The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1909-06-11
THEHERALD.ADVANCE

Milbank.
Milbank, South Dakota, June IL 1909
Sunday School a Great
Necessity.
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Sunday school Convention, held in Mllbank,
May and 2, 1909.
In presenting this subject for
our consideration and in an at
tempt to show that we have great
need of Sunday schools in this
big broad land of ours, nay all
over the whole wide world,
where there are christian men
and women, able and willing to
teach them, let me quote some
scripture passages touching up
on the underlying principles of
Sunday schools and their teach
ings.
First let me say that Gods
purpose with man was and is
to give him eternal life. If this
is accomplished, his end in view
has been gained and if not ac-
clomplished it has been lost.
Christ says, II have come that
We may have life, eternal life),
and have it more abundantly,"
and again, ''This is life eternal,
to know thee, the only true God
and Jesus Christ whom thou
hast sent" John 17:3; and in
the book of Jeremiah 9:23-25,
thus saith the Lord, s'Let not the
wise man glory in his wisdom,
neither let the mighty man glory
in his might, let not the rich man
glory in his riches, but him that
glorieth, glory in this, that he
understandeth and knoweth me
that am the Lord which exer-
else loving kindness, judgment
and righteousness in the earth,
for in these things delight,
saith the Lord. And again we
read: "What shall it profit man
if he shall gain the whole world
and lose his own soul, of what
can man give in exchange for
his soul?"
In view of these quotations,
and many others of a like nature
that could be cited, are we not
justified in declaring that this
knowledge, the knowledge of the
only true God and He whom He
has sent, Jesus Christ, is very
essential knowledge for us to have,
and above any other kind of
knowledge known to man? And
why? Because to know God
is to love Him ,and to know Jesus
Christ and his mission on earth
is to love Him. / believe it is as
natural as that night follows day.
I verify believe that every one
who has q true knowledge of God
as He has revealed Himself in his
word will love Him. He cannot
help himself.
Let as also see how this very
essential knowledge and the in
culcation thereof from genera
tion to generation among Gods
chosen people Of old was provid-
ed for. In Deuteronomy 6:4-9|
we read thus, 'sHear o Isreal!
The Lord our God is one Lord,
and thou shalt love the Lord thy
God with all thy heart, and with
AL thy soul, and with all thy
might, and these words which 1 |
command thee this day shall be
in thine heart, and thou shalt |
teach them diligently into thy |
children, and shall talk of them |
when thou sittest in thy house
and when thou walkest by the
way, and when thou lest down
and when thou risest up, and thou /
shalt bind them for a sign upon
thine hand, and they shall be as
frontlets between thine eyes,
and thou shalt write them upon
the posts Of thy house and on
thy gates. !"
Now this is one side of the
case, this is Gods side, and his
views Of it, let US then take
mans side and see how he views
and obeys.
We, the people, through our
form Of government, the state
literally tor the educa-
lion Of our children, from the age
of six they must commence to
study, and they keep on study
ng for from nix to nine months |
,ach year, and they must study
Writing, arithmetic,
geography, history, physiology,
grammar, spelling, etc, and
when they have mastered these
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