Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1892 — SUNDAY-SCHOOL UNION. [ARTICLE]

SUNDAY-SCHOOL UNION.

Sixty-eighth Annual Meeting of the Association Held In Washington. The sixty-eighth anniversary of the American Sunday-school Union was held in Washington; D. C. The-Hon. William Strong, the retired Justice of the United States Supreme Court, presided. . The Rev. Dr. James M. Crowell of Philadelphia presented the annual report. Sixteen hundred and sixtyfour new Sunday schools have been established, with 7,018 teachers and 50,551 scholars. Addresses were made by the Rev. J. S. McCullagh of Kentucky, W. K. de Gross of Kansas, and the Rev. B. W. Chidlaw, D. D., of Ohio. The latter is 85 years old, and his college diploma at Miami University was signed fifty-nine years ago by the Rev. Dr. Scott, father of Mrs. President Harrison, who, though 94 years of age, was upon the platform and pronounced the benediction.