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United States, and the furnishing them universally, by libraries,with facilities for reading, both on Sundays and other days, ofthe most useful and attractive kind. The philanthropic mind isfilled with admiration when contemplating an enterprise so bene-ficial and comprehensive. Besides, the good effect of Sundayschool instruction extends not only to the scholars actuallytaught, but to the teachers, the parents, and even the ministersand congregations in which they are organized and properly sus-tained. In this way, by thus vastly augmenting the usefulness ofthe day, a new and before unknown value has been given to theinstitution of Sunday itself.

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