Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-02-03
gestions and helpful thoughts.

IT,
FAINT Department" She preferred the
name primary department. She call
ed her pupils children, not little
children. She disliked "baby talk"
This department should assemble in
a room by itself, where there is moth
ing to disturb or distract attention
The room should be pleasant, COM
Portable. Let the children feel that
the church cares for them. Supply
the children with quarterlies in pref
erence to that sort of paper which is
easily lost and destroyed. Commit
the golden texts; review them and
be able to recite every one in the
quarter. Briefly review the past
lesson. Teachers should be sympa-
thetic and kind, ever striving to lead
her children to know what is honest,
true, and good. The great and ulti-
mate OBJECT is to lead the children to
Christ.
The evening was devoted chiefly
to an address delivered by DIR. A. HI.
Heath of the North Cong. church of
St. Johnsbury. 1t will be impossible
in this space to give digest even of
an address of an hour and a half's
length, which was brim full of good
thought, helpful suggestion, interest
ing illustrations, eloquent passages and
inspiring sentiments. Those who
missed it were great losers.
The Thursday morning service was
opened by a prayer service, led by
Rev. S. Fl. McHale. This was follow
ed by reports from superintendent
and delegates in regard to their sew
eral schools. The reports were of a
| favorable and encouraging character.
A special committee on the matter
of distributing the county, after the
suggestion of the State organizer, Mr..
Miller, consisting of D. M. Camp, G.
II. Blake, j. B. Holton, John Lorimer,
and Rev. F. T. Clark; a committee on
Resolutions, Revs. ]. @. Taylor, w. E.
Douglass, and j. A. Cameron were
chosen.
A symposium on elbow Much is a
Child WORTH" was given by Rev. r.
L. Olds and Mrs. r. @. Noodle. Mr..
Olds said in part that God had seen
fit to start life in the childhood state.
He sets the seal of value on the child
by putting an immortal soul in the
child. Some say, 81 would like to
live my life over" They do not mean
it. They would begin life anew with
an old head but child's years. We
begin life in the child state, in it's inno-
cency, purity, receptivity. Fortunate
if that young life comes to happy
Christian home, but sad the case if he
comes to a cold, goddess home and it's
surroundings. A childs value to you
depends something on what you would
make Of him. If you look upon him
as a granary or storehouse into which
you are to put some knowledge, that
is one thing; but it is not the noblest
estimate to be put upon him. The
standpoint should be,what is his value
through Christ? The religious senti-
ment and emotions of the child should
be developed into the symmetrical
boy. There is enough truthfulness
and virtue in the child heart to bear
the seal of goodness life long. There
are innate religious sentiments which
can not be uprooted. The child is val
liable on account of the service he
can perform. His conversion is worth
ten times as much as is that of the
man of years. Childhood conversion
1c M ynIx lint fO hn moe
the hearts of those who are hardened
by habit and age is difficult thing.
The choice time in life is between the
ages of seven and twelve years. Most
persons converted at an early age
make reliable Christians, while those
brought into the light at a later peri
cd backslide. A child at seven years
of life has forty three years to spend
in the Lords service before he is fifty,
and then will become the pillar of the
church, while the man at fifty years,
has, if converted, only a few years at
most left him. We can not tell what !
the child is worth in the estimate of
the Saviour, but his value must be in
finite. Consider the value Of child
as Christian force in the world. His |
influence for good may be like the
multiplying force that shall widen
and strengthen for years to come, to
be measured only in eternity.
Mrs. Noodle began her interesting
essay by relating some instance where
the worth Of child was indicated by |
the affection of his parents. The Saw
iour's love was indicated by his words,
''Suffer little children to come to me
and forbid them not" Ask the moth