Church at Home and Abroad, The (July - Dec1898) . stood at thebeginning of 1897—to a million and a half, on orbefore April 1, 1901. The necessity for such effortis illustrated by the fact that while the school pop-ulation of the United States in 1897 was 21,082,472,only 12,288,153, or less than 60 hundredths, wereenrolled in the Sunday-schools. J The 76 Sabbath-school missionaries, who la-bored last year in 29 States and Territories, organ-ized 1028 schools and reorganized 312, and intothese schools gathered 51,414 teachers and mission school is, wherever possible, placedunder the
Church at Home and Abroad, The (July - Dec1898) . stood at thebeginning of 1897—to a million and a half, on orbefore April 1, 1901. The necessity for such effortis illustrated by the fact that while the school pop-ulation of the United States in 1897 was 21,082,472,only 12,288,153, or less than 60 hundredths, wereenrolled in the Sunday-schools. J The 76 Sabbath-school missionaries, who la-bored last year in 29 States and Territories, organ-ized 1028 schools and reorganized 312, and intothese schools gathered 51,414 teachers and mission school is, wherever possible, placedunder the care of the nearest Presbyterian Church-In connection with the 81,239 house-to-housevisitations made last year, clothing to the value of$2500 was distributed to the needy. Many childrenare thus enabled to attend Sabbath-school duringthe winter, who would otherwise have remained athome. They visit from house to house, bring to thelonely disciple in his spiritual isolation Christiangreeting and encouragement, present Christ to the J. A. Worden,. 1898.] BOARD OF PUBLICATION AND SABBATH-SCHOOL WORK. 253
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