The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-22

a Christian doctrine. The true religion teaches that the strong should help the weak. The duty of those in particular who have the training of the young, was made conspicuous in the discussion of the subject.
 "The second part of the Dual Prob lem. how to prohibit the manufacture and sale of alcoho ollie beverages. was then considered. The first answer was By Law. The speaker admitted that you cannot make men good by statute. He expressed his conviction that the law is a school-master unto sobriety | He answered the point that some peo- pie make when they say: What is the ] use of having laws until you have a sentiment that will support them? by showing the divine method in regard to the Ten Commandments.
 pr. Allison then proceeded to show the value of youthful training and the
 part which the Sunday school worker | has in it. He spoke of the new de- Society. little more than q year old, which has for It's object the work of making the most of the temperance 1 Sunday school lesson which is provided by the International Committee four times year, and, particularly to call for decisions at all of our temperance | day services, so that every time the Sunday School Temperance Alliance of America (The names given to this new department of the National Temperance
 Society," meets, there shall be reduc- tion of the unpledged and an increase
 of the pledged. -
 He declared that membe ership in the Sunday-school constitutes memb ership in the Alliance, so that membership in the Alliance consists at all times of two classes, the pledged and unpledged. Dr. Allison closed with a prophetic peroration as an encouragement to all
 to labor on without the slightest doubt
 as to the result. closing his sentiment in the following words: He who fights for God and for truth and for freedom, shall never, never fight in
 vain. .'
 Mir. Love on Home Missions.
 The principal address of the mission ary campaign tonight was delivered at
 Trinity NJ. E. Church by the Rev. J. F. Love sof Atlanta. Secretary of the Home Mission Board of the Southern
 Baptist Convention, who detailed the problems of Sunday School and Home
 Mission Work in the South" Mir. Love said:
 The Sunday School had a mission ary inception and must be missionary in its character. No sharp line can be drawn between the mission work of our boards through their missionaries and the mission work of our Sunday chools through their teachers. Mis- sions is sowing the Truth and saving lost people. The man who believes in Truth and in saving lost people be- | lieves in missions.
 There is no place for the Sunday School In the work of the churches if there is no place for missions In the work of the Sunday School. If the Sunday School is not missionary 1t has | no mission.
 There is, perhaps. no better evil
 dence of the proficiency of those who prepare the curricula of the Sunday | Schools than the place they are now | giving missions among the subjects to be taught.
 '-The Sunday School is a maker of I converts to Christianity, which Is the essential mark of missionary agency. | Do you tell me that s7 per cent of all our converts are won by the Sunday | School. or at least predisposed and pre- pared for conversion by this agency? | In that fact you have the missionary value of the Sunday School in com l parison with other missionary organi- xations.
 'arhe Sunday School Is to be the pro- moter of missionary 'benevolence. We shall not have q generation of contrib utors in our churches until our Sun | day Sch ooIs tr4in 1t. Ten thousand | Baptist churches and perhaps full | million Baptist church members in the | South gave nothing to missions last year. We haven't yet reached the pas | tors of these defective churches. If | we could but get them to go to Sunday | Sch ool!
 But we are making more than con- verts in the Sunday School and will get more than money from them. Here
 is the missionary plant-bed of the churches. I knew a devout Christian
 woman who as mother and Sunday School teacher taught her children the
 claims of Christ. She gave to missions
 as I never knew any other Christian
 to give and taught every child to give. had the. Joy of seeing one of her
 boys converted at the age of 13. He
 went to college and once when I vis- ited him there he followed me into the | campus and with the light of a soul | that had found a great mission for | life shining in his eyes told me he had
 answered Gods call to be minister.
 He took his degree and Is now teaching
 in my city preparatory to entering the | Seminary in this city. The other day | he found me and told me of his pur-
 pose to go to China. With my knowl- l edge of that boys home and Sunday
 School training, I should say that his life has been expanding degree by de- gree in the most natural way. | Fitness of Home Missions. | "AIl I have said for missions in the
 Sunday School applies with even ad-
 ditional emphasis as an argument for
 home missions in the Sunday Schools. Your business as a teacher is to
 it your pupils to their spheres for the 1 largest benefits to others. The home 1 field is the immediate sphere in which
 the majority of these pupils will spend
 their lives. A Christian conscience for
 the sinner. the heather, the foreigner In our midst is a chief need of our
 times 'Begining at JerusaIem.' means for you to start to Africa by an evan gelizing tour through the negro quar- ter on the plantation. or in the city; to China by way of the laundry shops; to Italy through the ItaIian tenement dis trict And you are not the men to go
 to these people abroad if their need at your door has not broken your heart and made a home missionary of you first. Those who received the Pente- costaI power and inspiration started toward the 'uttermost parts by face to-face ministry to the immigrants in Jerusalem--Parthians Medes and
 Elamites,' and more than dozen oth- CTS
 ''The Sunday-sch ool must teach home missions in order to produce symme- i trical character in the churches. one | sided training makes hobbyists, fad | dists, bigots. cranks. Unequal in | struction makes lop-sided contributors.
 The Sunday school must teach home
 missions to fulfill its primary func- | tion. which is f7at of teaching the | Bible. The Bible teaches home mis-