Article February 15, 1900 Issue

Among the Churches

Work of the Denver Sunday School.

with contributions from Martha E. Killie, C. L. R.

I have just read the letter from the Sunday School of the Second Church of Christ, Scientist, of Baltimore, Md., in which the writer says, "Wont you please ask all the little workers to tell us something of their work from time to time." I gladly respond to the invitation to speak a word for our Denver Sunday School.

This school has enrolled about two hundred and fifty children, with an average attendance of over two hundred, and is divided into twenty-two classes.

Our church, which seats about eight hundred, is becoming too small to hold our congregations, and funds are being raised to build a much larger one. The last Sabbath of each month is the children's contribution day to the building fund, and the money which they have earned and saved for this purpose through the month, is brought in. In December, when the thought of holiday gifts was making heavy demands on the nickels and dimes, their gift to the church was sixty-six dollars. The happy, beaming faces with which these offerings were brought testified that the scientific truth of Jesus' words, "It is more blessed to give than to receive," was being demonstrated. Aside from this, they pay fifteen dollars per month toward the church support. Their generous contributions brighten the church with palms and beautiful flowers for the Sabbath, and also pay for two hundred copies of the Sentinel, which are distributed through the classes. Words are inadequate to express our gratitude for these papers, and the missionary work they are doing. The children are imbued with the thought that they are not to be destroyed, but after they are read, are to be loaned to friends or patients or sent wherever they will do good.

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