The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1911-03-17

Importance that the teacher be cloth.
ed with becoming taste, it is of even
vaster Importance that the teacher
be clothed with consuming zeal
for the study to be taught. the work
to be done. The wires may be
stretched upon the poles with per
feet insulatiOns and connections but
, they carry no messages unless they
are spirit filed. The cylinder of the
locomotive may be properly adjust
ed. but unless it be spirit filled the
wheels refuse to move. The teacher
may have adequate equipment in
| books, buildings, and boys and at
| the same time fail as a message
bearer on account of inadequate spir-
itual equipment
III spirit filed n person can en-
dure much with great patience. A
! lady was converted at an epanGelis-
! tic meeting. The next day she dined
with her husband at a hotel. They
were seated at table nearly sur
rounded by jolly travelling men who
were almost ready for their desert.
The husband, trying to humiliate his
wife by ihrusts at her religious
views, spoke TO the knights OF the
! grip with vitrOlic accent, saying,
Hold on fellows, | want my Wife
10 say grace, for she got religion
last night" They quoted, bowed
their heads out of respect 10 her
while she complied with her satanic
majesty's request. Her extreme pa
! tiencc in this and other severe trials
so Overcame her husbands Obstinacy
that he decided TO become 4 Chris
tian. With an inferior spiritual
; equipment she would doubtless have
surrendered Internationally at the
! first assault.
IF spirit filled person will evince
! love even when sOrely tried Mr.
Smith was n member of the church
and a policeman. One evening after
leaving the prayer meeting he heard
a lot OF drunken men holding high
carnival in a saloon. On entering the
saloon he was stabbed by his drunk
en- neighbOr, Mr.. Brown. Brown was
locked up and Smith was taken to
the hospital and for days it was
thought he could not survive. When
cOnvalescent he placed charge
against Brown Of plain drunk only
The Judge, exasperated at Smiths
leniency. fined Brown the limit, $40,
and was still further astOnished
when Mr.. Smith paid the fine. At
such treatment on the part Of n
Christian policeman, Mr.. Brown and
his wife were reduced to tears, say
ing, If that is Christianity, we want
it. They both united with the church
and Mr. Brown is now conductor
on one of the great trunk lines in
the northwest, saved from moral
Iwreckage by the eXemplificatiOn of
love on the part Of a spirit filled
Christian man on the police force.
1T is possible 10 love children into
the Sunday school and into the king
; dom OF Jesus Christ. From the east
car load of orphan children were
/ brought into the middle west and
distributed by a home finding society
wherever suitable opportunity offer
ed. Into one home was received Il
boy who was said to be the worst
in the bunch He was roughly treat.
cd, given the attic as IA sleeping
place, and his companions at night
time were the mice and bats. Mega
tive and disDiritiDg suggestions were
his meat and drink from day TO day.
lie was made TO understand that he
was thoroughly bad and that hopes
Tor his ultimate redemption were
scarcer than hens teeth One day
at a Sunday school picnic he en-
tered the role of the hero by plung-
ing into the lake and rescung a
ichild that had fallen from Il boat.
Bringing his prize to the shore and
standing, dripping. his hands and
cheeks blue on account of the battle
FOR life in the water, he was the OBJ
ject upon which all eyes were turn
ed. The minister pronounced a ell.
logy upon the daring rescue as the
crowd stood silent as death, contem-
plating what might be done TO re-
ward the boy. TO it all the boy
tremblingly made reply: L don't
want you TO give me anything.
gist want you ter git some one to
love me-
Pastoral Leadership.
Il AT the afternoon conference Rev.
Everett Lesher, delivered an address
on Pastoral Leadership in Sunday
School Evangelism" He spoke as
follows:
1t would seem at first thought
that my subject would be of interest
, to pastors only, but it is one in
which the entire church and Sunday
school should be vitality interested.
: I'm fact, there is nothing in the state
or nation that people should more
profoundly believe in than the Sun
, day school. 1t is not only the replen-
, isher of the church, it is the spirit
ual and moral nursery of the re.
public. One of the greatest forces
: that make for Sunday school growth
; and efficiency is evangelism. But
this work has been strangely neg.
1nptaH Epur.cauanthc Of tho cobo.l