Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-09-22


er, in this one is Presbyterian minis
ter's wife. the teacher of the mission
study class is the wife of an Episcopal
minister. and the members of the classes
attend the church Of their choice and
Baptist and Christian take turns on
Sunday afternoon.
There is a little paper called The Sun
day School Times. published in Phila-
delphia and the price is only 50 cents a
year. Every one of you should take it.
IL is for the officers, the teachers and
the members OF the senior classes. The
explanations are simple but the writer's
are among the most profound thinkers of
the world. l do not see how superin-
tendent can do without it and the teach
ers should have ii for their classes may
get IL and no teacher wants a class
to know more than he does.
once heard man say that he did not
believe in the new tangled way of
teaching" His idea seemed to be that
the Bible itself was all that was needed.
Study your Bible and that viii take
you TO heaven" was his cry. Nobody will
contradict the idea that the Bible is the
basis Of every thing. but we often UNI
derstand its teaching better by know
ing the customs of the country. the laws
OF that nation or its history. and men
their time looking such questions up.
heard a very fIliterate man try to preach
on the text. Samuel Where Art Thou?'
He took 1t literally and told where he was
and then talked about an hour without
saying thing to help any body, sim
ply because he did not know anything to
say he knew nothing about the temple
nor the custom of the Jews nor the
lesson mat Hannah's putting him there
taught, 70 say nothing of the very per-
sonal question he might have put to all
his hearers as to where they stood. II
Samuel had not been in an attitude to
hear God he would have been failure.
We may be even in Gods house and be
SO filled with the cares and plans OF the
world that our spirits may not be in
harmony with the voice of God and an
other may at last be called to do what
should have been our privilege
Don't take up any of the, fads of the
times, study the Bible and a good Bible
dictionary, this does not mean that you
must branch off on all sorts Of so-called
recent discoveries There have been
people tearing down eternal punishment
for the guilty and the divinity of Christ.
and the maudlin sentiment that NGod
loves us too well to punish us ever since
Jesus was with the world. but different
ages see the types change and the ortho-
dox church is right here even stronger
than ever.
/ think that it is a mighty nervy
man or woman who tries to set us ar
guments against these points. AS for
me. 1 am going to believe that il
fail in my duty here, willfuIly closing
my eyes TO the laws of God that as a
free agent / am going to suffer for il.
may be mistaken but / am trying
rrrfo ho~ - - a.
and 1 know that. trying to do right
certainly helps US on this side Of the
grave But I got OF my subject, and
that is what a superintendent, or a
teacher must avoid Keep to the SUBJ
ject and above all things don't let the
man OF woman who delights in arguing
get in their deadly work. for nothing
will kill a class sooner than argu-
ments.
How many people simply by study
ing grammar alone make good scholars?
Then can't you see that the Sunday
school is as important as the day
school7 Have teacher and have the
very best one that you can get, study
your lesson and be a help to him. The
question has been asked me What
is a missionary Sunday schoolH II
is one that is not so narrow that when
IL takes up enough money to pay it's
expenses>it is satisfied. 1t tries to send
money across the water, TO help the
people in poorer places. and looks
around its own community and does
whatever ii can for the children and
grown people wherever they may be.
Make Sunday school a place that viii
attract, sing happy songs and don't
whine. The children Of the King
should be the happiest on this
green earth. Smile and make the other
fellow smile. Meet your fellow work
ers with a cordial greeting and live all
the week so that when you are asked
10 pray there viii not be anything be-
tween you and your Lord. / once knew
man who was prominent in church
work and when ] asked a young man
to go into his class he said. mo. Miss
Thomas. cannot go in his class. he