Show 4 NICKEL DAY that extensive and active organization in the church the deseret sunday school union has annually a day appointed and known as nickel day 11 the last sunday in october of each year on that day it Is customary for each enrolled member of the sunday school to place in an envelope especially prepared tor for the purpose a nick l or a silver coin of greater value POT for this years collection the union has distributed one hundred and ten thousand envelopes each one having printed on it t the following contribution of to the deseret sunday school union and this stake S S organization nickel kickel sunday october 1897 amount cents please hand to your teacher next sunday without fail these envelopes will be distributed by the officers and teachers to the members of the schools composing the union in ample time to admit of their being returned by the time appointed on their return the envelopes will be unsealed and the name of the donor and amount contributed will be listed by the secretary of the school on the completion of the contribution the superintendents will remit to their stake superintendent the entire amount thus collected when each sunday school in a stake has done this the stake superintendent will deduct twenty per cent of the amount coge collected eted and remit the remaining four eur fifths to the general treasurer of the union george reynolds of this city the proportion retained by the stake or mission officers is used to aid them in their local work while that received by the union is used by them in the publication of that valuable sunday school help the leaflet of the eight hundred thousand leaflets published annually four hundred thousand axe are furnished to the schools gratuitously in addition to the leaflets circulars pamphlets book of mormon picture charts song books hymn books visiting books class registers sunday school guides treatise lectures and other works have been and are being published by the union out of the funds reaching the union the necessary office and traveling expenses are paid and the fostering indof of the general sunday school interest in all parts of the world where latter day saint sunday schools have been organized is attended to the union has an approximate membership of one hundred and ten thousand with some eight hundred organized schools in attending the annual stake sunday school conferences tens of thousands of miles are traveled by the members of the board also many thousands of miles by those who so kindly convey in their vehicles the visiting brethren to such points as are not reached by the railroads in view of this noble work we feel as has been expressed by some active bishops and others that the contributions to the nickel fund should not be confined to the members of the sunday schools alone but that the people generally should avail themselves of the invitation and privilege extended to them I 1 by the union and join in with their mites much of the success attending the collecting of the nickel fund depends upon the officers of the several schools who should present the subject truthfully and broadly and make it an object lesson of helpfulness in a glorious cause a means of spreading the gospel and an aid to the establishment of zion on the earth |