Religion: Sunday Schools

Every day at 11:45 am. the office force at the headquarters of the World's Sunday School Association in Manhattan assembles for a brief prayer, "to thank our Heavenly Father for His bounties and to ask His blessing upon the Sunday School work in all the world." Last week their chorus surged louder, augmented by the managers of the North American Board, who had assembled for their semi-annual meeting. The managers praised God for the fact that, after exactly 150 years of Sunday School activity,* 33,751,623 scholars were attending 320,620 evangelical Sunday Schools...

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