The Baptist headlight. (Topeka, Kan.) 1893-1894, 1894-02-01

TIC ullIlCulC points OF tn
lesson. In fact, he should be pas
tor of the Church and Sunda,
School. In proportion as he in
terests himself about the welfar,
OF the Sunday School, so shoulo
ne demand due consideration b,
the Church for the safety and spir
ltual growth of the children.
We do not feel satisfied with an
occasional visit from the pastor to
the Sunday School, as if the spir-
itual welfare of the children is a
secondary consideration. The
Sunday School should be to the
pastor of momentous considera-
ton, and ought to be among the
hrSt things looked after on assum-
ing the duties eff his new call. No
minister can hopefully anticipate
and realize great success, if he is
IN any way perfunctory to the in
terests of the young. There are
TWO points that should be ad-
Vanced in every sermon; those
are, the name of Jesus Christ and
kind notice of the children who
may be in the congregation. How
ever there are many make-shift
pastors, who know comparatively
nothing about Sunday School
work, and infinitely less about
Church work, and who assume to
themselves an air of arrogance to
the extent that the Sunday School
IS too small matter to consume
their time, and who prop up some
selt-elated fellow, ignorant of the
1rSt commandment to lead the
precious souls of children to
saving grace in Christ.
Whatever might be the other
duties incumbent upon a pastor,
t would not be amiss to say, that
one half of his services ought to
De devoted to the interests of the
School. By this growing
interest for the children he event
Tally becomes religious magnet,
gradually drawing the little ones
0 him, until he yields that faith
'rly control which should charac-
erie every pastors relation to
he children.
No Church should accept the
ervlces of a minister who is not
Wiling to go into the Sunday {
'chool and become its main fac
or. How is the church to be re-
'lenlshed, if not from the Sunday
How is Sunday School i
Q replenish the Church, if not t
trough the instructions and influ- Y
noes ofthe pastor? S
Again, the pastor who enters S
ITO the Sunday School work (and I
Ii pastors should) must be able r
, instruct and expound the les I
ons. He must be one who is to t
eep abreast of the times and in
dvance of the people. Children a
re great critics. and the most in C
gnihcant error, IN phraseology n
otherwise, is to them a sufi- n
ent criterion for Sizing up" one t
no makes great pretensions at
nowledge. The ability to con- n
lme much time in words, and t
~ nothing, is not exactly what c
roves of interest to children. Il
he Sunday School pastor must
len brush up" on his Queens Il
ngllsh, and appear as very much \
oilshed as his capacity will per- C
it. The public schools are not
iucatlng children to hear poor e
'eech on Sunday morning and
ass it by unnoticed. HE are"
Id "dey is" were excusable
Iarter OF century ago, but are
IT now.
The children are the life of the
lurch, and are certainly worthy
no small consideration on the II
TT Of the constituency of the -,
lurch, and the pastor is respon- >,
Die tor the neglect of the Church
wards the sunday school. The II.
'ptl5t Sunday school. for organi- in,
ton. tor regularity in work, and d,
strict conformity to Baptist hi,
inciples, must have the ready is
essence, the prompt defense and fu'
filnchlng generalship of the n,
stor, for upon his general abil- 20
his untirinC enerrI. he CL-;