Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-06-10

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conveyed to his mind just as soon as
he is able to bear it. There is no limit
fixing the period of commencing this
department of instruction, but the
child's own capacity. Now is the seed
time of his immortal existence, which,
when once let pass, can never return.
Some people think children cannot
be Christians. They say: "They are too
young; they do not understand what
they are doing" So one might say
about children studying mathematics,
They are too young; they do not UNDER
stand mathematics. and they are not
mathematician until they do" But the
boy can add two and two, and to that
extent he is a mathematician. He may
go ahead Of his class, and show an apt
ness for that thing that some older
heads do not show. Some boys are bet
ter mathematlcians at twelve than 9TH
ers are at twenty-four. Some girls are
better Christians at twelve than others
are at twice that age. Neither boy nor
girl may be able to do some things the
older ones can, and they may not have
had as much instruction, but it is the
rative aptness that counts, and the will
power and the persistency, and the
other general characteristics that indi-
cate that something is there, II it is
cultivated and kept up. The boy may
give up his numbers and go to bad COM
pany, and the girl may get into worldly
society and let that absorb all her mind.
But that does not signify that at the
time spoken of they did
not both have all that could
be claimed for them at that
time. Children are naturally more reli-
gious than grown people. To say that
they do not understand, is to say that
they are not so well versed in sin. am
after the boys and girls, and I want
to see them early give their hearts to
Christ and come into the church.
Young men and young women-I mean
those of you who have not yet made
choice of Christ as your SAVIOR wish
that you were boys and girls again, so
that you would save what you have
wasted.
Third-The matter of Timothy's in
struction: 1t was divine truth, From a
child thou hast known the Holy Scrip
lures" His education was conducted on
truly sound and liberal principles; for,
his parents contemplated him, above all,
in his relations as mortal and immor-
tai, and trained him not for the hour,
or even for time merely, but for eter-
nifty. The only part of the scriptures at
that time in existence was the Old Tes-
lament; and / can easily imagine how
the interesting child would listen for
hours to the word of the affectionate
Eunice or the venerable Lois, as they
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triarchs, or pursued with him the his
tory of Moses, the great awgiver, from
his cradle on the Nile to the triumph
ant departure of Israel from Egypt; or
| followed the Israelites in their forty
years wanderings in the wilderness
under the friendly guidance of the mys-
tic pillars of cloud and fire; or traced
their further history in the Promised
Land, through centuries of miracle and
mercy; mingling with all those moral
and spiritual lessons which they nat
urally and richly suggest, and pointing
his thoughts, above all, to the manner
in which both history, and type, and
prediction, prepared the way and fore
Swallowed the glory of the Christ that
was to come With what glistening eye
would the young disciple hear the sacred
history! How many and how strange
! would be the questions he would ask
questions never addressed to pious
parents ear in vain. Oh. then it was
at parents knee that those seeds were
sown which afterwards grew up into
eternal life. Yes, Ali the mind of the
child with the Holy Scriptures, and you
prepare him for usefulness in this life
and happiness in that which is to come.
A poor Sabbath school girl was found
by lady in hospital, very near her
end The lady asked: my child. what
do you most of all things desire?" She
replied: Create in me clean heart,
0, God, and renew right spirit within
mel Have you no fear of death?
Though walk through the valley of the
shadow of death, fear no evil for thou
art with me; thy rod and thy staff they
comfort me"
But are you not afraid that some Of
your sins are yet unpardoned? IF we
walk in the light, as He is in the light,
we have fellowship one with another,