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THE. SUNDAY SCHOOL. THE APPROACHING INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION AT ST. LOUIS. , The World' Workers to Meet In Exposl. . tlon Hall Amcrlo Contains Mora Than Half tho Sunday School Scholar of the v World, and Oroat Britain Standi Next. : Copyright, 1883. by 'American Press Asaocia- Twenty-one taillion ' Sunday - school teacher and scholars will be represented In at. ijoxm in late August and early First la the seventh interamronflrun day school convention, which meets on Aug. 81 and adjourns on Sept. 2. . Im- : B. F. JACOBS. mediately after it the second world's Sunday school convention will meet and sit till Sept. 6, and about the same time an informal convention will be held of the international field workers in the Sunday school line. , Of these threo the first is the historic and important one, and among its promoters are many of tViA mAfit. nial Stria A1l1inrniH t iLn world. ' . , : ' The numbers given above are but a round estimate from the known growth of the Sunday schools, but in exact fig ures the last report showed 2,051,070 teachers and 18,020,918 scholars, a grand total of 20,078,605, of whom but a few less than one-half, or 9,800,471, are in the United States. - Add the 830,23a in Can ada, and it will be seen that considerably more than half of all the Sunday school attendants of the world are in English speaking North America. In Great Brit ain and Ireland are 7,309,683 more, and every other country is so far behind that 11 J- n4. J I L a , , H D .WV ... .11 VA VVtULTIUiDVUi In truth, the Sunday school was from the start and still is an English-American institution, and whether it be decided that the great liberality of thought end progressive energy of this great race, this two natloned race, so to speak, bo the cause or the result of Sunday schools, or that each promotes the other, the fact is equally suggestive and instructive. Ger many comes next , with 431,221, then Sweden with 238.082. Holland with 157.. 070 and Switzerland with 89,409, after which the pumbers fall off with surpris ing Buddenness. In all Austria there are but 4,831, in all Russia but 0,405 and in all Spain but 8,400. Yet it is a pleasant surprise to read that Mexico and Central America contain 168,000 Sunday school attendants and South America 158.000. TTfl T". . 1 ' I 1 1 1 . . y uerever jngntm la me language the Sunday school is established us soon us a colony has children enough to form a class, and next in this line are the speak ers of German, Dutch and the Scandi navian tongues., Even faroff Australia, so recently a great country that old peo ple still think of it as Botanv Biiv. tlm land of exile for criminals, has 457,729 teachers and scholars, whilo little Now Zealand, but yesterday the homo of tho wild Maori, has 109,872. ' Hawaii-Nei (official name of the Sandwich Islands) has 17,258 and the English islands gener ally 10,800. It should be noted that many sections are omitted, , Very few Catholic churches . sent in any returns, and a large part of , the Episcopal schools are not included, as theynre given ,a different iiamo. So It is believed that the total of teaefcera " and pupils in the world exceeds 23,000.- . 000. Still more remarkable is the fact that of the 190,575 places of meeting re Sported the United States alone has 108, 1939; or Mftjly three-fifths of oil iii tho . woria,rcoine country genorally the ; . chorcLY) l, d and room IsafciufcAtmt, ,t, uaiies :8dll00jHi ar6 ofton TVi l u V tft138- In st Louis are It has beefs and pupils by the last ' rjip Oregf these will corider tho del 'elejieuAMheir guests awl ide guests of the city. ' -, ' St. Louis has devised and maintains in . great activity an original system of house to nonse visitation in connection with her Sunday school work. Her Sunday School union and the Missouri State as sociation ore rooking thorough prepara tions to receive and entertain the visit- iiiii EXPOSITION HILL, 6T. LOUIS, ors. While there are many who will be honored, special mention should be made of three men who are credited with hav ing done the chief work in organizing the present system of international les sons. This was done In 1872, and bis friends claim for B. F. Jaoobs of Chicago the honor of inventing it. His colabor ers in perfecting it, however, wore Dr. Edward Eggleston and Dr. (now Bishop) John Heyl Vincent, and it is probable that, like most devices of that nature, it was suggested by many persons. Mr. Jacobs is the son of a Baptist Sun day school superintendent and was born at Paterson, N. J., in 1835. At the age of 19 he went to Chicago and soon after engaged in the wholesale fruit business. l Later he became a dealer in real estate and has been very successful. From boyhood he was active in Sunday school work and is now noted among the work ers of the world, During the war, he was secretary for the northwest of the Chris tian commission and has held various positions since, being at present chair man of the executive committee of tho iuternationaHSunday school convention and president of the Hlinois State Cen tral BgsociAtinix. M ".. 'Uiv i..,'. . i JjltUUllEHSIJitiUJftl, mm - -Tar . Professor Hinds of Cumberland uni versity says, "Dr. Vincent invented the lesson system, Dr. Eggleaton showed Its practicability -and adaptability, but it was B. F. Jacobs who conceived the idea ef s uniform lesson for the. whole coun try." " When the completed scheme was presented in the convention of 1872 at Indianapolis it was received with a unanimous aye and enthusiastic cheering, and before the vote conM be announced the whole assemblage rose and by one mighty impulse joined in singing "Praise God from whom all blessings flow." John Heyl Vincent was born in Tus caloosa, Ala., Feb. 23, 1832. His career eriean. Ho la spoken of as apostle -o-hauiocracx. oi tnougnt and has done as much to popularize learning as any other man. He received his education in Pennsyl vania and began to preach in the Methodist church at the ago of 18. At 20 he became a member of the New Jer sey conference and soon after was trans ferred to the Rock River conference. His life has since been a Bteady advance, and In 1883 he was elected a bishop, of the Methodist Episcopal church. , He ia usually considered the originator of the Chautaufjuan system of teaching and has a national reputation as chancellor of the Chautanquan circle. The sessions of tho convention will be held in Exposition hall morning, after noon and evening, so the delegates will have but little time for amusement, but excursions will be arranged. The dele gates from tho United .States will be equal to four times the representation in congress, as nearly as can be allotted, but there is no limit fixed to those from foreign lands, it being considered that distance will make a sufficient limit. All Sunday school unions or other associa tions in all foreign countries will name delegates as they may desire. And truly it will be an inspiring sight When all are gathored in the great hall and the thoughtful spectator runs over in his mind the wonderful growth Bince 1780. It was in that year and on July 10 that Robert Raikeg organized his first Sunday school in tho house of Mrs. King in St. Catherine street, Gloucester, from which date and point it is usual to count the history of modern Sunday schools. It is, however, a fact that schools of some kind for Sunday reading and instruction have existed from the ear- , BISHOP JOHN tl. VINCENT. Hest times. A Jewish tradition runs to the effect that Methuselah instructed his ilescendunts in tho mislma (or record continuous from Adam) on set tlayS for several hundred years; that Abraham also taught, dud that Jacob was a good Sunday school attendant while .Esan played trunnt. This may bo tradition only, but Josephus records that from the time of Moses until this day the Jews assembled on the Sabba'th for instruc tion in the law, and the prophets and Bi ble allusions confirm it. . -It iscortain that Bible schools for chil dren existed among the early Christians, and Mosheim says that thoy established a . school wherever they formed a church. Why these schools were dis continued it is not easy to explain, but it is certain that they were and that in time it came to be thought a violation of church law to teach children the creed in the vulgar tongue, so called that is, the language of everyday speech. Latin had become a dead language, but all the formularies of the church were still written in it. When the inquisitors first went among the Waldenses, they were amazed to learn that the children could report all the lessons of the church and recite long passages of Scripture in thair everyday dialoct, .anil it was re-, tirt) as Kbniofltfiig very serious. - It is aluo certain that other dissenting' secw tangut tneir cuuciren in classes and in tho common tongue, and Count Zin zendorf records that about 1727 there was a great revival of child teaching among the Moravian brethren. In 1003 a plan of teaching children was author ized in England, and lu 1500 the Scottish kirk established regular Sunday schools. It also appears that Rev. Joseph Alloine had a school nt Bath in 1605 and that such schools existed at Roxbury, Mass., In 1674, in Norwich, Conn., in 1090, in Plymouth in 1080 and in various other places. I , Nevertheless the credit, is justly due Mr. Raikes and his colaborers, and it is an interesting fact that he gives the whole credit to Hannah Ball, a young Wesleyan who established a school at High Wycombe in 1769. Robert Raikes was born at Gloucester in 1735 nnd died there in 1811. ne was editor and pub lisher of tho Gloucester Journal, and his first plan for Sunday schools was to em ploy poor women as teachers, to whom lie paid a shilling per day. So many vol unteers offered that the pay system was soon discontinued, wul the rest of the history ia too well known to need recital here. , J. n. Bkapi.b. Mis Rosalie Gill, who baa attained mica success as tin artist, Ua Baltimore girl, the daughter of the late Owen Gill, the first importer of tea in this country. Miss Gill studied with Clm.se and since her residence In London during the paxt 10 years has been a favorite pupil of Whistler. The emperor of Russia possesses 44 nnl forma, one of which he lias never worn vis, that of a Huasiitu field marshal Al though he in commauder In chief of th army, bin majesty bus vowed never to wear the luHignia of a field marshal until this grade shall have been conferred upon him by his brother field marshals aftar a rlo torloua war. Uue of the most Interesting features In the horticultural exhibit of the World's fair grounds is a century plant tn bloom, Among the article exhibited by the French government at the World'a fair Is a parasol once carried by AlarUia Washington, THE PEACE BELL8 OF BROOKLINE: Oar heart were waiting, bleeding, waiting, With tremblintr, longing, hope and fear, Our very breaths In silence bating. And while we prayed, "God's hand be staid Let war be over, peace appeari". Through all the air, with cadence fine. Came pealiiay bells from fair Brooklino: ' 'Teace ia signed at Appomattox! '.Mattox! 'Mattoil Peace la signed at Appomattox!" - From spire to spire the tidings spring As sunbeams flash o'er peaks of snow. While strong men weep or pray or sing. And each man's mood to all seems good, ' . For in that happy, golden glow To God all grateful hearts incline. While shouts the bells of fair Brookline: "Peace is signed at Appomattox! Jlattox! 'Mattox! ' Peace Is signed at Appomattox!" -J(JWa children rang that glorious peal In Ugh too me gluo tin cm u o'er. As men and women now .they feel ".' How blest were they that happy day To ring the bells which tidings bore , That brother brother fought do morel '' And still they'll thrill in life's decline When sound the bells of fair Brookline, For ne'er in memory's dreams shall cease That peal seraphio ringing: "Peace! Peace was signed at Appomattox! 'llattoxl 'Mattoi! Peace was signed at Appomattox! ' , ; , Harper's Bazar. Retaining Youth In Mature Life. Not only does the vivacity, tho en thusiasm, which belongs to youth carry the man who retains it in middle age over difficulties, but it brings him the sympathy and applause of the world, which is sometimes refused to more worthy men. We honor Bacon, but we give our af fection to Charles Lamb. Washington, Jefferson, ' Adams and Webster com manded the homage and veneration of thenation, but it loved Clay; Lincoln and Blaine, with all of their faults. ' The tendency of American life is to force our young people into shrewd adults, who try anxiously to rid them selves of impulse and emotion. It is a common sarcasm among the young that their fathers and mothers en joy jokes and are touched by sentiment which their children are finite too old to care for. - ' ' But may not the fin de siecle boys and girls be losing an element of strength when they forget how to weep and make merry. Youth's Companion. Effect or Faith In Times of Sickness. The effect of belief or faith, the effect of mind over the matter of the body, is one of the mysterious tilings in all sci ence. It is unquestionably a fact, dem onstrated beyond all dispute by thou sands of observed case Lonibefare it was uuuimeu or Btuuieu oy sciennno men it was commonly known, and that, too, among races of little mental devel opment. Who shall say when the first enemy prayed his enemy todeath-nmong the natives of the South Sea islands? Who can tell when the first Obi man "putcunjer" on him who had defied him? The religious mysterios of vanished na tions are full of recorded occurrences that may only be explained by this ex traordinary power. Cyrus Edson, M. D., in North American Review. It is agreed by medical authorities that the virulence of an epidemio may be increased by the element of fear in the public mind. The canyon of the Colorado is 800 miles long, and tho cliffs on either side aro from. 6,000 to 0,000 feet above the water. ' ' J. 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