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love overflows in comfort to the
be a good place, if Only to keep his apostles. While we htteinpt to work. .
afflicted,
in kindness to the suffer
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• boys and girls off the streets on considerthe teacher’s responsibility
the Lord’s day; but the conception let it be remembered that the ulti- of responsibility, the teacher’s obli-.. ing and in helpfulness to all; who
^riwni-igethe-xhare.11 ftartl a i iaàfchg g
ambition in carrying cheer to the
eminently aliove this initial idea, ing.of the young minds in his care, fui performance of this duty.
downcast, courage to the faint and
(To be continued.)
and to-day it is accepted as a that they with all the redeemed,
hope to the discout aged. Such a
mighty factor in the conversion of out of every tribe and nation, shall
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throng, and sit doWiratrttrat----- A: queer, re markab le riv e r is St. Ce^eWe^LH- Such _a~life—1* in har-
In this place I would like to lio- grand
heavenly, feast prepared for the John’s, in Fetida. It is about 150 mony with that of the divine
the minds of many Sunday-school Lamb of God. Then in the very miles long, four to ten miles wide, Y^mjiTarT” Sucb ^^lTTe' ii exceed
workers ; this is, that the Sunday- beginning of the teacher’s work,-be and averages about one foot deep. ingly happy in the sweet conscious
school is entirely separate from the must learn an important lesson; I It is, salt for fifty miles from its ness of indwelling peace and the
church. We, as ¿"people, with our he must learn that he is one of mouth, brackish for .100, and runs divine approval, and awaits a starry
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position sta ted farrty andxqunrHy “GiM-l’s-workmen, liamnwriug away about one mile per day., In the crown in the rest beyond.—-M. R.
to the world, with the reiterated week after week in' the. Sunday- middle of it is the channel which !*•> ’M Domestic Journal.
watchword of the father of this re school work shop, mouldering char is the real river, sometimes forty
V o HO I v en ess .—T h ere will arise
storation—“ Where
the
Bible acters for eternity.” The teacher feet deep, narrow and inhabited by at times differences, not only be-
speaks we speak, and where the must learn that, whatever may be all sorts of fish and reptiles, from l tween unbelievers and believers,
influences,
may
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«/ [tadpoles to alligators. , The great ¡who are brought* together by the
Bible .is--silent we are silent,”— the _ home
in our ears, I affirm that be the conditions that surround the ! width of the river outside the chan- * business of the world, but between
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we cannot separate the church and child, and whatever may be the nel is simply an overflow.
I Christians themselves; and there-
This vast overflow beneath the i fore a kind, forbearing, merciful
Sunday-school. With my present difficulties, lie must do his whole
knowledge of the New Testament, duty as one who must give an ac scorching sun causes vegetation to disposition should be exercised by
with its account of the work of count to God. Then with these grow inluxuriant abundance. Here all. If we would have God’s for-
J offer as and there it* -broad revet* fields tr‘-
an(| ]lls apostles^’^’cainToT“
giveness, we irnTd extend- forgive-
believe that their great work, the among the very first Tesfnmsibili- green stretch away in the distance, ness to others. To cherish bitter
work demanded in the sublime ties resting upon a teacher, The, interlined with veins of silver, as ness, wrath anger, and revenge, is
commission, “ Go teach all nations,” correct formation of a Christian from the opening grasses its waters to imbibe the spirit of our heavenly
was altogether a childless labor. 1 character. Dr. J. H. Vincent says: flash in the tropical sunlight. This Father. “A gentleman,” it is said,
think we can safely postulate this “ There is one essential qualifica overflow is one of the greatest “ once went to Sir Eardley Wilmot
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argument.
The commission of tion for the Sunday-school teach natural blessings. An old alligator (formerly Lord Chief Justice of the
Christ, as preached by his apostles, er’s office. I desire to name it with fisherman says all the cattle in Court of Common Pleas) under the
sanctions everything that leads the a preliminary protest against the Florida congregate here for pasture. influence of great wrath and indig
humaiTrace to pure faith, penitent charge of * can’t1 in connection with They sometimes become amphibious, nation at a real injury he had re
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confession and proper obedience. it; but it is a qualification without plunging their heads beneath the ceived from a person high in the
The time has comp when the church which there can lie no true Sunday- water until their horns can not be political world, and which he was
of God should take to herself the school teaching, without which I seen, and holding them thus for meditating how to resent in the
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burden of that universal commis in fact, there can be no careful I two minutes, cropping the tender most effectual manner. After re
That herbage that grows below. While
sion, “ Go preach the Gospel to ev preparation for teaching.
lating the particulars, he asked Sir
ery creature.” When every indi one qualification is religious char the channel is useful for purposes Eardly if he did not think it would
vidual member of the church, with acter.” “Why,” says he, “should of domestic commerce, the great be manly to resent it. Yes, said
out regard to condition or sex, shall we require the Sum lay-school blessing of. St. John’s river is its the knight, it would be manly to re
feel the weight of responsibility teacher to be a Christian ? Look overflow. Human life is like a sent it, but it would be godlike to
resting upon them, and rest not at his work I He is a Bible teach river. It has a deep, narrow chan forgive it. The gentleman declared
themselves upon any false theory er. He who expounds God a word nel called the heart. This channel that this had such an instantaneoui
of “scriptural interpretation, but must be able to pray. ‘ Open thou may serve the.purposes of legal and effect upon him, that he came away
like the Jerusalem dispersed, go mine eyes that 1 may see wonder- commercial lite. But then, this f quite a different wan, and in a
—^everywhere preaching the word— ous things out of thv law.’ ” There * heart-channel is the abode of the very different temper from that in
W’hen this spirit shall take deep may be occasional instances in serpents of anger, wrath, malice, which he went. To indulge in a
l oot in the hearts of our brethren, which a Sunday-school may result jealousy, strife, seditions and all revengeful, unforgiving spirit brings
shall glow with burning zeal in the in good where its teachers are not unholy passions and appetites. unrest and disquietude into man’s
live» of Christians, buret forth in all professors of religiop, but the Moreover it is “ deceitful and des- bosom; to foster a compassionate,
every-day walk and conversation iogw bf Suniläp^bbTwork is nei- perately wicked~ All the impurity forgiving spirit promotes peace and
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of God’s children —when the liberty ther more nor less than so much and evil in God’s great universe quietness and sweetness in the
of the Gospel shall lie carried by Gospel-force for the education and has at some time and in some man b reas t,— Sei ected.
strong hands and willing" hearts conversion of the children. Before ner been represented in the human
Cultivate cheerfulness, if only
into the prayer-meetings, mission, the work of the teacher shall have ' heart. It is selfishly narrow, wick for personal profit. You will do
schools and Lord’s day gatherings attained its proper dignity, the in edly deep, righteously slow, with and bear every duty and burden
of the children—when, in short, different impressions in regard to ; ! nothing naturally lively in it but bettei by being cheerful. It will
the serpents of vice, and passion, fie your const ler in solitude, your
each member of the body of him the school must be set aside.
passport and recommendation in
Let the question be honestly an and sin.
who was dead, but now liveth for
society. You will be more sought
Happy is that heart whose lile- after, more tilisted and esteemed,
evermore, shall realize that God swered by every church member,
has called indeed, and is now wait ‘ What is my relation to the Sun forces overflow the narrow channel for your steady cheerfulness. The
ing for the fruits of their labor in day-school ?” That answer taken of self in good will and good deeds bad and vicious may be boisterous
the vineyard, then, and then only, as the key to future duty, and this of blessing ^o others; whose file ly gay and vulgarly humorous, but
seldom or never truly cheerful.
will the church be tilling that sub work of educating children will blossoms with deeds of fervent Genuine cheerfulness is an almost
lime conception of its duty so assume a position consonant with charity and is fragrant with belp- certain index of a happy wind and
graphically pictured by Christ and the great end and aim „of church fulness and benevolence; whose a pure, good heart.
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