The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-07-02
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Attitude Of Next Generation
: DEPENDS Upon the Sun.
day Schools Of Today.

IA 4 feceit issue Of the Missionary
Review Of the Word the following ar.
;S,cle by Rev. William a. Brown. OF
jFhIcaco. which, Is worthy Of reading
ss6y an who are In any Ray interested
II missionary or Sunday scnool WoFA
was printed:
= what shall be the attitude o. me
shext generation towards the missions
SSry enterprise? How shall the Churen
IN that day view the Christian crowds
sin America and around the wo!lo
..What shall be that generations mea-
/. krre OF missionary interest and ger.
Tice2 The answe. to these questions
Tests yery largely with the present
sEorkers among tie youth Of America
;Ehe Sunday school Is IN reality lAc
KEY to the situation. :.
IN. missionary enterprise Is Iti-
smaiely hound up with the highest nu-
mar values n terms OF men and mon
IN IN lie Sunday schools Of tocsy
Slfe the youths who numerous ana
fash AZ he morning dew" should 90
tSnrfh IN the all-preyailing Name 70
I'm Inc world TO Christ. In the sun
I Iay schools are the children ana ne
Eouth who some day viii become s
stswards OF the yastest treasures OF
Tssitb which have ever been entrust-
"A h the people Of any generailon.
IN The Sunday schools the cliilG.ea 9
Ind youth gather in ever increasing
numbers about the missionaries
Rank wherein are taught the narveis
learn how wonderfully the COD o.
I, Eslyary won victories in the oiden Jay
And God Is winning still! ~
The Sunday school not only has ne
ltrorde-fnl Eyangel TO give 10 tne
EofId@athe Good Tidings OF Gfeat
low which are for all peop!e-DuI tas
I Sunday school is in itself great
!. evs nrelizins agency. In these days
fss hest Sunday school teachers anu
Miner workers are beginning 70 reallze
, tSat ,hey are really evangelists. anu
tSey sar, never be finally satisfied an,
! m all their pupils become aevOse e,,
. followers Id Of Jesus Christ Missionary mar,
work II, evangelism on a word enco ,.I,,
nsssinr scale. Sunday schools VIII!
!, srse- rpon their career Of largess
T% usefulness when they be-
;; Come in fact missionary framing
y s'T TSere Is great need for the mem
.hers n our Sunday schools to be
ifra;ncS In a knowledge Of missionary
,Tnrk, first Of all for their own SAKE az.
4 Young man talked with me on tae
/, sra;n one day. He was a fine fellow
! u many WAYS. but he had a very Sc
I f;ons defect in his Christian eauca-
. linn. He had been regular in MS al
! tendance at Sunday school but eVl-
4 ssntiy he had been taught, Door man
- think Of God only in the past tense.
/, He could not think of Him as &c.
J inslly at work in the world todaS ~. J,
I. t,new how the Gospel was orousIl %
I; Corinth, but he knew nothing auOu "
iSow the Gospel had been taken 10
China. ~, ..,,, c,.e.
: great 10Y in the villages OF psies ,aSe
r thev told Of the Gospel triumpns
J IN their missionary journey. why MOI =
fire tho Imagination OF inc ne T.. stoE cnss
generation with the story Oh tas ' ,So
3Sel triumphs in our day: anu ro oad
. members Of our Sunday sen9 9on t mar
..fhe, ouickening Of interest lot 'ueA
ibwn faith and devotion. ao
,, Besides, only by imparting to TON the
IN Gaming generation a finer Know,
, s sdse Of the other people in the wo tso
s sag Ne ~ ' ever hope to overcome me
growing national and racla' 'u'''
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