Religion: Sunday Schools
Every day at 11:45 am. the office force at the headquarters of the World's Sunday School Association in Manhattan assembles for a brief prayer, "to thank our Heavenly Father for His bounties and to ask His blessing upon the Sunday School work in all the world." Last week their chorus surged louder, augmented by the managers of the North American Board, who had assembled for their semi-annual meeting. The managers praised God for the fact that, after exactly 150 years of Sunday School activity,* 33,751,623 scholars were attending 320,620 evangelical Sunday Schools in every part of the world. They also exhorted the scholars to send their pastors, superintendents or missionary superintendents to the eleventh convention of the World's Sunday School Association in July 1932 at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, "the best evangelized Latin city in the world."
*Founder of Sunday Schools was Robert Raikes of Gloucester, England. His bronze statue is in London on the Thames Embankment. Last June Toronto unveiled a duplicate statue.
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