Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1881 — The Methodist Class Leader. [ARTICLE]

The Methodist Class Leader.

Edinburg Review. The Methodist class-leader in his best type has been a devout man, not devoid of practical shrewdness. He has made a study of his Bible, especially the New Testament. He has endeavored to instruct his members in the essentials of religion, aud has many devotional aids put within liis reach. He has seduously watched over his class, sympatized with them in their troubles, advised them in their difficulties, visited them and consoled them in their hours of sickness and death. In country has gathered a few simple souls together, and preserved alive a flame of devotion in obscure hamlets. It is to him that we owe the piety Leigh Richmond has drawn in the “Dairyman’s Daughter,” and to him many a young man in a large city ha? been indebted for the first words of counsel when he was a stranger in a strange place. When the spiritually gifted Tholuck resid’d in London,busy with the thoughts that he had given to the world in his commentary on the Sermon on the Mount, he is said to have been greatly charmed by the piety of a Methodist class-leader,and tn have sought hjs counsels.