A Russian Sunday School’s Success

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Oct 9, 1884

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 38.

A Russian Sunday School’s Success

At Dupat, in Russia, is a Sunday-school that has prospered almost miraculously. It was begun in a private house, for the benefit of two Jewish children whose mother was in prison. Nearly every one said it was sure to fail; it disappointed them by succeeding—succeeding wonderfully. The twenty-six teachers are already too few for the more than four hundred scholars in attendance. The officers and teachers are all new in Sunday-school work—even the pastor of the church never saw a Sunday-school before—but they conduct it with much skill. But for this school the children would be brought up only as nihilists and atheists.—Ex.