The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-05-04
WORDS FROM PASTORS.
Anniversary of the Founding of
the Maynower Sunday
School. =
Rev. D. B. Price, of the Warren
Street Methodist Church,
on Goodness.
A Pleasant Occasion al the sunday school
Anniversary in tho German Meth
odist Church.

Inc anniversary or the IOuNdtHR Oh LIS
Mayfower Sunday school WIS held at three
p. M. yesterday, in the German Methodist
church ON Hoback str rect, where the school
has held ,ts sessions. 1t was started under
the auspices of the Y. p. S. @. L. of the
Congregational church. The anniversary
WAS very pleasantly celebrated by recita-
tions, choruses, quartette and solo singing.
Addresses we're also made by the pastor.
Rev. L. G. Kelsey, Sc D., and also by Rev.
w. 8. Bell and Supt. H. G.. Simmons, of
Fargo, N. D., who happened to be present.
Rev. DIR. Kelsey in his address said: "On
this happy OCCASION | rejoice to address you
for several very important truths are illus
trated by your successes during this event
full year which in it's progress has inscribed
each of your names OH Il scroll of honor
enduring as time; your work will stand,
your rewards will abide as long as this
beautiful city endures; not only will your
work abide, but it will ad-
vance in Importance and value
like money on compound interest.
Your success this year illustrates the
truth that one must never dsspise the day
of small things. An acorn is n small mat
ter; but when once planted, it begins to
grow, and a stately oak is no small matter.
Our tall yellow pines of Montana are royal
trees; but they find their beginning in a lit
Ito seed much smaller than a grain of
wheat. A gentleman recently sent me two
walls of mud taken from the bottom of
Mobile bay; the interest in this mud con-
sists in the fact that this mud is composed
of the dead bodies of little microscopic
plants that used to be thought to be ami
mrlG IhagA hnnjaS HrA of natural uIpQl
and are 80 exceedingly minute that it takes
n magnitication of 600 diameters to see
them. Yet n large amount of our quartz
rocks have been formed by these diatones;
it has recently been discovered that the
olty of Richmond, Va. is built over such a
deposit of several hundred feet in thick
ness. In my childhood we used to
sing at our Sunday school a song that con-
tains this very important truth about the
value of little thing:
Little drops of water, little grains of sand
Make the mighty ocean, and the baauteous land, "
Looking upon the history of your first
years work compared with the slight en-
enlargement of the outlook at the begin
ming we ought to learn the lesson that lit
tie things, small beginnings, are not to be
1espised. Indeed. all our organization
now welding s~tupendous influences had
their beginnings in the heart and head of
some one person. Only last Saturday | was
looking over the work of one of our large
bu siness firms, and seeing the head of the
concern sending out thousands of circu-
lars, l picked up some OF the addressed en-
velopes and asked what was the use of send
ing these circulars to such a person. The
business man replied: I'VE never can tell
until we try" The snow comes down
gently, and each flake is so small and light
as to be the symbol of Gentleness and fec
bleness: but when massed it makes the aW-
full avalanche, the mighty glacier, aud puts
an embargo on a nation. A year ago a few
of us determined to make the attempt to
have a school over here; we knew not
where to get the teachers, the money, the
building, or the scholars; the atttempt was
courageously made, and 10. our school sue
ceeded. Our attempts looked like small
affairs, but success is no trifle.
Again, in looking over our work, | am
impressed with the conviction that better
work cannot be found than such work as
this. Bookkeepers run a profit and loss
account; every sort of Il business has its
loss as we'll as gain. But in our work where
are the losses? 1t is all profit. Our gains
are always a sure return and heavy dlyi-
bends. Miners are very jubilant when
they "strike it rich.S But no miner in
Montana during 1S90-1S9l ever struck it SO
rich as we did when we decided to carry on
this work in the name of our Lord. Our
Christmas night, our Easter Sunday and
now this our first anniversary all tell of
reapinas whereof our hearts are glad and
treasures la1u up IN Heaven. AS teachers
we can speak of the delights in telling the
'old, old story; rs scholars your bright,
Interested faces show we have not toiled in
vain.
In this our work, lot the motto be:
"Christ for all the world, and all the world
for Christ We enjoy our work, but We do
it, not because we enjoy it. but because of
the good we can accomplish. The work
we are doing is, in spirit, just like the work
of our Lord himself. 1t is an unselfish work
we are trying not to get gain, but to do
good, and the Lord has said, "Inasmuch as
We nave lone it unto ona of the least of
these my brethren, ye have done it unto
me-"
Thus in our work in the Sunday school
We may ,rejoiceingly note three lessons:
first the day of little things ia often the
birthday of great events. Second, this kind
of work is profitable work. Thirdly, it is
work of similar character of that of our
Lord. Having set our hand to such a noble
work we shall never turn back, nor ever
wonder that our divine Master blesses it