Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1899 — S. S. DEPARTMENT [ARTICLE]

S. S. DEPARTMENT

T,. pmidu ted by 1 W.C. SMALLEY. - - - - RBMIXGTOK r. 7-.

B 'They are most royal who are B. most helpful. Ky In all contentions let peace be *your obfect rather than triumph, -value triumph only as a means to peace. Now that, the roads have become jmore passable and the weather 7 good again let us begin to do missionary work f<;r our schools. Each school should have a Home JOept., and the visitors as they the neighborhood can do I »aintold work for the upbuilding of <he school. March was a very Tbad month for schools. Several' cnissed a few Sundays but we have y *not heard of any who died alI We are proud of Marion Tp., especially of our capitol which A nbas been canvassed entirely h We do hope other fe. *r townships will fall in line and do v up fhis canvassing with as little - ’delay as possible. Now is the very best time of the whole year to do it. Many families have moved away and others come into /the neighborhood. A visit to pthem now will secure their atr tondence at your Sunday school , as regular members or at least . .members of your Home Dept, ’besides we show the spirit of the /Master in doing such Godly work, ithe canvassing must be done’’bevfore our next state convention at 'Columbus on June 13th to 15th. Why not have a club for the .Awakoer, our state paper, in every vsahool in the county we get the on all the money we pay in as subscriptions beside getting eleven copies of about thirty-two pages each of bright fresh Sunday .school news and one copy of the ■year book .which gives all the .-speeches made at the state convention etc. which is well worth the price of a regular years subscription. Now we can have ten .■copies sent to one address for "fifteen centsjjer copy. Who will be first to send a club to me.^2l will see that you get the papers all right having been made the for the county.