The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-07-16
N. C. sUNDAY-sCHooL ASSOCIATION.

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correspondence of The Progressive Farmer.
The State Sunday-school work is
promoted by all evangelical denOmi-
nations, and the most active church
reaps the greatest benefit.
The Association desires to send
trained workers to help in county
and township conventions. The
President is to employ them. Funds
are necessary.
He is to give time and thought to
the work, adopt the best methods in
teaching, and hold normal Bible
training classes in the interest of
better Bible study.
In addition, the Association, by
house-to-hOuse visitation, by attract
ing the youth of the State into the
Sunday-school, by spying out the
destitute portions of the counties,
and by stimulating workers to
greater efforts to reach these places
with the Word of God, powerfully
aids in the evangelization of our
commonwealth.
Thus whole counties are revived,
new schools organized, many chill
dren gathered in, ~wickedness greatly
decreased and the cause Of Christ
advanced.
Four hundred Thousand CHI .Lren
of good school age do not attend
Sunday school. We must reach
these thousands with the Bible. The
work deserves the cooperation OF
all Christians.
INFERENCEs 1. 1t is educational.
True education is the development
of life, based upon the precepts and
examples of the Holy Bible. The
prime object of the Sunday-school
League is to raise funds, train work
ers, give practical Bible training
lessons, hold conventions and arouse
enthusiasm in Bible study, that the
300, 200 children not in attendance
upon the Sunday-schools may be
reached, and the destitute portions
of u country delight in the knowl
edge of the Gospel of the Son of God.
2. 1t is oivilizing. Christian edu-
cation is the highest type of develop
ment. ''Many a boy has rubbed his
back against a college wall for four
long years and then rubbed that self
same back against a prison wall for
ten, because "his parents thought
the open school book was of far
more Importance than the open
Bible" The purpose of the Sunday
school League is Christian education,
that the rising generation may know
the will of God and grace our State
with a joyous Christian citizenship.
3. 1t is a training school for Christ
and His Church. A proposition was
put to an audience of 5000: AS
many as entered into the Kingdom
from 6 years to 20, stand up? Nearly
all stood. From 20 to 80, do like.
wise? A great number sat down.
From 80 to 40, remain standing? A
few stood. From 40 to so? Only
three.
The whole work of the Sunday
school League is to prepare children
and souls for the Kingdom of Christ
and His Church.
APPEALS: l. The State Executive
Committee of the North Carolina
Sunday-school Association, through
me as President, most humbly, in
the name Of Christ, beg each Sun
day-school Superintendent, by the
permission of his pastor, to give a
collection, once a year, to the State
Association, of a penny for each
scholar, and 5 cents for each teacher,
(mOney to be sent to 10. II. Wealth
ers, Treasurer, Raleigh, N. Co.
2. Let the second Sunday in Au-
gust for 1901, be set apart for the
bestowal of this great charity upon
the hungering and furnishing souls
and lives of the 400, 900 neglected
children within our borders.
Let each superintendent join the
Sunday-school League and get ten
Of his best friends to contribute at
least n dollar each year to pro-
mote this evangelization, DO.
Weathers, Treasurer, Raleigh, N. C1
3. Brethren, my most sincere
prayer is that YOU hear and heed
these appeals, "Some one is sinking
today. Throw out the life line"
Yours for Christ and Civilization,
GEO. H. CROwELL.
High Point Gnilfnrd Co N q