The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-12-03
Sunday School Convention.


rain Counties, held in Wellington week be
fore last, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thurs
day was attended by about one hundred del
egates from seventy-fve schools and all the
counties. Among the topics discussed were
"The Teachers influence and True Teach.
ing; difficulties of Teaching and how
they should be metz" Devices for work
and personal character Of Christian work"
Schuyler Davis, of Cleveland, read a
paper leading one of the topics Tuesday
morning: Tomorrow better and wiser
than today" His earnestness always
makes impressive what he has 10 say.
Rev. Z. N. Pond, the State Secretary had
charge of the meeting. Miss NJ. Noyes,
missionary from Canton China, address.
ed the meeting Tuesday evening IN place
Of Rev. Manchester who could not be
here. Rev. W. N. Thomas and Prof. ]. NJ.
Ellis made leading addresses on topics
assigned. "Wednesday evening Rev. II. c.
Hayden, d. D., Of Cleveland, pastor of the
Stone Church, on the Square, followed
immediately after the vesper services with
most excellent address; "How can skep-
ticism and doctrinal unsoundness be nre.
von,od rror, ,ot;nr zoo, a. a. er
'en'eu ''oni 'aN'ns ioo' III 'ne hearts Vi
our scholarsF OF which the following is
an abstract.
Childhood is predisposed to faith,
though we must not overlook the facts Of
depravity, heredity and environment.
Youth will come to find that there is un.
belief and an unbelieving literature, and
that restraint is irksome, and that there is
an unavoidable experience of excitement,
conflict and temptation. He did not a..
tempt TO answer the question involved in
his subject, only suggested some hints to-
wards its solution. He proposed first to
win the child heart TO Christ. Christ Is
the object Of faith, not the Church or The
Bible. This f0re.faith is moral rather than
intellectual; pure heart is the best safe.
guard against infdeity. An unsubmis
sive will must resist Gods book. Christ
Is Ineligible 10 a child when Paul and
the catechism are not. The simple and
personal must 90 before The metonbvsicai
and doctrinal. The second safeguard sno.
gested was to thoroughly inform tbe mind
of the truth of holy scrinture The man
who knows the Billie. is best oualified IN
defend the Bible. Ignorance Is the hand.
maid OF unbelieG. Welcome Investigation
"Who are John, Paul and MosesSs are
proper questions 10 ask.
Hold ,hs Riblo nm 70 tho srr,;oh, Tho
Naw Testsnont | has haon snL ao .o
snoh & = o,;,;o;Sn, oo I los boon i!oJ ouJeC'.u W
oIoaa;" % on,hor Tba I inSII 1pp''Iu a I9 " Nv ns
,ha nS;ns ~ ,,,a rDori, al So,i, no'u v,
on or ooo 1oriotionS have haon found @ 10 =; 'ias nav
Ns,v Tos,aroen, ,ex, I1miah, , .n,'i, ~ p.nS .nS
TnIar NJ hnohers, conno, ho 'py s - 'o' y;
aIa, uonar wrn,a 40 om, ~ ~ s'ha. S sub D. VI
wrote No doctrine os tha No,v Tao,anu,
hos boan ;nvaI;da,sd hv ,S;s or;,;oisn,
W. W. arc NOT yo, lone viii ,ha p;,io anI
many difTicuIhes NAV hereafter be soivaJ I
Waa1wi,iia rsmonnhsr ,ho-a ;s W Nc, eo; oJ'
anca ,hnt doos no, snaadiIr r,,,. haoL ;D,n
unvs,erv @ Now this worL os cr;,;cisr, m noo. ,noo
Tnywera IN tho Ola Tes,amen, % Snmn igoo, 80,
no cIosed snhierts that are inst onaned
We are moi called unnrr IN shield The Ribla
from inyrstiVation but we must insis,
on having nlI tbe testimony in before the
verdict is rrndered
On the face of our methods Is an mir or
unwis,lom in usins uniform lesson svs,en,
for nil ages. II has mt tbe Rible 9ut of
our schools and broken nm Consecutive
Bible sIudv. Such n akin and hon traat,
mani will not cive an idra of Rihle nni,v
~, =, o. :,
lies the Old Testament history and tban
nronhecv would give the idea az nrograss
I've Revelation. A daily ,nening o1 the
Word of God tbus secured Il n tb1ng fear,
f,llv NEGLECTED Amer tb,, ,,ran,5,.,icaI
digression he returned N ,he tonic.
s,Sdv INTERPRETATION What do ,hooa vi,
erS moan i ,he lsai,;r',,o % ones,;on u % W..
have acted as n onest;nnjng q = commen,arv
was 10 onestion tbe yeraciiy of the Word
The trn,h of Uolv Scr;ntyre 10 coma n,
able If not today tben ~ morrow The
truth of scrin,uya 4 wha, wa wsn,
Tho third noint made was. Re- y, ,ormo
of confdence with youtb so ,ha, ,hav a NAV n,av
he free IN onen ,bsir dnnb,s 20 ie.che;s
and nos,ore rather ,han others M,to a
,,i.a ahu pao,o ,o. l, ia."i ~, J'pes a"no q. &
bardsn;na jn,o rnha,;or Tharo .. In Lna
vs, hosn nIaor on, nhiao,inn 90 ,hn IT, Thr;a n
;;;an sys,.r, ,Ia, oorIJ uo, IL " ,oooahI,, oao ~
met The msmorv oS hold c,s;D,s ana
bas,v assartions nil s,icL in ,ha ,.nnrIar
mini ,yh.n ,ha o,ia, ra,,oa, - ,, pOpa' nuan
swershIa raniv sra no, no,iooJ ua,nn
10 M, aron,par, nor sho,,Id !, ho o,,hns,.', u
in denarsman,s /, h,s nv, nd a snan,aI,y;
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