A Great Movement

According to the statistici! report of the Sunday schoolsin tlie United States rendered at the late International Convention held in Chicago, there lias been an increase in the scholar tnembership of all the Sunday Schools in the United Statessince 1884 of 805,645. It U Ínter - esting to know by what agencies this increase has been securcd for it shows th.it a gieat niissionary work has been done to bnus an arniy of 365,000 into active tnembership with our Sunday Schools. No more important work can be conceived of, for it has todo with the destinv of our entile country. The three last Annual Kcports of the American Sunday-School Union, the old undenouiinatlonal society, "that cared lor the childrcn," who are provided tbr by no one else, show that ince 1884, it has broujflit ls.",i31 cbildxen into t.'.UT new Sunday Schools, a number equal to 5,000 more tlia.ii onc-half of all the increase reported as havinj; been securcd by this and all otlier ayencies duriiif; tlicíu three years years. But this Americuii Sniiday-Sehool Union did more than this - it aided 4,825 other schools, which have 46,774 teachers and 515,714 scholars - so that in these three years it reached 9,872 communities and Sunday Schools, and 700,747 children, and youth, and then reaided and revisited these schools 9,245 time?, besides makins; 93,584 visita to familie?, supplying 45,019 destitute persons with the Kriptares and holding 27,247 religious meetings. Th.it therc is great need for more of just such work in our cnuntrj', is evident froin the fact that according to the International Secretan' report there are but 8,031,478 scholars in all the Sundiiy Schools in the United State, that report to this conveution, which the clulrman of the executlve eommittee sald was live per cent, too smail. If live lier cent. were ndded, we have 8,436,201 fcholars in all our Sunday Schools. Hut the statement was made that 20 per cent. should be deducted for those over 21 and ander six years of aga and Ihose who attend more than one school and are eounled twice; which deducted wonld leave 6,748,961 chillen and youth of school age in all our Sunday Schools, while there are are at least 9,000,00O more children of that ajre in our country, and very likely most of them atKnd no Sunday School. Truly the American Sunday School Uuion is doiüg a jrreat work, lor present and future America, for which there is most urgent need. Any who would lik to read its last annual report, or aid its work by gift of funds mav send to l.')l Miidiaon street, Chicago, 111.