The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1881-10-13
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UNIFORM SUNDAY SCHOOL.
LESSONS.
Prepared for the Baptist Courier by the Rev.
Luther Broaddus.

1
! Luther Broaddus.
The subject selected BY sew
eraI publishers for Sunday school
lessons for September 25, is the
popular subject Of Temperance; !;
we may, therefore, not inappro-
priateIy fII our Sunday school COL
umn with something about tenn
perance in the Sunday school.
While Sunday school instruc-
ton should be directed to the
thorough and symmetrical devel-
opmcnt Of the highest type Of
manhood aud womanhood, and
must, therefore, embrace all sub
jects bearing upon such develop
ment, it must never be forgotten
, that the Sunday school is not a
gymnasium for the training of
cultivated ladies and gentlemen,
nor a school Of morals for the pro-
duction Of high style Of moral
character, but that it's great aim
is to save souls through the pre-
sentation of gospel truth. Polite
manners and high moral qualities
must therefore bo enjoined in
Sunday school teaching, from a
gospel point Of view. And the
truth should be recognized and
emphasized that TO attain to the
full statue Of u man aud q gentle.
man one must be a christian. The
Sunday schoo! is, therefore, no
place in which to inculcate les
sons Of temperance or Of any
other moral quality, from purely
social or political or economic
considerations. Nor has any one.
idea, tanatical retormer the right
to use the Sunday school as the
arena in which to display his en-
thusiasm and ability in pressing
the claims of his pct subject; nor
should any one be permitted to
thrust such subject into undue
Importance, to the neglect OF
others.
But On the other hand, 20 Sun
day school in which this subject
is ignored or neglected is doing
its full work and coming up prop
eriy 60 the demands Of the times.
After all, there is nothing as q
safe. guard against the evils of
intemperauce comparable le with the
education ofpublic sentiment. Sc,
,cret oath bound societies, inc.
briate-asylums and probibitory
laws are all powerless without
this. You may bind a man with
oaths as awful Us hell, and rs true
as heaven, you may lock him up
in III inebriate asylum, you may
brand him and punish him
as q criminal against the laws
OF the land, but none of these
things can give to him an enlight-
ened reason Or pure and rugged
moral character. These qualities
can be secured only by the use Of
proper influence and thorough
training. And these can be ap-
piled 1T no time so effectively as
in youth, and through no channel
more appropriately than the Sun
day school. The stcreotyped
Sunday school speech has in
formed US several times, that the
Sunday school is the nursery OF
the church, and the young are the
hope of the country. The easiest
and surcst way, then, to have
sober men in the church and in
the country is to catch them
while they are young and train
them in the Sunday school. Seize
the boys before their habits are
erystalised and their characters
formed, and imbed in their plastic
minds and hearts the pure and
powerful principles of morality
taught in the New Testament.
Dropping all cant and fanaticism
on this subject, let every Sunday
school teacher aim at the devel.
opment Of such manly and heroic
moral power and the cultivation
Of such implicit reliance upon
Christ, in those committed to his
care, as shall secure them against
the temptation to intemperance
with which they may have tc
contend. 10 the patient. hi.hssaiii !:s 4 !
nrayeriul discharge of our duty
10 this direction we are called BY
> every consideration Of philau
trophy. Of patriotism, and of pure
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