Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1896-03-13

ieeL OF SUNDAY SCHOOL evangelism
must be swilter. They cannot arrive
too soon, or work too eagerly.
1t assumes furthermore, that all
the future progress Of the race, social,
political, intellectual and spiritual
must have its roots in the right train
ing OF childhood. Here sit the teach
ers and citizens, the home-makers,
tue church-workers of the future, in
these Sunday School pews. Charac-
ter is getting its stamp, conduct
its stimulus, and destiny its first di-
rection. The Sunday School hopes
to project its holy teachings into the
social, business, political and moral
life of tomorrow. If it can do this,
it will have wrought out its ideal.
Such, it seems to me, in brief, is the
Sunday School concept, and its log
ical assumptions. The situation,
however, is crowded with tremen-
dous exigencies
1t will therefore, IN order to carry
out this purpose, require the widest
possible cooperation. ann the wisest
POSSIBLE choice of methods. If this
Sunday School idea is to be success.
fully developed, it will need first OF
all, the cooperation Of the church
This may seem like a trite and hack
neved suggestion to make, yet 1t
needs to be made. The whole church
should cooperate and not smaIt
part of it, Here, more than any
where else, she is to perpetuate her.
self This is her West Point, where
she is to drill her generals for her
future campaigns She must put her
best into this department. She must
provide a place and good one for
! the school no more garrets or cellars
but a bright and CHEEKY room Of
rooms. with Gods smile coming In al
) the windows. She must furnish sup,
Lphes. the best that can be had, and
not permit officers and teachers to
feel that they must prosecute war
fare at their owa charges. She mus
rive her best brain, soul and skill
to recruit the ranks of teachers. II
, she only knew the day of her vista
! ton. she would focalige about hel
Sunday School the ripest energies O.
her life and make it like an Elder
of delight. The home also, must co
! oDerate. 1t must honor the schoo
and prepare the children for it. SenC
them regularly to 1t, or bring then
and sit down beside them so tina
home and school may be practically
one. Hannah must loan Samuel t
|, the Lord and prepare him to dwell
in the temple courts until the Divln'
. voices break in on his soul and Civ
him commission. And Elkanah til,
! father. must not be so busy with tn
Sunday Newspaper, that he does no
! know whether his boy has gone t.
| the Sunday School or down to tn
! creek. There is too great laXit,
i in the home on this subject now q
=, DAYS The Sunday School and tn
home ought to be made league ottei
sive and defensive for the sake o
the children, who are the chief treas
ures of both.
&c will not be misunderstood, i hope
4 when | say that the civil authGrlt.
should also cooperate. This is
= Sunday School OF which we are treat
n ing. 1t is located in a christian land
. on whose statute books are rigi'
!. laws looking to the peace and quie
!. of the Sabbath, and among who's
IS cherished inheritances from our fail
Il ers is the right to worship God will
out disturbance or mOlestatiOn. Now
we claim that the State should homo
: its own laws, and thus protect tn
ri hit of the Sunday School to
quiet pursuit of its holy task. Sc
then, let business stop, let stores b
closed. let secular diversions be suS
pended, let laundering trains hus
q their clatter, let Sunday be realit
and not q mockery. We have RICH
+ to demand this. All this winkini
a at Sabbath violators on the part o
civil authority is a sowing OfdragOn'
o teeth for the State which will groV
. a harvest of serpents, that shall som
q day sting to death her prosperity
:. Does not the State know that tn
7 Sunday School is nightly helping
o to build true citizenship with he
q ouickening of conscience, her Bib,
). reverence for law and her genera
uplifting of character, and ought no
the State, in its own interest,tO civ
the school fair chance to do he
= duty ?
o The fact is, that because the Sur
!. day school proposes so radical AM
: far-reaching a work and because it i
: a centre of such profound influences
! everything ought to cooperate wit
). it. All institutions, social, CONNER
!. cial, civil ,reformatory, and religion
i ought to combine to promote it
4 highest efficiency, since it in turl
/ will furnish sinews of strength 70
+ all these, need not add that thi
q work will, above all other help, re
v quire also the cooperation of heaN
enlv powers, for these are alread.
kSledged to it. Heaven truly lie
i about the Sunday School, and tn
q leaves of the heavenly book may b
: heard everywhere huttering in he
o pews. =,
have said that in order to dc
!. velop the Sunday School idea, Their
i must be the wisest possible choice o
methods. And yet l must not ven
! ture upon any minute discussion o
q these at this time for the reason tina
v there are masters of methods her
present who will gladly instruct US
/ have only a few general sugges
e tions to offer
+ First, deplore haphazard meth
e DDS in our work, or mere multiplics