Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1917-07-05


that is the great rock of offense. No.
prophet in the Church is wise enough
to say how the stone is to be rolled
away.
c... $500
So' lays ras.
N our program OF Individual devel-
opInent the sunday school plays a.
most important part. In early, mid
aie anG later Id Christ should
De entnroned N he expanding life.
vain the SIX year old play is the
dominant factor. Let him learn of
Jesus through ms play. Let him play
TO some purpose. for the play is
prophetic OF n coming man and
IN middle b
problems OF school lie begin. Activ-
tues g more ~purposeful. Habits
OF study, particularly OF memory, r
The world Q has the
school play ground for its center, an
epltome OF the larger world outside.
In later childhood we enter the world
OF the junior. Life habits are being
formed. Outdoor sports and love of
and girls have the;r hernas Tbav,
are not to be coddled like little chill
3dren. They are quick to detect cant
or sham in religion and in the home
They study us, take our measure,
and woe betide if we are weighed in
the balance and found wanting.
In early adolescence, IL to 16, we
have the rapid development of the
social Instincts. The young animal
is growing into a young man. He
makes life decisions. There is a
strong spiritual awakening. Give him
something to do. The young people
need some incentive to community in
terest and activity. In middle and
later adolescence. IL to 20 and 20 to
25, physical powers are at their best.
The gates Of service are flung wide
oren. The ssepsp forth.
The world is before him and he ex-
poets the world to come his way. Sad,
sad the result if Mr.. Twenty-one is
so busy conauering the world that
he forgets the Christ and the Church
of his earlier Gears. Engulfed in the
tides Of success and adventure he
takes up with other gods and is lost
without knowing it.
fNou't "or'u q rVop'em.
The adult world is another prob
lem. Here we find religious indif-
ference, deficient ideafism, material
mindedness. Religion becomes a mere
shell, a form of responsibility. Peo-
pie drag to church because they do
not care to be wholly without its in
fuence. But they have little heart in
1t, and when h preacher talks about
sacrifice and perfect love and a con-
quering Church, they feel sorry for
him. Petty sins have crept in to mar
the beauty of their souls. They are
cross. they are not charitable, they
are Inclined to think i'll of people who
do not agree with them. But oh, it is
such a time of spiritual hunger. Men
anu women need a commanding
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Cnurcn&scnool important.
The developing plant of the Church
IS the Church school. There we seek
ito realise the normal advancement
of children, youth and adults. Not
by merely teaching a ~fragmentary
but by knowing and helping our
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