The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1875-01-30

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us. In the columns of those great ar
mics of Gods friends and Gods eni-
mics, which are ever falling and filing,
these children as hasting to wheel into
line.
1t is ours to win them to the side OF
truth, and add their names to the great
roll of Gods Sunday School workers.
We fight for Gods kingdom against
Mammon's kingdom, against the sa-
tanic dominion Of selfshness and sin,
and Gods truth as power to help and
purpose to guide us, We find the very
plan of our great Sunday School work.
1t is no visionary scheme of an excl
ted philanthropy, or misty aim of re-
lieious enthusiasm, that animates. Let
us be sure of our ground; sin is real;
mammomism is real; souls are real, and
God is real. These are hard and sub
stantial facts and lie all around us, and
we are called to strike real blows for
real victories. In the grand outcome
of things, these truths of God and souls
of men shall alone survive-world may
perish but these shall abide forever.
1st, Let our own soul, by deep study
and by spirited feeling enter into the
splendid and soul firing domain OF
Gods great truth. Let us go up into
is great mountain places of sublime
history and prophecy, let us descend
into its rich valleys Of tenderness and
and trust, till our very hearts cry out
with the wonderful beauty and blessed
ness of it, let 1t enter into our minds
word by word, thought after thought,
as il Gods battalions were filing into
the tented fields of our inner life. Thus
armed and filled, week after week, we
shall long for. the teaching hour as vic
tor hosts wait for the battle.
end. Let us study the souls of our
pupils, with a sympathy that watches
and responds to the lighteSt expression
of their feelings; let US plant ourselt
fairly beside them, feeling our>elf the
tremendous interest at stake, let us
camp in the field with a purpose to win
without hnrrying, without delay, with
soldiers trust in Christ, our leader,
and in the Bible, our weapon, with n
kindness that never frets, calmness
that never rutlles, generous frank
ness that shows its hear. without pride,
a delicate reserve that never intrudes
unbidden into the thought of another,
an earnestness that turns the soul to
fire, a courage that not only braves all
! danger, but hopes after hundred de-
feats, an industry that welcomes toll,
and generosity that meets cheerlulIy
all needful expenses, with all these,
nourished by prayer we may count our
l selves as armed with an invisible might
The soul is yet unborn that can heal
1 unmoyed Gods truth when presented
TO it But, you say, not to all of us il
5 given to possess at once all these, but,
say, to each true teacher there belong'
e some one of these, and any one vii
= give you power not easily baliled.
The year 1875 is not the first of ou
r work; we enter it enriched by eXper
d ience, encouraged ty the glorious re
y suits alre Idy won, armed with aids an
), implements of which our fathers in th
!, work knew nothing, and with heaye
+, columns than ever before stood ia ran
= on this great field. God has waitel age
Il for readers of his great book of nature
t, aud now they are coming by thousand,
The study of his written word mus
n keep ace with secular education an
<; With science. Never was the Sunda
SO School more needed and more important
l. Pass the word then along the whol
ID line that there is to be no wavering an,
S no retreat this year, nor let our mistake
e, be forgotten; let all discULrag gemer
ID end; put the columns in motion for a
W other campaign, the cause COWS doul
ly dear by all it has cost us, bids rs
~ new efforts. Let the year 1875 be mad
l. memorable in the annals of our woIh
lg memorable in the history of thousand
10 of young SOILS, memorable in the rR
IN UMPHs OF Gop's TRUTH.
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