The Recent Sunday-School Convention
The recent Sunday-school convention in Washington was a great event, marked with tremendous enthusiasm. More than four thousand persons were enrolled as members of the convention; then 2,780 registered delegates, and over 1,200 enrolled visitors. Besides this there were thousands of Washington attendants. Twenty-four different countries were represented, and forty-seven denominations; one hundred and seventy-five missionaries attended the convention. The convention reported a gain of almost three million in Sunday-school enrolment since the report in 1907, making the world's total membership of Sunday-schools nearly twenty-eight million; and yet there is but one Sunday-school to every 5,683 persons in the world; while the average Sunday-school the world around numbers only ninety-seven members. How few are studying the Word, even for a little time.