Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-12-11
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them up as instruments for the Mas
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Workers Better Qualified.

Workers Better Qualified.
"Third. The association develops
workers. AS we go abroad among the
schools and see the work that is being
accomplished and talk with those VINO
have been added and who have been
active for thirty years, we often heaf
the remark that men today have so
much better advantages, and that the
workers are so much better qualiled
than they We're in the young days. The
question remains, what makes this diff
ference, why is it that they are SO
much better qualified for the work!
1t is certainly not because men and
women of today have stronger minds
or have a different text book to use,
or have those who are less Intelligent
to deal with, but it is because
of the adaptation and training
and information in regard to the best
methods of true Christian service.
Why, in some like Prof. Hamill, B. f.
Jacobs. w. j. Semelrot and w. e.
Pearce, who have devoted their lives
to the work We can understand how
it is that there is furnished for us to- |
day better methods and the means by
which workers may develop and pre-
pare for a larger service. There are
men and women of no mean ability
but who are among thel
giants of the age intellec-
tually and spiritually and they
have put the best of their thoughts
and energies into securing the best
there is for this work. Then when we
go into the various local committees
| we find the local workers, who with
out compensation of any worldly
source are giving their best efforts to
this work, we see how there are hands
to those who are younger that in al
ter days will result in glorious har-
vest in the service of the Master. The
association in it's organization calls
| these together in the convention and
they are given new thought and aspi-
| rations for the work, starting new
ideas and plans for the work, all of
which tend to invite further thought
and investigation and speedily turns
the mind to the work of the great
teacher. Jesus Christ himself, from
which he learns many of the great
truths and principles which the spirit
of God is pleased to bless. Yet we
must not overlook the fact that the as
: ISOLATION, with it's noble work. has
; been the means which God has used
for the accomplishing of this work.
"Then, too, we must see that the as
sociation tends to develop workers in
that it brings together the workers
and leads them into this service, not
for any selfish purpose alone, but for
. the purpose of helping others, and in
fact this is the dominant thought that
is in the mind of the worker when he
, attends this great convention. 1t is
not so much that he may receive
something himself, but that he may be
able by the blessing of God to help
i some one else. Then it Is that it leads
i to seek the less important and to life
, that which is more important to a
higher plane. And by coming in touch
with this work the tendency is to in
spire a greater effort and zeal in the
: masters work.
Bible Study PopuIarlzed.
, THE international Sabbath school
: work has helped to popularize Bible
, study 1t was the boast of Wyclif
i that he would make the Bible so CHEAP
+ that every pillow boy might possess
one. Ever since that day the cost OF
e production has been steadily reduced
J. until MS ambition and desire is actual
r ly being realized.
e "The thought and purpose of the
h part of the leaders and those interest
It ed in Sabbath school work has beef
d not only in the hands of every one
1t but that its truths might be so simpli
x fed that boys and girls Of every plac
d might be able to understand it
Us thought and purpose. And it is tru
r today that the boy and girl understan
of as we'll the teaching of Gods word a
is many of much more mature mind oil
" thirty years ago. There is not so niue
VI of committing to memory of God
u work and not so much as should b
Nc today, and yet in the average Sabbat
le school the boy and the girl OF eve
~ tender years are made to understan
e. the great thoughts that are bein
~ brought forth from the scripture. E
10 cry teacher has the advantage of helr
~ ~ aside from the Bible itself, whic
,ai gives the best Interpretation and a
N plication that the trained minds
ha this day can furnish. Such lesso
Ia helps as the Sunday School Time
m. The Evangel, Peloubets Notes and
90 score of UNCONVENTIONAL helps NAL
he it possible for every one to understa1
hn in some measure at least the teac
Inv been that there has been very ge
he eral revival of Bible study. startil
in on the part of the masses. To be SUI
Ter the daily papers with their Sundi
nj issues and much of the other readil
,tb that is to be found in the country
&c day has tendency to fill up the min
on of the younger and older and ia
'ch their time that they do not give t
time to Bible study that they shou
And yet the association, by its dai
-, Bible reading and encouragement,
l l,l continually keeping before the min
oie' of the students this matter of Bill
'n n, study and there is nothing in
ooi Christian life that can take it's plac'
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