Milford chronicle., 1904-01-08

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ouly humble follower Of Christ
know practically noshing about the Bi
ble. Well. my Christian friend II you
gather your children in Christs name
/ have no fears about the spiritual re
suits. The older grow the more l be-
lieve that the most important requisite
for effeetive work as a Sunday school
teacher is a loving. consecrated heart
Intellectual ability is valuable IL ITS
nace and the better the teacher is
equipped The better it Is for the chill
dren. But the essential quality IS love
for Christ and for souls. Without that
quality the most highly educated teach
er is a cold unimpressive personality.
Icebercs may be very beautiful to look
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 to
build family altar Many intellect
nal brains are merely overawing ice
bergs. They repel rather than attract
they frighten rather than soothe Ihe
Sunday school teacher needs warm.
loving heart far more than he needs an
intellectual brain. If as a eonsecrated
eospel teacher you win week by week
come TO your classes glowing with
Christian enthusiasm; If you will with
that Christian enthusiasm study wen
over your Bible and your SUNDAY
school Lesson Helps there win be no
need Of fearing about what you Will
saw. You will not only lead your sehol-
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 is Of the most
vital Importance. AMONG all the fields
open for gospel labor have purposeiy
placed it hrst, because / believe it to be
the most important of all No one can
fully estimate the future influence Of
the children who are now playing
about our doors. Themistocles, the
great statesman. once placed his hand
upon his sons head and said, "Ihis
child is greater than any one in Greece,
for the Athenians command the Greeks
1 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 viii be greater than all. be-
cause the children Of today viii 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 a
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. It
4 IS crowded with young people. but
though crowded with the young men
and maidens. yet eacn passenger train
coming into our large cities is empty
ing part Of its load into this field as
the freight trains daily disgorge their
cattle and horses and sheep into the
Chicago stock yards. and vet 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 OF
saloon and billiard halls. Who viii
help save them? Church meinber Is
not Christ calling you TO 80 and labor
among the stalwart pines Of youth as
well as to use the gospel ak among
the gnarled and worm eaten branches
af sinful old age?
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