Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1904-01-09


for Christ and for souls. Without tina
quality the most highly educated teach
er Is n cold. unimpressive personality
Icebcrgs may be very beautiful to lool
at. especially when rejecting the rays
Of the rising sun. but icebergs are cold
shrines before which to bow and for
bidding hearthstOnes near which tC
build family altar. Many intellect
ual brains are merely overawng Ice
bergs. They repel rather than attract
they frighten rather than soothe. The
Sunday school teacher needs n warm
loving heart far more than he needs an
intellectual brain. If as a consecrated
gospel teacher you Will week by week
come to your classes glowing with
Christian enthusiasm; IL you will with
that Christian enthusiasm study well
over your Bible and your Sunday
School Lesson Helps" there will be no
need of fearing about what you will
say. You will not only lead your schol-
ars to Christ, but In teaching them you
will yourself come nearer and nearer
to your Saviour.
A Field For Gospel Labor.
Sunday school work IL OF the most
vital Importance. Among all the fields
open for gospel labor | have purposely
placed It first, because believe 1t to he
the most important Of all. No one can
fully estimate the future influence or
the children who are now playing
about our doors. ThemiStoclcs. the
great statesman. once placed his hand
upon his sons head and said. This
child Is greater than any one in Greece.
for the Athenans command the Greeks,
| command the Athenians. his mother
commands me. and he commands his
mother" We, In Christs name, can
place our hands upon the children. In
Sunday school work we can say. "The
children will be greater than all. be-
cause the children OF today will be the
men and the women of tomorrow. II
you can save the cradles and the nurs-
cries for Christ, you can save the
world for Christ. plead and beg OF
you, Christian disciples. to expend
great part of your gospel energies in
working among the children.
Another gate stands wide open for
practical gospel usefulness. This gate
leads into a field aglow with ripened
human grain, ready TO be garnered. 1t
is crowded with young people. But,
though crowded with the young men
and maidens, yet each passenger train
coming into our large cities Is empty
ing part Of its load into this field as
the freight trains daily dlsgorge their
cattle and horses and sheep into the
Chicago stock yards, and yet there Is
always room for more. Young men
and maidens, like children, seem to be
everywhere. We crowd against them
In the electric cars, we bump up
against them on street corners, we see
them through the swinging doors Il
s1loon. a.;sl- billiard ,}ialls. WIZ >ve
help save them? Church member, is
not Christ calling you to go and labor
among the stalwart pines Of youth as
we'll as to use the gospel AK among
the gnarled and worm eaten branches
Of sinful old age?
The Christians Duty.
How Is the Christian to 90 after the
young people? Simply enough. He is
to go after them with the same vigor
rs the agents of evil go after their
prey. Here, for instance, Is young
man who comes into large city. He
has no friends. Through an old ac-
luaintance Of his father he gets posi-
ion In your store. He has a small
bedroom In a city boarding house. How
8 the Christian disciple to greet him?
Is he to merely pass Good morning"
,r is he to 90 to that young man aud
,pen a conversation something like
his: Good morning! Are you stran-
ger In the city? Are you from a Chris
ian home? OF course you have no
,hurch connections as yet. VIII you
lot come down to our church next Sun
lay morning? We have our Christian
lndeavor social next Thursday night.
wish that could introduce you to
;ome of our young people. 1t Is very
,asy to drift among bad associates In a
arge town like this. want you to get
lmong the good people. We lave some
inc young folks up at our -hurch.
inow that you will get worm well
,ome. Perhaps you do not now the
,ity we'll enough to find our way.
Come with me to supper, al we will
20 together. or will call at YOUR room
or YOU" How many yang men,
strangers in large city, are there who
would refuse an invitation to come
Imong Christian people If thus accost-
ID? How many rooms dedicated by
he church for the services Of the Chris
ian Endeavor society. Epworth league
r brotherhood Of Andrew and Philip
would be empty. or practically empty
{ the Christian members Of the church
would 90 out in q plain. practical way
nd give such warm hearted. loving
alutation to the young folks as have
Indicated? The reason the young peo-
lie do not come into church fellowship
Is because they are not pgsonaiiy IN
yited to come. This invitation "Hay
rests with the new convert as well as
with the old.
"But," some aged church member
SAYS, "this invitation duty to the young
folks may apply to others, but not to
me. am not fitted for work among
the young. My hair is gray. My nerves
are not steady. I have postponed COM
ing to Christ until l have passed my
twoscore and ten. II needs q young
person to work for Christ among the
young" No. my aged, gray haired
friend; you are wrong. There Is only
one person more fitted to work among
the young than a Christian young man
or q young woman. That person Is
Christian gray haired man or woman
who is still blessed with young heart.
Thouoh 7 may live tn he sixty seventy