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YOUTHFUL PIETY:

OR

BRIEF HINTS

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YOUNG CHRISTIANS

ON

VARIOUS DUTIES.

BY

WILLIAM SISSONS.

PRINTED BY T. SCOTT, CHURCH-STREET,

SHEFFIELD.

BODLEIAN

20-1-1900

LIBRARY

PREFACE.

IN every Sunday-school will be found young persons of various dispositions and circumstances, towards whom the superintendent is often required to act as a subordinate Pastor, as well as their friend and adviser. Hence, if consistent, he will generally have the confidence and esteem of those engaged therein; while from the nature of their relative position, his juniors become moulded into much of his character and habits. If energetic, they will be zealous and diligent; if easy, and slow of apprehension, or undecided when he ought to act, they will become vacillating and indifferent. On him, therefore, rests a responsibility far greater than is often recognized. Fearful consequences sometimes attend any intemperate and unhallowed conduct, whether in public or private, which not only mar his own usefulness, but seriously obstruct, instead of aiding the Minister in his labours.

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As a superintendent, with extreme feebleness and infirmity, the writer of the following pages has laboured with some esteemed colleagues for many years and he covets not a more honourable record, either for himself or any of his friends, than that of each it may be said,

To his latest day

He was a teacher of babes.

Amidst these engagements, without being strictly connected therewith, opportunities have transpired in which faithful monitions were requisite; while the advice which has sometimes been sought in cases of emergency, and in the removal of doubts on religious truths, have left on his mind an impression that some of these opinions, if less formally expressed, might also be useful to others whose diffidence prevents them from asking counsel of their Pastor, until far entangled with difficulties from which it is not easy to extricate them.

In times like the present, it is fashionable to be associated with some denomination of Christians; and then, as a matter of course, with the Sundayschool and other benevolent efforts; but there is too much superficial religion prevalent; and, in many cases, the mere profession is mistaken for

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