Wisconsin tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1847-1854, 1848-04-14


thIs indifference is criminal in the highes
degree. When you become in solemn
earnest about the salvation of your chill
dren, when YOU feel the tremendous truth
that you will be held responsible if they
are lost-then the Sabbath School will
not !anguish for want of your co-opera-
ton.
! II. This Institution has urgent claims
upon eoery Professor of Religion.
We wish TO address ourselves directly
and with earneslness TO every church mem.
Der in Wisconsin. You have been placed
IN this new field of religious enterprise
by the Divine Head Of the Church. There
Is great work before YOU
You are 20 assist in laying the spiritual
foundation of many generations. On
your prayerful and persevering endeav-
ours, the salvation of great multitude
which no one can number, depends.
| In view ofsuch OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
erations which must press with great
weight and solemHlty upon the heart Of
/ the sincere christ!an-wc would point y gu
all to the Sabbath School. Here is a
powerful agency which Won may employ
in the prosecution of this important and
dignified work. 1t is pre- eminently one
of the greatest instrumentaiities put into
your hands to make Wisconsin Il beautiful
and luxuriant moral Garden. We make
tins statement as the clear and strong con-
victlOn of our own minds. The Sabbath
| School is a grand instrumenta!itv which
will perpetuate the Church and cur relig-
ious institutions on this soil, If YOU will
weld 1t with prayerful and persevering eff
ficiency. Will you deliberately weigh
his statement? We believe il 10 be a
most obvions and palpable truth Let
Sabbath Schools be multiplied for the mex
| ten years. and children sought cut and
gathered into them In such multitudes as
might and would be, if all were earnestly
engaged as the Imperative nature Of the
work demands, and great moral army
would be raised up-an army sufficient
to guard and perpetuate the sublime and
eternal interests which cluster around the
affairs Of our holy religion. Who can
| doubt it? Are not our own children, un
der God the only sure hope of the next
generation Does not the kind Of inf /
cnce which they exert upon the destiny
of our loved Zion depend upon their early
religious training! Has not God estab-
Iished an inseperable connection between
right moral training and the possession of
strong moral character IN manhood =
Suppose, then, three-fourths OF the pres.
ent generation of children were IN the
Sabbath School, who can estimate the
amount of sanc!ilied mind-of sanctified
| intellectual power which would be secu-
red 10 the Church And this stnpendu-
Gus result would be witnessed if all the
members of our evangelical churches were
| to engage in this noble work with zeal
proportioned to lis magnitude and impor-
| lance.
This would be laying moral foundations
in the true sense OF the term. 1t would
be aiming to perpctuate a sanctified, work
| ing and powerful church In accordarco
with the high purpose Of Colby imp in
ing his laws upon the hearts Of the rising
generation. This would forestaii error
however ingenious or profound or dexter
ously masked. Stamp the pure--lit0,
breathing Gospel upon the hearts OF all
our children and the Church Is safe-ouF
/ dearly bought and cherished institutions
arc safs-
| Your, work then, is with the children.
Remember that by an immutable law of
heaven, the destiny of any community Is
linked to the kind of education which it
provides for its children. This is both
solemn and an interesting thought. 1t is
solemn, because It suspendS all that IS dear
to the next generation upon your choice,
upon your action. II is interesting, be-
caus it makes it possible for you to give
n right impulse to the minds and hearts o.
the present generation Of children. Will
you give such Il strong and saving i'm
pulse We press this inquiry upon the
conscience Of every Christian who may
read this address. All may, if they will
add the weight of their influence 10
cause whose high and majestic aim is the
salvation of immortal souls.
This leads us to remark, in conclusion,
that there is not a church member who Is
too Young, and bat few who are too old
10 labor In the Sabbath School. 1t is
most clearly the duty OF every young man
and woman in or churches 10 be directly
and deeply engaged IN this enterprise in
some form. There IS not one in this class
who may not render important aid either
rs a SC holar, teacher, or a weekly Wis
itor. Young females may seek out and
Gather into this nursery OF Heaven, the
children of the poor, the neglected and
the praverless. This Is truly noble
-, , ,,,orL worthy If !, oD-roI,s i-onac-
stoned heart. We greatly marvel, that
it possesses so little attraction to multi
tuies in the church. Depend upon it.