The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1916-02-10
MISSIONARY WORK
in SUNDAY SCHOOLS
CENTRAL DISTRICT
Interesting Description of the
Work by a Missionary i'm
the Field
Miller, s.. D., Jan. 3, 1911

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single force for the spreading Of the
principles Of Christian truth and
life. An institution so useful to
humanity calls for the most efficient
management and the application of
the best methods of teaching. There
is everywhere a steady progress to-
ward highest efficiency with the re-
suit that SUNDAY Schools are reach
ing larger numbers each year.
Business and professional people of
all walks of life are spending a por-
ton Of each week in the study of
the lessons and many r happily
Offering their services as teachers.
The result is spiritual, intellectual
and moral benefit to themselves and
increased efficiency and usefulness
in the Sunday Schools served by
them.
This efficiency is understood to be
the sort of effort included in the re-
quest made in Romans i2:1.
This efficiency of service is being
extended into the rural Sunday
School field with the most desirable
results.
With the Sunday School proving
SO great a force for righteousness it
becomes a most successful method
of missionary endeavor.
That there are many needy rural
communities the country over, un-
able. from M cause or another, to
support a regular church organiza-
ton is apparent to the most casual
investigator, and 1t is much desired
that those needy communities be
reached.
For nearly a hundred years an
INSTRUMENTATION organization.
The American sunday School Union.
backed by tens Of thousands of
Christian men and women of many
churches, has been sending its
missionaries into these unreached
communities to organize an develop
Sunday Schools fitted to the needs
of such neighborhoods.
That this society has enjoyed
large usefulness is attested by more
than 100. 900 Union Sunday Schools
organized among the transient
population of the unreached ruraI
communities and mining and lum'
Der camps of the United States,
The converts made in these little
Sunday Schools can be counted by
the hundred housa and, all of whom
have been urged to join a nearby
church of their choice. LITERAL,
thousands of churches have sprung
from these Sunday Schools and hun
dreds of men and women have gone
forth also to serve humanity al
clergymen, missionaries evangelist
and social workers.
}. For a number of years through
the thoughtfulness of ITS friends TIL
American Sunday School Union ha
maintained a missionary at Mile
with a territory comprising Beadle
Hand, HYDE, Hughes, Sully, Potte'
and a portion of Faux county. Ii
this field during the past clever
months six Union Sunday Schools
were re- organized and built up agail
in Hand county, one in Potte
county. and one in Hughes county
One new Sunday School was OF
ganized in Hand county, one Ii
Beadle county and one in HYDE
There are at present some thirt
Union Sunday Schools in this terri
tory to be cared for.
Two series of evangelistic meet
lings with seventeen convention an
one series of Bible readings wer
held, SO visits we're made to Sunda
Schools and officers; AZ members Sc
cured for the correspondence HON
Dept; 10 preaching stations opene
for pastors; $s5. 90 worth of religion
books and periodicals distributed
100 addresses and sermons made
8O3 visits made to families and ind
jviduals; and $3.50 miles Travelled
accomplishing the above labors. an
in carrying on personal work wit
many individuals looking to the
development into teachers in Sui
day Schools. missionaries and mini
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