MORGAN'S HISTORY OF THE NEW JERSEY CONFERENCE Page 178

CHAPTER V. 

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SUNDAY-SCHOOL WORK

wayfaring man, though a fool, may not err therein." There is not a truth underlying our salvation, the force of which a child cannot feel. Obedience is what God demands. Can they obey? If they can be taught to obey the creature why not the Creator? It is the mission of childhood to obey. Why not learn then in the school of the Great Teacher? Are there not fewer hindrances in them to obedience than in the older ones? We therefore declare the possibility and the necessity of the conversion of our children. On running over the reports of the last four years we find the following results:

Missionary Money.	Sunday-School Expenses.	Sunday-Schools.	Superintendents.
1881 - $15.26	$902.20	50	62
1882 - 64.70	832.50	49	59
1883 - 79.55	831.09	51	67
1884 - 63.25	966.63	52	193 including officers

Teachers.	Scholars.	Volumes in Library.
1881 - 280	2,333	11,453
1882 - 173	2,228	10,978
1883 - 289	2,240	10,874
1884 - 243	1,940	9,745

Totals - Missionary money, $20,094; Sunday-school expenses, $3,660.51; superintendents, 52; teachers, 997; scholars, 2,021; volumes in library, 9,845; given to Hayti, $1,370; benevolence, $20.00; education, $13.25; conversions, 100. (Some of these reports have heretofore not been separate, hence their meager appearance.)

Since making the report we have received a communication from the Secretary of Sunday-school Union, and appreciate and concur in the expressions therein contained.

Respectfully submitted,

J. H. Morgan,
J. H. Pierce,
W. M. Middleton.

TEMPERANCE - 1873.

To the Bishop and Conference:

We, your committee to whom was referred the subject of temperance, report the following:

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