THE SUNDAY SCHOOLS OF THE WORLD.
THE statistics presented at the Sunday school convention in St. Louis show that the United States leads, with 123,173 Sunday schools, 1,305,949 teachers, and 9,718,422 scholars; next come England and Wales, with 37,201 Sunday schools, 585,457 teachers, and 5,976,537 scholars; Canada, with 8,336 schools, 69,521 teachers, and 576,064 scholars. Finland has 6,853 schools, with 11,534 teachers and 147,134 scholars; Switzerland, 6,637 schools, 6,916 teachers, and 113,382 scholars; Scotland, 6,275 schools, 62,994 teachers, and 694,860 scholars; Germany, 5,900 schools, 34,983 teachers, and 749,736 scholars; Sweden, 5,750 schools, 17,200 teachers, and 242,150 scholars; Australasia, 4,766 schools, 54,211 teachers, and 586,029 scholars; Ireland, 3,584 schools, 27,740 teachers, and 308,516 scholars; West Indies, 2,185 schools, 9,673 teachers, and 110,233 scholars; Holland, 1,560 schools, 4,600 teachers, and 163,000 scholars; Fiji Islands, 1,474 schools, 2,700 teachers, and 42,909 scholars; France, 1,450 schools, 3,800 teachers, and 60,000 scholars. These are all that have over 1,000 schools. Other countries are in the following order: Norway and Central America and Mexico, each 550 schools; Denmark, 506; Italy, 403; Newfoundland and Labrador, 359; South America, 350; Hawaiian Islands, 230; other islands in the Pacific, 210; Austria, 212; Belgium, 89; Spain, 88; Russia, 83; European Turkey, 35; Portugal, 11, and Greece, 4. There are no reports from most of the foreign mission fields—from Africa, India, China, Japan, Asiatic Turkey, and Persia, etc. The total given is 213,824 schools, 2,216,271 teachers, and 19,855,994 pupils.—Independent.