The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1918-05-10

ig sasssss Seeing q veneer
lEN able man looking
- upon the group OF
competitors but presenting no claim
Jupiter exclaimed, "Who art thouT'
"Only a spectator" said the sage; "alI
these were once my pupils" Grown
him, crown him." said Jupiter; "crowr
the faithful teacher with Immortality
Making due allowance for the ex
traVagance of this fable, there yet re-
mains enough of truth in it to prove IN
inspiration to every faithful teacher
God has indeed laid upon you great
responsibility. AS teacher and com
panion of youth you have an influence
second to no other in the community
You are in daily contact with minds
that are bright, hearts that are sensl
tive, and wills that are pliable. They
are sent to you for the express pur
pose of being Influenced by you, and at
the most plastic period of their lives
Granted that the special work fol-
which you are employed is to educate
the mind still, is it not your duty also
to lead them into the realms of spir-
itual knowledge, and above all to in
troduce them to the Great Teacher,
who said, Take my yoke upon you
and learn of me, and We shall find rest
unto your souls?"
We all know that young people do
not wish to have religion thrust upon
them continually, but they do, without
exception, admire a strong Christian
character, and they appreciate a low
ing Christian interest in their welfare
and an occasional earnest word upon
the subject.
Remember also that many Of your
pupils receive no Christian training at
home, and they will doubtless go out
into the world without any definite re-
ligious principles unless they receive
them from you.
OF all the instructors whom the
writer had in school and college, no
one did so much in shaping his life as
the district schoolteacher who intro
duced him to Jesus Christ. And there
was seldom term in that school when
someone was not laid under the same
debt of gratitude. There was no dis
tinctive religious teaching in the
school, but in and out of classroom she
so exhibited the beauty Of holiness In
easy converts to her Lord and Master
when the opportunity arrived to pre-
sent his claims.
Every true teacher hopes to leave
the stamp of his own personality upon
those entrusted to his care. Blessed
is he whose personal impress leaves
on every heart the beautiful image of
Jesus.
If you are a Sunday school teacher
your opportunities are all the greater
for leading your scholars to Christ.
No one can estimate the influence of q
real heart-to-heart talk with pupil,
or the touch of a loving hand, or the
power of persistent prayer, but those
who use these means know that they
are almost Irresistible.
A man in New York said to his pas
tor, You ought to have known my
mother. She was always hunting for
the lost. In the town where she lived
was a family of low reputation, con-
tanning seven boys, each of whom was
worse than the rest.
"She went to the home and asked
the parents if they would send their
boys to her class in Sunday school.
and they cursed her. Then she tackled
one of the boys on the street, and per-
Suaded him to come into her class.
He sat there while, and then started
for the door with the teacher after
him. He told her to go to hell, and
she came back deeply grieved, but not
discouraged. Two Sundays later she
had him back in the school. After a
while she lured the second boy into
her class, and then another and an
other, until finally she had them all.
Everyone of those boys was con-
verified, and all seven of them became
preachers of the Gospel. The boy who
told his teacher to go to hell preached
her funeral sermon only a short time
ago" Until he find it," is a good
motto for every teacher to write in her
Bible.
l know a pastor who had a teacher
in his Sunday school who failed so
completely as a teacher that the SUI
perintendent had to ask her to give
it up. She consented and entered a
Bible class as pupil. Soon she came
to the superintendent and asked if she
might teach class provided she found
the material for it outside the school.
large that it had to be divided. Still
it grew, and again and again it had to
be divided. One by one she brought to
the pastors study to confess Christ
and unite with the church between
90 and 60 of her scholars.
But when we live a divided life,
when we call Christ, Master" with
our lips and cruelty him again and
again upon the cross of our own con-
venience, we may as well take a vaca-
ton until we decide, once and forever,
whose we are, and whom we are to
serve.
Perchance in heaven some day to me
Some blessed saint will come, and say,
All hale beloved! but for thee
My soul to death had fallen a prey
And oh, what rapture in the thought
One soul to glory to have brought!
Access In One Spirit.
Thinking of him, working for him
day nv day. as our living, tender