Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-06-12
TUESDAY EVENING.
Extracts from words OF welcome by Rev.
j. A. Pierce.

Extracts from words of welcome by Rev.
j. A. Pierce.
MR.. PREsIDENT.-Fe Fellow pastors, at
PENDANTS and delegates and visitors TO this
VT. Baptist S. s. Convention: The work
u the President and mine are somewhat
dissimilar for "deeds. not words" are de-
manded on my part, as on the part OF this
community that unite in the entertain
ment of this body, so II we say little, we
shall do much.
Mr.. President to yourself and the Con-
yention, express a most sincere and cor
dial welcome in behalf OF this church and
school and on the part OF the whole Chris
tan community. II is my desire that
your conduct, YOUR words and spirit here
in this place and in our homes may be
such that there may be better spiritual
life. While bid you welcome, bid you
welcome as Christians and ask you TO be
with us as Christians. May God bless you.
may God bless this convention.
Response by Rev. +. j. Parry-We
heartily congratulate ourselves that we
meet with such a welcome. In the south
part of the state, we have heard that some
where up in this north part Is veritable
cave of Eolus from whence issue the chill
ing breezes through the south part OF the
state. Here we come but the breath that
greets us is very warm. In the name OF
the VT. State 5. 5. Convention, / most
heartily accept the very cordial welcome
you have given US, and it is my prayer
that God may bless our eonferencetogeth-
er.
Address on 'The Boy and the Bible" by
C. H. Spaulding OF Boston--The Bible Is
the boys book. The Psalmist says
.sMherewithal shall young man cleanse
ing to thy Wordn The Bible says, my
son, give me thine heart. 1t said TO Tim
othy. "From a child thou hast known the
Scriptures, that are able to make thee wise
unto salvation Generally there comes
to US at some period in our childhood a
crisis in life How many men and wom-
en- before me who have not passed such a
crisis? In fremont Temple when Mr..
Jacobs OF Chicago said tNil everyone
who was converted after 80 years Of age
please rise" two persons rose. "NiH ev-
eryOne who was converted after reaching
the age Of 80 please rise, six persons rose.
After Il years. and more than 2,OO0 peo-
pie rose to their feet Somewhere in the
realm Of childhood generally is the line
crossed. The best book for that crisis Is
the Bible. The average boy is not stupid
creature, he is alert. He Is creature 10
study Garfield said, "When | meet a
poor boy on the street there is something
about him that commands my reverence
in spite of myself. | take off my hat and
give him the salute because l see under
the ragged clothing a possibility of phi
lanthropy. When l look into the face of
an old man, / see all there is OF him, but
in looking in the face OF a boy, see a
prophesyn The book to call out the boys
zeal is the Bible, the book to restrain evil
impulses and retain good impulses in the
boy is the Bible. The boy life must be
touched with the things that are most po-
tent in laying the foundations of man
hood and emo bling that type of charac-
ter that gives power. Felix Adler says of
a boy who came to an Industrial School
in New York, "When given the alphabet
he seemed vacant; they gave, spelling, ex-
amples, ETC., but did n 4 find the key to
his mind; figures produced the same
blank but one day they brought this little
fellow lump of clay and set before him a
little model when quickly light flashed
over his face. The model was soon repro
duced and the boy is now one OF the most
promising sculptors we have. II was Just
in touch with the boys mind. The Bible
is the book for me to study If am to feel
the touch of the Lord Jesus Christ. The
Bible is the best book for the boys soli-
tude. Here are valuable questions for our
fathers and mothers to ask, "Where is
the boy2i "Who are his companions
ssWhat habits is he forming?p | shall
never forget with what deep solicitude a
Christian young lady said of her little
brother, Eyes, be is beautiful now, but a
little while and he will begin to be secre-
tive" Two blocks from my home in
Cambridge there is a magnificent pile OF
architecture. It is to be library, young
man gave a quarter of million dollars for
this memorial to his father and mother
Best of it all is, that upon the walls is
beautifully chased something like this
sJesus Christ. the source of all true know
| ledge" / remember when / was taking
an academic course, l had a hunger for
the trash of the weekly story paper.
read it every week and waited anxiously
for the next one. / shall never forget one
morning in a solitary place when | said to
myself, "You have aspirations in the line
of study, you have set yourself in the line
of Christian morality, you need some
thing else to feed your thought, to give
/ breadth to your mind" From that time
dropped that paper and have never gone
back to it or had any desire to. If We
want to waken power in the boy, we must
/ be familiar with the truth as it is in Chris
Jesus. The conception of Jesus viii be-
come a great character, a great model t
the BOYS. He is the one to be initiated
The old musician, Gounod used to say tC
his pupils, ssThe older you grow the more
you win seem to see the greatness of the
master, and the more you will come to de-
preciate yourself. At % l used to say 4,
at 30 l said 4 and Mozart at 40 Mozart
and l. but now | say Mozart" You re-
member that old hymn of Adolphus
MOnod2 A hymn of four stanzas. Thought
of first stanza, IAN Of Self and None Of