The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-11-02
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is the strength of the Sunday school.
We hear people pray that children may
be converted ultimately. Pray that they
may be converted now. And we must
pray earnestly for our children. Child
hood is fertile soil. The Sunday school
is the criterion of the age. The Sunday
school teacher commands the Gibralter
of the ages. If John Stuart Mill read
Greek at the age of three years, why
shall not a child have Heavenly wis
dom?" These are some of the thoughts
Mr.. Parry gave to us. Then Rev. James
E. Diverty of Bellows Falls, spoke on
Childhood Conversion. He quoted
Wakely to the effect that "Children are
the tomorrow of society,"" Jesus says,
suffer little children to come unto me.
Don't wait until children grow up into
great, big sinners, expecting to make
great, big saints of them. Horse train
ers don't wait until colts are grown into
horses. A wasted life is sad to reflect
on. Formation of character is better
than reformation. May the Lord help
us to get started right. We could not
hear as much as we wished of the ad-
Tress Mr.. Diverty had prepared, as the
conductor of the meeting Ia very pleas
ant mani, felt obliged to call the speak
w dCCOulJ DIS W IlIl6. ID. Il.
Jacobs of Chicago followed Mr.. Diverty.
He said that he was charged by the
brethren in Maine to bring us their
Christian salutation and greeting" He
thinks the United States the best field
to work in. And one of the best helps
to work is an unabridged dictionary.
If you can't get that get one as litLle
bridged as may be. Mr.. Jacobs style is
peculiar. he is wide awake man, evil
IDENTITY. Ee told us to give while we
live; you'll be your own administrator.
We were told that "God loves cheerful
giver-otherwise a hilarious giver."
(Do we always give with ''hilarity?"
We should give as God has prospered
us, and not forget to give to our pastor,
love and encouragement" On Tuesday
morning Mr.. Jacobs conducted a Bible
reading. He said among other things
that he was sorry for man who had no
new experiences in Christian life. A
man gets up in prayer meeting and says,
"We-el, d'nno as I've anything new in
my experience" Why, the mercies of
the Lord are new every morning. We
do not drink deep enough of the water
of life. "He that drinketh mot little
sip), of the water that shall give, drink
deeper" And here we will quote the
legend one speaker gave us at another
time, of Scandinavian mythology in re-
gard to a man who attempted to drain a
goblet of the gods. The more he drank
the more there was to drink. 1t was
connected with the ocean. Mr.. Jacobs
asks, who questions the Bible? There
were 740,0O0 teachers Bibles sold in the
United States last year, beside many Ok
fords and others. There are more peO-
pie studying the Bible now than ever
BEFORE" is Mr.. Jacobs's assertion.
(That's for the pessimists). "Some peO-
pie say the Bible is behind the times.
1t is behind the times, and ahead of all
time. Is there a man in the house who
has found one Bible promise false? An
| old lady had at certain places in her
Bible written Il. p. When asked the
meaning of this she said they were to
mark promises 'tried and proved" Mr..
Jacobs compared the Bible to a micro
scope, also to telescope. He said that
when Columbus discovered America, he
didn't discover everything. "Tbere were
some things left for Washington, Lin
coin, Grant and some things for us. A
certain man said he didn't believe in
Heaven Let him look through the tel
escope of the Bible" At eleven O'Clock
Mr.. LeaYens talked to us about Sunday
school books. He said she would give
anything if he had not read certain
books. Place good, pure, ennobling, in
teresting books in the hands of the.
young" We have not space to give any
thing like full report of this meeting so
| far as we were able to attend. We must
conclude with the hope expressed by the
president, that we might receive an in
spiration that would be lasting. We
left the Convention feeling strengthened
and encouraged and we hope that the
influence of this meeting may be indeed
lasting. We hope the people in Rutland
who showed us much kindness, may re-
ceive many blessings, and may we all
cndeavor to sho spirit of goodwill.
NJ. M