The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1912-02-22
Parental Responsibility

one or the assistant secretaries or
The Board OF Home Missions and
Church ENtUlsi0n. told at the con-
terence, how he won his boy 10
Christ. l',. said his wife and daugh-
tcrs were about &c join the church
in ;hc community iM which they
had moved He said it, panied him
to thiNk that his boy Of about 10
or IS years was not ready to join
also. He made up his miad tc win
that boy. So one day he said to the
boy, 'Come. let us have a game or
base ball IN the side yard.' Now,
DR.. Boswell is kaown everywhere
for his piety and holy life. So he
said some people said, Look out
oottor, YOU will lose your sanctif1-
lose my SAnctitcation, | will gain
my sCl. If You become such a chum
OF NOHr children YOU can tell them
the mysterious story Of the begi1n-
ing Of their existence and they will
hear it as they ought to hear it from
Your lips.
How to care for his body. You
should teach him. the harm that mar
cotlcS VIII DO 70 thebody. Teach
him by prccept and example as we'll
how to keep his body as a tit tenn
PIE Of Cod. The parents who are
care less as to bodily cleanliness will
have their children careless also.
Teach the child what ne should
eat, how he should dress, how he
should give attention to getting the
proper am onn+ot- sleep ----
How ID care Tor his soul. This,
40 doubt, is your greatest respol-
SihllitT. To instruct your child you
yourself must nave a consecrated
life. That our people are not giving
the proper attention. to this imDor-
ta1t question is what | fear every
LAY. l.i:5tt II What the Sunday School
journal for june says about our
children in relation to the Sunday
school and coseTuently to the
church. 1t is under the caption,
sunday School Decrease in Colored
conferences. The article reads, The
)rt thren Of our colorei conference
Shoull give very thoughtful atten-
lea 10 the fact that there is a very
disappointing decrease in their Sun
lay schools. In 1908 the twenty col
)reu conferences reported 1921
schools, with an aggregate member
snip Of 221,l30. For 1909 the re-
ports shoV 300 schools with an
aggregate membership Of 227,On7.
nus IcDreSt ITS decrease of 2l
schools and a decrease OF 4.123 in
membership. This tendency. taken in
tlnection with the fact that the
membership Of the Sunday schools
In the cOlOred churches on an aver
age is small as compared with th2
white churches in .proportior to the
ne m bership Of the church, is not q
3ooI symptom, ana it ShOrlG be i'll
"1rfh l~to. with great. care, and
dehnnite means should be adopted
check and reverse the tendency.
J the young cOlorei people are LOST
Gut OF the Sunday school. they Will
)e largely lOst to the church; and
borrower, It must be remembered
hat the students in the higher
.chOols are recruited almost alto
ether from those who have come
lp through tho Sunday school. Our
olorcd brethren should institute
I'd maintain q very earnest Sunday
school Clmpaigl. My dear friends,
TINS ought 10 make us th.lk what
We are doing to influence our chill
~! towards rcli2ious life?
vent to call upOl q member of my
hurch in a place where vas once
pastorlng. The Womel had gone to
carried her chilI.
The child was about three years old
possibly that. mother 1hOlIght that
twas her own business where she
ook her child. Grant that it was.
}ut tie pot | wish TO make is this.
nat Same woman during my tenn
OF pastor Of that church had r,,t
brought that child to the Sunday
Schooi more than twice. ! know Of
another parent who carries her daugh-
tiers to the dance nearly every night
but has never brought those girls to
church. Around the fresidc in the home
is where the child should get some inn
Ttss1ons or the religious life. Solo
NON WAS RICH: when he said:
'1rajn uD child il the way he
should 80 and when he is old he will
OF depart from it.
nd the tree whoa it is young
AVID tender. The trouble with some
'raiIiGg is it does lot go far enough
i.'t not your training cease until
YOU soc there is strength Of charac-
tor. We do not remove the props
rom the tree until we see that the
rec can stand for itself.
Teych your child about Cod AID
BOW 10 live an upright life.
'IN) God holds US responsible
for how We train our children. Ellis
hi : question to the ShWlammite,
us it We'll with the chld?" is the