INDIANA TOWNS THAT HAVE 500, OR OVER, INHABITANTS. Decatur, Adams county........ ....... New Haven, Allen county..... Charleston, Clarke county........... Staunton, Clay county..... 802 2,164 1,514 1,760 905 628 971 860 1,187 624 2,481 1,660 923 Kentland, Newton county.. Union City, Randolph county....... 2,765 2,880 836 906 3,227 716 Farmland, Randolph county... 532 1,439 SABBATH SCHOOLS. -:0: The first Sabbath School that we have been able to find a record of, was established in the year 1769 in the town of Wycumbe, England, by a young Methodist lady by the name of Hannah Ball. A few years after this another young lady who afterwards became the wife of Samuel Bradburn, suggested the idea of Sabbath Schools to Robert Rakes. He being a man of quick perception and great energy saw at once the advantages to be gained by schools of this kind. He immedi ately set to work and organized a school in the city of Gloucester, England, and through his labors and influence other cities of that country were induced to establish Sabbath Schools and work for the Sunday School interest. The first Sabbath School established in the United States was organized by Bishop Asbury, in the year 1786, in Hanover County, Va., at the house of Mr. Thomas Cranshaw. The progress of Sabbath Schools in the United States until about the year 1830, was rather slow, as but few of the Christian denominations up to that time had become interested in the Sunday School cause. But one by one, the different organizations of Christians have gradually adopted the institution of Sabbath Schools, till now, the popular method of all churches for the religious training of the young is the Sunday School. Now, in every land and nation, where Christian people reside, the Sabbath School cause is advancing. The organization of Sabbath Schools, Remember one and all, Was first established in Wycumbe, After this Miss Bradburn |