The New York herald., 1871-12-24

xnce. or "iatte Daisy,D or some other little angel
whose existence in nesh and blood would In one
NICELY pENNED AND POINTED LIES
which authors bind together, are unit to be ac-
their houses by parents who love their offspring.
Various devices have been suggested ana adopted
e Choose r
from the library catalogue, and after they haye read
book once they pass the word from one TO- anotae.
may be- and it lies or the shelf unsought
for again. Hence comparatively few Of the boys IN
our sunday schools take books out Of the library.
The girls are more studIous, but they seek the light
KIND Of reading and run through the book very
RAPIDLY, for 1t must be returned the following Sab
bath, read unread. The more hastily they glance
through 1t the better for themselves OF course, for
the SUNDAY school music and hymns are about
equally divided between es better the od
Until recently the Sunday schools OF this city used
very largely collection M 81 nymns @ conn compiled BY Mr.
gerel, without any real poetry or sentiment in the
Fancy children, properly instructed, living in this
Christian city and land, asking their teach ers the
WHARF immortal praises swei
Whsrs eternal sabbsths sowf
And then little lurtner on, declaring that
csss1sn ccsssss q s.gPS; gsIi:|.s aisRSs IsSs s:sc
Csaselss: bliss. without sloy
0r again. the child Is made to confess that
The sports Of the thoughtess the pleasures Of sin
win drive away, because II loves the sabbath and
the sabbath school so much; whereas, II the truth
was known, nifty per cent OF the little ones would
RATHER CHASE EACH OTHER IN PLAY
around the sch0olrOOm than SIT stir and sanity
while an unsenrmental hymn Is sung or prosy
address is delivered. But all through our sunday
SCHOOL hymnal there runs q yeih Of iandelity. the
chd's unbelief Is aroused BY being asked II God Id
cen Pe
DOUBT fact which It never snoud nave Questioned;
Worship Is inculcatsd. so tnat Il thsttie ones who
hardly know tnelr right hand from the left wear
sunday school they are looked upon as hardened
sinnerG, for whom Satan ls waiting with open jaws
dren advance In years and In understanding they
keep out OF the church and the Sunday school, where
S nss ' o. Il S al
OF them. and remain In 1.-THE world" where no
such hobg0bns are paraded before their infant eyes
Here H
SAMPLE OF PoErICAL THEOLOGY
for children from one OF the latest sunday school
hymn books published -
Little child, do you love Jesusf
tir;. s1a Of aha al AK K Il II. y forgiveness
s.a. Ta yHa . ai15s sssi.n aSs:s ss.:s.a quite helpless
1ne poetry and theology are about equally appa.
ecnt and orthodox In this piece Of twadde. Here
y another =
Dear children. Why 30 thoughuess roami
This world il not your Jawe home.
y:w s ss nIs . II HS a e.
But the samples In any particular line need not be
ry scrlbbIes o1 something and straiQntway has il
eel music and hires some ono 70 sing 1t Or sell s
around the Sunday schools until in that way It gains
some popularity and is embodied In the next sun
ns6ed Very few teachers or parents are Interested
enough to look after the theology which such hymns
THE DESIRE ron NEW MUSIC
30 great that new books OF 1t are now issued
every month In this city. Some OF It, as has been
oald, Is 0f decided merit while very much OF It
both the words and the harm0nies-had better been
thrown In the fire at once. Ministers and old maids
write great deal Of our modern child poetry and
music, and their productions like themselves In
great measure. have no Ympatny with those for
course most or these productions are lathered By
The Sunday school rooms, in which the children
mest and spend three or four hours every Sabbath,
should Demdark dreary veEtIatsd ate cseerIess
hang around the walls do not counterbalance the
lack Of light and air and cneerfulness which
Or more S'nS feet below ,S the Sidewalk. sad and
on IN "aUsS s % sns sea Ss Ia nas
There are. however, some honorable exceptions
e . csn g. eS' a. are nS;
with such uncomfortable ana cheerless meeting
suG s ana 0n
children should prefer to be outside OF the school.
Te than wnp AND to So,s s sn@ may D
and SCHOOLS instead Of peing inside engaging in tho
pained OF and protested against this evil. but the
hunday school officers were powerlcss to correct IT.
Fourteen boys OF the school met their
MINISTER ON THE STREET CORNER
end ohatted with him, but refused TO enter the
Scnoolroom with HIM because '.they did not want
crime are taken BY boys IN this way. few
years ago young man, still in ms teens, suffered
the extreme penalty OF the law ior taking the NE Of
speak, in the sabbath school until he grew up, and
seeing nothing IN 1t to induce MIN 70 remain within
he stood on the outside, sabbath after Sabbath,
until, with kindred companions, he became
hardened criminal, ana went almost from the
sunday school 10 the gallows.
are "a common and notorious as they might be In
the ballroom or 1t the theatre. And hundreds 20
thilher to laugh and court and not To sing or pray.
DISCIPLINE rs lax and the superntendent's or teach
ers authority u rarely n ever backed up ny nome
snd parental efforts very Iasew can M ss
even his teachers. He cannot without such knowl.
edge and acquaintance ever hope TO maintain good
school well disciplined and interesting, and hence
ms labor and zeal 90 for naught good sunday
school superintendent Is almost as rare 70 find as
Ss swan or white crow ocago hDn ara models u % OF
such an ofcer and the result is that tney never Ia
20 nave full schools and interesting services beore
sho chicago nre Mr.. Moody mad sunday scnooi OF
1000 children gathered In on the streets by hlmso
end had he more commodious quarters tho numbers
had school here Of lesser dimensions Of the same
class OF children. Both gentlemen had made them
CONDITIONS AND uoxH LIrB
OF their protegcs, and could sympathze with them
and show them the Savours sympathy by their own.
stood by the children, who are always trusfu and
gueless. and they could speak to them as oracles,
and words treasured up In the hearts OF the
young to bring forth lruit IN due time. Would mat
his cU and the nation mad more of such men