Sunday-School Conversions in Methodism
The "Christian Advocate" declares that four fifths of the membership of the church is recruited from the ranks of the Sunday-school. From 1846 to 1909 4,712,225 conversions were reported from the Sunday-schools by the pastors, an average of 73,600 per year. The statistics for 1909 report 154,346 conversions in the Sunday-schools, and 63,047 net gain in the total membership of the church. That is, the deaths and excommunications were less than one half of the conversions from the Sunday-school, on the supposition that there were no other conversions from other sources. This of course has to do with the Sunday-schools of the Methodist Church alone.