The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1892-06-09

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Brother President, Brethren and Sisters:
attended the Southern Baptist Con.
vention in Atlanta, and on Sunday
morning went to the Sunday School at
the First Baptist Church. A number of
short addresses were made, and one
brother directed his remarks moro espe.
cially to the teachers, impressing upon
them the folly of over-dos:ng, or craming
into the children more than they could
take in or digest. He used an illustra.
tion to impress the point he desired to
make, that in part will suit me this
morning. He said you take bottle
with small neck, go to a pump, take
hold of the handle, pump with quick and
long strokes, examine the bottle and you
will find that the water has gone on the
outside; you was trying to fill it too fast,
Make another trial, pump slow, bring up
a small stream, and you will fill the bot
tie very easy.
Now,I will promise you this motning
that will use small bottle and pump
! very slow, so that you all can take in the
stream that I shall bring up. The sub.
ject of Sunday School you all know is re.
garded, and rightfully, too, very i'm
portant QUE; in fact it is the counterpart
of the Church, and goes hand in hand
with it. We all know, too, that 1t has
been spoken to and wrote about BY all
classes of men, and had it not been q
egem of the purest water it long ago
would have become monotouous, but it is
like pure gold, the more you polish it the
brighter it shinea.
In thinking over what I would say on
this occasion I decided I would address
my remarks more especially to parents
and teachers, and then few suggestions
to the congregation. In the make up
of this world God, in his providence, has
made parents the guardian, teacher,
director, advisor, and should be example
for their children. These are conditions
that parents cannot change, and I want
right here to impress this thought so
deep in their minds that they will never
forget it. Parents should not forget that
in 8 large measure the success of their
children in this world depends on the
way they are taught at home. If these
assertions are true, what are the duties of
parents to their children in regard to the
Sunday SCHOOL, The Bible says train
up child in the way he should 60, and
when he is old he will not depart from
it. We learn from this then thst it is in
the power of parents to direct their chill
dren in the right way.
In the first place will try and suggest
some things that will point them in tho
right direction, and otherg that will lead
into the broad road to eternal death.
The'6rst and most important point to be
sought is to gain the confidence of your
children. Until you do that, your advice
will prove failure. When Jour chill
dren learn by your conversation, your
daily walk and actions that all you do is
done from pure motives, and that you
mean what you say, it will be an easy
matter to govern them. How are you to
get that trust and confdence2 One of
the best ways is to live up to what you
say and advise at home, around the
hearth stone, in the farm, in the sEop, in
the store, in the ofice-let all your con-
vefsation and actions impress them with
the Importance of being perfectly honest,
honorable and truthful. Parents may
talk until doomsdsy to their children
about being truthful and honest, and
then in their presence do and say little
things that are not right, and they will
put you down as dishonest, although
they never say as much. Children will
generally do what father does, but not
always what be says.
The Bible should be kept in conspic-
uous place in all families, and there is
no better way to convince children that
their parents love aud cherish its pre-.
cepts than for them to see it often read
and talked about. I don't think it good
plan to force them to read a certain
amount in the Bible every day-it will
give them distaste for it, I have never
been able to talk much directly to my
children on the subject of religion, but l
never let chance slip to put in word
in their presence-the Importance of
reading the Bible and becoming Chris.
tian.
Will you pardon me for relating lit.
tie circumstance that happened with me
and one of my sons, in which thought,
before considering the matter, he had
carried my teaching too far? He WAS
house keeping, and was very poor as re-
CARDS this worlds goods. He had good
stove, but one of these stove men came
along and persuaded him to buy a s65
stove. When / heard it and saw him, I
told him he ought not to have bought it.
he said he knew that, and was sorry of it
before the man got out of sight. I told
him not to use it,. and write the man it
VAS here subject to his order. Sometime
after that I saw him and asked him about
it, and he said I did not do as you told
me, but I made up my mind to do as you
always advised me to do, and that Was to
always pay my debts. I told him that
was right, and I gloried in his decision.
Another example for good is to love
your Church, attend as near as you can
all of its services-the regular preaching,
prayer meeting and Sunday School.
Parents often fool themselves badly by
staying away from Church, prayer meet.
ing and Sunday School and reading the