The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1867-11-08
The Fremont Journal,
For the Journal.
Sandueky Conference Sunday
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Sandueky Conference Sunday
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MlssRs. EDITORS: Though r ot member
Of the above named Association, nor yet a
member Of the Sandusky Conference, it was
nevertheless cur privilege to be visitor at
its third annual session, convened in Marion,
Ohio, on the evening of Oct. 22d, 1867, aud
continuing until the evening of the 24th,
The exercises were opened by addresses
from Rev. N. Long and Rev T. D Ingle each
of whom handled their subjects in manner
The annual address was delivered by the
Rev. Alveon Rose and was creditable alike
10 the head and the heart of The speaker
Perhaps the most noticeable feature of the
convention was that OF a CONCERT given by
the Gallon Sabbath School, on the second
evening Of the session. The large and spac-
ious chapel of the NJ E. Church hsd been
kindly rendered and gratefully accepted for
the occasion. every part of which was dense-
ly crowded with Sn intelligent aud appreci-
tive audience. The exercises were a treat
that none who witnessed will forget; reflect
hg lasting credit ON the school, and also it's
superintendent.
During the session many topics were dis.
cussed with marked ability by Rsv.'s Lind
sey, Moore, Bulger, Burlow, Hill Miller,
Grouse, Long. Ingle, Rose, Downey, Peters,
Clymer, Bender and others, both ministers
and laymen whose names we do not recall.
We have nowhere met class Of ministers
more thoroughly awake 10 the progressive
moral enterprises of the age. Verify, they
are dive men and just such as The ageiand
the times demand. Of the many resolutions
up for discussion, we have no copy at hand,
but we remember one reading nearly as fol-
| lows:
ResolUed, That we owe devout gratitude
to Almighty God for the success that has at.
| tended the institution of Sabbath Schools,
and that when We adjourn, it be to renew our
pious tolls TO establish Sabbath Schools in
all the world, and that we hereby issue sn
| advertisement extraoid dibary for an unlimi-
ted number of young ladies and gentlemen
TO labor in the blessed work Of Sabbath
Schools from this date of Oct. Oath, 1867, to
| the end of the world.
What grand and inviting field--all ripe
for the harvest--is here opened up for the
philar thropst and the Christian This great
moral and spiritual sabbath school enterprise
needs the consecrsted powers If every young
l"dy and yousg man ftcm this date to the
end of the world. alreaiy wonderful
work is being accomplished. About seven
millions enter active life annually from our
Sabbath Schools. Think of them as fathers,
es mothers, as citizens, as voters. as lawyers,
as doctors, as Legislators, as teachers, as
ministers Of our holy religion; think of the
fervent prayers that 60 TO Almighty God
from these influences. But then the great
work yet to be accomplished ought to quick
en- irto life every dormant energy. A won
derful work is yet 10 be accomplished in
this great valley of the Mississippi, of which
we form part. Stand in imagination at its
mouth, where it rours its mighty waters into
the Gulf of Mexico, and look over this vast
country, drained By this father of waters,
thousand miles. Here lie spread out the
largest and most fertile valleys in the world
capable of subsisting thousand million
Of inhabitants, and we are yet in the provi-
dence of God to have them. For many
years the old world has been pouring her
surplus population upon US at the rate of over
thousand day. We are to have rail-
road 10 the Pacific. Japan is coming. Hin
dosian is coming. China with her hundred
millions is at our doors. While they come
over the Alleghanies from the East; over
the Rocky Mountains from the West, upon
us i'll this great valley, these rolling tides of
humanity are presently TO meet, and what
their influence is to be upon our laws, our
customs and our religion, who can tell7
What a grand field is here spread out for the
contemplation of the moralist, and the di-
vine; and whose heart does not pant to be an
uNHOH AZ hAtO osiAAAhS, ESOhSc bhdb niC OpCuibS
up around and before us? Great deeds en-
balm their actions in our memory. Who
does not love to think of the brave men
who fell in our late national struggle for lib.
erty. Fresh in our recollectiops is the sad
hour in which they left us, all bathed in
tears, and that first dreary night we sung:
Brave boys are they, gone at their Country's
call;
And yet, and yet, We cannot forget.
That many brave boys must fall.
"0n fames eternal camping ground,
Their silent tents are spread;
And glory crswns with solemn sound,
The bivouac of the dead. -
Theirs is not the only glcry 10 be schiev-
ed. There is a great moral al d spiritual
conflict upon us, in which every young
man, and every young woman, and every
aged man, and every aged mstron is called
upon 10 share pa:t.
There are richly golden clusters of laurels
to be gathered high up On the field of i'm
mortality. God grant that the laborers in |
this great moral conflict, where the fate Of |
world is staked upon the result, may be mul- |
tiplied thousand fold.
But am extending these remarks beyond |
the intended length. l cannot, however,
clase without tribute of acknowledgment |
to the good lpeOple of Marion and vicinity
for their uniform kindness, and especially to
mine host, Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas, who feast. |
al Nl., ct oTtL L.
get the uniform courtsey and untiring dill
gence of the pastor, Rev. Mr.. Grouse, and |
his amiable lady, who spared no pains or la
Dor to make us all feel at home
A handsome speech from the retiring Pres
ident. Re1. NJ. BulQer ard an annrOni iate |