Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1893-04-27
The Great Work Which Baptist Chill.
dren are Doing.
rFcr the Keowee courier.l

Children's Day in Baptist churches is
looked forward to with great deal of
pleasure and interest. The second Sun
day in June is set apart by the American
Baptist Publication Society for its cele-
bration. An interesting programme is
prepared under the auspices of this soci-
ETY., copy of which is sent to all Sunday
schools of the Baptist persuasion. If the
schools decide to observe the day they
give notice to the Rev. C. C. Biting, D.
D., Corresponding Secretary of this soci-
ETY., and sufficient number of pro-
grammes are sent, provided the schools
will take up collection and forward to
the society, to be used in missionary
work. The contributions raised and
secured in this way are very large and
the work of the society along this line
considerably augmented.
A great many Baptist Sunday schools
observe this day, and am sorry to say
that many, yea, very many, observe it
not. More than thirty-five hundred are
engaged in observing this day and made
a noble contribution to the Sunday school
missionary work of this society. The
contribution enabled this noble society
to do an important work in great many
States and Territories in our country.
These dear children assisted in helping
one hundred and thirty-eight mission
aries, the summary of whose work is
summed up as follows: Sermons and
addresses, 1890; prayer meetings, 1888;
families visited, 53,963; persons baptized,
COS; churches constituted, 5s; partici
pated in Sunday School Institutes, 531.
This is not all the work in which these
true-hearted and faithful men are en-
gagged. So. you see, we are trying to get
all the children engaged in this work.
We cannot get the grown people to do
what they ought to do, because they have
not been trained in the grace of giving
and they don't care to inform themselves
about the needs of this important work.
They could inform themselves if they
would. The Home Field, published in
Atlanta by the Home Board, and The
Foreig, Missionary Journal, published in
Richmond by the Foreign Board, give the
work at home and abroad and It's needs;
and yet venture to assert that twenty
copies of either of these valuable papers
are not to be found in the Beaverdam
Association. There are thirty odd
churches in this association, with mem
bership of over 1000, and so few ac-
quainted with the needs of our mission
work. l think it would be profita-
BILE undertaking if the ministers of this
association would devote ten or fifteen
minutes every Lords day to mission
needs, and in this way give their people
missionary information. We have mis-
sions in North, Central and Southern
China, IN Japan, in Italy, in Brazil, in
Africa. and so on. How many of our
pupils know our missionaries and their
fields? They should be informed, and if
the ministers in our association don't
know themselves, they should inform
themselves and then give the information
to others.
To avoid this indifference in the future
we have given the missionary idea promi
nence in OR Sunday school work. We
are instructing the children, and one of
the means used is the observing of Chill
dren's Day. The programmes are nicely
gotten up. The music is more or less
missi = nature, and the reclta-
tions. n, -.--..cst. simple, engaging and
interesting. The children are proud OF
this day, and their bright faces and happy
heart, tell US that they want to do some
thing = uy..i blessed Christ who has
done So uch for them. God bless our
efforts in this direction and hasten the
time when all of our schools will observe
this day. r. W. SEYMOUR.