The development of the Sunday-school, 1780-1905 : the official report of the eleventh International Sunday-school Convention, Toronto, Canada, June 23-27, 1905 . ds of graduates have gone institutions, with just pride, glory in the partthey take in the making of manhood and womanhood,of civil and religious institutions. They celebrate thepraises of their alumni whose fame has miade their almamater illustrious. There is a modest school which has no commence-ments. Its faculty has no titles. Its pupils have norenown. Sometimes it is despised and rejected of in the members, th
The development of the Sunday-school, 1780-1905 : the official report of the eleventh International Sunday-school Convention, Toronto, Canada, June 23-27, 1905 . ds of graduates have gone institutions, with just pride, glory in the partthey take in the making of manhood and womanhood,of civil and religious institutions. They celebrate thepraises of their alumni whose fame has miade their almamater illustrious. There is a modest school which has no commence-ments. Its faculty has no titles. Its pupils have norenown. Sometimes it is despised and rejected of in the members, the quality and influence of itsalumni, coextensive with the globe, it yields the palmto none. When the Book of Life is read, when themysterious forces that make for character are revealed,when the quiet influence of personality is discerned,then we shall do homage not to the classic halls of theuniversity, not to the schoolhouse on the hill, but to thelittle Siinday-school around the comer. 144 Some Relationships of the Sunday-school The Relation of the Religious and Secular Pressto the Sunday-school Editor LEVI GILBERT, The Western Christian Advocate. Levi Gilbert, Few of us adequately realize thestupendous potency of the types,the incalculable influence of thepublic press in creating sentiment,in molding and directing publicopinion, in manufacturing convic-tions over continent-wide areas, sothat multitudes of people every-where are getting to think about thesame thing at the same time. Withthis great force it behooves us tosee that our Sunday-school causeis rightly allied. Let it be freely and graciously acknowledged, onbehalf of the best papers of our land, that they dogive much representation both to Sunday-schools andto other religious objects, that they give expositionsof the Sunday-school lesson each week, and that theypractically propose, as they best can, to report the pro-ceedings of such conventions as this. But this cannotbe said of all papers. Does it not
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