The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-09-02

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exemplify the heavenly truths of
the Bible upon the children. This
can be done more readily by the
Cody teacher, than it .can by the
parents, because he meets them in
more favorable circumstances. The
children and teacher are in the
most favorable conditions to make
good impressions, and not knowing
the circumstances, and peculiar
faults of each other, the highest i'm
preston are made. So the Sabbath
School furnishes opportunities of
placing before the child's mind the
highest ideals to inspire him to do
his best. 1t furnishes possibilities
not only of teaching Gods word
thoroughly, bnt it furnishes oppor-
tunities for its practical applica
ton. Practical christianity needs
more teachers. This is the great
est field for christian workers to-
day.
1t is possible for the we'll trained
army of Sabbath School children
to elevate and purify the morals o
of the public schools. Some people
object to the public schools, assert
ing that they corrupt the morals of
the children If such persons will
train themselves, their children,
and their teachers in the Sabbath
Schools, these objections will not
only be removed, but these same
directors will rejoice in the fact
that our public schools in such cir.
cumstances will be places of high,
pure, and genuine christian char
acter building. Genuine character
building should be the chief aim in
all education. Men of genuine
honest integrity are more in de-
mand than all other classes put to
gether. Your boy may not be bril-
liant and he may not stand at the
head of his class; but if he is hon
est and Industrious; if he attends
strictly to business, if all his habits
are good; you need have no anx-
iety about his success in life, when
hardships, difficulties, and perplex.
tiles do come, he will stand like the
oak in the storm; viii e his more
brilliant companions who are not
thus prepared, are winnowed like
chaff in the blast.
With these foundations, what are
the possibilities in the active duties
of life in church and state? With
such training, who would need re-
vivals? Orputting it in another
way, every meeting in the church
would be revival. Children
would hardly know time when
they were not Christians. Deficien-
cy in the PASTORS salary will be
thing of the past. the home and for
eign missionary fields will be filed,
and Christ's Kingdom will rule the
world. Every home will have it's
family altar, and every house will
be house of prayer.
In the state will be a still greater
change: Criminal law will be a
thing of the past. Then criminal
will be as great curiosity as can
ibal is to us now. Crime will
cease; jails will be turned into hos.
pitfalls, and court houses will be
places of record of civil business,
and of voluntary arbitration. Con-
stables, policemen and sheriffs will
be obliged no longer to make Grim.
inal arrests; their business will be
to remind people of forgotten du-
ties and to give necessary infOrma-
ton. Locks and keys will be no
longer necessary. The nightwatch-
men will 90 into productive en-
ployment as their present work
will no longer be necessary. Vice
and crime will no longer be COM
mon. Temperance in all things
will abound. Strikes will cease;
employees will receive their just re.
ward. Men will no longer be COM
PEELED to fight for freedom, liberty,
and independence; for cruel war
will cease and the differences he
tween men and nations caused by
the finite knowledge of men, will
be justly settled by a voluntary
court of Christian men.
But why need attempt further
to describe the possibilities of the
finite joined to the Infinite? AS
we'll might l attempt to enumerate
and describe the sands of the sea or
the stars of heaven. When the
spirit of God, the Holy Spirit, takes
| nOssiOn Of a human soul its DOssi-