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On a Sunday, while I was at Chicago, the Gentleman who had given up to me his berth in the sleeping care to Cincinnati, too me to see one of the large Sunday Schools, which have been organized on a very extensive scale in this great Western city, & from which great results are expected. The one I went to see is held in a Congregationalist Church. It is customary at the end of the meeting to give out the number of those who are present, as every body is supposed to be interested in the maintenance & spread of the movement. At the meeting I witnessed there were 99? persons present, of whom 4? were teachers. They now have in the city seventy five of these schools; of these, however, only five are organized on the scale of the one I am speaking of. One of the five is held in an Episcopal Church, I believe that of the Holy Trinity. The pupils in these Sunday Schools are not confined to one class in society, or to children, or to the members of any partticular community?. All classes attend them, so do many grown up persons; & all religious denominations, except the Roman Catholics, are to be found among the taught & the teachers.

The work of the day commenced by singing three hymns, which were evidently intended to excite religious emotions of a highly enthusiastic kind. The leading manager then recited thecommandments all present repeating after each commandment the petition of our Ante-Communion Service. To this was added what follows the commandments in the American Episcopal Service "Hear also what the Lord Jesus Christ says "Thous shalt love the Lord