The record-union., 1899-11-25
WORDS OF ENCOURAGEMENT
REV. w. s. HOsKINsON's LAST
NIGHTS ADDRESS.
Talk to the Delegates to the Coun-
ty Sunday-School Quarterly
Convention.

At last evenings session OF the
County Sunday-school Convention heV.
w & Hoskinson delivered an ADDRESS
ON 60 Forward" He said;
Tbis is the word of command l am
to give you, but you must tnlnk OF les
coming to you now from the King OF
Kings, else you will not heed IL OF SOON
forget it. AT the closing hour OF these
interesting exercises we want 10 gain
er up the kernels of truth ana the
things that remain, that nothing De
lost to us, and We go away with new
equipment for the greatest work cone
under heaven.
To YOU, then. teachers and Super
intendents, especially comes the COM
mand go forward, with renewed IN
spiration. Like Arnold OF Rugpy you
are to become center of intellectual
power to these young people, but more
and better, you are to become TO tnem
the inspiration of noble character.
Let there be nothing depressing in that
little nook Of Sunday school atmosphere
where you teach Impart the truth OF
course, but impart personal life that
will be real uplift to every pupil
nobleness, honor, devotion, earnestness,
church loving, Christ honoring, so that
every pupil will be nodded by your
lives in these things And so silently
but certainly may your lives be found
working out in the lives Of these given
to you, never forgetting that more
than one day are you teaching, more
than one half-hour. A standard of liv-
ing you have set up in this holy hour.
Every day you must be found holding
it up by your life. Doubtful a,muse-
ments and conduct during weekdays
can very easily mar that half-hour'S
work on Sunday. Confidence once
broken can hardly be mended. Those
boys that see you don't do what you
advise them, will not be lifted high by
your influence. But living true to your
teaching, always coming prepared and
as from the presence chamber of the
Almighty, with a prepared heart, by
the magic of your personal character
holding those fun-loving boys together,
you'll see results.
Your unselfshness and nobleness and
heroism will soon challenge their ad-
miration- One by one they'll take
their places in the ranks of Christian
men, The spirit of their teacher will
be inbreathed into them and stamped
on their hearts and you'll find in your.
work glory not to make you proud
rather humble. For all that will ever
make yous worthy of imitation will be
the Christ in you. And ambition will
lead you to teach and reproduce in
others, not yourself, but Christ Every
time the true teacher comes before his
class a prayerful hope will rise within
him that somehow he may weave into
the warp and woof of their lives, the
beauty Of the character of Christ
Just as that old wsaver who "sat be-
fore his loom busily weaving the beau
tiful colors into a comfort for royal
feet As he wove, the golden sunbeams
fell upon his work and lit it so beauti-
fully that he stopped his hand to gaze
upon it. Oh, said he, if I could but
weave into the comfort the golden,
flashing rays when they rest upon my
work, my fortune would be made The
idea became the passion of his life.
When, by years of faithful working. he
had succeeded in producing a comfort
in which the warm sunlight lay, he was
indeed famous. Kings came from far
10 see the WOnQerIul fruits OF MS skill,
and his work became immortal
Teachers go forward with such
passion for this great work. May it be
as one consuming desire to catch up in
your heart the hope, the purity and
power that come from the character of
Jesus Christ, like the sunlight; then by
faithful teaching and living weave them
into the character of your pupils. Then
the angels will rejoice in the work you
do.
Go forward in lifting up and dignity
ing this Sunday school work. The best
men and women in the church must
also be In the Sunday-school. That dig
nifed body, the Church Council, must
be in close touch with the Sunday
school, visiting it, advising Superin-
tendent and teachers. The business
men of the town should be found here,
the lawyers and doctors and educators.
Any one of influence should make that
influence tell in the Sunday-schoo I'm
til every boy turning the biggest period
OF his life and stretching forth into
manhood shall be made to feel that
next to the church there is no insti-
tuition like his Sunday school. Turn
every influence to making it the popu-
lar place-never too old for the young