Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1898 — Sunday School Column [ARTICLE]

Sunday School Column

Conducted

BY W. C. SMALLEY,

REMINGTON, INDIANA.

Say more, pay more and pray more and you can do more. Every one who is acquainted with the work all over the land knows that Illinois is the best organized and the best worked state in the Union. The reason for this is they employ so many field workers. Last year, they employed five and this year have eight at work. ‘Our state we are almost ashamed to say only employes two regular workers. The work is growing rapidly however and we hope we shall not always be so far behind our larger Sister state.

How many young people go away from home to school-or seek a profession and do not realize the many temptations that are held* out to them especially if their new home be in a large city. A young man breaks home ties, no matter how earnestly his mother entreats him ‘to shun bad company or how solemnly his father admonishes him to be a true man —to continue in the way he has been taught by Christian parents or how lovingly a sister may wish him God speod, when he gets out with the boys far away from home he forgets these impressive scenes and very often they fade entirely from his memory and he goes down down until it is too late to retrace his steps. There was such a good case came under my observation a few years ago. This young man was a graduate of a Military Institute also a graduate of a classic college, was a good stenographer and had been a private secretary for a United States Senator for one term yet with all his ability was almost a physical wreck. Often after a drunken debauche he would tell me of his mother, what a good mother she was and in his remorse would threaten suicide I know of another young man who some time ago went to a southern city to begin a course in Dental Surgery. He writes me tnat he took his church'letter along and the first Sunday he spent in the city he united with the church of his choice and was there by thrown into the very best of society. He states how well he enjoys both his studies and church work. Are not the chances for success in life infinitely grater in this case than the other? Dear Sunday school workers here is a good losson for us. It also indicates the holy character of our work. Carpenter Township will hold a Township Convention on Feb. 20 afternoon and evening at the Presbyterian church. All Sunday school workers are invited. Below is the program. Invocation Rev. Mathews Duties of county nnd township officers made plain. Co. Pres. C. W. Farris Teachers Hour * (a ) Home preparation Albert Brand (b) Class Visitation, How, When, Why. .Mrs. Flo. Morris (c) Lesson half hour in the class Mrs. Mala Garrison Song No. 2 School Primnry Dept. (a) Principles and Methods of Primary teaching Ada Wilson (b) How to secure co-operation of mothers Mrs J II Williamson Sup’t’s. Hour (a) Bunday School possibilites W. Bapheath (b) Sunday School programs Chas. G. Beal (c) Noeds of the Supt Albert J. Bellows Song. No. 10 School How to interest Young Men in tho S. S. Robt. Parker 50ng........ Presbyterian School Home Class Dept... Stella Griffin Song M. E. School Why hold township conventions W. C. Smalley Song Christian School Sunday School equipment maps etc C. H. Keusell Election of officers. .