President William McKinley was a member of the Sunday-school from the
time that he became old enough to attend. He was converted and joined
the Church before he was sixteen, and from that day maintained his
Christian character through all the vicissitudes of his vigorous and
busy life.
After the war he was admitted to the bar, and removed to Canton,
Ohio. One of the first things he attended to was to call on the
minister of his chosen church, present his church credentials,
and, like the soldier he was, ask for assignment to duty. He was
given a class in the Sunday-school, and was later elected its
superintendent. It was not beneath his dignity to devote his
life to the training of the young.
(1936)
See EVANGELISM, UNHERALDED.