The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1881-11-15 00:00:00

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SUNDAY SCHOOL UNION.

rho ou-rterly meeting of the Weymouth and Portland
Sunday School Union was hold in the Chesil echootroom
on Wednesday evening, when the pirocoodirets wore corn-
roamed by • too, the tables on which it was spread being
so nicely decendad with fl ewers that ono wondered
they all cams. The Portland teacher. muttered in lull
form with • few from the different Weymouth echonlo.
lIIr. Roper, superintendent, offend prayer, one of Seek.,,
hymns was cone, and th• Rev. J. freriord, of Beak-
buildings. Weymouth, rood •
_paper on Christ th•
rpattern for the Sunday School etcher,' ;rioting nut the
teo-fold charart c of the teach Pr of our Lord. Re one..
mewed by saying if they a Sjndey lobo it tmeliers bad
more of Übe mind and manner of the Gnat Teacher, their
profiting would appear antn•ll. They should think of
sa He taught the people, ester:hilly the.. gathered in the
circle of the disciples In the surrounding circumstances
of each individual life there might be very little cone—
pondence ; but they were all alike in these two respects—
they had She same truth to communicate and the like end
In view. Yetis one point sea tone-1w Ohne% coed not he
copied. Iris, in His retention t Himself as lb. heat of the
wad& St the way to the Pater*, and Si the Recurroction
sod the Life.. Itlo rightly drew overyooo's Wool I, n to
Himself as the centre of &Mellon ; but they a. teachers
must forget thisnamine, and place Coritt before di iir
charm a the subject of attention. Thu ro wan, example
more worthy of imitatioo than the matter. manner, and
spirit of Christ's teaching. With the matter tioy were
familiar—the expression of RI. will and our obligation to
, obey il, and the prominence Rs ono in the moral as corn-
pared to the ritualistic in religion. All else was subordin-
ate to the spiritual; mercy WY before loceid" the
sibbath was made foe elan. They could not too soon or
too stresuously teach that the great command is to love
Got The hies had scriptures cad Christ of tall appealed to them, oxplalaed them, and read than. It had, .1,4
,hr. Trafford, become the fashion for enaction to take a
talk and teachers • chapter; but with Christ On letter was loss than the spirft ; the boob was leas than the
revelation omitalmed in it. It was well for them as
towhee to be Bible Christians men of one book,
especially SI expound the moaning thereof, and to nub,
plain and enforce the charucteriatio truths revealed tilleSill. But they should beware of teaching th• Bible so • book, and falling to teach the novelatiou is it so aa to
maks scholars tali, for salvatioc. It was true thole
wat a adobes is theology, and they who teach would
do well to know and study It; but in Christ's teach-
ing there wm no display of It nor any studied regard
to it and the work of teachers corruponded more
to the work of Christ thee to the work of thia apostles.
The atonement (thought Re. ?radioed) should not be
taught to tho 11111. oats a their lest lessons Yaks them
to understand Christ so the friend of the little ones • as
being tender, loving. sad and God so • father
tomb thole to hate all sellishosee, deception. envy, mid
malice. The &Grimm could require trim thoughts, bright
thought,. but theoridas should be avoided. In the
maaaor of Christ's teach then were many things
worth, of their imitettoulMse prof aloe of Illustrstione
which Christ used was worthy,r thought, The Lawn Or
symbol wet toyer obireaive ; the effect was se or the god
with Him mime It had ea effect upon the ormsdemos. To
is. and present now Uhistrations was the work of gorittis,
the wort of but few; but.
_time, ths Mechem could us.them theyMoak mid by ambits of attostio• Voir could
add to their store, so, if they would arouse attestl in mid
awake& Waren_ they must seek out raid use siguilftediat.
Another point worthy of note la Christ's teaching wari
that He first moused thought and sequin, and then
sought to impress. Another characteristic Or His tfiiShiall
11r. Trafford illustrated from %riot's cords, "I hays
Mut Wage to ref ante YOe, bat re cannot bear them
sow, wig t—Ro MVO imeorillag to the butt of the
rou:wiiikaiss Vieth') Mos M whisk they az%

upon Link bare • HUI* sad there a little. Christ also 414
and said that which was most directly gelled for, end His
words were works to want He also had cant
over Muesli and over His ineense. Mr. Tree rd
admitted that reticeare was • dlikoult thing. sod up
would symldeal with litthe ones as indlviduals thd
not as • sad remember that yoa will wit be ha •ted
for your sm. @peeking. Hespreitlag the Brerii of Carat
_tseching the reedier resented that • deep le. mg
it. Keay teachers wen edger and cold, lib•
Tr170;77■101. Such inked heart. WI Us* napreseaen
wee that what that said they did oat feel ;their esatnuent
never beams easekele With Christ also there was ,fee
losoaddi of truth to feeble minds—the rays of the te,n,
at holoomew did sot Were the most dolmen tli.••
of the eye. 82 in the first mastifeetations of the dl.lOO
111. teamwarn of this gentleness on the port of tho
tosobars. Without baste sad without rest the /new
went on teaching. foorosols. Obo impotiown of Lo,
Medals*. There was alto • perfect edreemsat benne*
His words and HIS octicso, OW words and Hs Ids.
life was as explanatory Ceingliallt of 00 WI". Be taunt
In onclusion—As they.srew in the bnowledse sad bin.
DON of Christ so weeld they be Isere ready to truck of
Elm, sad would also be mare suconful in indium lAN
Rim. In reply to or I tiara Kr. Trafford said. Le • MAW
of foot, he would toll the childrea et the atonement :bat
Dot until there WY • 00•1111•0•1•4111 of sia on the pert
the child, would be dwell spots the atneneat as
dal rine.