Norwich bulletin., 1918-02-18
W. |. WooDlN SPEAKS
 AT BAPTIST CHURCH
Special Services Held in Interest o the Sunday School.

Services in the interest of the Sun day school and it's work were held at the First Baptist church Sunday, both morning and evening.
 After the opening of the morning service W. I. Woodin, state secretary of the Baptist Sunday School associa- tion, was introduced by Rev. George H. Strouse.
 MT Woodin spoke interestingly upon the importance of the Sunday school in relation tp the church as the boys and girls of the church of today are the men and women of the future.
 Ninety-five per cent. of the ministers and missionaries came from the Sun church members came from the Sun day school and are taken into the church under 21 years of age. MT. Woodin spoke a few minutes to the Sunday school. leaving early fos the Broadway Congregational church where he also spoke.
 In the evening addresses were givef by both MT. Woodin and Mrs. Clark assistant secretary of the association MT. Woodin spoke upon Two Kinds oi Wheels, saying in part:r 1 wonder how many of these boys | and girls have noticed when. trolley rar gets stuck with heavy load ant is just beginning to move that two wheels in each truck go rolnd but the others do not.
 Have you ever thought why each truck has four wheels and that make the car go and push the other We will call the two wheels that make the car go the buzzers and the other two the burden wheels. So it is with people. Many are cali l ed buzzers and have to push the bur- den truck. These people on wheels are found in the home, in school, in business. In the home, where they could helr or hinder in making it happy. l In school, where there are workers or bufzers, those who, just get by and the don't cares, or burden wheels. :. How many in this church are carry ing the church along and how many are burden wheels, being dragged along by the buzz wheels?
 I have found in good many | churches that there are just as many burden wheels as buzz wheels. The more we give the easier it is. to give. Do we realize what the war has done in the matter of giving? Mil lions and millions have been given Not only in substantial giving but ir l the giving of ourselves for service, | So in the church. Are you helping to make the church go or are you sit ting still and making the church pull you? The ideal way is reciprocity you help the church and the church will help you. If you sit still an6 make the church pull you, you vii have little joy out of your religion.
 Mrs. Clark in speaking upon the Sunday school work in. part said: 1 am sure one of the greatest chances for service in the world today, I be l lieve, is right in the ranks of ths 1 Sunday school room.
 The Sunday school boys and girl. of today are the men and women O.
 tomorrow. We have in them the op. portunities in the joy of serving tho | master teacher, in the right trainins
 of his boys and girls, and we do be lieve this is evidenced by the fac
 that so many go into the church fron the Sunday school One million ant l five hundred thousand teachers go ou l and train the children of others.
 Greater progress has been made il the last 50 years than in all the age
 before, and more advance in the las
 10 years than the 40 years previous
 The handwriting on the wall i plain. The church of the future mus
 be a Sunday school church, at leas
 insofar as accepting this responsibilit
 and the Sunday school is the very bes medium for this.
 Someone has very we'll said that on
 of the greatest discoveries of the 19t
 century is the child. Now instructio
 begins and centers about the chilt
 and it is hoped that this 20th centur will discover the home, for without tn
 home as Sunday school workers W
 can never hope to make efficient an effective the work of our Sunda
 schools.