The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-10

The opening prayer of the yesterday afternoon assembly of the Birmingham Bible Training school was pronounced by Rev Y. P. Merrill, who was preceded by a praise service under the direction of Professor Excel.
 The presiding officer pr. Simpson, next announced Mrs. Lamoreaux for her dis sertation on T WILL
 Mrs. Lamoreaux said in part;
 Those are two such easy words to say, T Will' yet I suppose there is not a heart that has not lead a struggle to obey these words.
 There are two things we find in char acter building, the raw material that comes in through the five senses and the working over of this raw material. We do thinking until we arrive on the plane of knowing and it is there we plant our feet. Then we get a dream of what we want to be and we first face the verb T will
 Tt all narrows to one fundamental point, the verb will. I will only drift on, I will be ordinary and commonplace and | count for nothing to any one unless can say T WILL
 "I am very sure there are some of the | teachers who have been going through this institute here who will have the op- portunity to say I will before this meet ing is over. I wish I could impress you with the richness that lies on the other side of the words T will
 Teach Them q Will''
 .The failure of Sunday school lies in the fact that you talk so much of what boys and girls ought to do, give them so many admonitions and precepts but do not lead them to the point of saying T will All your work will count for naught unless you can bring them to the point of saying this.
 "The will is such a sacred thing that can not only not use it for another but 1 can't touch it and 1t can only be reached indirectly. Until a lad has learned to use his own will in making a decision, he is not a strong character God has a one best time for making habits and if I can help boys and girls get the habit of choosing the right, l can trust them to go on through life with out me.
 ''Dont you wish you could make the doing. of the right thing tug at the con- science strings of your boys and girls God cuts habit paths in the brain and then hardens tbem
 "rhe first thing I would suggest In will | training is the unconscious turning to the 1 right, in moment of temptation, and the next aid, Is the personal influence of ] one life over another. The unconscious 1 influence of your life can turn the trend | of your scholars character. Teachers. the things you have to do are expected of you and not marked, but it is the little letter you don't have to write, the little deeds you don't have to perform are the means of bringing you close to your boys and girls. The thing 1 you hold highest. somehow after a time. | will become the ideal of your pupil and teach him to say I will be like that. But l must remember that the little letter, plus the little call, plus the social | gathering must have one thing more that | is a life that can stand before class | and say, look clear through and find my soul white Am I willing to make the sacrifice of having my life laid bare to gain this influence?
 There is another power, that of sug- gestion. Every act, every life has sug- gestion over acts and lives of others, and good examples make it easier for our boys and iris through the practical sug- gestions, to will to do the right thing.
 Make the life that has decided for Christ so winsome and attractive that others can't say no to your proposition Make the call of need, of Christianity. sc
 strong that it will be irresistible. Give
 them chance to choose, put before them
 6 life that has invested in Christ and 2
 life that has not and let them see what
 each decision will bring to them.
 'The life that says T will is going tc
 lift itself up out of the ordinary and dc
 the great thing for Cod
 Rev. J. s. Foster, defining systemati'
 giving. as donating in accordance with
 plan founded on Gods word and as al , intelligent and sympathetic understand ing of His command to give in proportion
 to ones worldly gains, led prayer ser vice for all to practice systematic giving i Dr. Hamill Follows | Dr. Hamil followed to deliver his lee l ture, "The Cross" in his course on tn
 Life of Christi He displayed 45 tenn l perance cards, which were distribute
 during recent children's meeting | strung on a ribbon and signed by tn | boys and girls present at the meeting. "I approach with delcacy and muc hesitation to put before you the death ( | Christ, for I do not think any ma 1 worthy of doing this said pr. Hamil ''I would stop right now if l thought thcf was a heart in the audience who coul
 not enter into this with reverent syn | rathy.
 'J think the Christian church is nc
 far from the mark when they memoria | | ize he Passion week