The Yazoo City Whig. [volume] (Yazoo, Miss.) 1844-1851, 1845-04-11
ANNIVERSARY OF THE SABBATH SCuooL
ASSOCIATION IN New YORK.

ASSOCIATION IN NEW YORK.
Summary Of Mr.. FreIinghuysen's remarks.
"Ialways love to meet the Sabbath school.
Many years of regular attendance upon its
services, has brought me into familiar com.
munion with its duties and trials, and its
supports and consultations.
One reason Of our regard for the Sabbath
school may be, that childhood is the season
of confding frankness. Whp can fail to love
it? We turn away from the distrust, and
cold calculation, and measured terms Of the
world, and are greeted by the open.heatted
Of this most interesting age, and
the heart takes delight in repOsing on such
intercourse.
A better reason for our preference, prob
ably exists in the truth, that it is a period
Of existence on which we can produce the
best and most lasting influence. 1t makes
rich returns for all the cares and pains be-
slowed. Il pays the best for tOhat is done
for it. The reward is richer and lasts the
longest; it reaches to heaven and lasts to
eternity. Whatever may be the other in.
frmities Of the memory, the impressions Of
childhood and youth outlive the decays Of
time, and mingle their influence with the
destinies of the world Of .etribution. Who,
o: my age or older, cannot, this morning,
recall, in all their first freshness, the friends
and pastimes, and early griefs of.childhOod
And we should praise the councils Of be.
nignant Providence, that among these cher.
ished interests has clustered the Sabbath
scEool-to flourish and warm, and eucour.
age the youth on the eVentful pilgrimage Of
human life.
Fleslost reason - which uri1 briefly al
Ilude, is the missionary character of the Sab
bath School. The best definition Of mis-
sionary, would seem to be an agency sent o
God to do good. Our Saviour was a mis-
sionary, in blessed sense. /" He sent me,
said the gracious Redeemer. 81 came t
do his will" The angel who proclaimed
his birth to the adnghted shepherds, on th'
plains Of Bethlehem, was missionary. HI
lpreached glad tidings of great JOY for al
people. And such was the choir of thu
heavenly host, who took up his song o
thanksgiving, and sent the notes Of glor.
and praise thro' heaven and earth.
And the Sabbath School is a missionar,
of kindred character and relations. MOI
! than twenty years ago, at an anniversai.
: like this, l heard good man plead for tn
i. Sabbath school under this pretension. IL
: called il missionary association. Then tn
whole enterprise was far below its claim
: lin Christian estimation, and itstartled man
: to hear the humble agency dealing in pTin
: ers, and spelling out some first lessons {
!. Scripture, exalted TO the rank Of missior
: ary; but, before he had concluded, the az
r vocate had brought every head and heart
a the assembly 10 his own convictions.
nj Ii has been sent Of God to bless you, N
|. young friends, and make you wise unto sa
!. Ivation. Prize the unspeakable mercy,
] Welding your hearts to the Saviour whom
3. has revealed to you. Freely ye have r
Is Iceived, freely give" Sympathize with Il
b Iuntaught millions Of the West. Think
Is the hundreds Of thousandsof neglected oh
IN ldren there. They have no friend like 4
d. lSabbath School. Send them this hallow
agency to care for them, to take them
If the hand and lead them back from th
ye wanderings, to the kingdom of God and
r. love Of his presence