The development of the Sunday-school, 1780-1905 : the official report of the eleventh International Sunday-school Convention, Toronto, Canada, June 23-27, 1905 . God, and the power of theaffections has brought Christians to a sense of theirrelationship each to the other, to all men, and above allto Christ. This convention is suggestive of another gatheringnear at hand. Xext November there will meet inthe city of New York the official representatives oftwenty-five of the leading Christian denominations inthe United States of America, to give expression to thevisible unity in the family of God,
The development of the Sunday-school, 1780-1905 : the official report of the eleventh International Sunday-school Convention, Toronto, Canada, June 23-27, 1905 . God, and the power of theaffections has brought Christians to a sense of theirrelationship each to the other, to all men, and above allto Christ. This convention is suggestive of another gatheringnear at hand. Xext November there will meet inthe city of New York the official representatives oftwenty-five of the leading Christian denominations inthe United States of America, to give expression to thevisible unity in the family of God, and to ascertain howthey may give to this existing unity more definite formand more practical efficiency. The Interchurch Con-ference on Federation, when it meets, will owe muchto this International Sunday-school Convention, foryou have been for a generation drawing Christians ofall denominations together into that voluntary fellow-ship which is the appropriate forerunner of officialfellowship. More and more may Christians everywhere come tcthe understanding of the fact that they are part of thatgreat, gracious and mighty family which is the Churchof 246 The Relation of the Sunday-school to Evangelism The Sunday-school as an Evangelistic Force Dean FRANK K. SANDERS, Vale University, New Haven, Conn., U. S. A. It is an encouraging sign of thetimes when place is given in a greatpublic gathering to the broad andcandid consideration of the educa-tional and evangelistic values of theSunday-school. My purpose is notto review what has been achieved somuch as on the basis of that achieve-ment to indicate the opportunity ofto-day. F. K. Sanders, I shall use my terms in their broad- est sense. By the Sunday-school ismeant the school that ought to be the school for all ages,from little ones to adults, definable as the church organ-ized to promote the religious education of her wholeconstituency. By evangelism in the Sunday-school ismeant that use of its resources and opp
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