CHAPTER II I
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL’S TRUE EVANGELISM
BY CHARLES GALLAUDET TRUMBULL, EDITOR “ THE SUNDAY SCHOOL TIMES,” PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA There are more than thirty million persons reported in the enrollment of the Sunday Schools of the world. But if all these persons, and all church members as well, knew what the Sunday School is really for, the enrollment would leap upward millions upon millions. The Sunday School is often spoken of as the child of the church, or the church of tomorrow, or a branch or depart ment of the church. I t is more than any and all of these. The true Sunday School is the Church of Jesus Christ en gaged in systematic study and teaching of the Word of God for three great purposes: to bring into the body of Christ those within the membership of the Sunday School who are not yet members of the church or of Christ; to train up those who are in Christ into a full-grown knowledge and appropria tion of the riches which are theirs because they are Christ’s; and to send out into the world fully equipped, victorious soul- winners who shall be Christ’s living epistles to those who do not yet know Him. The whole superb work of the Sunday School centers about its text-book, the Word of God. Bible study in the Sunday School is made the means of the three-fold purpose of the Sunday School. The Sunday School is the great or ganized movement of the Church of God for Bible study which has for its end salvation, character building, and equip ment for evangelism. Or to describe the work of the Sun- 45
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