This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 Excerpt: ...I wish to remind you in concluding these words. Stephen Paxson when about thirty years old moved from Alabama into Illinois when it was still a Territory, and largely unsettled. Up to this time he had had but little mental or religious training. All by himself he had learned to spell out words so as to read passably ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 Excerpt: ...I wish to remind you in concluding these words. Stephen Paxson when about thirty years old moved from Alabama into Illinois when it was still a Territory, and largely unsettled. Up to this time he had had but little mental or religious training. All by himself he had learned to spell out words so as to read passably well in a newspaper. With great fondness for music, he was in the habit of playing the fiddle for neighborhood dances in the region about his log-cabin home. But for a pioneer Sunday-school organized by a missionary of this Society, this might have been the limit of Stephen Paxson's active usefulness in the community. That Sunday-school was started in the public school-house near him. His daughter was a pupil in it. She urged his attendance with her, and secured it through telling of the sweet singing they had there. Child-loving and child-like Stephen Paxson in that Sunday-school received the kingdom of God as a little child. Full of love for his newly found Master, and the agency which had brought him to the knowledge of Jesus, he went out into the neighboring districts and started other Sunday-schools of like character. Then he was secured as a missionary of this Society. In that work he persevered until he had organized more than fifteen hundred Sunday-schools, into which were gathered more than seventy thousand pupils and their teachers. On the beginning of these pioneer neighborhood Sunday-schools, churches of various denominations were founded, until, on a moral map of the country covered by him, his course could be tracked as in a blaze of spiritual light and warmth. His children and his grandchildren came to be workers with him in his chosen field, and some of them are still continuing his labors, as indeed are multitudes of others whom...
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All Editions of A History of the American Sunday-School Union and a Report of the Seventy-Fifth Anniversary at the Academy of Music, Philadelphia, May 24 and 25, 1899
