First in the list of these child-winning agencies stands the Sunday-School. From a series of statistics appearing in the January, 1913, number of the _Missionary Review of the World_, we take the following figures, concerning Sunday-Schools conducted by the Protestant Missionary Societies of the world. Miss. Soc’s Of other U. S. & Canada Countries No. Heathen Children baptized 1912 27,997 68,567 No. Sunday-Schools 19,230 11,375 No. Pupils in same 908,007 580,012 Would that every Christian woman who glances at these figures could dimly realize what they stand for,--the efforts, the time and energy and love expended, the disappointments and trials, the encouragements and victories. One must _never_ be discouraged, one must _never_ lose faith and hope, one may _never_ stop sowing seeds in little hearts, even though the work seems as small and insignificant as it did in the Japanese Sunday-School at Kawazoe. [Sidenote: Japanese Sunday-School.] Every Sunday at twelve o’clock the children begin to clatter up on their wooden shoes to a Sunday-School which does not begin till two o’clock.... When it begins they sing hymns vigorously if not tunefully, and listen as patiently as any children of the same age. The nurse girls, aged ten or eleven, come with babies on their backs, and, if the babies remonstrate too vigorously, they are trotted out in the sunshine for a breathing space. An average of forty children come every Sunday to hear the Christian stories, and often, passing on the street, one hears the familiar tune and unfamiliar words of “Jesus loves me.” One, two, or more Sunday-Schools seem like but a drop in the bucket in a town of twenty thousand people, but we can only hope that through hymn, or story, or picture, or card, the good news of the love of God may be spread more widely.[87] But many “drops” fill a bucket, and some day Japan is going to feel the mighty power of the children who have been taught in mission Sunday-Schools. Here is a prophetic instance:-- [Sidenote: A Sunday-School rally in Japan.]