The Portland daily press., 1888-10-22
PULPIT AND PLATFORM.
STATE STREET CHURCH.

came TO liscenntry fertile purpose OF lock-
ing into our institutions, and he has written
a book concerning them. He says that he
was most interested in what we call our Sun
day schools. Many of the youth of that
country he said, receive their religious in
struction inwhat they call the Sunday school,
There are today $4,000 Sabbath schools in
the United States, which are taught by 1885,
0G0 teachers, and there are about 100000
pupils in these schools. There has never ex-
listed such an intelligent pew as there is to-
day. Our ministers are preaching to more
intelligent congregations than ever before.
There has never been so much study of the
Bible as there is today. l picked up in
Philadelphia the other day pamphlet in
which there were fourteen expositions of
the scriptures by some Of the leading men of
this country and of Europe. The price of
it was ten cents. The best talent is being
employed to expound the scriptures to you.
They are paying $50 a day in your neighbor-
ing city of Boston to a layman for expound-
ing the scriptures to Sunday school class.
The work done by the Sunday schools all
over the United States is amazing. There
was never anything like it before. We need
hui ltdI iIliutllby. ANY tdlDtcb NuIlcttdil
man or woman can start Sunday school.
The first thing needed Is q house, and
that can easily be obtained. Next children
are needed, and never knew of place yet
where there there was not plenty of them.
Even the anarchist children of Chicago go to
Sunday school. The Chicago anarchists
have two Sunday schools, and was told by
a friend who visited one of them that they
taught, first, that there is no God, secondly.
that the Bible is lie and thirdly that one
aftrlaA
other. The next things needed in organiz-
ing Sabbath school are lesson papers. and
they can easily be obtained Next hymn
book, and they sell one containing 425 differ
en6 hymns for five cents, The next thing
needed is one earnest Christian man or
woman to go ahead With the work. The
Sunday schools of America have increased
40 per cent. in number and attendance in the
last eleven years. When you think that
each Sabbath school is the beginning of a
church isn't the outlook bright one?. l
went down into place in our city where
they had never heard of Sunday school. l
hired room and got a number of good
Christian workers to go down with me.
Then went out on the street and hired the
boys Tor five cents head to go in and stay
half an hour. l got them in and then l
asked them ii they could sing. One lad
spoke up saying, THAT fellow down there
can sing"
What can he sing" said l. DANDY
jim" was the first hymn sung in that Sum
day school. 1 asked them if they would like
to hear me sing, and when they said they
would l sung them gospel hymn. Then 1
asked them If they would like TO learn the
chorus.
Isn't the half hour bout up?" queried
one of the boys. Eyes, il is, and am glad
of it," said l. Come next Sunday and stay
another half hour and I'll pay you five cents
"Can we bring anybody with us?"
'Yes, bring your sisters and your cousins,
and your aunts II you like. I'll pay them
five cents head"
And so next Sunday l had foil house.
1t has grown to church of $50 members,
owning church property worth $4,000
And some of those very boys have been ell
ders in that church.
A friend of mine went to another part of
the city where there was no room to be had.
and so he held his first Sunday school in a
pany to switch off for him.
The result is a self-supporting church of 800
members. The progress of the Sunday
much intelligent work done as is being done
today. You should attend the Sunday School
convention and give to those who come from
a locality less favored than yours, your best
modes. of doing this work, III tell you my
idea of church service. | would have but
one preaching service, and that in the morn
ing. In the afternoon would have Sunday
School, Bible class, call it what you may, of
young and old, all the members of the
church. and in the evening would have an
eyangelistic service with the minister at
the head, and the laymen taxing part.
When you bow to God before angels and
men 1t amounts to something. Be deli
gent IN business and feryent in spirit"
Mr. Reynolds told numerous stories to IL
lustrate his lecture, and referred to consid-
cradle length to his work in establishing
Sunday Schools in Hamilton county, Ill,
and in other States. When he had finished
speaking a collection was taken for the Sun
day Schools
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH.
Yesterday was observed as temple Sun
day" at the First Baptist church and an APP
propriate and very pleasing sermon was ad-
dressed to the members of the Sunday School
at the morning service by the pastor, Rev. A.
K. p. Small, d. d. The programme of the
morning service was as follows;
Organ Prelude.
Doxology. Congregation
Invocation .......-..-........-..... Pastor
Responsive Reading, Psalm 122.
Scripture Reading.
PRAYER.
Response, (the Lords Prayer) 317 Hymnal
......................-...-- .Choir and School
Hymn :........N No. "a, Hymnal
Offering.
Sermon to the School.
Prayer.
Hymn. Observation-Disclosures No. I52, Hymnal
Benediction.
DR.. Small took his text from Psalms
XLVIII, tx. I'VE have thought of thy loy-
ing kindness, o God, in the midst of thy tenn
pie" He said:
''The text is the word Temple; in one par
ticular, the most prominent word in the BIZ
BILE, representing the most remarkable build
ing that ever stood on earth, aud that stand
ing for what was more wonderful even than
itself. Its special divine plan, its rare ma
terias with such vast amounts of pure gold,
ts.sacred furniture, its great dedication, all
were for something most important. Not
for glittering show, or ordinary assemblies,
CT meeting the king; but what was repre-
scented by the filling cloud of divine glory
the presence of God. So learning of God
his very presence-was learning that he is
everywhere, in other temples as in ours,
which we would have purest for his honor.
There, better than was ever built of marble,
wood or gold, God appeared in living temple
human and divine, in the one greater than
the temple" in whom dwelleth ali the full
ness of the Godhead bodily, about rising
from the dead. "He spoke Of the temple of
his body" Then, He is the. head of the
body Of the church" the special temple in
which he dwells. But in the church only as
in true Christians, "Know We not that your
body is temple of the Holy Ghost which is in
you" Him that overcometh will make a
pillar in the temple of my God. Upon the
chief corner stone the lively stones added
till the last headstone is,brought with shout
ings of grace" For the completion Of the
real templei is to be Heaven itself. There
fore are they before the throne of God and
serve him day and night in his timple, and
he that stitch on the throne shall dwell
among them and wipe away all tears from
their eyes,"
$50 it proves that the temple is most re-
marla able for teaching what is so much more
wonderful than itself! showing how much
more valuable are we than anything materi-
al, what extreme folly is making ones self
worthless, when there is possibility of such
infinite promotion and honor"
A large audience gathered in the beautiful
auditorium room of this church for the even
ing service of Temple Day. The following
programme was presented in an interesting
manner by the school. The most important
facts regarding the building of Solomon's
Temple were given by the different classes
under the direction of the superintendent.
The singing by the choir and school with the
duet by Misses Emi j Cobb and Myra Rob
erts, and the solo by Mr. A. b. Hall were ex-
cellent and appropriate The selections
within Pure Gold" aud "The Missing
Stone, were beautifully rendered by Miss
Dinsmore and Mrs. Field, members of the
school. Mr.. V. K. Foss gave brief but in
torestlng account OF some happy experiences
as collector. The Temple gift received
amounted 10 $500 Earnest words by the
pastor, and the singing of the hymn Tell 1t
Out Among the Nations" closed the inter-
aCf off 1.xr