Salt Lake Tribune | 1909-01-03 | Page 83 | American Sunday-School Union

American Sunday-School Union 1 Tho eighty-fourth annual report of the American Sunday-School union, which was organised in 1S24, carrios tho sad announcement of tho death of fwo of Its most prominent workers. These wero U10 president of tho union,. Morris Kctcham Jesup. who passed from this life January 22. 190S. after seventy-eight years of a highly useful life, and the Rev. .lames McMullln Crowell. D. D., secretary of tho missions of the American Sunday-School union for the past twcuty-flvo years. whose death occurcd January at tho age of SI years. IH The annual report of the Utah mission. IH of which James H. Worrall la tho general IH missionary, shows that since the first 0 IH January. 190S, nvo Sunday-schools hav IH t been organized and oue reorganized: that IH the missionary has marlo 745 vlsit3 tn IH I families; has distributed twenty-Hire IH Bibles, 109 testaments and 145 testa- lH ments and hymnals combined; Sunday IH 1 school lesson leaves and other Sunday- IH ' school periodicals and literature to tin fH value of $3i.94 were distributed; othei 1 religious and Sunday-school books dl3 trlbuted to the value of $47.50. A Sun-day-school union chapel, to cost, when -completed, together with tho lot on which It stands, S1500, Is being erected In Oak- jH ley. and repairs have been mado to tho extent of $40 on the Hopkins union chapel, situated at 23 I'ulmcr avenue, IH Salt Lake, and tho Phil, ps Congroga- tlona Endcavorers are now conducting ll the Sunday-school. il The report further states that tin Bl American Sunday-school Union property at Mllford. Utah, has been transferred to the Motliodlst Episcopal church and ll that a new church building is being ll j erected of concrete. Mrs. R. B. Il Rand, missionary of the union for Sum- ll mlt and Wasatch counties, reports that ll she has four Sunday-schools In the two nl counties, a homo department with forty ll members, and has distributed $50 worth M of religious literature, made 700 calls on families and traveled 1200 miles In the IH past eleven months. lH It is about ten years since the work ot IH ihe. American Sunday-school union was started in Utah. The first missionary sent here was a. man named Walker, and IH did the first effective work. He was her JH I about three years and was succoeded in 'H the work by tho present general mission- nry, James 31. Worrall, who has mot with signal Success and is still in charge and working for the establishment of moro il Sunday-school chapels.