Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-06-20
State Sunday school Convention.
The Doctrine OF Hate. 9I

From The Ohillicothe Advertiser. June 81
The State Sunday School Convention met
in this city on Wednesday of last week and
adjourned on Thursday night. AS we
stated last week, the attendance from abroad
was not very large. The ostensible object
of this Convehtlon was the Interchange of
views as to how Sabbath Schools could be
made more efficient for good-as to the
best method of teachingSas how teachers
could he more interested--as To how the at
tendance of adults, church members and
heads of families, can be secured-as to
how Sunday Schools can be made to COM
prehend the great work committed to them
by the head of the Church, and brought to
act with faith in the promises Of the word
OF God, laboring for the immediate conver-
sion of children. 4+H' ~ i''N1nl ,--s-- -
The resolutions adopted by the conven-
tion have not yet been published. On the
motion OF Rev.J. Hussey, lately an in
mate of Libby Prison, we understand, a
series of resolutions were adopted, express
siye of the sentiments of the convention on
the duty of all good citizens touching the
rebellion. One of these resolutions as adopt
ed makes it the duty of Sabbath School
teachers to ineuleate In the minds of their
pupils hate of the rebels. Judge Mccoy
sought to have this resolution omitted; but
Mr.. NJ Barrere made speech In which he
enforced the propriety Of hating the rebel
lion and the rebels, and the resolution was
adopted. He had lost an arm in the service
and he hated the rebels and wants The ris-
ing generation to be taught to hate them,
too.
1t is utterly impossible for us to conceive
how man protesting to walk In conformi-
ty with the Divine teachings should advo
cate the moulding of the minds of the chill
dren Of the North into intense haters of
the people of the South. Such teachings
may be executed in partisan harangues and
at recruiting stations; but 1t seems to us
that it is out of place exceedingly in a
body of Sabbath School Teachers, whose
duty ought to be to train the youthful mind
to walk in the path of holiness. If the ris-
ing generation are to be taught to hate the
people of the South, what is the use of try
ing to bring the South back into the Union?
Can Union be effected-can it be made
permanent--can it be made desirable-by
cultiyating an irreconcilable hate between
the contracting parties? Is it passport to
Redemption to hate our fellow man? 1t is
the Lord, who is, represented as mercifuL,
made glad by the teachers in what should
be the nurseries of heaven, teaching the
hellish doctrine of hdteP VIII the An
gels tune their harps to more joyous
strain as the offerings are being offered
up in Sabbath Schools to the demon of
Hate9 viii Christ, with the wounds of
Calvary started anew, confess to the Father,
that the doctrine He taught while on earth
was erroneous-that he was speaking after
the manner of sinful man, and not as the
Son of God, when ne said:-''Ye have heard
that it hath been said thou shalt love thy
neighbor, and hate thine enemy: but say
unto you, Loue yo,r enemies, bless them
that curse you, do good to them that haze
you, and pray for them that despitefully
use you, and perSecute you; that ye may be
the children of your Father which is in
Heaven: for he maketh his son to rise on
the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain
on the just and the unjust. For If ye love
them which love you, what reward have we!
do not even the publicans the same? And
if ye salute your brethren only, what do We
more than othersp do not even the publicans
so? Be we, therefore, perfect, even as your
Father which is in Heaven is perfect "-St.
Matthew V, from 43 to 4S inclusive.
When this injunction of Christ is con-
trasted with the action of majority of the
State Sabbath School Convention in this
city last week, the declaration of Rev. Mr..
Bryson, that he "has noticed one great want
in Bible classes; it was failure to re-
duce the great truths Of the Bible to prdc-
ticaS ase-there ,eGs too much Of O lack Of con-
fdence in the truths or the Bt6ke;" assume the
form of a unquestionable and lamentable
truth. Whoever believes in the Bible and
would have his children taught to conform
to its requirements, must be mortified that
few hotheaded and indiscreet individuals
should have been permitted to commit the
State Sabbath School Convention to doc
trine so palpably in conflict with the doc
trines of the Bible and at variance with the |
teachings of Christ. In their moments of
cool reflection, the members of that Con-
vention must become satisfied that the great
cause of Sabbath Schools aud goodness are
not thus to be promoted. In view of this,
people who are sincerely pious may regret
that the Convention was held.