The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-05-09
. Training Citizens.
MRS. ANTOINETTE \. HAWLEY.

The most erious problem
which confronts Sunday School
workers is,in my judgement, how
to keep the boys from twelve to
twenty under their influence.
Helps" scholarly and pictur-
esque. have been multiplied: the
brightest minds have elaborated
the most perfect methods" but
the fact remains, we do not hold
the boys. What is the remedy?
Plainly such 4 linking Of the
Sunday School to vital questions
of civic duty, as shall open to
our boys and our young men
new vistas of usefulness to So
ciety and everyday possibilities
of heroism in fighting the very
real devils intrenched behind
greed and law, who menace the
home and the state. The Inter
national Sunday School Conven-
ton met in Denver, had a glim
mering notion of that fact, and
therefore suggested that Worlds
Temperance Sunday be made
Christian citizenship day, when
special interest shall be laid up
on God-like ideals Of civic re-
sponsibility, such as can be un-
derstood by the youngest child.
Dear Sabbath School teachers,
let US have some phase Of that
thought, not only on temperance
Sunday, but every Sunday; boys
are eager to be ''doers;;" they
positively tingle for an outlet for
their energies. Passive good
ness is not attractive to them,
and Judge Lindsay has demon
strated that they can be made to
feel that they are an important
part of the city's force From it's
inception the sublime purpose of
the great white ribbon host has
been to unite that mighty trinity
of forces, the home, the school,
and the church, under the ban
ner Of the cross, and to SO bring
them to bear upon the young
citizen that, clear.visioned and
God-impelled, he will use every
civic function as a. lever to lift |
up his fellowmen to lift up his
fellow-men to that high plane
where it is "easy to do right and
hard to do wrong" and the Sun
day School is lpreeminently the
place for such teaching.
We of the W. G. T. u. covet
these boys and girls of today,
because the future incarnated,
and it is ours, we believe. to lead
them up to a heroic manhood
and womanhood that will stand
fearlessly for every effort to re-
deem the race from the world
wide slavery of evil appetites.
Then, too, from twelve to six
teen boys are in a transition
period, which they do not under
and which is rarely taken
account of by parents and teach
ers. Wise and tender, indeed,
should be the words to the boy
on the verge of manhood, that
he may see clearly and purely
his own relation to his race be-
fore the sliny serpent of impur-
ity has wrapped him in its dead
ly embrace. The boy whose pur-
lty is fortified by knowledge; the
boy who sees in politics some
thing nobler than fight for
spoils: the boy who has been
taught to apply the ethics Of the
Sunday School to all ethics of
public policy; such a boy will
not be afraid to stand up and be
counted on the side of civic
Let every white ribbon woman
do her part tc make the Sabbath
School of which she is a mem
Der. theWest Point of the church
militant, that shall graduate year
after year trained soldiers to
the cross" who can be depended
on to ''stand up for Jesus"at the
ballot box, as well as on the
street or amid the temptations
IF hnsiness and society. Colo