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Show LONG RECORD OF GOOD WORK American Sunday School Union Has Completed Its 106th Year of ServiceIts Serv-iceIts Activities. The American Sunday School union, oldest Sunday-school organisation In the country, has Just completed Its 100th year of service. Since Its founding, found-ing, the Christian Work (undenominational) (undenomina-tional) tells us, the union has organized organ-ized 138,000 Sunday schools, Into which It has gathered B.flOO.OOO pupils. During the Inst year It either organized organ-ized or reorganized 1,800 schools, Issued Is-sued a dozen Sunduy-scliool periodicals, periodi-cals, with a circulation of some 2,000,-000, 2,000,-000, nnd published 200,000 books, booklets book-lets and other Sunday-school requisites. requi-sites. Further, "More than five thousand persons, young and old, have professed conversion conver-sion in eonnectlon with Its work during dur-ing the past yeor, and forty-seven churches of various denominations have grown out of its schools. Its work covers the whole United States and Is supported by some twenty-iflve thousand thou-sand givers people who believe that union, evangelical work of this sort Is the salvation of our outlying rural districts." dis-tricts." Literary Digest. |