The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-04-10


determination to do their duty, and they
did it against all opposition. Among other
things they appropriated in various bills
, Sc, 600 to public education. They knew
as you do that we must make the boy d
! civilized citizen In order that all may DO
their part in accomplishing the ends or
| the state.
1.-The legislature has provided that you
may send your children to school without
! fee Some even suggest that the books
| be paid for but when / was consulted L
said 1t looked too much like Smelling
corn.
Money has been appropriated so that
you can educate your children no matter
where you live. Provision is made tor
the backwoods school on up through the
| high school, the ACADEMY, the coiege'
even to the university.
"This busy legislature went so far as 10
! consider compulsory education measure
! which was favorably reported and l
| trust will become a law. May the power
and the influence of every delegate to
this convention, and the influence of the
| Sunday school get behind this Dill, ana
help to put 1t on the statute books.
Right here | want to tell you what
! a great effect the Sunday schools have
i worked on the hearts and minds of that
great assembly. They are, many of them,
products of the Sunday school, and when
they voted for such measures as local
option, they showed their training.
Other Great Meetings.
Mark you, there has been another
great meeting in the state That to which
refer is the educational meeting at
Mobile. / am told that there were a
thousand teachers there with one heart
touching elbows, minds and hearts to
see what they could do for the education
| of your children. These are the people
who take your child when it is seven
years old and turn it back at twenty. not
to quit education, but to carry 1t higher
and higher No more Is education to be
quit than Sunday school work
! but there is still another meeting to
which l wish to call your attention, and
| that is the convention here before me,
1000 strong assembled here to discuss
| the work of the Sunday school.
| you are not like the meeting at Mo-
| bile. You do not represent an appropria-
tion of millions of the states money, but
you have taken up cross, and are fol-
| lowing your Master.
| Mark you, you are not paid. You are
different You pay and pay and pay and
| send money abroad for the retaining of
the heather. You receive a greater re-
ward.
"You take the children from their
mothers knee where they have learned to
say Now, / lay me down to sleep AMI
| you teach them how to climb the ladder
| of life
The governor paid high tribute to Mrs.
Scott, the teacher of a class of several
| hundred little ones at his own church.
and marveled how she uses them as fish
| bait"
| you train them from the infant class.
| through the primary, the junior, the SEN
Tor and the Bible class. Back in the
schools they graduate, but in the Sunday
schools you never graduate. You can
never learn enough. Like Rebecca's boy,
Jacob, when he went away from his
mothers knee, we dream Of ladder
stretching to heaven, and the rungs lead
upward All this fight of life Is a climb
up. We can slide down, but we must
climb up.
Three Constitutions.
Now there are three constitutions-the
state, the federal and the decalogue. The
first two we learn in the common school,
but the last in the Sunday school. The
, decalogue is the last thing you and /
should forget, and 1t Is dangerous to vio-
late. The recent legislature considered one
law which the decalogue teaches, that the
Sabbath must be kept inviolate.
1.-The Mayor Of this city has received the
commentator of thousands for his cam
paign against breaking the Sunday laws.
A Judge of Jefferson county in his charge
to the grand jury has said that II 1t is
violation to sell goods on Sunday 1t Is
violation to play games. Now we say
that we must stop store selling, but that
If we stop the railroads from running on
Sunday we would demoralize the land
1.-The educational force Of the Sunday
school or any school is to maintain It, III
you do not maintain 1t it Is gone. III we
will combine the wool of the Sunday school
with everyday life, and make them both
count for good government and citizen
ship this talk will not have been in vain"
DR.. Mccormick On Missions.
DR.. Mccormick, who preceded the gov
ernor spoke upon Missions in the Sunday
School subject assigned to the Rev. A.
l.. Phillips, ID. ID. of Richmond, who was
unable to come. He said that there is
nothing In the world more important than
missions. Jesus Christ came to bring to
the world JOY and peace, and you cannot
repat the Lords prayer and say Thy
kingdom come, nor can you sing Praise
Him All Creatures Here Below consci-
entously, IL you do not believe in mis-
sions'
He believed that in childhood the moral
character Is settled for the mind learns