. The encyclopedia of Sunday schools and religious education (Volume 3); giving a world-wide view of the history and progress of the Sunday school and the development of religious chools are successfulnot only in rural districts, sparsely set-tled with persons of different religiousviews; they are also the one form of Biblestudy adapted to reformatories, homes,houses of detention, and other penal insti-tutions of State and Federal government,as well as to army posts, naval and lifesaving stations of the United States. Forin these, instruction must be nonsectar-ian, and union in p
. The encyclopedia of Sunday schools and religious education (Volume 3); giving a world-wide view of the history and progress of the Sunday school and the development of religious chools are successfulnot only in rural districts, sparsely set-tled with persons of different religiousviews; they are also the one form of Biblestudy adapted to reformatories, homes,houses of detention, and other penal insti-tutions of State and Federal government,as well as to army posts, naval and lifesaving stations of the United States. Forin these, instruction must be nonsectar-ian, and union in principle. No satis-factory census of union Sunday schoolshas been taken in any country. An im-perfect one was made about 1908 whichfound about 15,000 such schools in con-tinental United States, but representa-tives of these schools pointed out inaccu-racies in almost every state. Edwin Wilbur Eice. UNITARIAN CHURCH (ENGLAND),SUNDAY-SCHOOL WORK OF THE.— Unitarians were among the earliest pro-moters of Sunday schools in England. Thefounder of the first avowedly Unitarianchapel in London, the Eev. TheophilusLindsey (q. v.), while still vicar of Cat-terick in Yorkshire, established a Sun-. UNION SCHOOL OF RELIGION, NEW YORK CITY. An experiment in religious education. 1. Entering the chapel. 2. The buildings in which the class rooms are situated. Unitarian Church 1123 Unitarian Church day school in 1763, to save young peoplefrom the noisy and riotous games, al-ways accompanied with profane oaths, andgenerally ending in the alehouse or worse,in which Sunday was usually spent. Heset himself to train them in habits ofsobriety, integrity, brotherly love and asense of duty and devotedness to Heyes, a weaver of Little Lever,near Bolton, in 1774 or 1775, taught chil-dren the rudiments of education in theEnglish Presbyterian chapel at Ainsworth,and also instructed them in the cottage ofa neighbor. The efforts of some of theearly workers in Unitarian schools led toimportant devel
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