The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-06-04

anu AldDaina Snoulu eacn nave Helu worker and then they could not be properly and thoroughly worked. We want a ministry in fullest sympathy with our Sunday school work, apt to teach" and workmen that need not to be ashamed.
 OUR OPPORTUNITY.
 Is now and is the best we ever had, be- cause with the coming together of cap ital and labor we should have the abil- ity to meet the new conner with a well come and a church and Sunday school home, so that he may feel indeed that he is at home.
 OUR FUTURE
 Success will be largely secured by our efforts to train and retain those who are now and have been in our Sunday schools, those who soon will become our efficient church workers should be brought up and trained in our own principles of Biblical truth, They should be sown by example and prac- tice the best methods of teaching; they should be fitted and prepared for life's battles. and life's victories; not by old emotional method of Come and shake hands with me if you want to go to heaven when you die" but by the larger and more Biblical and logical method of service here, giving and do- ing, helping as co-laborers with God to bring lost men to Christ and life. rms has been and is the work of our Con gregational Sunday School and Pub fishing society. This is our opportunity now This can be our future success, and the results of our planting and fos- tering our Sunday school work.
 WE NEED YOUR HELP. Once you came to my field and to the south land to preserve our beloved un- | ion. God blessed and gave you success. Now your sons and daughters are com | ing and we welcome them. Help us as | a society to prepare Sunday school out of which will grow the church | home, so that they may feel at nome where they can do best for Christ ana | His church.
 | ADDRESS BY W. E. BARTON, D. D. | Address Upon the Work of the Congre-
 rational Education Society Delivered | by Rev. William E. Barton, D, D.,
 Pastor of the Shawmut Congrega- 1 tional Church of Boston
 It is no accident which has given to the Congregational denomination it's foremost place in education. In a church so democratic there is no safety save in an educated ministry and a | thinking laity. Six years after the | founding of Boston, Harvard college was established, avowedly for the pur- pose of educating men for the ministry, fearing the evils of an illiterate minis try when the faithful pastors then present with them should be removed I from them by death. The number of these ministers educated in the mother country was not small. It has been es- timated that about 1860 there was present init the New England colonies a university graduate for every 240 in habitants, and most of these were in the pulpit For hundred years more than one-half the graduates of Har- ward entered the Congregational minis- try. In 1896 Cotton Mather gives list of New England ministers of which there were then 11e in the 129 churches, and of these 116 ministers, 107 were Harvard graduates. Our denomina- tion can never be true to it's history when it ceases to provide for the edu- cation of the people in our churches in | all that is essential for an intelligent private judgment of religious truth, and for the higher education of it's pas tors and teachers.
 The Congregational Education socie- ty has behind it eighty years of honor- able history. During that time it has assisted no less than eight thousand men to enter the ministry. These men have stood at the very front of our clergy. To name them would be like calling the roll of the illustrious names of the last three-quarters of a century in the Congregational pulpit The nln,- Der is not large in proportion to the whole number of clergymen in our de- nomination-an average of ten year during the history of the society-bu. the number has increased as the years have gone, and in future will increase If we are to have ministry who know our history and principles, who are ca pable of expounding the scriptures tc intelligent congregations, who are in- terested in the great missionary organ izations of our body, we must, for the most part, educate the men ourselves We have indeed no lack of ministers and a host from other denomination; clamor at our doors for admission That they are desirous of entering oul body in such large and increasing numbers is both prophetic of an impor.
 tant movement within the church al
 large, and indicative of a growth o1 democratic sentiment among the minis
 ters, but the pressure upon us iron
 within is all the more q reason for oul educating the great body of our minis
 ters within the schools of our own de nomination.
 But this is only one branch of the SO
 ciety's work. The best known, it is af ter all not the greatest of the depart ments of our activity. It is unfortu
 nate that the work of this society is SC great and varied as to be little under stood. Besides the four hundred minis terial students now upon the society list, and receiving aid, principally il the form of loans, we are aiding nin' colleges, one missionary seminary twenty-two academies and eight mis sion schools. Some of these-the mis sion schools-we wholly support, excep as they derive small income from tui , tions. For others we have the sole re sponsibility, though portion of tn | T. I