The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-01-16

parents In making right Impressions
npon the youthful mind. Here The
speaker commercial upbn the startling
philosophical Suggestion that the main
impressions upon Ms human mind sfcere
made during thdfrst fifteen years 0rslifs.
It had been said that the grand pictures
OF the worlds best poets were but the
Reproduction OF the impressions made,
upon their youthful minds at the i'm
pressionable era II this were SO, how
importa6t, the speaker said. was IT that
our boys and girls should be taught to
receive religious Impressions Whilst yet
the dew Of youth rested upon their un-
stamped tablets OF the intellect and the
soul. The speaker next referred to the
origin of the idea involved in the Sun.
day School The Sunday School, he
suggested, began when the Saviour took
issue with bis disciples for seeking to
drive children away from Him, as the
parents sought in their parental anxiety
to press them upon His Divine atten-
ton. The Saviour said: ''.Sufer lit4s
children to come unto me and forbid then,
not, for Of such is the Kingdom Of Hencen.
This, SAID the speaker. Is the authority
upon whioh the Sunday School might
rest its claims to special recognition.
The Saviour of men aud OF children-He
was the first to suggest to man the high
Office of this enterprise.
Colonel Thomas next addressed him-
self somewhat to the scholars and
teachers of the Sunday School. He said
that he wus not old, and yet he had lived
long enough to be profoundly impressed
With the paramount GLAZING Of religion,
and to feel that better than the wealth OF
Ormus or of Ind. was the ''peaoe which
passeth all Understandings" He appre-
dated BEAUTY, and INTKLLEor, and
WEALTH, AND POWER. but, after all, the
Christian ,oas the highest style of man;
and what, said he. did it avail rs, If,
after gaining the whole word. we should
lose our own soul? Better than all else.
were the hopes and promises Of the
Gospel, and let us, men. women and
children, observe the apostolic ininuc-
ton, and '.oovET EARNESTLY THE BEST
GIFTS a.
The speaker, in conclusion, spoke of
the great work that devolved upon the
superintendent, Oapt, R D. Sem. His
ofhce was second only to that Of the
phstor. II the pastor had to look after
the. sheep. his (the SUPPLEMENTARY
part was to gather up the lambs, and TO
help the parental hand in keeping them
within the fold. II. ssid the speaker,
God tempers the wind, in q spiritual
sense. to the shorn lamb, so it was our
duty, under the auspices of the Sunday
school enterprise, not to neglect the re-
ligious training Of the fve or ak mil.
lions OF little children in this country,
that more command onr attention than
the six or eight hundred millions OF hca-
thens which the world contained.
The speaker congratulated the Super
intendent upon the success of his labors,
as evincrd in the report read of the aou-
rishing school under his charge, and ex.
pressed the confidence that in the fu-
ture, as in the past, the Superintendent
would discharge we'll his important and
useful Office.
At the close Of the address. which was
received with marked attention, an op-
portnnity was afforded to those who de.
sired to add their names to the Society,
and the roll of members was increased
by several additions. Among the pleas
ing incidents of this occasion was the
voluntary offering. by several mem bers
of the Society, of contributions to con-
sttuto The venerable John Veal life
member. The exercises we're nppropri-
ately closed with singing and the bene-
dic:ion
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