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n all the children to the Sunday school; but he urged the friends of the schools, the officers and teachers, not to relax their efforts, but to co- operate with him and labor as perseveringly as they had ever done before for the good of the cause. After the close of Mr. Manning's remarks, a collection was taken up to aid the cause, and twenty life members were made by the payment of ten dollars each — making a total of two hundred dollars. The meeting was also addressed by the Rev. John E. Edwards, who urged the members of the Union to persevering efforts to push forward the cause. He congratulated the association that they had a good President, a good missionary and such liberal friends. Alluding to the statistics presented, he said the forty-two conversions reported for the month among the scholars was an interesting fact, and he earnestly hoped that during the coming year God would more abundantly than ever bless the schools. The exercises were interspersed with the