The history of Methodism [electronic resource] . t used in aiding Sunday schools underplans and restrictions provided by said committee. The greatest hindrance to the success of the department hasbeen the lack of money in some places, arising frequentlyfrom the pressing demands for rebuilding and repairingthe ruined churches and schools. The progress, however,has been steady, and the foundations have been so stronglylaid that there is every ground for most hopeful anticipation. The following table shows the numerical growth, by dec-ades, of the Sunday school work since 1866, the year in whichS
The history of Methodism [electronic resource] . t used in aiding Sunday schools underplans and restrictions provided by said committee. The greatest hindrance to the success of the department hasbeen the lack of money in some places, arising frequentlyfrom the pressing demands for rebuilding and repairingthe ruined churches and schools. The progress, however,has been steady, and the foundations have been so stronglylaid that there is every ground for most hopeful anticipation. The following table shows the numerical growth, by dec-ades, of the Sunday school work since 1866, the year in whichSunday school statistics were first printed in the GeneralMinutes: Years. No. of Schools. Increase. Teachers. Increase. Scholars. Increase. 1866 3,585 24,489 158,458 1876 7,449 3,864 49,8oS 25,319 360,601 202,143 1886 ir,177 3,728 27,709 612,519 251,918 1896 13,997 2,820 103,278 25,76l 839,486 226,769 1338 American Methodism The Sunday school periodical literature is worthy of spe-cial mention, the editors having been chosen on the ground. BISHOP ATTICUS G. School Secretary, 1870-1878. of special literary ability and peculiar personal fitness forthe duties of the office. Ever since the organization of the Periodical Literature 1339 Methodist Episcopal Church, South, the issues of the Sundayschool press have been of an exalted character. The Sunday School Magazine was first published in 1870,when Rev- Dr. A. G. Haygood -was Sunday school secretary-It was at first a thirty-two-page monthly, but so popular did itbecome that it was subsequently enlarged to sixty-four contains the International Lessons, Normal Department,
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