CONGREGATION BY POST.
A "congregation" of 11,385 young people is claimed by the postal Sunday schools movement, which ha* had its annual meeting ip Sydney, Australia. Founded six years ago, it had 200 pupils at the end of the first year. Since then there has been an average annual increase of 2400. Children of cattle and sheep men, lighthouse-keepers, bullock drivers, wheat farmers, country post masters, Government officials in lonely outposts, and settlers of all classes share the postal lessons. The movement has spread to New Zealand, Jtfva, New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Fiji, Ocean Island, India and Africa. ,
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 306, 28 December 1939, Page 10
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99CONGREGATION BY POST. Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 306, 28 December 1939, Page 10
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