The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-05-13
MISSIONS.
MANNING AUXILIARY

What the Cross has won for chill
dren." By religious instruction, by
the Home, the Sunday school, the Jun
ior Epworth League, etc. etc.
Education does not mean the impor-
tation OF information, it means the de-
velopment of character.
There can be no thorough and COM
plete education without religion; tc
provide adequate religious instruction
for the children, is the primal and I'M
perative duty of the churches.
The Sunday School hour is made
quate TO meet the demand.
The great need voiced by this
thought, Inspired The organization OF
the Junior EpworLn League by our
church some years ago.
This might we'll be called the exten-
sion Dept. for advancing the conquest
of the cross over the child world.
The Sunday School hour is too brief
and interrupted TO give the needed IN.
struction in the bible, to say nothing OF
the training into habits OF devotion
through prayer or hymn study, or to
give any knowledge of the church's
history or any of its doctrines.
The earnest, consecrated teacher
feels more and more that some time
must be found, outside of the Sunday
School hour, to meet the great need
which exists. -,
When we're failing, even with all
our efforts, to hold more than one
third of the children for church men,
bership, shall We waste any OF our enc
gies by decrying the agencies planned
to help stop the leakage? Rather
must we feel humiliated that we are
not able to win and hold so many OF
the boys and girls whom we taught for
while. Two-thirds of those who come
into our Sunday Schools and other
church organizations go out from our
midst to De swallowed up in the glitter
ond noise and clamor and evil OF the
world
In Southern Methodism we have
$4,000 boys and girls in our Junior
Leagues who are learning not only TO
be loyal and intelligent Methodists,
but also, happy, everyday christians.
When Christ came to establish his
Kingdom on earth. he took little chill
dren in his arms and blessed them, ex-
alting all childhood and investing it
with new, deep, sacred meaning, and
today His Spirit is turning the hearts
of parents and teachers more and more
earnestly to the children.
A christian mothers opportunity IS
far reaching and boundless; she must
study Gods Word, learn his way, and
depend upon Him for guidance and d.
rection.
The consecrated mother must instill
into the child, first, obedience" the
very foundation of character, and this
must begin in infancy.
Children should be carefully taught
truthfulness, honesty, unselhshness, re-
spect for their own word, and respect
for anything that belongs to another.
Make home so pleasant for your boys
that they will hold it dearer than any
other spot.
Keep plenty of good books at hand,
also games both instructive and anus
ing. Encourage them to invite their
Young friends TO their homes, for the
boy that feels at liberty to do this, has
no inclination to seek companions in
the street.
Moral training in the Home by the
mother is the protection which only
she can throw about the heart and life
of her child. The duty of every moth
er is to ill her child's life so full Of
good things that there is no room for
the EVIL.
In closing if I can impress upon
mothers the stupendous task which is
theirs, in shaping souls for eternity,
my message will not be in vain. Your
opportunities are unlimited, your re-
sponsibilities unbounded.
God grant that you may rise in the
strength OF consecrated motherhood.
and with the help of the Heavenly
Father, shape the lives of your chill.
dren for christian usefulness here, and
for an eternity of bliss hereafter.
A member of Missionary Society
Methodist Church.