On September 17, 1912, Executive Clerk Rudolph Forster replied to J. Marshall Parley, the superintendent of Salem Baptist Church Bible School in New Rochelle, New York, who had written to President Taft, including a printed extract from Taft’s speech at the Bedford Presbyterian Church in Brooklyn, New York, on June 8, 1911. In the speech, Taft addresses the importance of Sunday schools urging “the necessity for close attention to the lessons that are learned and taught in Sunday School, the study of the Bible, the study of the history of the people, the study of its literature—all those things will form in future life a wealth of possessions for you that you can not [sic] now at your present age understand.”