Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1914-01-02

will follow in til Sfoofsens of
The Mother of S bkeams5 and
make her Sunday Nhool class a
Sunbeam Band?
Do you ask whyShis is so inn
portant? Beeausdthe children
of today are heEhurch of to-
morrow. and hog of our cbur-
ches as well as NJ our country.
The great trfible with our
churches today is the anti-mis-
sion spirit witfYhich they must
The SUNBEAM Egork is one of
the greatest hfE TO break down
this barrier, f,Eof the grandest
pledges those IL is who are now
interested can give the future.
The most lasting impressions
are made in childhood and what
a mighty factor in fastening the
coming of His Kingdom will be
our young people if they have
the proper mission training.
Eow quickly the days and
weeks lengthen into months and
years, and soon, ah! soonl will
the boys and girls around us be
men and women-the workers
who in such brief space of
time shall fill our places.
So let us consider for q mo-
ment what part of the work we
must do now in order that when
we have passed from service to
praise and our mantles have fall
len on them they may be more
efficient, and not so often be
made to feel the lack of proper
training.
In every church of our asso-
citation there is material for
Sunbeam Band. To set in mo-
ton such profound forces which
will count somuch in after years
is an exalted privilege, to leave
ungathered and unpublished these
precious gems for His crown"
means for you and l to go empty
handed to His coronation.
Will not some consecrated wo-
man in each church, lone who
loves God and little children"
try the coming year to organize
a Sunbeam Band, teaching the
children to be active workers?
Teach them to devote more time
to prayers, and to the study of
Gods word; teach them that
one-tenth of all the money, or
its equivalent, with which they
are blessed, belongs to the Lord,
and that it is their privilege and
should be their pleasure to make
cheerful free will offerings and
thank offerings.
Let not the raising of money
be the chief object, but rather
the training of their young
hearts and lives into Christian
service. When led into a fuller
knowledge of missions, when
led to love the glorious cause,
when led to Christ as their per-
sonal Savior, the raising of
money will take care of itself.
Of course all of this means work
and sacrifice on the part of the
leader, bat sacrifice is the es.
sence of our religion, and we
should be grateful when the
Lord calls us to these places of
trust and honor.
The last and most important
need in organizing a Sunbeam
Band is the sympathy and help
of the mothers. No sacrifice
should be too great for a mother
to make in order that she may
place her children under Chris
tian influence. One who has so
beautifully written of Sunbeam
work appeals to us in these
words: Mothers. do you realize
that the honors of this world, its
accumulated wealth, it's much
sought after social positions will
be worse than nothing if, when
the roll is called up yonder your
child cannot answer present,
by the grace of God"
Only as we live our lives we'll
and brayely will they count for
anything, so for the sake of our
children we should let no oppor-
tnnlty pass for training them in
Il service, so if you have
Subeam Band in your church,
rally around their leader, encou-
rage her by sending your child
rem, hold up her hands by your
prayers and hearty cooperation.
Ii you have not a Band organ
lie ore and taste of the joys that
comes from time we'll spent in
the Masters work.
Truly Jesus loves the little
ones for He paused in his busy
life to take them in His arms
and bless them, and when those
around Him considered it a
waste of time, He said:
Suffer little children to come