The Washington Union

GEN. CASS ON SUNDAY SCHOOLS.

The venerable patriot and statesman, Gen. Cass, having been invited to address the Michigan State Sunday School Convention, thus writes: "It will afford me pleasure to accept your invitation. I appreciate the importance of our Sunday schools, and I consider their institution among the most valuable and efficient means of religious improvement that have come in our day to encourage the noble efforts which are making to ameliorate the moral condition of the world. And no reflecting man can look abroad upon the dangerous and delusive vagaries which, under the name of religion, take possession day by day of the hearts and minds of men, leading to individual and social depravity, without being deeply impressed with the importance of zealous and concentrated exertions to check this great and threatening evil. And it can best be effectually checked by training the youthful mind in the knowledge of God and the truths of His revelation. Standing on this vantage-ground, the battle may be fought and won. And I, for one, believe the contest to be one of the most momentous which society has ever been engaged in, and the Sunday-school tuition of the youth an assured means, under God, of eventual success. So believing, my prayers and best wishes are with you."