St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1895-08-10

These pleasant paths, may Gods own
smile
Beam fondly on US all the while.
Our Sunday Schools, what joy they
bring!
Dear little children meet and sing,
And teachers kind show each the way
To heavens blue, beyond the gray
OF earth's pale, transient little day.
A greeting fond we give you all,
A welcome true, and may this call
Of a Convention e'er remain
In memory sweet, golden chain
To bind our hearts in heavenly love,
Till we meet in mansions fair above.
And should some passer-by ask why
This happy thrOng? Just mention
That it's feast in COyinStOn.
OF Sunday school CDnventiOnl
Response, Rev. G. G. Thomas.
Music, Miss Rebecca Strain, organist.
Reports from the Parish Sunday
Schools:
Covington, Methodist, ) teachers. co
scholars.
Pilgrims Rest, 3 teachers, % schol-
ars.
Talley, teachers, % scholars.
Talley Chapel, 8 teachers 20 scholars.
New Home or Wiltbank, teachers,
II to IL scholars. A new Sunday
School, organized about year and
has bright prospects.
Madisonville, teachers, 81 scholars.
Slidell, Methodist, 8 teachers, IL
scholars.
Sliden, Bapti>t, teachers, 40 schol.
ars.
Pearl River, revived and doing well.
Vaudeville, 5 teachers, ~ scholars.
German Settlement, teachers, sc
scholars.
Abita, small but doing well.
Abney, closed for the present.
Williams, 6 teachers. n scholars.
Bedico, 4 teachers, p scholars.
Lees Landing, 8 teachers 30 scholars.
No reports were received from the
following Sunday chools:-Covington.
Christ Episcopal, Keen, Sandy Hill,
Crows, Bayou Lacombe, Simmons
Greek, Holiness Evangelist, Jerusalem,
Hebron, Macedonia, Bethlehem and East
Union.
Music, Miss Rebecca Strain.
DIR. r. L. Shredder then gave an in
teresting and instructive talk on the
Sunday School, the good derived there
from, and the best method Of conduct
ting them. Revs. w. T. Currie and
G. G.. Thomas also spoke on the same
topic.
Music. Benediction.
AFTERNOON.
Devotional services were led by Mr..
John Mark Fussel.
How to secure the attendance of
adults, Rev. w. T. Currie.
Music. Miss Emsic Emerson.
How to interest an infant class, Mrs.
Clara Simmons.
Three things necessary for success
full teacher, Mrs. NJ. /. Poole.
Temperance essay, Miss Jennie
Ellis:
Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,
in Sunday Schools is q
subject in which we all should be deep
" Interested. have heard people
christians-say that we must
not talk too much about temperance or
we will get the outsiders all stirred up
and meet with SO much opposition. Of
course we will meet with opposition.
is one Of Satan's strong
holds upon the hearts of the people and
Il we try to overthrow it, he will OPP
pose US. but if we march bravely on, with
The Lord on our side, we will come out
more than cOuquerOrs. Temperance
must lie taught In our Sunday Schools,
md taught as though we meant it. Oh!
Z we do not speak out against this
great evil, Can we say with the Apostle
Paul, 81 am pure from the blood of all
men, for have not stunned to declare
into you the whole counsel Of God
4 we sit idly by and watch poor souls
,eing dragged down lower and lower
nt0 the deepest slavery and degreda-
ion by this terrible evil intemperance,
md never utter = warning or reach out
helping hand are we squire from the
Hood of all men!" Think of the |
thousands and tens of thousands of |
allen ones around you; of the loving |
usbands and fathers who have been |!
into murderers; think of
hose who have sunk lower than the |
east, and have been bound hand and |
cot through the influence of liking |
Llcohol," and resolve that you will |
each the boys and girls of yous Sum
nv School to lead different lives.
Teach them the effects of alcohol on
he system. Tell them how the vile
olson ruins person mentally and ply
ically, breaking down the health,
mining the constitution, dulling the
rightest Intellect, and DESTROYING the
i'll power forever. Read to them out
the Bible verses that show what the
ord thinks about intemperancc. Here
one: .sWho hath woe, who hath sor-
Nv, who hath contentious, who hath
abblinSs, who hath wounds without
ause, who hath redness Of eyes.
hey that tarry long 1t the wine; they
lat 20 to seek mixed wine. Look not
lou upon the wine when 1t Is red;
hen Il gtveth his color In the glass:
hen it moveth itself sright. At the
st It biteth like serpent and stingcth
Re an adder" Who hath more woe or
PROV, more contentious or more silly
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