Charlevoix county herald., 1915-11-06

ming souls. 4. Touch. Man must not
live to himself alone Get in touch
with others. Get in touch with other
people and schools to get and give help
There are 30 O0O, 600 scholars in the S.
S. army today. 5. Conquest. Teach
missions. We must be out to work or
we have no business to be out. The
church's business is to take the gospel
to other countries. If the S. S. has not
this spirit it will die. Let the slogan be
(Our S. S. must glow and grow and 90
and will help to make it so.)
Mr.. Fred Washburn, Supt. of Rural
Department of state S. S. work, from
Benton Harbor spoke on Rural Work.
Briefly he said, eve must get first a
vision of the great work of the S. S.
The harvest truly is great Souls are
more preseious than silver and gold.
Second leadership. rs per cent OF the
leaders in city S. S. work were trained
in the rural S. SIS. II we fail to dis
cover and develop leadership in eoun-
try schools our city schools will suffer.
Study the boys ahd girls in your class.
Find leaders and train them for posi-
tons for which they are naturally ad-
aptable. 3. Organization. The sue
cessful rural S. S. is the one which
meets the needs of the community in
all stages of its development 1t has
put 1,OOO,O 600 in the cradle roll and an
army of men and women in adult
Bible classes. The Elgin Watch Factory
which employees 5000 workers does not
have one who could make a watch
alone. They are organized to make
their parts so they will exactly fit to-
gether into perfect watch. You cant
do all kinds of work in your place in
the S. S. but together you will win. a..
| Cooperation. This is absolutely neces-
sary to success. Don't put on the
brake like the new breakman but push.
An engineer who had been on the run
many years found a new engine wait
ing for him one morning. He had also
new brakeman. The pull up was
hard and they came near not making it
even with the throttle thrown wide
open and the fireman did his best
shoveling coal. When they reached
the top and stopped the brakeman said
to the engineer, 1T was lucky thing
that put on the brakes coming up the
grade or we would have slipped down
hill Some think it necessary to put on
the brakes to church and S. S. work to
keep it from running down hill. 5.
Prayer and personal work are es-
sental to a successful S. S. If it is not
saving souls for Christ it is a failure.
Personal evangelism must be the
watchword. Prayer is the great thing
that holds us to God. Hearts must be
burdened for souls like the Baptist
pastor at Berrien Springs when the
Stephens evangelistic party was there.
He wrote the names of 55 men for
whom he was praying on a board in
the tabernacle. Before the meeting
closed SO were saved. Stamp the i'm
preston of your character upon Others
Two little girls were playing together,
one invited the other home to supper
with her, and at table, grace was said.
She went home and asked father if he
would not say grace at the table. He
refused but told her she might. She
did it for one month and papa and ma
ma were saved. The character of the
home had been stamped with the char
acter of the other and souls were saved
A workers conference conducted by
Mr.. Washburn closed the afternoon
service.
After supper the Song Service was
conducted, Mr.. Joseph Ekstron, and
Rev. w. Thurston Gibbs from Boyne
City led the devotional service.
The first address of the evening was
given by Fred Washburn on, "The
Sunday School as Religious Educa-
tional Institution" 1t is the greatest
evangelistic force of today. II is within
the power of the S. SIS OF America to
evangelize the world in one generation.
G. Campbell Morgan said, "The
successful life depends upon having
the word of God in the heart and giving
it out to others" Religious training
and Bible education for children is the
most important work of the day. There
are but three institutions that give
religious training and culture. 1. The
home. AS rule they are not furnish
ing it tho they have much better
opportunity than either of the others.
2. The public schools. They have not
given it. Some time ago New York
City revised their song books so as to
take out the names Of God and Christ
from every song. Penn. has 5,OO0,0
S. S. Scholars, one fifth Of those in
nation. Penn. state law requires the
reading publicly by every teacher at