The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-04-04

most interesting hut want oi space prevents
any other reference to the programme, a
Svnor,is al which appeared IN yesterday :
BAZoo. than {" present the excellent paper
hv Mrs. Henry Bullard, nf ~. J"e, "n the
topic. Training children IN mission work.
THE PAPEE.
In attempting 10 open this discussion ON
the way 10 instruct and interest children
ON the subject of missions. will coniine
what have io say Ia that part al the e':u-
cation al children which i in the hands
of the mother, leaving others Ia speak Of
the work ~ il i Io be carried on I'm the
Sabbath school. in the mission band. etc.
All oi uS who are mothers have thought,
no doubt. seriously and often, OF the stale
ment often quoted, that the training which
child receives daring the first five wears
oi it, life tells more surely upon it, ma
ture manhood than that At any other time.
We have hear of John Newton re-
claimed after a profigate youth, 10 burn
ing and y shining light among Gods peo-
ple, hearing the testimony that never
through those wears of wandering in sin,
did lac lose the memory Of the touch Of ms
mothers hand. a. she knelt with him IN
PRAYER. and that though she did ii when he
was bat five wears old, he attributed his
late conversion to her prayers and teach
ingS which he never forgot
We have heard the testimony oi the
great statesman. John Randolph, AZ he
SAYS Il should have been an atheist ~ IL
had not been for one recollection. and that
WIS the MEMORY al the time when NV de-
parted mother Used Ia take NV little hand
I'm hers and cause me, on my knees. To- say
Our Father. which art III heaven"
With these great examples before H., w
have felt A. a sacred burden the RESPONSE
biliiv upon III of the training in all good
ihings al the very little ones in our homes
Therefore a. To- the training OF these lit
tie ones i'm mission interest. my first >ug-
geStion wouli I've begin early. lnur
child i not very old when he begins 10
want stories. fill vour own mind with the
wonderful stories oi missionary work and
adventure i'm our own land, and in those
:ar-"f lands whose distance lends the ro-
nance that children love then Tell those
stories over and over a. the ever repeated
demand come, from The little ones tell
more. tell more Mother Hubbard and
The house that Jack buiIt' NAV be les
trouble TO tell. but they won't paw a. well.
~ the children grow older read To them
all about the needs and >utierings oi the
children like themselves in the dark part
ii the earth. and of the sacrifices and the
failhfulne>s al, Those who have gone To teach
them. Write out the stories for them in
Language that they can under
stand and >ee how often they
will ak 1" hear them: read and
re-read before they can read them for
themselves. Let the pictures and the
stories make IN atmosphere around them
that shall inspire them uncon>ciously with
an interest IN the great subject. They
will be interested; they cannot help 1t. |
have >een children ui five wears old who
could not hear 4 casual ailusion tn Mex
leo without reminding YOU that they
knew about Mexico-"that i where
Miss Rankin went" To little
boy ol six the story of the great African
missionary, Livingstone, was sd real that
when SOME one alluded 10 being i'm West
minister Abbey. heexclaimed: "Oh, know
what You saw there. You saw the place
where Livingstone il buried"
The same child was overheard telling to
a friend IN manner 80 graphic "a Ia cali
forth smile, the story of how the Sand |
wich Islanders grew tired of their gods.
who were of no good To them, and threw |!
them all away; and how, when they had
just done this and hadn't anybody To pray /
To. the missionaries came To tell them |
about our God.
let their vivid Imagination run riot in |
fairy tales, or in accounts OF, innocent but |