8. It is not within the scope of this article to notice the numerous local Sunday-school associations that have sprung up in the cities, towns, counties, or even states of the American Union. Many of them have had but a brief existence. Others have been maintained for con- tinuous years, happily illustrating the principles of Christian union, but rarely engaging in tlie enterprise of publication. Some of them have collected statistics, but usually within limited spheres.
9. The Foreign Sunday-school Association of New York and vicinity had a germinal existence as far back as 1864, but did not secure an incorporation till 1878. It is comjiosed of practical Sunday-school workers, who, by means of correspondence, co-operation with mission- aries, and judicious donations, seek to promote the or- ganization and maintenance of Sunday-schools in coun- tries foreign to the United Stales and outside of the British possessions. It claims to have " been the means of planting 1977 Sunday-schools in Germany, 1130 in France, 150 in Italy, 30 in Portugal, 40 in Japan, 405 in (Jerman Switzerland, besides some schools in China, (Jreece, Hungary, Holland, and other countries." Its published report for 1879 contains numerous interesting facts, and authorizes the hope that in j'ears to come grand results may ensue from beginnings which are at tirst necessarily feeble, so far as human agency is in- volved.
The fact that the Sunday-school enterprise, during the first century of its history, has, with the divine blessing, come so fully to pervade English-speaking countries, and has made a hopeful commencement in many and remote foreign nations, deserves to be taken as a prom- ise of success during the centuries to come of inestima- ble extent and value. (D. P. K.)
Sunday Service of thk jMethodist Episcopal Church was an abridgment of the Prayer-book of the Church of England, prepared by ]\Ir. Wesley. It was arranged for the use of the Methodists in America, when he recommended their organization into a Methodist Episcopal Church. It was entitled The Sunday Service ofihe Methodists of North Americji, rrith other Services, and was adopted by the General Conference of 1784. It was publislied in connection with the Discipline (Phila. 1785; Lond. 1786). This appears to have been the last time the Sunday Service was published in connec- tion with the Discipline, and at the General Conference of 1792 all reference to the use of a Sunday Service was Stricken out. It gradually dropped out of use. The M. E. Church, South, in 18'GG, ordered that the Prayer-
book as printed by ]\Ir. Wesley in 1786 should be re- printed for the use of their Church, and the same ser- vice is used in many Wesleyan churches in England, though generally the churches using a service prefer the regular English Prayer-book. See Simpson, Cyclop, of Methodism, s. v.
Sundays, Si-kciaj,. There are a number of Sun- days in the year which have received names suggested by events happening upon or near tliose days. We give below a classified list :
ArvF.NT (q. v.). The Sundays in Advent are called in the Greek Church by a certain number in cunnection with St. Luke's Gospel ; thus, Advent Sunday is tlie "Tenth of Luke." The third Sunday in Advent is called Gau- (lete, fioni the Introit.
After EiMPHANV (q. v.). It is called in the Greek Church "Sunday after the Lights;" in the north of Italy "Mar- riage Siiiiday," from the Gospel. The second Sunday after Epiphany is known as the " Fifteenth of Luke."
Before Skptciaoicsima (q. v.), called in the Greek Church "Sunday of the Publican and Pharisee."
Sei'tuaoksima (q. v.), called by the Greeks "Sunday of the Prodigal," and in the West "Close of Alleluia,"
Sf:xagk8ima tq. v.), in the Greek Church "Sunday of Apo- creos," because meat is not eaten beyond it. It was also called "Sunday of the Sower."
QuiNQUAGESiMA (q. v.), called Qitinquafiesima Poeniteritice; also Ksto Milii (Psa. sxxi, 2), from the Introit,; in Ger- many "Priest's Fortnight," ecclesiastics commencing their fast on this day; and in the Greek Church Tyro- phagus, because cheese is no longer eaten.
In Lknt (q. v.).
1. (Juadragesima (q. v.), called Invoravit (Psa. xci, 15) ; in the East "Orthodoxy Sunday" in England (994) " Holy Day."
2. Reminiscere, from the Introit (Psa. xxv, 6); and in France "Traustiguration," from the Gospel in the Paris use.
3. Oculi, from the Introit (Psa. xxv, 15) ; and in the East "Adoration of the Cross."
4. Ltetare (Isa. liv, 1), "Sunday of the Golden Rose" (q. v.) ; " Refreshment Sunday" (Gen. xliii) ; "Midlent Sunday;" in the Greek Cliurch "Sunday of the Great Canon," from a special hymn. In England it was known as " Care-Sunday" (JTar, a poiaWv/) ; "Mother- intj-Sunday" (Gal. vi, 21), when all persons made their offerings in the cathedral or mother-church; "Sini- nel" or "Carliug Sunday," from eating line wheat- cakes or beans on this day.
5. .ludica (Psa. xliii, 1), "Passion Sunday;" "Dimanche Reprus," from veiling the images; "Sunday of the Quintain" in France, from the sports of the day; " Black Sunday" in Germany, from the veilinir of the crosses when the words " Jesus hid himself" were read.
Pai.m-Sunpay (q. v.), also "Sunday of the Willow-boughs." Eastkk (q. v.).
1. First Sunday after Easter, or Octave, has variousi ai> pellations ; Donn'nicn in A Jhis, persons who were bap- tized at Easter layini; aside the white robes then re- ceived : Dies Xenphi/turii.m, the newly baptized being then recoiinised as actual members of the Church; Qi(inipii((ii:siiii(( (q. v.) ; Pascha Clansiim, close of Eas- ter; Octuvit Iii/iiiitiiivi, in allusion to the newly bap- tized ; QnasiiiiiHliiiiciiiti, in allusion to man's renova- tion by the Ifesuriection.