English: THE KOENIGSBERG SUNDAY SCHOOL.
Identifier: juvenileinstruct3720geor (find matches)
Title: Juvenile Instructor
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: George Quayle Cannon 1827 – 1901 Deseret Sunday School Union (1872-1971)
Subjects: Deseret Sunday School Union (1872-1971) -- Periodicals Church periodicals
Publisher: Salt Lake City George Q. Cannon Deseret Sunday School Union 1866-1929
Contributing Library: Church History Library, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Digitizing Sponsor: Corporation of the Presiding Bishop, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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of whom hadlarge families. The Elders, who knewthe value of the Sunday Schools andthe help they were at home, decidedthat an organization of this kind wouldbe invaluable to the now flourishinglittle branch, soon Sunday, March 11, 1900, a Sunday School was organizedwith about twenty members, and ElderJ. E. Heppler, who had come to takethe place of Elder Clauson, was sus-tained as superintendent. The Saints and friends took a greatinterest in the school and by the end ofApril its members had grov/n to thirty-five. In September of the same yearElder Heppler was called away fromKoenigsberg and Elder T. W. Jones wassustained as his successor. On March10, 1901, Elder Jones having been re-leased to return home. Elder R. RayIrvine was appointed superintendentand the work went on uninterruptedly.The interest in the work and the mem-bership steadily increased, making amove into a larger hall necessary, andby the end of March, 1901, the schoolhad sixty members. When everything was in good work-
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624 THE JUVENILE INSTRUCTOR. ing order, classes regularly organizedand prospects very bright the Eldersagain had the misfortune in May, 1901,to lose their hall. For about a monthit was impossible to find a suitable hall.Consequently no Sunday School washeld and many members were lost. On June 31, 1901, the first session ofthe Sunday School after the unwelcomevacation, was held with about thirtypresent. At the suggestion of PresidentJ. Lloyd Woodruff of the KoenigsbergConference, a number of invitations toSunday School were printed and thesewere distributed from door to doorevery Sunday morning. As a result theschool grew very rapidly and not onlychildren came, but their parents alsoand the membership soon reached theone hundred mark and still continued toincrease. During the latter part of 1901 and upto the present time several changes inthe organization were made and EldersRaymond C. Naylor, J. Lloyd Wood-ruff, M. Rich Porter, Wilford C. Nuttall,Jos. A. Powers and John L. Reynoldssuc
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