Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1868-11-08
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Monthly Meeting of the @. r. Sunday
SchOOI-Address by DIR. Baird-Ini-
pOrtance of Sunday SehOOls-Prac-
teal Remarks tn Teachers.

Monthly Meeting Of she @. r. Sunday
SchOOl-Address by DIR. Baird-Hm-
pOrtance of Sunday SehOols-Prae'
teal Remarks to Teachers.
On last Sunday evening at 3 o'clock,
this school had the usual monthly meet
ing, and we're addressed by the Rev. DIR.
Baird, Pastor of the Church. -
Tie Doctor was successful, as usual, in |
enchanting the attention of his auditors,
especially the children, to whom his re-
marks were mainly direeted. Starting out
with the idea that little things make up |
the life history of us all, he developed it
in a plain, simple manner, so that the least
child understood and grasped his mean
ing, 1t takes nine hundred men to make
one watch, one hundred to make single \
lock, and all the wisdom of the past to COM
nIete our intellectual treasures and make
perfect our mental powers; 80 we, as good
men and women, assimilate those around
ma to the same standard In short, that
the grand aim of the Sabbath School was
The Conversion of our children-this was
II. end. and any one who viewed it other
wise did not properly comprehend the
subject.
Following this general plan, he made
one of the most instructive and entertain
ing addresses it has ever been our good for
tune to hear. None, we feel assured, can
forget the truths he so forcibly conveyed,
while many teGr dimmed eye showed
that the speaker had touched the chord OF
sacred memories, when childhood nestled
at its mothers knee.
We are most happy to see that the Sab.
bath School cause is attracting the atten-
ton it deserves and demands. Two years
ago it was almost impossible TO get up
Sunday School meeting on Sabbath even
ing. But now, in place of dozen or Two
children and as many teachers, the separate
Churches are filled each Sabbath evening
with audiences made up, not only OF the
members of the several schools, bu.
also of visitors from all parts OF
the city. At these meetings instructive
addresses are made, and the children unite
in singing their sweet Sabbath School
songs, whose music, known in child.
!. hood, is meier forgot, and ne'er fails to
, fill the soul with pure feelings and holy
thoughts Develop the Sabbath School
interest to its acme, and the rising genera,
ton will be yirtuous and good in proper
] ton, We crush the little insect beneath
I our foot, yet its united armies have de
populated cities and destroyed nations
The web of single silk werm is nothing
: but the united product of its kind make
e up the wealth of an empire. So the united
q Sunday School effort will carry intelli
4 gence and virtue to millions iying-mil
lions vet unborn. The little boy of to
II day is the embryo hero or william Of TO
n morrow the little girl of the present, i
g the pure woman or the depraVed being o
, the future. Christianize them in the Sab
bath School. and their life history will b
success. Fail 10 3oso, and their life viii
# be uncertain, perchance failure, TO flicker
2 like dying taper into nothinguess.
Hence, we would urge those who labo
in the Sabbath School cause, to faint-no
J. weary not. The beuevolence which
prompts you to action, will continually en-
Il large itself in your own hearts, and &C
complish results Incompatible for the soul
upon whom it acts, and for the future c
u the church. Oh, noble array of teachers
n we hail you as instruments Of untold bene
o fits to your fellow men. God will bles
. you. Your scholars will revere and hero
. You. Both State and churchwill owe yol
e an everlasting debt of gratitude. You
IS acts will live and grow green with age
Your acts will live on in their result
through all, and be therein an eterna
harmony, ito gather strength from genera
ton 10 generation, and sweetness from ag
. TO age"