Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-08-11
THE sUNDAY.scHooL.
Address To the County sunday School
Convention Held nj Arlington,
Tex, August CD, 1854.

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BY REV. y. ~. BODKIS, PORT WORTH
Gamalicl's advice to the Jewisl
council:
III IL be OF God, ye cannot over
throw IT,
Atheists the divire origin Of the Sun
dsy.schools. While the work don
nov In the Sabbath-schools had beer
previously carried on, to some extent
by the churches, yet we owe almos
everything 10 modern development
and systematized effort in the stud,
and teaching OF the Bible. To Prot
eetantism the world IL indebted fol
the Bible school. What pity 1t does
not leave it's rightfui name, for Bib.
study Is our distinctive work. The
original Sundny-school had but little
Bible In II, being nothing more than a
school on Sunday.
| i reaiIirm that to Professionalism
alone are we indebted for this great
revival Of Scripture study. The Cath
Ollie church had robbed the people 81
the gospels, giving them instead the
| "prnyer-book." n compilation OF one
part Bible and three parts prlestcraft.
Professionals rescued the Bible from the
| gloomy caverns of the monasteries,
and yet the world TO studying IL. How
| significant is the fact that modern
missionary movements are contempo-
rary with the revival OF the study of
the word. Yea, even more; many u
flaming missionary OF the cross re-.
celved his fret holy impulse In the
humble Sunday room. We
further assert, without fear of sue
cessfuI contradiction, that 70
the Sunday-school more than any
other influence, IL due
THE PnATEENAL SPIRIT
which permeates, ny leaveD, all the
churches OF Chriptendom.
The causes have been, first, the com
mon yet distinctive work second.
conventions aud local gatherings Of
workers; third, the international
series Of lessons. This latter alone has
been fruitful In toning down theologi-
cal disc0rd, and harmonizipg opposing
creeds. No church of any prominence
stands opposed TO the good work.
Even Roman Catholics have the Sun
day-scbool. at lenst In name. Nothing
has equaled this to bring workers OF
different churches ogether-lnborlng
In destitute places, In missions
and In weak churches on the frontier.
People of diverse creed have pulled TO.
gether in "the gospel yoken when
they would not do 40 in distinctive
church work. How significant the
saying of our Lord,
"a LITTLE CHILD SHALL LEAD THEM
Truly indeed Inns the little Sabbath
md noIIt,ea nearer tope,hcr and nsar-
AR IN Joaua
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