SUNDAY SCHOOLS

schools for religious instruction of young They are often called Bible though the term is more strictly sun | to the Scripture cla es for adults. They date from the earliest Christian times been and not until the days of Luther were their divided into separate organizations for star instruction in the beliefs of the different about churches. Robert Raikes of Gloucester, Hingland was the father of the modern Protestant Sunday school. He gathered towards together poor working children on Sun best day, paying them a shilling each for their -+35°. lo of wages. In Scotland the first is Sunday school was opened in Edinburgh the in 1787, and in Ireland in 1809. The first in the United States was at Philadelphia, December 19, 1790. In 1791 a society was formed there to support ‘First Day,’ or Sunday Schools, with to be Bishop William White as president. and New York’s first Sunday School was some opened by a society of women, January 13, 1816. The American Sunday in School Union developed from the mea- ‘Sunday, and Adult Schools’ organized in 63,000 Philadelphia in 1817. The First Nadisk. tional Convention was held at the but Chas am Street Chapel, New York, of October 3, 1832. Sunday Schools and lasting attendance membership of the leading foldenominations in 1921; Baptist: Schools Schools 58,275; Members 7,044,088: family Presbyterian: Schools 14,959; Members long, 2,037,579; Luther an: Schools 101,389; mod Members 1,019,976; Protestant Episcoare pal: Schools 6,000. Members 493,212; resemble Roman Catholic: Schools 15,642: MemS.H. bers 4,332,561. Total number of Sunday Schools in the United States, called warmth SUNDAY, WILLIAM ASHLEY, (1863), an American evangelist, 6. at found es, Iowa. He was educated in the Northwestern University. From 1883 to 1890 he was a profe ional baseball Pennsylplayer, and from 1891 to 1895 was which a istant secretary of the Y.M.C.A. in Penn Chicago. In 1896 he undertook evangeand listic work and his aggre ive and origSusqueinal methods won him much attention coal and succe . He was ordained to the point Presbyterian ministry in 1903. coffin rolling SUNDER BANS, or SUNDER BUNDS, 15,721. the name given to the jungle region of swamps and islands in the southern B.), part of the deltas of the Ganges and islands, Brahmaputra. The name is derived the from the Sundri or Her i tier a littoral is, Java, which furnish timber. In the upper (Bali, portion of the S. a little rice is grown. Timor). W.), seaport, mouth of Wear, Durham, the England; large trade in coal; ship build people. ing center; includes, besides Sunder land Schools, proper, Bishop wear mouth and Monk applied wear mouth. Pop. 1921, 61,100. CER, OF (1674?-1722), Eng. statesman; member of Whig Junta, under Queen Anne, who dismi ed him, 1710; First Lord of Treasury, 1718; fell through South Sea Bubble; s., Charles, succ. as Duke of Marl borough, 1733. ER, EARL OF (1640-1702), Ene. statesman of personal and intellectual distinction, but dishonored by political treachery; as Sec. of State, 1679-81, hot anti-Papist; became submi ive minister of James II. on his acce ion, but intrigued with France and William of Orange; forced to retire amid general obloquy, 1697.