The Forrest City times., 1901-01-11
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Sunday Schools.

How to handle the young in Sunday school Is a practical problem, which is ever and anon proposed for discussion at Sunday School convention, or institute or other gathering. We quote from Josh Billings, who pi,hily said:
 First, the best way 10 train up a child in the way be saou!d go. is to skermish a little along that road yourself.n
 IL you are really anxious to have y,ur children in sunday school, he sure you are found there in your place. which is as much your place as your childreh's, each Sunday morning. 2.
 When children see parents staying away from Sunday school. they wonder if they are sent to get them out of the way so papa can read the Sunday pa. pers, or to get them oui of the house.
 The boys especially, when father stays away from Sunday school, naturally con clude that it is only place for boys and girls.
 Boys reach the smart age and, when little fuz begins to appear on the upper lip, he begins to feel manish and gets ''too biz" to be in the Sunday school; SO he drifts away.
 It is related of fifteen young men. who boarded at the same place in New York, that six of them went to breakfast Sunday morning appareled for services at church, which they attended both morning and evening, all of whom became highly re- spected and useful citizens.
 The other nine were usually absent from breakfast on Sunday morning, but dressed in decent manner for the noon meal. In the afternoon they went out. bat not to church. and were seldom CT . seen at places of worship. One, only, of the nine, is now living, in reputable employment, the other eight becoming openly vicious All of them failed in business, some coming to an untimely and tragic end. Ye young men who have school and church services, take warn 1 ing.
 If the young men should see their par l ents and employ CTS at Sunday school and 1 church it might be different. Ye men | who employ men, help them by encour- 1 aging those in yeur employ to attend | divine services.
 contend, that where it is demanded, l boys should be made to attend Sunday | school and church.
 It is "straining out gnst and swallow ing a camei' by parents not to make 1 children gu 10 Sunday school. The ex- cuse is made, If 1 should make Tom at | tend Sunday school and church, am | afraid he would grow up with an aversion 1 to religion, and when he Is grown he would never go to clutch at all"
 Apply this same rule to day school; if l Tom is forced to go to school when he don't want to go, do you think he will grow up with sn aversion to education? and when he is grown he would be an "ignoramus.
 1t seeirs to me the surest way 10 never have him go to church when he is grown is to allow him to stay away rom Sunday school and church whils he is young, or as soou ss sunday school is over, have them hustled away from the church, as If the preacher was danger and the the church no fit place at regular service for your child to be.
 Boys and girls both, except in eases or sickness, should be trained to attend Sunday school and eburch. ''Train up child in the way he should go. and when he is old he will not depart from it, IS the voice Of Infiui.e Wisdom.
 You can't improve on the Infinite for you ara finite. so take the former and lm- prove the latter.
 Truly.
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