The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-07-08
SCRAP BOOK FOR TO-DAY

Delegates representing about three million teachers and over twenty-sev- en million scholars. enrolled in over 3oO,0OO Sunday schools will take part in the seventh Worlds Sunday School Convention, which opens to-day in Zurich, Switzerland.
 This vast army, representative of all nations and peoples, is the eutgrowth of movement that had it's inception only one and a third centuries ago.
 The United States leads the world in Sunday school membership, and the American delegation in Zurich will speak for a million and three-quarters of teachers and fifteen million pupils in about 175, 1000 schools
 Great Britain, where Sunday schools originated, has about 5O,0 schools, 750,OOO teachers, and 7,60o,- 900 scholars.
 Canada occupies third place in the about 100000 teachers, while the Sunday schools of the Dominion num- Der over 11,oOO.
 Germany has about 8, million young sters enrolled in the Protestant Sun day schools of the Empire, Austra1a- sia about three-Quarters of a million, and India and Africa, each have about half a million Sunday school children.
 Representation in the Worlds Con vention does not include the schools of the Roman Catholic and 1on-evan- gelical Protestant churches, and the pupils of these would add several mil lions to the total of the Sunday school army,
 Among the numerous other coun- tries represented in the convention are Sweden, with 35o,oO0 scholars; Den mars> with 100000; Finland, with 175,- 900; Ireland, with 200, 0,00o; Holland, with 210,0oO; Norway, with 10000; Switzerland, with 126, 900; Korea, with 135,OO0; China, with T5,oo0; Japan with 100000; the West Indies, wifa 5000; New Zealand, with 125, 900 and South America with 65.00O.
 Robert Raikes. the editor and pub fisher of the Gloucester, England, Journal, founded the first modern Sunday school at Gloucester in 1780. This pioneer institution was organiz- ed among the children of the Glouces- ter slurns. who were mostly employed in factories during the week, and on Sunday spent their time at play in the dirt and filth of the streets. The be- nevolent publisher employed four teachers, whom he paid to give lessons during the whole of the day. The children were invited to attend. the only requirement. being clean hands and faces. The influence of this school was so great that Raikes es- tablished others and the idea spread to neighboring cities. A letter writ ten by Raikes. and published in the Gentleman's Magazine in 1q84, a3- tracted widespread attention, and brought the inauguration of the worldwide Sunday school organiza- tions. In 17s4 the first Sunday schoo1-was opened in London, and two years later the Philadelphia Society for the Support of Sunday Schools opened 8 school in the Quaker City A school was started in Boston in 1791, and before the close of the cen tury the movement had spread to sew era1 cities in the United States and Canada.
 Catholic Sunday schools had their beginning as early as 15O0, when Car dtna1 Borromeo introduced Sunday in structicn of children at Milan. Twelve men are honored as the originat DTS of Sunday schools by the monument that stands in Essex street, Strand London, the roll of honor beginning with Cardinal Borromeo and ending with Raikes. In this case, however, the last has been placed first in the estimation of the world, for the Glou- cester publisher is usually referred to as ''the father of Sunday schools