The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-06-09


their knees, WiIIie's face was like a rain
bow, shining through his tears.
Mother, mother" said he, am glad
you told Jesus my name; now he'll know
me when go to Heaven; won't that be
nice, mOther?9
Mrs. Hueston never forgot that scene.
And when, not only Willie and Sarah,
but others born after, were thus by her
direct instrum sntality, brought to the
dear Saviour, she did indeed realise the
excellence other pastors plan, and resolV-
ed to recommend it to praying mothers.
Many fyou as well as myself, nave, nea
doubt, watched with interest the mode
pursued by Brother Hammond, in con-
Quoting his children's meetings. ana you
may have come to the same conclusion as
to the cause of his wonderful success In the
hands of God, of gathering such multi,
tudes of dear children into the 1oId OF
Christ. It is a striking illustration OF l tne
subj ect, as am endesyoriBg to set IL before
you. His preaching is not more eloquenI
or better calculated to impress the MINDS
of children, than many others; Dut ne lol-
lows up the impression that may pc maze
bv personal application at the time.
When others would dismiss them with
the feeling that all the work OF the hour
is fnished-He says no, our WORK Is not
done. Come, brethren, let Us go down
among these children. and individually
inquire into their souls welfare, ana aeao
them to Jesus, their loving Saviour. Thus
the good seed of the sermon Is at once
watered and cultivated, and the result is
the rich harvest OF thousands OF souls.
Last Winter spoke 10 young man, q
friend of mine, on the subject Of Religion,
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very thankful that had spoken to him
| on the subject. and only q few weeks after
united with the Church
He told me that more than fifteen years
| ago, when quite q boy, he tel5 that ] esus
| died for him, and through Him he hoped
for salvation. He felt then as If he ought
| Him before men. But he was mere boy,
young and timid, and no one, either pa
rent, or pastor, or teacher, spoke 10 him
/ on the great subject of his individual duty.
And. although one of the children of the
church. he was left to wander out OF the
| fold, unguarded from the snares and
| temptations of the wicked world these
You, said he, were the first and only one
| that ever spoke 20 me on the subject Of my
| individual religious duty.
1 And SO it Is in our Christian families
and sabbath Schools. There are multl-
/ subject of religion, and long for their pas
/ tor or parent, or Sunday School teacher
/ to speak to them on the subject of their
| souls salvation. And this IS what we
| want in all our churches and sunday
Schools to-day-christian parents and
| teachers. who will consecrate themselves
| TO this work of earnest labor with the
/ chfIdren; to follow up the impressive
personal communication with each one,
| so as to give each the special directions
| suited to his or her peculiar case.
| O. my dear christian friends, IL the
| teachers of our Sunday Schools would
| earnestly and heartily adopt the plan sug-
Rested by the minister to Bro. Reynolds,
| suits, so different from his former fruit
less Iabors-what glorious report would
| come up to our next Convention from ali
narts of the State! Instead of only a few
| of our schools reporting q special religious
interest, the glad news would come up
from every school of mulbttudeS OF emil
dren brought into the. Kingdom by the
fidelity of the teachers.
superintendents, as you value your OF
| fee and long for the salvation OF your
| children, go home to your schools, and
urge upon your teachers the great duty oil
| more entire conservation to their work.
And my dear teachers, Will you not re-
| consecrafe yourselves to this glorious
work as you never have before. striving In
| every way TO be the means OF saving those
committed to your care.
| Let me urge you, as you value the souls
of your children, not to think your WORK
| done when the lesson for the day is ended
in the class, which, alas is too often the
case In all our schools; but follow up the
| lesson by person al application, to each one
of your dear children, leading them one
by one to that blessed Saviour, who said
'.Suffer lille children to come unto me,
and forb# them not, for OF such Is the
Kingdom OF Heaven"
The address was then discussed.
Mr.. Boyd said there was one point
not brought out by the speaker, and
that was the introduction Of short
prayer for each particular case as il
arises. in addition to the personal
application of lessons. We all know
that there is a turning point in the
life of each person that leads either
to heaven or to hell; and es we dc
not know where this point is, we
should endeayor to impress there
children while their minds are in this
plastic state, and, if we had power
with God, we should prevail. A case
in point was little dirty boy il
Goshen, Indiana, who had been taker
by the personal effort of people there
and from a profane and vulgar chile
he had been brought to knowledge
of God and living faith, in which ht
died.
Tr Audrus had no objection to urge
but that it was the great object t.
make an impression on the mind o
each child. and teachers had beer
discouraged, because they could no
make such impression in each single
half hour Of the school.
If at each Sunday School the teach
er should impress the child with som'
historical fact. By illustrations OIL
charts, of the history of Abraham
of St. Paul's travels, his prosecutions
when he had found his home agaiI
in Ephesus, you would thus i'm
press his mind with events, and
those might lead to a basis for al
appeal to his heart to give himsel
! to Jesus. We must not be discour
: eyed.
Mr.. Jacobs thought that the teache
: might tarry for half hour with th
people whom Paul had ministered to
! He had taught class of young ladies
J and found that personal appeal ha,
! been more effective than the genera
teaching.
t Young men everywhere were hun
! gering and thirsting for the way o
life, and there were many among u
that to day belong to Christ. but the
: do not know it. He thanked 40 on
to come into his school and talk t
the children as if they had no love 70
Jesus, for they had that love in thei
: hearts
The convention sung tie 9th Hymn
; which was followed by the intermedi
: ate class exercise by F. NJ. Thayer.
Mr. Thayer explained that hi
class here did not belong to the sam
classes in Sabbath Schools, nor wer
ther r,nn1r, hars Of his class-his helm