Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-11-30

W tuc oun'lhy scnoOl workshop wherever
.t IS AL whitrvar its advantages as to
sailed workmcn, material helps and
financial strength can he and is success
u the extent Il uses what it has wisely and
earnestly. There is no excuse for using
interior tools il better ones can readily be
mad. Many modern helps are very vslua.
BILE and quite inexpensive. What is
needed to supply the school well should be
carefully studied and procured according
to the several ability of the schools truly
put to the test.
5 Another fact to be considered in
connection with the Sunday school work
shop is that materials must he brought in
to work up or put in shape for the objec
of the school. You may build shop on
the most approved plan; it shall be roomy
light and airy; the machinery shall be of
the latest improvement and carefully set /;
the small tools shall he many and in great
variety but il there be nothing 10 apply all
these furnishings to. nothing of worth will
he accomplished in the ino of the designed
work. All The arrangements are but pre-
imlnary to the supply of stuff for fabrics,
compounds or contrivances that the shop
10 fitted to produce. On the line of the
railroad which passes back OF my home
ire extensive works which consume Il
great amount Of iron and coal, and [ note
frequently the train of freight cars heavily
oaded fastening to meet the demand of
those works. The works would be COM
paritively useless without some such ready
means of supply.
Similarly to the Sunday school work.
shop material must be brought
Of mind and heart and vigor. The teacher
must he we'll furnished in mind with Bibie
truth; must have warm and sympathetic
neart filed with Christ's love, and viz.
,rous body able TO do more than to take
care of itself To carry such material in
is the part of every memhe of the scnool
6. One more fact pertains to the Sun
lay school workshop, which is, the char
tcter of Ms work done. Every manufac
Dry has character that comes from the
articles it produce; whether they be ex
oalent or inferior. At mass temperance
meeting held in the city hall OF Fltchburg
MISS, some S.bhaths ago, one of the
speakers referred TO the good name the
shops of the city had acquired from the
superiority of the mechanisms sent out.
Fuchburg work wa- synonym he thought
or first class stock and workmanship
Many ot er shops it may be said have n
like good name. Their label is taken as IA
ledge Of reliability,
In like manner The name of Sunday
Scnool should be synonymous with exec
lence of work done for the scholar. To
say that such a yoath WAS instructed in
uch school Shou Id be the same as saving
'at the best B be obstruction 30 Sble wa.
tlven hn here, tn. beS. moral cpunsei,
ne btS pro no.tngS to duly, sympathy
~ charity. Fle general b.trlny OF the
,upla' j. :hr labe. of the S1nItv school
)" TAX n rs such BY the world. Tn
,uo1i l. ia lsnd b, the results it effect, IN
'e yak OF the life ,ha. has been under
charge 1t has character tor straight
forward devpmi to Its legitimtte service
rs 1t produces dsp ,sition in pupils to
bead stragh forward life let us then
carefully attend to the forces and opportu.
mites and works of our Sunday schools
in the workshops.