years. 46 Enclosed you will find a check for Eighty That's a munificent gift certainly, and Now we would just like to ask, are there To those who would apply their charities Missionary. In referring to the eminent service DO NOT EXPECT TOO MUCH. 66 At the close of my address, the pastor, the Rev. Dr. Macdonald spoke in high terms of the missionary operations of the American Sunday-School Union, and urged all the people to contribute liberally to this great and good work. I learned next day, that there was a band of young workers, connected with the First Presbyterian Church Sabbath-school, whose fingers had been busy for some time making articles, the proceeds of which they intended to consecrate to the service of Christ. On hearing what a great and good work "the society that takes care of the children" was doing for the little ones away out towards the setting sun, by organizing Bible schools, and then furnishing them with such books as the Way of Life, The Great Question, &c., aud believing that there was no other instrumentality that costs so little and could do so much, they resolved to invest every cent realized from their noble and disinterested efforts, in the Sunday-school enterprise. Watch over these tender little plants with wise and loving care. They need an observant eye and a gentle hand; for they are too feeble to bear many rough winds; they are too delicate not to be easily in jured. DO NOT EXPECT TOO MUCH FROM THEM; they have only just taken root; they are very weak, very ignorant, very inexperienced. It would be unnatural if they were otherwise. They must have time; they must have daily sunshine and oft-repeated showers before they can become strong and matured. Does your boy seem to love divine things?" said a Christian mother to an experienced pastor. "Yes," was the reply; "but I do not wish to see in him more than a child's religion." "Often," adds the same author, "will a thinking child voluntarily cross the limits which we are accustomed to ascribe to his age, but he will not linger there. A hidden spring sends him from the midst of his profoundest reverie into a game of romps, and he is conscious of no inconsisteney; the tender intellect is fenced with this protecting power. When I was a child I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child." But perhaps there are no sweet flowers in your garden-no fair, fresh indications of spring-time there. And are you weary Their worthy superintendent, D. Com- and discouraged because your toil seems fort, Esq., writes me as follows:-" When unrewarded, your prayers unanswered? they heard your address, they determined Wait in patience and hope; it is yours to to appropriate the proceeds of their in-plant and to water, but it rests with God dustry to the particular object which you had so eloquently advocated and recommended. The result was a decided success, considering that the number of little girls was not more than twelve or fifteen, and most of them about ten or twelve years of age. to give the increase. And He will give it. In northern ice-bound countries, when the summer comes, vegetation advances with startling rapidity, and the ground, lately covered with snow, blooms all at once with verdure and fruitfulness. It may be thus with the dreary and barren bit of soil upon which you are just now gazing so despondingly. The bright shining of the Sun of Righteousness, and the healthful dew of God's Spirit, can presently transform the wilderness into a fruitful field, and make the moral desert to rejoice and blossom as the rose. Therefore be not faithless but believing. "Be stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord." "Ye know" it is no doubtful matter; you feel a positive certainty about it. Not that you are sure of always seeing the visible result; one man soweth and another sometimes reapeth; but whether it be in this world or in the next, that you come again with joy, bringing your sheaves with you, you repose now upon God's promise as firmly as you could upon its is not in vain, because his word shall not fulfilment; and you know that your labour return unto Him void; but it shall accomplish that which He pleases, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto He sent it. ADVANCED SCHOLARS. Considerable attention is given by our trans-Atlantic friends to the interests of the older scholars in their Sunday-schools. In a late conference of teachers, several facts were stated and suggestions thrown out which may be of service to our readers. It seems to have been a matter of debate whether the advanced classes should be separate from the main school; or, whether the exercises could be made acceptable and profitable to all ages. One teacher said: That the school with which he was connected, numbered 1,500 scholars; and he was teacher of a class with an average attendance of forty, ranging in age from eighteen to thirty-five. They were enabled to keep the scholars amongst them generally until they were grown up. They had a number of "division classes," into which the boys at twelve years of age were placed; and it was understood that at the age of sixteen they would have the privilege of being introduced into what was called a "vestry class." In those classes they were formed into a body of themselves; they elected their own committee, and managed their own affairs. Visiting committees were also formed amongst them; and if any case arose which they could not meet, it was reported to the teacher, who undertook the office for them. He differed from those who advocated the holding of separate devotional services for the senior scholars, and hoped the time would never come when the school would be so completely split up, as it seemed to him it would be in such an arrangement. In reference to addresses, he thought that if they were such as to interest the children, the senior scholars would not be likely to run away from it. Another said he should very much regret to see the day when the senior scholars were kept apart from the general school during the devotional services. He was connected with a very large school, having 1,500 in attendance on Sunday afternoon; the adult and senior classes forming more than a fifth of that number; and from his experience, he could state that they had no difficulty in getting them to mingle with the other portion of the scholars at that time, or during an address. In that school there was a class of sixty or seventy, varying in age from sixteen to thirty, who held meetings during the week for social character, and he regarded that as a very important element in connection with it. A clergyman did not see why the adult classes might not with advantage be present at the opening services of the school, and afterwards, in retiring to their own rooms, spend a short time in devotional exercises, specially adapted to the wants of the scholars. He thought addresses and prayers in the general school, might be made interesting to the whole. It would not always be so, if the practice of conducting the service was taken by the teachers in turn, because some were not qualified for the work, and sometimes the least qualified were the most disposed to be prominent in it. Just as it sometimes happened that a young man desired to enter the ministry, though he himself was the only person who thought him adapted to it; so sometimes teachers, who though well able to conduct their class, were not able to interest the whole school in an address, were forward to undertake the duty. In connection with his own school, he was accustomed to give them a sermon monthly; and though he endeavoured to make it so simple that the youngest could understand it, he had found that the ordinary congregation took the greatest inter est in that service. Another gentleman referring to an observation, that in Birmingham, 60,000 children had passed through their schools in the last twenty years, said it was the "passing through" the Sunday-school which was the great evil they had to lament. With reference to the plan of the adult and senior classes worshipping apart from the general school, he hoped it would never he adopted, where the other plan was found to work well; but when the latter was found to deter young men and women from joining those classes, by all means let it be abandoned. A RESTING-PLACE. John Selden was the most erudite Englishmen; possessed much antiquarian, historical, and legal knowledge; was master of many languages, and author of works which have filled Europe with his fame; and was possessor of a library of 8,000 volumes. When he lay dying, he said to Archbishop Usher, 'I have surveyed most of the learning that is among the sons of men, and my study is filled with books and manuscripts on various subjects; but at present I cannot recollect any passage out of all my books and papers whereon I can rest my soul, save this from the sacred Scriptures:-"The grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world; looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ, who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works."" For the Sunday-School World. QUESTION-BOOKS. It has been asked, what are the best arguments in defence of question-books, and what the best remedy for the abuse of them? Let me premise that in the world we must take things, not as we we wish they were, but as we actually find them; and act accordingly. And taking schools as they are, we shall find that very few teachers compared with the whole number employed, have the mental capacity, the intelligence, the varied information necessary to interest a class without the help of questions to guide their own minds in the preparation of a lesson. The necessity for the teacher's sake, seems to be a standing argument in their favour. For example, our own school are just at the close of their book, and are asking what one we shall take next, or whether any. "Oh, I can't do without a question-book," said a very faithful teacher-" if they give up that, I shall give up my class, for I cannot make up questions for children-I never could." And she is a specimen of nine-tenths of the Sunday-school teachers in the country. Then as for the children-not knowing what questions are to be asked, they naturally fall into the habit of depending upon the teacher to do the answering as well as the asking. Or if the teacher waits for the child to frame a reply, time is lost, the class becomes listless, and all is dull and uninteresting. If we could always find teachers who had the happy faculty of drawing their pupils into familiar religious conversation; who were possessed of a good store of Biblical knowledge; who had access to books of illustration and information; whose soundness in Bible doctrines we could safely trust, and whose piety was beyond question; with teachers thus qualified, we might perhaps dispense with question books. Till then, "a necessity seems laid upon us" which leaves little room for argument. That a question-book will be abused by idle teachers is too true. Having the lesson made ready to their hand, they will hurry it over, making no explanation for the intellect, or application to the heart of the scholar. But what would such a teacher do without prepared questions? Is it said, the school would be better off without than with such teachers? Very true, if we could supply their places with better. If not, we must go back to our first position and take things as we find them. The scholar, even with a poor leader, will learn much more of Bible truth, than if he were not in school, and for this he will be indebted almost wholly to his question book. Shall we take even this from him? But how shall we guard against this abuse? Get better teachers? We already have the best to be obtained. Rather, I should say, get exactly the right kind of question-books-such as will interest and benefit both teachers and scholars. Then the former will be drawn out of their idleness, and the latter out of their listlessness or even mischief. But what constitutes "exactly the right kind of book?" We reply, that we are well aware of the difficulty of framing a sories of questions which shall neither be too difficult for the young, nor too childish for the old, too abstruse for the ignorant or too simple for the intelligent; yet this must be done, if we would have a perfect question-book. And more than this, to say nothing of its correctness in doctrinal and practical truth, its illustrating and enforcing those truths, of its comparing and explaining" scripture with scripture" which are indispensable qualificationsit must contain enough of story to make it entertaining, and of detail to make it seem like real life in reference to our ordinary affairs, to bring our minds in contact and unison with it, and yet it must avoid too much detail and statistics and long doctrinal arguments. Nor must it be merely a rapid historical sketch, leaving the items to be found and fitted in by inefficient teachers. Question-books on some part of the Bible-the Epistles, for instance-cannot be made to supply the wants of a whole school, however small, without two sets of questions, one for older and one for younger scholars. Is it impossible then then to get the right book? It requires only one mind for this, while ten thousand minds are needed for teachers. Cannot the one be found as well as the thousands? Another remedy is, the establishment of teachers' meetings to go over the lesson together. There will always be one or more active, intelligent minds and warm hearts who will impart their light and heat to their fellow teachers. "Some how, I don't know why," said a good but not very intelligent teacher-" Somehow, my class always seem to know their lesson better when I have been to the teachers' meeting the night before." It was very easy for one who knew her to "see why." She tried to do well, but could have done nothing at all without a question-book, and the teacher's meeting kept that from being dull to her class. In conclusion we must acknowledge there is but little argument on either side. We are met by facts which ward them all off. Few teachers are capable of conducting a class without prepared questionsand those few will not be confined to them; while the great majority both of teachers and taught need the assistance of a questionbook to show them what there is in the lesson. Let us have good question-books, and they will not become opiates to mind, or weights upon the hearts of those who use them. Berkshire, (Mass.) READER. NEW YORK SUNDAY-SCHOOL TEACH- and from time to time give us means to For The Sunday-School World. Extract of a letter from a gentleman, Reader on the "Word System" in success- A missionary of the American Sunday- Donations Received by the American SunSchool Union labouring in Illinois says: I will give you an old man's story. He is superintendent of a Sunday-school that I assisted last Sunday. "When I was a boy we had no Sunday-school. My father died, and I was put out to work for my living. I never was permitted to go to school in the week time, and of course I grew up a wild, ignorant, reckless, wicked man. After I was married, a Sabbath-school was organized in our neighbourhood, (thank God for that,) and I was induced to attend. Here I soon learned to spell and at last to read. I could read the two first chapters of St. John's Gospel. Then I was forced to remove from that to another part of the country, and as no Sabbath-school was held there, I had no place to go on Sunday; but what I had learned in the Sundayschool did not leave me. I knew it was wrong to spend the Sabbath in pleasure or labour. I read these two chapters until I could repeat the whole of them. At last I was led to see in Jesus, just the Saviour for poor, guilty, ME. And I feel that now I can say, My Redeemer liveth. O the blessing of that Sunday-school to me! How can I prize it enough. Seven years ago, Stephen Paxson, a missionary of the American Sunday-School Union came here and organized a Sunday-school, put me in for superintendent, gave us some books, and set us to work. God sent him here. My teachers to day were then scholars. From this school has grown up a church. day-School Union From July 15, to August 15, 1862. MASSACHUSETTS Boston, "O. B." on account of proposition to Bridgeport, Sonth Cong. Church S. S......... Mt. Carmel, Congregational Society...... Auburn, 1st Presb. Church Sunday-school...... Asso. $75; Bethel Mission S S. $10; Clinton Clifton, Pres. Church Sunday-school.. Elbridge, J. Mason Rice...... Jamaica, 1st Presbyterian Church... Fort Columbus, Col. G. Loomis. Kingsboro, Presbyterian Church... Ch. S. S. $38 48; South Ref. D. S. S. No. 1, Syracuse, 1st Presbytererian Church.... Utica, Wesminster Church Sunday-school.... NEW JERSEY. Elizabeth, 3rd Presb. Ch.S. S. Missy. Asso..... Orange, 2nd Pres. Ch. S. S. Missy. Asso..... PENNSYLVANIA. Pottstown, John Embleton.. Sunday-school... Many have gone out from here and formed other schools. Some have died in a good hope of glorious immortality, and here I still am. My time on earth is short I know, but as long as my master spares my life and strength, it shall be devoted to his service. This is as near his own words as it is possible for me to repeat them. What encouragement to work. Your contributions are doing much of the same kind of work. If we labour for the glory of God, we are assured he will bless our efforts. May your contributions be thus blessed; may you find a rich blessing resting upon your school, and may you all become members of the church triumphant. Please remember there are yet in the valley of the Mississippi, 500,000 children and youth that have no Sabbath-school to attend. O don't forget to pray for them, Philadelphia, Clinton St. Mission S. S. 810; Clinton St Pres. Sunday-school $10.. Towando, 1st Presb. 8. S. $10; A Friend, $10. OHIO. Butler Co., W. W. Congregational Church.... Belvidere, Presbyterian Church... Chicago, Alexander Hesler.. Danville, Presbyterian Sunday school. Fiora, Union Meeting... WISCONSIN. 10 00 10 00 4 28 23 89 62 50 145 07 20 00 10.00 10 00 4.00 49 50 37 50 MISSOURI. I RISE TO SEEK THE LIGHT. I saw a little blade of grass It seemed to raise its timid head, I asked the eagle why his wing 24 12 50 00 I asked my soul, what means this thirst What means this eagerness to burst It answers, and I feel it glow With fires more warm, more bright, "All is too dull, too dark below; I rise to seek the Light." JUST PUBLISHED. CHOICE HYMNS, a companion to "The Silent 25 00 THE AMERICAN SUNDAY-SCHOOL UNION, THE NEGRO SERVANT." Illustrated with new and original designs. Smo., cloth, 50 cents. KATE MORGAN AND HER SOLDIERS; or, 7 76 THE GREEN PASTURES; or, Silent Comforter 15.00 5.00 8. 00 10.00 THE Sunday-School World. VOL. II.-No. 10.] THE AMERICAN SUNDAY-SCHOOL UNION. AMERICAN SUNDAY-SCHOOL UNION, JOHN A. BROWN, President. FRED. A. PACKARD, Corresponding Secre- LEVI KNOWLES, Treasurer. EXCELLENCY OF CHRIST. He is a path, if any be misled; If any be but weak, how strong is he! To blind men sight, and to the needy wealth- stealth.-Giles Fletcher. "REAL NEED." l [OCTOBER, 1862. e-t, et," in the Sunday-schools of that great city. Go through the names of the Lancashire members of parliment I mean those who are Lancashire men—and you will find amongst them some who were once boys, and very troublesome boys too, in the Sunday-school. And go where you will throughout the county, it is all the same. A short paragraph under this head in another column, discloses an opportunity I do not know whether you, Mr. Chairto do a good deed at small expense. It man, were present at that immense gatheris not because such calls upon us for aiding in Peel Park, Manchester, when our dear Queen with tears of joy in her eyes, are rare that we refer especially to the rode through the midst of 60,000 SundayThere was present that day an present case. They come almost daily, scholars and sometimes two or three in a day. agent of the Emperor of Russia, who There is no time to be lost in looking looked on with undisguised amazement. He said to a friend of mine-and I believe about for aid in specific cases. The life a friend of yours, also-" How many or death of the school is suspended upon Sunday-school children are there here?" a little help JUST NOW. A few weeks or He was told between 60,000 and 70,000. 'Well," said he, "but how months hence it may not be needed. Will many teachers not the friends of the American Sunday- do they require?" "About 8,000," was the reply. "And where does all the .164 School Union and of the many petitioners for their help, open their hearts and hands he might well ask it. It has often been money come from?" he inquired. Yes; a little wider for the sake of the millions said with a sneer, of some of our useful ..152 of little children and heedless youth, who officers of State-the magistrates-that are not likely to be reached by religious they are the "great unpaid." Here, this influences through any other channel than evening, without a sneer, I address the a Union Sunday-school, such as our mis- great unpaid magistracy of Europe, and I say to every one of them, Brethren and sionaries are employed to organize? sisters, you shall not lose your reward." Just as the Egyptian princess did with the ..149 ...151 ..155 .160 .151 The Shady side.......... Interview with an Old Soldier.. ..155 ..157 Sunday-school Convention at Canandaigua, and Meetings in New York and Brooklyn.. What brought the Tears.. The Fault of the Superintendent.. The Profane Man Edectively Rebuked. The Sunday-school Teacher's Psalm... Early Impressions... ...157 ...159 .160 ...160 ..161 ...161 Change of Field-Connecticut to North Carolina....162 MERCHANT PRINCES FROM THE mother of Moses, so does God with you. Where is there another kind of work in which our young people, when first feeling the throbbings of love to Christ within them, may engage with such a hope of strengthening and developing their youthful piety? Woe to the Christian pastor who does not love his Sunday-school! and woe to that Christian man who does not bless God for the hundreds, the thousands, ...152 the millions who have been kept from evil by them--who have been made meet for 162 God's service on earth, and gathered out of them for His glorious home above! We have now in the chair a Lancashire man ..153 -a gentleman from Manchester.* It so happens that I resided in that city for 154 several years, and I need not remind the .156 Chairman-for he could tell you a great deal better than I can-of the immence ..158 influence for good which Sunday-schools 159 have exerted throughout Lancashire and 162 Yorkshire. Go through the ranks of the merchant princes of Manchester, and ask .149 153 154 .157 ..157 ..160 .164 ........164 Mr Henry Lee. He puts these little children into your arms, and says, "Take these children and nurse them for me, and I will give thee thy wages." You may be the great unpaid of men; you shall not miss your reward from God.--Rev. Francis Tucker, at London S. S. Union. For The Sunday-School World. WHAT TWO DOLLARS AND THIRTYTWO CENTS DID TOWARDS MAKING A FRIEND OF THE SUNDAY-SCHOOL OUT OF AN ENEMY. In the early part of May last I went into J*** County to organize a Sunday-school. I knew no one in the district. The first man I spoke to on the subject said, "It would be just as 'Squire Carter would say, whether you can get up a school or not. For I know he's mightily against preaching and praying, and all such. He says the preachers don't preach for nothing but money, and they're all a set of hypocrites. And then I guess he thinks the Sunday-school is nothing but a moneymaking scheme. Well, you see he's got them big mills there and three or four No, sir," said he. "Why he sent off a man after the President's 'lection because he didn't vote as he wanted him to, and another last winter because he wouldn't haul a load of hay on Sunday, and you see these folks is mighty afraid of him." unless SUPERINTENDENT. tickled about it. I'm in hopes it'll make A WORD TO A SUNDAY-SCHOOL him ashamed and quit acting the hog so, and do a little better by his children himself. And Isaac Robinson, the man you appointed to oversee the school, says you gave them one dollar's worth of books. There can't be much speculation in that way of doing any how. Now I tell you, Mr., I don't want to be worse than a bad fellow, and if there's any good about the thing, I want my children to go to. Here's two dollars to buy some more books." As is my custom when I go to start a new Sunday-school, I visited all the families in the district, and those in the employment of Squire Carter among the rest. This I do, partly to make the acquaintance of parents and children at their homes, and of ascertaining, if I can, who is the most suitable person for superintendent, as well as to try to get all the people out to hear what we have to say about Sunday-schools, and vote either for or against an organization. One woman said, "I'd like first rate for my little fellow to go to your school, but my man's hired at Squire Carter's and he's mightily down on Sunday-schools and other like of that, and I don't know as it would do to send on that account," and so others of the Squire's employees talked. However, we had a pretty general turnout at the meeting, and all, young and old, voted for a Sundayschool. But as is very common in these hard times there was but little money among them. All they could raise to purchase books for the school was $5 29. We or ganized however, and concluded to start the school on the next Sabbath, I agreeing to come and help them, and also to make them a donation of one dollar's worth of books, making their library $6 29. For the Sunday-School World. GREAT RESULTS FROM INSIGNIFI CANT CAUSES. Don't feel as though it were "meet, right, and your bounden duty" to invite every visitor to address the school; and children, let your own remarks from the you are a very excellent speaker to desk be very brief and very seldom, and never unless you have something good to say. For, if you do, you will destroy your own influence and popularity; you will deprive the teachers of the time, so necessary and so limited, to instruct their classes; and you will tire, annoy, and discourage both teachers and children. Nearly three years ago, (says a missionary of the American Sunday-school Union,) in passing to my field of labour I found the streams one morning so high as to make it dangerous to cross. In riding down the banks I found an old log school house about twenty feet square, with a fire-place nearly the width of the house; two small windows, a door hung on wooden hinges, seats made of flat rails with pins drove into them for legs. Such was the furniture. Here I found a teacher with uncombed hair and a very dirty shirt, (it was Monday morning,) pants stuffed into his boots, and surrounded by some twenty-five urchins. On inquiring of him if there was any Sunday-school in the neighbourhood. When I came into the neighborhood on the next Sabbath, I called at a cabin where I saw some children, to see if they were not going to the Sunday-school. The father, who was intoxicated, mutteringly said, that "his young ones should not go to any Sunday-school; our Squire says Sunday-schools isn't nothen but a humbug." The poor mother wept for shame at the condition of her husband, and said if the children only had clothes fit, she would like very much to have them go. I could not say, as I often do when this plea is raised, send them as they are," for the poor little children were almost naked. I asked her if she would accept a little present from me for the children. She said she would very thankfully, for she wanted her children to go, and hoped that her husband would consent to it. Next morning I went to a store and purchased some cheap fabric, amounting to $1 32. Of this the mother had her two eldest children dressed by the next Sabbath morning, and away to Sunday-school. On my next visit to the district, which was in a few days, I met Squire Carter, (for I had not met him before.) After a little introduction he said, "Look here, Mr. I always had an idea that this Sunday-school business is a But the way your money speculation. doing makes me think, may be, it aint so. Bill Baker, one of my hired men, was a-telling me you bought their children some clothes so they could go to your Sunday-school. I tell you, Bill's mightily Not as I knows on. Reckon I teach week-days, not on Sundays-that's a new wrinkle to me, to make a fellow teach on a Sunday!" "Is there any religious man in the neigh bourhood?" "O yes, there's old Jacob S., (a Presbyterian,) and Joe W.," (a Methodist.) Very few persons can address children properly. Those who succeed most triumphantly in addressing older congregations, frequently fail most ingloriously before an audience of boys and girls. The remarks may be good, but they lack adaptation. It requires careful preparation, sometimes long experience, always much tact. One in a thousand has a genius for this work. Yet how many public speakers who will spend days, and even weeks, in preparing one address for adults, will allow their remarks to children to be wholly unpremeditated. What a fatal mistake? A reverend gentleman, one of our most successful Sunday-school speakers, has said that the sermon to children, delivered once a month, costs him more care, more study, more anxiety, than all the other sermons for that month. I got permission to talk to the children, a revival commenced which resulted in 66 platitudes as "Dear children," It is easy to commence with such stale I am glad to see you, dear children," "I love good children," and so on through the old wornout strain about "smiling faces and bright eyes," until we begin to wonder when the torment will cease. My dear sir, do you know how your teachers and children dread to see a stranger enter the schoolroom, and when, as usual, the bell rings, how sadly and despairingly the books are put away for another long, dull, dry, unprepared, or stale speech? Do you never hear their restless heels kicking at the benches? Do you never notice the drowsy look, the swaying body, and the half-closed eye? Do you never see the vain yet sincere effort to "sit up straight, fold your arms, and let the gentleman see how well you Do you never hear the subdued sounds of can behave while he is addressing you?" impatience? Do you not pity the victiman increasing and almost unconquerable ized teacher who, with upraised finger, frowning brow, and quieting hiss, is hopelessly trying to induce a patient hearing of what he would not voluntarily listen to himself? O spare us, good sir; give us one whole, from his house they had a neat little uninterrupted session for faithful teachchurch. This was the fruit of the Sab-ing. Be thankful, ye teachers, who are bath-school. In a letter from the minister not so afflicted!-S. S. T. Journal. of the new church, he says, "the amount of good accomplished through your labours is worth more than all that has been expended on your field." Hell, a wise man has said, is paved with good intentions. Pluck up the stones, ye sluggards, and break the devil's head with them. Rejoice not over the bloom of thy life for the flower of grass withereth at the touch. The ear and the tongue are ever in danger. Let thy mouth be filled with psalms and prayers, for the evil spirits flee at the name of God. Drive away wicked thoughts by good. |