The Springdale news., 1888-08-10

eft of Sunday schools, for it's a prcci- ous work to me.
 You are all aware of the condition of the county Dor r. years aga--speaking to the young-l will remember how use to to spend sunday. Though l am made to rejoice, when for a moment l look at our present condition but few summers ago 1t was different from the present. 1 can only thank my Master for our improvement.
 Our success is due to our Maker. So let us be encouraged more and more, l want to ask au the young people to help me and to encourage me in this great work for l will from this day be more and more engaged iu the Sunday school work.
 To-day is the 4th of July. A ques- ton; how many present today that was at q Sunday school convention Il years ago; think about it. it's useless to ask of this people how they spent the 4th b years ago, and would not have them tell me, how they celebrated 1t 20 years ago, is not this enough to encour- age us2 Many have advanced morally, andall is due to Sunday school eonseefa- tion. And so seldom do we think of or thank our Master should we pull for higher and better things2 Can we. will we? l, for one, will try to make the future brighter.
 Now if WIG can seewe are benefited l will say 1t is great improvement and enjoyment for such small efforts, 1t has paid Us a hundred fold. So as this is the case let us conSccrate ourselves more and more to the Sunday school work, let us talk it through the week, let us spend every Sunday as we know we should. We will be rewarded for our work We don know where our ill., iiuence may reach or whom. 1t seems to me one of the most delightful works ever enjoyed, and the easiest to con trol. Our Master xill assist us and 1t will not seem burden to Ills. To eon- vince myself of the effect Of conSecra' .ion concluded to see ii could get n little girl to attend our Sunday school. so neat and atfectlonate shf seemed to me, but she was not a scholar of our Sunday school. met her and asked II she would come to Sunday school she said he didn't know. l continued 10 question her, but she still stayed away. l then saw her father and said 10 him, will you please let your little girl come to Sunday schooll And watched eag- erly. though little doubtful. but OH the next Sunday when thought had done all. 1 could do What should see
 in my class but the sweet little face. which had been trying 30 hard to get to Sunday school. My heart was filled with joy It has been joy b me ever since to see her in my class, tried to make everything pleasant to her, and was so anxious to see if she would still come, and she is a regular sunday school scholar. Now if We would dc more We would be happier. hat has been my eN- perience The best Sunday school We have is when my class IS all there and T new scholar or two helps us. let us try to accomplish more in the future than we have i'll the past. We can II we VIII work in earnest l hope parents Will not neglect their duty toward thelr children i'll sending them to sunday school, where they will be taught to ae- cept Christ, and where they will learn his blessed commands tO teach them To 20 regularly to Sunday school then their would not be so much cruelty in this world to destroy the good we might do here. there would lot be SD much dls- obedience to that blessed command. Remember the sabbath day and keep Il holy
 The above was 1caa as all essay, July 1, lSsS, at Baptist Sunday School Convention held at Friend. ship, and is published by request ED