Salt Lake Tribune | 1905-01-01 | Page 43 | Special Edition, Sunday School Work

SUNDAY SCHOOL WORK. i The American Sunday School Union Work in Utai.. The American Sunday-School union of Philadelphia. Pa., began its Sunday-school Sunday-school missionary work eighty years ago. During that time It has organized on sun average four schools for each day Of those years. Nine years ago Rev. E. G. Fowler was appointed mlrslonary l for Utah, Wyoming and Nevada. For several years he was the only reprc-sentatlve reprc-sentatlve of the union In the State. During Dur-ing that time over sixty-five schools have been organized Several have tie-veloped tie-veloped Into churches, ar.d seven church buildings have grown out of the work. Seventeen whools have been turneet over to the various denominations. The work of the union is of the pioneer kind The missionary goes into neglect- ed communities and destitute of the word1 of God; gathers the children to-gether to-gether In Bible classes end furnisher them with Bibles and other religious literature The union Is strictly ur.de-nominationnl. ur.de-nominationnl. and works among people , to whom the churches do not. an1 can-not can-not go. W here there are a few of differ- H ent denominations, or of no creed, it unites them In the sacred purpose of giving religious Instruction to the iffH young. It is the only missionary society H that is organized for the su'e purpose oX ,ggggJ saving th children. As a promoter of t patriotism It invites every lover of the American flag to sustain its work. Not tfH long ago In a Colorado miring camp, a tJ mob of foreigners dragged the flag In the streets. The American Sunday-School Sunday-School union missionary went tn that iJ town, organized the children Into a ,i Sunday-school, and a few months later rnar.-heil through the in.-, I r 1 ;.i .. carrying car-rying ihe flag at the head of the proces- tJ slon. on their way to a Sunday-School tJ The work Is sustained In this State, as In all parts of the United States, by contributions of benevolent people. Rev E. G. Fowler has recentb resigned on account of ill-health, and Rev James H. Worrall has been appointed to su,- ceeed him. Another missionary will be ,H appointed In the near future. All com- t munltles regarding the work of the union should be addrosd to Rev tH James H. Worrall. P'.'ci West Third ,H South, Salt Lake City, Utah, or Super- Intendent W. L. De Groff. 1122 Chestnut tH street, Philadelphia, Pa. (