The evening times., 1896-04-21
MORALS OF LITTLE ONES
Continued from First Page.

as race as well as an individual-and god
IN their mutual relations. Religion in that
| broad sense includes more than what
| IS simply inherent in the individual.
Religious education has TO do with the
| religious realm and he objected to its
being transferred to the other world and
| saying that intellectual education is for
| this life. He believed that the religious
realm is right here. "Our brother and
sister are here and we have to do with
them Just as much as we will have to do
with the saints yonder.''
Religious training should be COM
bined, SO far as teaching is con cerned. with
real religious life. You may talk TO your
child about love as the element of religion,
but il there is no love manifested for the
child, no love developed in the child's
heart, no love in the atmosphere surrounding
1t, you will not help the child one bit re-
ligiously. The heart must go hand in hand.
EDUCATE THE CHILDREN.
The subject was further discussed by
Rev. /. W. Canter, pastor of the Mount
Vernon Church, OF this city. He spoke of
religious education as it is related to child
hood in the present time. The period of
childhood is by far the most vital and i'm
portant in relation to education generally
and religious education specially. 1t is a
time when the mind is most easily i'm
pressed and when the impressions go to
form the character and determine the
trend of the whole life.
a child begins life without character.
1t has moral nature. but not a moral
character. 1t has the first by Inheritance;
the second is acquired. All childhood begins
life on the same plane. and the difference in
the characters developed is due mainly to
the question of education.
Recognizing these facts, there are three
things that should be kept in mind: First,
that we should recognize the fact of sin
in the child's nature, and consequently the
need of spiritual regeneration; not the
presence of actual Sin. but a sinful ia int and
a natural inclination to wrong doing. Sec
ond. the susceptibility OF the young mind and
heart to religious truth. Third, what is
the earliest age at which we have a right
to expect positive results in the religious
training of children, ana who is the best
teacher to bring about these results.
A great change has taken place in the
last half century in regard to tie early
teaching and early conve rsion of the young.
IL Is HoW lisit Il tllilu INA receive
knowledge of spiritual things as e.rly as
II may knowledge OF any subject. a.
French infidel has said. Give me the
first five years OF IA child and l will
teach it TO break every law OF G OIL and
man. Granting this, then the opposite is
true, and in the first five years the child
may be taught to keep the laws of God
and man.
Rev. Ed W. Gilman. corresponding sec
retary OF the American Bible Society. New
York. read an interesting paper, entitled
Eighty years of Bible Society work. 1916
1896" He told of the good work done
by the Bible Society and of the efforts
that have been made to introduce the
book into all parts OF the world.
The receipts OF the society during the first
year were $37 ,779, and its issues 6.410
volumes: in the year Just closed the receipts
were S437 .223. and its issues not less than
100000 volumes; its total issues in so