The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1862-03-13

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earth Oar estimation Of children Is sccn
in tho facilities afforded them for both mental
and moral d5vclopmeat Parental love, in
our country, ha3 taken practical and cx-
pcniiyo form Of oxpresaion. Tho ingenuity
OF huudrcds of mechanics, ortisans, and
philosophers, is t1Nod TO mako the top Of
the lI,ll of Science plain to the you hfu
travellers, No intelligent man regards the
expense thus incurred too great Ilo docs
not attempt to estimlte the value Of mental
culture by dollars aud conts. So with the
moral training of tho children. Both the
mental AMI moral culture cost something
but not 30 much as to have tho children
without either. Tho heaviest tax wo pay
is that paid for ignorance and badness, AM
d. MT believe it is too much to say that
overy dollir invested in the school and
sun lay.school ia dollar alvol--by lessen
ing evil AMI ignorance E'pocitlIy is this
true Of the Sunday.syhool 1t pays per.
cennge on tho capital invested tina. 10 other
institution pays Its returns are not always
in money but they arc always worth more
thln moaoy. No intelligent parent wouli
oxchlngc the moral worth, and IirmneJ5 Of
chlragtor, which is tho result of Sunday
school training, for moro money. Apcople,
ono of whoso recognized institutions is
Sun lNy.school attended by thrco millions Of
children, instructed by hale million toach.
ora, AMI divided into fifty thousand depart
monts, must bo a prosperous people E3-
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it is remembered that sev.nty-livo years
ago th1re was not a solitary Sunday-sch0ol
ON this continent In addition to the 6tatis-
tics given above OF schools, scholars, aud
teachers, we may add the means employed,
tho material used, to cultivate this great
army of ltlo ones. In this department, We
have in tho Unite Satos, about ivo millions
Of books in lbraric5 aside from about three
millions OF question, hymn, and reward
books commentaries, and Bible dictionaries,
- in ALL eight millions OF volumes. The
annual Issues of the Slbhath-school pross
in the Unitol States, is about two hundred
millions Of lSmo. pages, AMI there are at
least five hundred thousand Slbbath-school
papers issued monthly by the Sabbath
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drod and sixty millions Of l8mo. ages in the
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1t is u matter of thanksgiving that this
enterprise has reached its pro9cat pos tion
Of usefulness by stoAiy pro5ross. Thc
sunday y-school is not Jollh's gourd - the
growth of a nght--Out thrifty oak, slowly
putting forth it's branches. and advancing
gradually towards its perfection. In this
fact, we have tho strongest guarantee OF
its pormlnoaco ~ an insttution.
When tho progressive Character Of the
Christian church IL questioned, and doubts
expressed as to whether her influence is
any greater ovor the masses Of the people
now than it was centuries ago, it may be
we'll to notice even onc of the indications
Of that greater influence. Tho one indca
ton to which wtsh to refer in this article
makes necessary Il reference to facts in the
carly history Of the Church. Ia her Garlic,
years, tho Church had access ouly to the
children of her own communion, but coul(
not reach those Of the masses around her
True, the formal fallen church Of the mid
die age had the moral training of the chill
dren of Europe in hor hands but how dit
shc quit herself Of her trustP 1t was sim
ply tho blind leading the blind w
nowhere read of the church, in early times
being entrusted with the moral culture o
the children of the masses, whca in aqutck
ened spiritual state.
Tho Waldonses and AIbiEonsos wore no
the churches of the reformation were no
and the Puritan churches of Great Brihi,
wore not Oa the other hand SO great ha
been tho influence of the Gospel Of Chrs
on the masses of the people, that in th
year of grace 1852, those parents are ror
indeed who will refuse the privilege of a
tending tho Sunday-school In fact
every nation, whorc there has existed for
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