PRAISE FOR SUNDAY SCHOOLS.

Lake County Press, Issue 2990, 17 May 1923, Page 3

PRAISE FOR SUNDAY SCHOOLS.

Mr Lloyd George, speaking at the annual meeting of the Sunday School Uaicn at the City Temple, said that he notioed that too union had selected 6,000 Sunday eohool pupils for emigration to Australia. Ha envie. l tb se children their futuro in that su:iny continent, with its infinite resources. It was one whioh any children might envy. Sunday schools were the universities of the people. In Britain there were 7,000,000 teachers and scholars, and in the whole world 80,000,000. He would rather trust the destiny of a people to a nation with 7,000,000 of its children trainod in Sunday schools than a nation which had not them Thera was no better training for politicians than Sunday schools. In Wales thara was no age limit for Sunday school scholars, and when he was last in Wales he visited his old Sunday school, where the youngest member of one olass was forty-five, and others rangad to eighty.