The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1878-10-10


and narrow cabin windows 1 fan
: cied to myself how the captain wOul
. succeed il he tried to run his shi
, from 8 port hole. The captain mus
. be up on deck that he may see th
!, whole ship, and other ships, il ther
are any near his course, and the SIX,
overhead, and all around the horizon
and especially that he may take hi
observations at high noon.
81 know 3 great many persons IL
the church, and fancy some minis
ters, who live IN the cabins and lool
out Of port holes, and think the.
know everything. l hate lobbyists
1 abhor lobbyists. There are man!
OF them, and they are OF various
sorts, but abhor the whole race o
them. There is the temperance hob
byists, who can think and talk OI
nothing else than temperance, anC
that too in his chosen line OF temper
Rnce. He may be 8 prohibitiOnist
and prOhibitionism Is all his though
and theme. / hate the temperance
: lobbyist. l hate the labor reform
hobbyist, and the Greenbscker, anC
the man who makes the Sunday
school his hobby, and can see nothing
OF any worth in anything else. Ab'
hor the lobbyist, no matter what be
chooses for his speciality. / have 9
great horror for the Sunday school
specialist. He would glOrify and
magnify the Sunday school. He can
see nothing but the Sunday school.
He can talk OF nothing but the Sum-
day school.
"SOme ministers become special.
lists. One makes the pulpit his spe-
cIalty. With him the study and the
pulpit comprise everything. Another
makes pastoral visitstions his special
ty,snd can see nothing ofso very much
Importance in the study and pulpit.
Pastoral valuations absorb all his
time and thoughts, and hence he is
spoken OF by the old ladies Of his
charge as Our dear pastor. To be
sure, poor man, he can not preach,
but he is such good man. hate
lobbyists wherever they are to be
found-Whether in the pulpit, on the
rostrum, or in tie editorial ssnc-
tum. wish men would come on
deck.
"The Sunday school is not the only
| agency for the reformation OF society
or the conversion of the soul. The
home Is worth q good deal more than
the Sunday school for the work. The
Sunday school is not at all eompsr-
able to Christian home where the
Bible is read daily and all the family
are gathered around the altar OF
prayer. With all your educational
appliances, with the whole list Of
modern devices for promoting the re-
Iigious culture, there is no place like
home for teaching religion. Nor
can the Sunday school compare with
the pulpit as religious agency. Now
l am called Sunday school man. l
/ can not help it, much as L dislike It.
II child Of mine be present at only
one service on Sunday, 1t will be at
the preaching service. What the
child needs is the spirit Of reverence,
and that is promoted more by the
r-Siio sarvina nf the RanntnAPy than
II es1 be promoted by the Sunday
81 have only one boy, and 1 have
tried all my theories on him, and he
still lives and flourishes. Laughter.
He began to attend Sunday school
when he was eight years old, but he
commenced to go to the preaching
services of the church when he was
| two and q half years old. In fact, he
can now remsmber when he began
to 90 to church, and now he goes to
both.
"Thirdly, Just as 1 believe 10 the
home and in the pulpit, SO l believe
| in the pastorate. The minister Will
be successful in one part Of his work
at least who carries in his pocket
book the names OF all the boys and
girls of tbs families whom he visits,
and who, when he meets a boy on
the street, stops him and says, See
here, JohnWiIson, I want you to
look here q minute. 1 have your
name here, do you see in this book
along with that of your father and
mother, as q baptized member OF my
church. / want to tell you, John,
that l did not see you at church last
Sunday, and want TO tell you, too,
that 1 did see you in the cOngrega-
ton the Sunday before Johnny
goes home and tells his mother /:
Mother, tell you the preacher has
got my name down on his book, and
he knows when / am at church. Pm
going after this Some time there
after the minister finds an opppOrtu-
nifty to take John into his study, and
say q few plain words, without cant,
| to the boy about his soul. Take the
children to church.
al claim, of course, that the preach
ing that an average man can under
stand is such that q child can get
much good out OF. II the preacher
/ - md 20 haah ha
cessiul in so selecting and arranging
bis words that the average man can
clearIy see the idea expressed, a child
can get much good out OF the ser
mon. He may not, indeed, follow
the line of argument closely, and ap-
preciate all the meaning Of the dis
course, but he will perceive and re-
tain the salient points. Even II he
could not understand q word of the
sermon, the church service itself is 8
great and valuable object lesson, and
it will profit the child to go. The
child is a loser who is not In the
church, and whose pastor does not
know him and look after him.
"When the home instruction Il
faithful, when the pulpit is brought
to bear, and when the pAst0rate has
been faithfully exercised, then we
have a candidate for another depart.
ment OF Christian work. 1 mean the
Sunday school,"
Mr.. Vincent claimed that the
school of to-day is not the school o.
Robert Raikes, and does not IOok
back to him as its founder. He did 9
good work indeed, and founded 6
school for children, and il met on the
Sabbath, but it was not at all thS
Sunday school OF to-day.
The school plead for, continued tht
speaker, dates back to the days o.
Christ and His Apostles. You re
member that when Christ taught, HI
always excited his disciples to tRI
questioning mood. He put question:
to them. He is rarely spoken Of as &
great preacher, but rather as q grea
teacher. 1 once had an idea that
would publish all the questions asked
in the New Testament, and asked 6
friend tc prepare me 8 list OF them
he wrote me a short time afterwsrd
"My dear brother, II you publish al
the questions asked in the New Tests
meDt 1t will take two pages Of tht
Journal for twelve mouths" I hRvt
since been told that it takes sever
hundred interrogation points to print
the New Testament. In the time o
Christ, not only did He question Hi
disciples, and they Him in return, bu
there was 3 great deal Of talking tC
and fro in His audience about thl
questions which he presented. In thl
meetings of the early church therr
were many conversations. I thinE
If we would go back to apostolic
times and watch 8 meeting Of thI
primitive church, we would find tn
preaching and teaching Of God
Word conducted very much upon the
plan and method pursued to-day II
Protestant churches. There was
special service OF the people to com
together and talk to one anOthe
: about the Church OF God.
like that verse in Paul's epistle t
the Colossians, in which l find N.
constitution for q church school
where the disciples studied God
Word for spiritual profit. You re
member he says: "Let the word {
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