. Brethren's Almanac (1876). many others.— 1 Jut if any of those who are wont to be forward 1 contradiction say that these books do not belong13 us, but to the Jews, and should assert that we 2 vain profess to have learnt our religion from1 hem, let him know, as he may from those veryH bings which are written in these books, that not[1 0 them, but to us, does the doctrine of them re-M iT. That the books relating to our religion are . J this day preserved among the Jews, has been a^^ rork of Divine Providence on our behalf; for lest^1 ly producing them out of the church, we shouldl\ ive occasio
. Brethren's Almanac (1876). many others.— 1 Jut if any of those who are wont to be forward 1 contradiction say that these books do not belong13 us, but to the Jews, and should assert that we 2 vain profess to have learnt our religion from1 hem, let him know, as he may from those veryH bings which are written in these books, that not[1 0 them, but to us, does the doctrine of them re-M iT. That the books relating to our religion are . J this day preserved among the Jews, has been a^^ rork of Divine Providence on our behalf; for lest^1 ly producing them out of the church, we shouldl\ ive occasion to those who wish to slander us to^1 harge us with fraud, we demand that they be pro-— ucedfrom the synagogue of the Jews, that fromhe very books still preserved among them itnight clearly and evidently appear, that the lawswei rhich were written by holy men for instructionj^t lertain to us. — m-m «m • ^^ Sunday Schools. We suppose it will startle some of our brethren^hen we tell them that the first Sunday School. ever introduced, was started by the Brethren, butfacts are stubborn things, when we wish to avoidthem, but in this one, we glory as it will effectu-ally remove that imaginary stigma cast upon theinstitution by saying, In this thing, like manyothers, we are patterning after the world. Someof our early brethren manifested a zeal and spiritof enterprise that ought now to put us to shamewhen we see and learn how little we have doneand are now doing The great ^American Encyclopedia,^* in theiroccount of the Brethren or Dunker Church,says : In the year 1740, or about that time, fortyyears before the present general system of SundaySchool intsruction was introduced, Robert Raikesand Ludwig Hoecker, (Bro. Obed), established aSunday School which was maintained upwards ofthirty years. This makes about 136 years since SundaySchools were introduced among the Brethren, andwhere are we to-day ? We made an effort to get some statistics to showthe nature and extent of the
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