The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-27

Righteousness, which choose to co1- strue as the righteousness of the state in its organized capacity. and as evil denced by it's statutes, constitutions and judicial decisions---to what agen- cles must we chiefly look? In my opinion. the agencies of prime import ance will be the school teacher and the Sunday School teacher.
 With the general subject of popular secular education. as a moral agency,
 I have no time now to deal. It sui | fees now to say that undoubtedly there is an affinity between education and morals, and between morals and re- l ligion; yet a man may be highly edu- cated without being either moral or religious. while none can be truly re- ligious without furnishing evidences | of that religion in his life and moral character. And this is asserted upon scriptural authority, for Faith with out work is dead"
 The teacher ot the week days, in the public or non n-denominational school, subjects the pupil to a wholesome dis cipline. which stimulates habits of study and self-control. teaches him | the laws of health, to the end of pre- serving a sound mind in a sound body, I and thus fits him fer the intense strUg- gle of life; trains the mind by we'll chosen courses of study. so that it may | be equipped to grapple with and solve | the intricate problems which the pupil will encounter In mature years, and supplies the mind and memory with valuable facts of science. of history. and of mathematics, to be utilized in | the calling or profession the student may choose. This Is all desirable and | useful, not to be neglected nor lightly esteemed. The work, however, is not complete: the most important part of | the training Is not by this process l lafo aONnmpIIdhA6 OftRn- times, the pious teacher, conscious of the one thing needfur'--the religious | training of the child-becomes u teach CT in the Sunday School. and week | by week impresses upon the child the great fact that 1t has not alone a body, and an intellect, but that it has an l immortal soul.
 The Sunday School.
 The Sunday School teacher seeks to develop the religious nature. He re- minds the child mat the end and aim of life are not wealth, nor fame, nor worldly success, however much he may esteem and be influenced by a deSire
 for these tnings. but that the chief end
 of man Is to glorify God and to enjoy Him forever.
 That is the rule to direct us how we
 may slorify and enjoy him is the word
 of God contained in the scriptures Of the old and new testament that in the fathers house are many mansions, and that by the death, atonement and resur-
 rectfon of Christ, we may hope for our own resurrection, and eternal life, in the world to which we are all tend ing. He tells the child that ne is not merely splendid animal, but that he is a child of God, made in the image of his Father, that he is not at the mercy of a blind chance, buffetted about by every wind of fortune. but that he is in the hands of an overriding ProvI- dence that counts the hairs of his head and without whose knowledge not a sparrow falls to the ground; he tells the child that not alone for the sake of health, must he refrain from defilil- g the body, but because the body is '@rhe temple of the Holy Ghost" He ad- monishes the boy or girl under his in- struction to love the Lord with all the heart with all the soul and with all the mind. and that this is the first and great commandment; and that the sec- ond is like unto 1t. to love ones neigh | bor as ones self, on which two com mandments hang all the law and the nrophets. lie seeks to weave into he | character of the child he teachings of | Christ. the love of enemies, the requit- ing of evil with good. the practice of that pure religion which is undecided before God the Father, and which con sists in visiting the fatherless and wid- ow in their affliction and in Keeping ones self unspotted from the world ] The Sunday school teacher does more than this, he cautions the child not to he cast down or discouraged, by ap | parent failure, or even defeat or mis-