-
UNCONVENTIONAL Sunday School Asso-
citation have been oragnized in every
State in North America and its ter
ritories and foreign possessions and
in almost every foreign country on
the globe.
The object of the organization is
, to bring into Sunday School every
available man woman and child in
the community, and every member of
the Sunday School to be brought into
the church, and every church member
a member of the Sunday school. This
is the aim of the great Sunday School
movement of the world. The interna-
tional organization of Sunday schools
exercise no authority. It's motto is
cooperation, not competition. With
the fiscal year ending June 1, 1911,
more than $4,000 Sunday school con-
ferences and conventions will be
held, not including the strictly de-
nominational associations which are
many. The world is alive with Sun.
day school enthusiasm. "To save ths
that no Sunday school scholar, or al
least very few, were ever to be fou,,d
in a state prison. w" SltDow better
l.Ya" lie facts have been brought to
light. OF 5000 Juvenile criminals
reported in Chicago, 10000, or one
third of them were or had been Sun
day school scholars. In many homes
there is no religious instruction. En-
vironment and heredity, too, are ad-
verse. In many Sunday school elias es
the teaching is weak and Ineffective
The woeful, lamentable ineficiency
and carlessness of many Sunday
school teachers is destructive instead
of helpful in saving the young peo-
Pile. Only the child which has wicked,
dissolute, immoral surroundings at
home is in greater peril than the one
which has a religious teacher, who is
not master of the situation. Next to
the parent, the gravest responsibility
rests upon the Sunday school teacher
The devil will get some of the boys
and girls in spite of the very best
efforts which can be made to prevent
it. but the number will be reduced in
proportion to the earnestness and
faithfulness of the efforts made to
save them.
DR.. Duncan, lay member of the
Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, was the
founder of the Home Department of
the Sunday school in 1881. In Wash
intgon last year 813, 900 members
were reported.
Tazewell county has less than ten
per cent of her young folks in her
Sunday schools, perhaps less than
eight per cent. The school population
numbers something over 1000, be-
tween the ages of seven and twenty.
In round numbers there are perhaps
Is, 600 people, including infants and
people of both sexes, up to twenty
five years of age. OF this Is, 600
perhaps less than 1000 of them are
connected with the Sunday schools.
Where are the rest? These figures
are not put forth as positively COR
rect, but only approximately so. At
any rate, the 1000 school children
should all be in Sunday school.
The Worlds Sunday school associa
tion was born at Chautauqua in 1886,
during a meeting of the international
association. The first meeting was
held in London in 1889. The second
in St. Louis in 1898. The third n
London in 1898. The fourth in Jeru-
salem, in Palestine, in 1904. The
fifth in Rome in 1907, and the sixth |
in Washintgonin May, 1910. At the |