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May’s Might Question.
“ Mamma,” said May, the other night.
When all the world waa sleeping,
And vigil stars with tender light,
Were through the shutters peeping.
“Mamma, where now is Lulu gone?”
‘ My love, to God, in heaven.”
“No, no, mamma! she is at home;
I saw here there this evening.”
Little Lulu was our neighbor child,
A sweet aud winsome baby,
All dimpled o’er; her calm, sweet smile
Gave look of “ little lady.”
The angel of death, with folded wing,
Sat down before the portal,
And when the matin birds did sing, '
Lulu had grown immortal.
Great mystery 1 D.'ead mystery!
How could'my darling read it?
1 spoke of death—eternity:
Earnestly did she heed it.
I told her God had called the child
To live with Him in glory;
Her childish heart pulsed strangely wild
As she listed the wondrous story.
“Mamma, ’tis this: little Lulu’s here,
And God took Lulu’s spirit .”
Upon mv hand I felt a tear,
Aud May grew very quiet.
At length she said, in meekest tone,
“ When I go up to heaven,
I’ll see little Lulu by God s throne,
With the pretty things lie’s given.
And I’ll take her on my little knee
Aud kiss her dimpled shouldes,
And I’ll look, mamma, to see
1 f Lulu’s any older.”
It was a sweet and childish thought;
Hut is not this the lesson:
That children, by the angels taught,
Helieve in recognition! ,
Mas. Sally Rochester Fobd.
“ Unwritten Music.”
As those objects which present harmony of
colors, or regularity of form to the organs of
vision, seem beautiful to the sight, so a con
eonl of sweet sounds awakens pleasurable
emotions in the mind of the most careless
listener.
The individual whose heart cannot be moved
by music, is dead to every sentiment of re
finement—dead to every feeling of true af
fection —dead to every softening and .eleva'
ting influence.
ilow merciful in our Creator to implant
in our hearts a love for music ! It seems as
though lie looked upon this earth and saw
the depravity and wretchedness that filled it
to overflowing—saw man’s heart all torn by
grief, and blackened by sin—his affections all
warped by avarice and ambition—his heart
strings all sounding the discord of his baser
passions. lie beheld all this, and, pitying,
He awakened one cord to the sense of music.
That cord is, as it were, an oasis in the desert
of the heart. When the surface of the latter
is scorched by the rays of sorrow and disap
pointment, the former stands forth offering
shade and refreshment, —for its comforting
strains have been known to revive many a
parched and desolate soul.
Music presents a field for the composer as
broad as thought, as deep as human concep
tion; yet of all the master pieces of theartever
executed, of all the sweetness and harmony
of sound ever collocated by human agency,
none can equal the unwritten music of na
ture. It is ever sounding in our ears. Go
where you vvill, it is there, sweet as the strains
sung by the fabled Orpheus of old :
“Oh! what a world
()(' heaven descended music lies around
Our daily pathway! in the morning air,
Tiie noontide glory, and the dewy f. II
Os dusky twilight—in the carrolltngs
Os bird and breeze, the murmur of the leaves,
And the low gliding streamlet.”
We hear it in the breeze as it stirs the
foliage of the forest, soothing the heart with
its soft melody. The maiden who has felt
the force of Cupid’s archery, listens to its
sighing, and its gentle influence enters her
throbbing heart now beating high with hopes,
and now depressed by fears, and that low
subtile music calms and soothes it to rest. —
And when at twilight, we sit and gaze into
tho distance, thinking sadly of loved ones far
away, the night winds’ gentle murmurs seem
to echo our troubled thoughts as some mourn
ful chord struck by a master hand, often re
sponds to the soul’s deep sorrows.
The storm, as it sweeps along with its
roarings, peals forth the war music of nature.
At one time we hear, as it were, the thun*
derings of the onslaught; at another, the
truce; and then the retreat; now’, the rally
and the pursuit.
The brook makes melody, as it goes bab>
bling on in its path to the river. It sings to
to the trees that hang over it, giving protec
tion from the sun, and dipping their branches
in its cooling waters. It sends forth its
cheering notes to enliven the thirsty traveller,
as weary, and almost despairing, he stops to
slack his thirst and bathes his heated brows
and rest upon its shady banks.
And then the birds! Ilow delightful to
sit and listen to their love songs—more ex
quisite than human tongue could utter!—
Now, some solitary songster calls its lost
mate in strains so sorrowful as to move the
hardest heart. Yonder, a mother-bird sings
to her little ones a lullaby so sweet and ten
der, so full of love and affection, as to touch
even the heart of the wanton boy, who would
seek to rob her of her “ darling nestlings !”
When we go to the seashore, and listen to
tiie voice of the mighty deep, it awakens in
us a feeling of awe and reverence. It chants
the requiem of those who lie slumbering in
its fathomless recesses—who went down leav
ing loved ones at home to wait and watch
for their safe return. It sings the funeral
song of those who have been wrecked on life’s
great ocean.
When the winds are turned loose, and the
sea grows angry, and lifts its billows to bat
tle with the lightning in the clouds, it sings
of a great God who rules the universe, all
powerful and eternal. And, as if to regulate
the force of the tone by the importance of
the theme, it lifts its voice to high heaven,
and sends the notes echoing among the crags
and cliffs of Cloudland.
But, I must stop. It is impossible to enu
merate. Were I gifted with the voice of even
inspiration itself, I could hardly do justice to
the infinite variety and sweetness of Nature’s
unwritten music.
“ Can we note
Its many braided melodies ? or give again
Its spells of song to thousands ? No, not one.”
And vet the poorest slave may revel in this
music, written by the hand of God. Lizzie.
Sowing Golden Wheat.
It is an old allegory of the East, that a man
going on his journey gave two sacks of
wheat to two of his servants, and bade them
take care of them until his return. Years
passed ; and when he came again and called
for his own, one took him to his storehouse
and showed him his wheat—a mildewed,
mouldy heap, unfit for any use. The other
him out into the open country, and point
ed out broad fields of waving grain, the pro
duet. of the wheat entrusted to him.
“ You have been faithful,” said the owner,
with a smile. “Give me the two sacks of the
wheat —the rest is thine.”
God gives us all talents to improve for
him. Now, if we let them waste, like the
mouldy wheat, we shall get no approval.
Worse still, the Master will condemn us as
lintrofitable servants. ,
But if we use all his gifts in the best way
•we can, always thinking of the kind Friend
who gave them, and striVlng in all we do to
please him, we shall not loose a glorious re
ward. When we -awake in the morning this
should be our first thought, What can 1 do
this day for Jesus ? Every time you con
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quer self, and take up an unpleasant duty be
cause it is right, you are sewing golden wheat
Every time you learn a p ecious verse of the
Bible, or a sweet hymn, you are improving
the talent of memory in a most useful mans
ner. Every time you give of your abundance
to God’s poor, or perform some loving ser
vice for the suffering and needy, you are cul
tivating the talent for doing good in a way
most acceptable to your Master.
Our gifts are many and various, but God
calls on us to use them all for his glory, and
not our own selfish good. And he has so
kindly ordered it, that in so doing we shall
find the very highest enjoyment it is possible
for us to experience here below.— Fresh.
Tbe Boy Who Lived in a Glass House.
There was once a boy who went and lived
in a glass house. He did this because he con
sidered himself so beautiful and so good that
people would always like to look at him.
But when, after he had resided in the glass
house for a long while, he found people did
not come to look at him as much as he had
expected, he spent some time in thinking
what was the reason and what he should do;
and at last resolved to go and throw stones
at other folks, in order to make them admire
him in his glass house.
One day, for instance, he sallied forth, and
looked over a garden-wall, and saw in the
garden some little girls and boys playing at
battledore and shuttlecock.
“ How very untidy your back hair is,’ - he
said to one of the young ladies ; “I should be
ashamed of it if l were you.” And with that
he walked away, after having thrown a stone
into the garden,repeating,“ I should be asham
ed of it if 1 was you.”
“Should you, though ?” said)the youug la
dy’s brother, springing up, jumping over the
wall, and following him to the glass house
that he lived in.
When the little boy—who was,we may as well
mention at once, known as Censorious Simon
—had got to the glass house he sat down,
looking very contented with himself, for the
people to look at. But he had not observed
that the young lady’s brother had followed
close behind him, aud, in fact, that he was now
looking in upon him.
“ There you are, with your boot-lace all
down !” says the brother. “I should be asham
ed of it if f were you.”
And so saying, he threw a stone at the
glass house. Os course one of the panes w'as
cracked, and so Censorious Simon, who had
not noticed his boot lace wa9 down, had to
mend the pane with putty, or something, as
well as he could. This vexed him very much,
because the part where the mend was made
interrupted people’s view of his perfections.
The very next day as he was going along
he overheard a little boy, who was on his
way to school, repeating his lesson to him
self, and saying, man- man, ers ers, manners;
mat- mat, erer, matter. So he took a pencil
and a piece of paper out of his pocket, and
wrote, “What makes you spell so bad!” and
he signed this, “Cen?orious Simon, Glass
House,” for he was proud, and wrapping the
paper round a stone,flung it at the little boy.
The following day whack came a stone, wrap
ped up in a piece of paper, clean through a
pane of glass, arid inside was written, “What
mukes you write had for badly ?” Censorious
Simon was very vexed w ith the world, and
said to himself, “ My mistake was only anjac
cident, of course.” But there was now anoth
er flaw in his glass house; and if people came
to admire him, there would now be two spots
to hinder their view of his beauty. This he
did not at all like, but he mended the place
as well as he was able, and sat down as before
to be lookrd at.
Another time Censorious Simon came
across some boys “hishing” two dogs at each
other, and said, “I should be ashamed of my
self, if l was you, to be so cruel.”
“Old” said the boy, “we know you , and
where you live; you had better be off.”
So Censorious Simon thought to himself,
“ They are rude to me ; but that is because
lam a great moralist, and they hate me. At
all events, it is plain that I am now a public
character, and that my talents aud my resi
dence are beginning to attract attention.” So
he threw a stone at the cruel boys, and went
his way.
“ I like to throw a stone,” said he to himself;
“ it brings things home to people’s minds.
Besides, the Jews used to throw stones at
people till they died, when people did wrong ;
so it is Scriptural.”
If there was one thing upon which, next to
his morality, Simon prided himself,it was his
skill in science, and he was just now paying
considerable attention to entomology. The
very next day after he had rebuked the boys
for setting the dogs on to fight each other, he
was closely absorbed in doing some speci
mens ; but just as he was driving in a pin
through the head of a live butterfly, he
pened to glance up, and saw that the two boys
who had made the dogs fight were looking
at him. “ They will think a great deal of my
scientific attainments,” thought he; but just
at that very moment the boys withdrew to a
safe distance, and sent each a big stone whiz
zing through his glass-house, shouting:
“ Who tortured the butterfly ? 1 should be
ashamed of myself, if 1 was you, to be so
cruel.” Here are two more holes at once in
the glass house, so that just that part of it be
gan to look quite ugly, and the view was se
riously obstructed.
One day Censorious Simon was invited out
to a party, and soon discovered that people
were afraid of him, he was such a great mor
alist. So he went up to a young lady who
seemed rather dull, and said in a loud whis
per:
“ Well,what makes you look so melancholy?”
And the young lacly made answer:
“ Oh, sir !”—she called him “sir” because
she had heard that he was a moralist—-“oh,
sir, 1 am going back to boarding school next
Monday, and it makes me dull to think of
parting with my papa and mamma so soon.”
“ Oh, pooh !” says Simon, you shouldn’t
feel dull; I never do.” Now there was no
stones about just there, of course, but still he
did not like to break bis rule. So, at supper
time, when they had damson tart, he took up
one of the kernels (in the shell you know),
and watching his opportunity,called out across
the table to the young lady :
“ Don’t fret, / never doat the same time
fillippiug the damson stone at her shoulder,
and laughing. Nobody interfered, because he
was such a moralist, but the young lady had
a cousin at the party who was very fond of
her, and rather sly. This cousin walked up
to Censorious Simon’s glass house the very
next day, and looked softly in; and what
should he see there, but Simon blubbering
away like anything, because so many holes
had been made in his glass house already.—
Feeling very vindictive because the damson
stone had made a little red mark on his
cousin’s shoulder, this cousin took up a whole
handful of stones, and flung them at Simon’s
house, crying out:
“Don’t feel dull,/never do.”
This was a pretty business, and Censori
ous Simon now had to put in his bits of brown
paper and all that, to keep the wind^put.
It often happens in life that things come
to a pitch, as people say, quite suddenly.—
A storm gathers quietly, and when nobody
is expecting such a thing, you find a burst up
and an overthrow. All but very conceited
persons bear this in mind, and as sailors say,
look out for squalls. But Censorious Simon,
as we have heard, was very conceited indeed.
One day he found that a board, like a cob
bler’s board, had been put up on his house
in the night, and the inscription upon the
board ran thus : “ Censorious Simon : Oth
er People’s Business Minded for them : Fault
found on the Shortest Notice.”
When he found out this board, and saw
some folks in the distance laughing at him
as he read the words, it happened to him—
as it sometimes happens to you and me—he
had a sudden thought, coming up from he
knew not where, that he was not quite as
wise and quite as good as he had hitherto
supposed himself to be. In fact, a very ugly
word got into his head, and he heard a Mys
terious Voice in his inside, which kept on
saying to him, “You are a humbug ;” and
when he wa3 on the point of saying to the
Voice, “No, I am a great moralist,” the voice
put him down like winking, by saying, “You
dare not deny it.” In spite of that, this mis
guided person must needs sally out that very
day aud lecture several boys and girls whom
he met upon the duty of always telling the
truth. And at every one of them he threw
the usual stone, because he liked it, and be
cause he thought it made him a more public
character, and because he considered it Scrip
tural.
Now the boys and girls who knew Censori
ous Simon had long had a suspicion, in their
minds that he was that ugly word — what the
Voice in his inside said, you know—and they
had, of course, sense enough to see that a
person who was (hat ugly word had no right
to lecture other people about telling the truth
seeing that he was himself only a fib in breech >
es. In some way or other, the storm which
had been threatening came suddenly to a
height. Nobody can tell how these things
happen; nobody can say how a great revolu
tion breaks out all in an hour, with hundreds
and thousands of people all maddened to
gether and all driving at one end. But such
things do happen ; and thus, by some means
or other, all the boys and girls of the nation,
as you may say, suddenly gathered in a body,
and surrounding Censorious Simon’s glass
house, pelted it with stones till there was not
a sound pane of glass in it! And this was
the origin of the saying which we have all
heard, “Those who live in glass houses should
not throw stones.”
We are none of us so conceited as Censori
ous Simon—at least I hope not; and we none
of ns live in glass houses—at least I hope
not. Besides, I hope that we none of us throw
stones, because I knew of a case in which a
little boy got one of his eyes knocked out by
a stone thrown in play in the streets; and of
another, in which a baby-girl was put in dan
ger of her life by a pebble which struck her
on the forehead when she was in the nurse’s
arms; of course it was not aimed at her, but
there is always danger in throwing stones ex
cept in an entirely open place, and at a mark
which all have agreed upon. That reminds
me ot something which happened tome the
other day, and which bears upon the subject
in a way which you will soon see. Being
hit in the leg, though not hurt, by a stone
flung in the street by one of a lot of boys
just out of school, I turned and beckoned to
the boy who had flung the stone, intending to
speak kindly to him, and tell him of the dan
ger there was in throwing stones in the street.
But all my beckoning and calling and laughing
could not make him come. He said, “Do you
see anything green, master?” and ran away.
The fact,is he could not conceive that 1 should
want him for any purpose but to box his ears.
Ho supposed that everybody’s thoughts and
feelings must be in all things just like what
he had himself, or what he was used to among
his own friends and relations.
But these things are not so, and there is
nothing which it is of more consequence to
bear in mind when we find fault with other
people, either openly in words or only in our
own thoughts. \ou, for instance, cannot
see into all my motives and feelings when I
do a thing, and I cannot see into yours. Nay,
the cleverest person living cannot tell anoth
er person all his own motives and feelings,let
him try as hard as he can. This alone should
make us very careful in finding fault with
each other. In fact we should seldom,if ever,
find fault, without leaving what 1 may call a
corner in our minds for better thoughts of
the person found fault with. Above all, we
should remember not only that we have every
one of us faults, but that we have often in an
other 6hape the very fault we blame another
person for. Obstinacy, for example, will
work so differently in a clever man and in
an ordinary man, that you may find the clev
er man condemning the ordinary man for the
very fault that he himself is guilty of in the
same or a worse degree. A dull man’s ob
stinacy will show itself in his saying “I shall,”
or “ I shan’t,” and his persisting In what he
is doing; and it is a very easy thing to see
his obstinacy, and give it the right name.
But the clever man will of course not be sat
isfied with saying, “I shall/’or “I shan’t;”
his mind will go to work and find reasons
for persisting; and he will very likely not
know himself that he is obstinate.
In a most beautiful poem by Mr. Tennyson,
called “The Grandmother’s Apology,” there
is one of the best instances in all the world
of a person blaming a fault and doing it at the
same moment. The old lady, who ought
to have long ago forgiven the Jenny she
speaks of, calls her “ a base little liar,” and
so on ; and then says to her grand daughter,
“But, my dear, the tongue, you know, is a
fire.” She sees that this applied to Jenny,
but she does not seethat it applied to herself;
and in all the old lady says about Jenny and
the parson’s sermon,she makes the same mis
take, so that you cannot help smiling at her.
So it is in ten thousand times ten thousand
cases. We have all some faults ; sometimes
we have the very fault we blame in another ;
and even the best men and women, have at
least, defects or shortcomings ; that is to say,
there are things which they cannot and never
could do, and yet which the world, including
themselves, cannot get on without; and
those things have to be done by others. This
must be taken into account, when the good
people blame the faults of those others.
There is one thing more. It may be most
truly said that we all share in each other’s
faults. When we look at great men like Shak
speare, we do not always remember that his
parents were ordinary people,and that as there
i3 no knowing in what quarter the greatest men
and women may be born, we all share in
their greatness. It is the same with regard
to the very good people, and, awful as this
sounds, it is the same with regard to the very
bad people. However, we shall find plenty
to do, if we try and remember Censorious
Smion and his glass house, and the proverb
to which his misconduct and misfortunes gave
rise. And 1 think 1 ought to add that some
of the most painful things—“ tragedies,” as
people call them—l have ever seen in this
world have come of people blaming other
people and acting upon the blame, without
thinking beforehand that there may be some
mistake in the case. It is very dreadful
when an innoeent man is put to death by
law ; and it is also dreadful to break people’s
hearts, or separate friends, or confuse their
lives, by acting in angry haste upon blame
which may be quite mistaken.— Good Words
for the Young.
Government of Children. —The following
rule, for the government of children, which
were first presented in one of Mr. Jacob Ab
bott’s books, have been of great service to
many successful teachers: “When you con
sent, consent cordially.” “When you re
fuse, refuse finally.” “When you punish
punish good-naturedly.” “Commend often.’
“ Never scold.” If parents and teachers
would bear these simple directions in mind,
children would be better and happier.
Death. —Like the Hindoos, the Santals
are averse to saying a friend is dead, but he
has returned, he has gone, or of an old per-,
son, “ he has set down in the water.”
She J'walag
A Teacher’s Evening'Prayer.
Jesus, teacher of Thy people :
If a child has caught
From my lips one truth for guidance,
One unselfish thought;
One resolve to seek Thy face,
Lord, I bless Thee for grace.
Jesus, teaoher of Thy people,
If I, erringly,
Spoke to-day in haste or anger,
Harshly, bitterly,
Judged unfairly, was unwise,
See my fault with pitying eyes.
Jesus, teacher of Thy people,
If I turn aside,
Deem the path too and thorny
Where Thy pierced feet guide,
Give Thy Spirit’s strength, I pray,
Lead me by Thy side alway.
Jesus, teacher ot Thy people,
Shepherd of Thy sheep,
Teach me how in patient loving
Thy dear lambs to keep,
Never careless, never cold,
Let me guard them to Thy fold.
Je3us, teacher of Thy people.
If my work is wrong,
If another's words and teaching
Were more true, more strong.
Better helped these lambs of Thine;
Spare not one fond wish of mine.
Jesus, teacher of Thy people,
Even in Thy death ;
If I fall beside the pathway,
’Neath the fever’s breath,
Let the waves of Jordan ring
Sweet as hymns the children sing.
Jesus, teacher of Thv people;
Ou the mountains high,
Where the feet of those made perfect
Come Thy glory nigh,
Gather, Lo and, these laUbs of mine,
Make them, keep them, wholly Thine,
Why are Sabhath Schools so Thiuly Attended ?
This is a subject for deep study and pray
erful consideration, with all true Christians
in our laud. One grand reason why children
take so little interest in them is, that old peo
pie do not attend them as faithfully as they
should. Our ministers are not altogether
blameless on this point. They seldom preach
a sermon on Sabbath schools, showing their
importance, and urging the membership to
be faithful in this glorious work. No true
Christian will say, fora moment, that the Sab
bath school institution is a not good one, and
should not receive the support of all true
believers. All readily acknowledge it to
be the nursery of the church —the place for
training the young in the ways of the Lord,
and all agree that impressions made in early
life are more durable than those made in
maturity and old age.
Let us suppose a case. Take two boys of
the same mental capacity, and equal in other
respects. Suppose one is raised up under
the influence of a Sabbath school, is taught
the great moral principles by which all true
people/vished to be governed. These princi
ples are enstamped upon his mind, and he
scorns to do a mean act. He is an ornament
to the community in which he lives; all
love him, and delight in his company ; no
one fears to trust him, and he can easily find
employment, and is worth something to his
country. The boy, who is deprived of the
benefits of a Sabbath school, knows nothing
of the moral law, deems it no crime to break
the Sabbath by fishing, hunting, and in many
other ways too numerous to mention. Ly
ing is no crime, steal is as good,, if not
a better way with him to live, than by hon
est labor. Ho is no benefit to the commu
nity in which he lives —all shun him ; no one
is a friend to him, anf' he is a curse to him
self and all around But we will sup
pose both are converted, and become good
church members. The one that is trained
up in the Sunday schdoUwill be found more
punctual in his religious duties, and it will be
much easier for him to discharge his duties,
while the other one will find it embarrassing
and difficult to discharge his duty.
Christian brethren, when we all see and
acknowledge the Sabbath school to be of so
much importance, and to be a glorious work,
let us no longer sleep; let us awake out of
our sleep and come to the help of the Lord.
Let us train up our children, the future hope
of our church and country, in the ways of
the Lord. Let us look to their spiritual wel
fare as well as temporal, and be willing to
deny ourselves once a week to meet with the
children, and teach them about Jesus. While
man can do nothing, let us ask God to make
us instrumental in doing good to some never
dying soul. S.
The Blackboard in the Sunday School.
Perhaps no single instrument of instruc
has wrought greater changes, in the manner
of conducting a Sabbath school, than the
blackboard. Tae customary plan in almost
every community, is to divide the school into
Bible classes and classes in different numbers
of the Union Questions, and classes in some
Child’s Question Book, and Primaries. Os
course, scarcely two classes would study the
same lesson. It is easy to perceive that the
superintendent of such schools, no matter
what ability he might possess, was, from the
circumstances of the case, a mere cipher.—
Teachers’ meetings, for studying the lesson,
are in such schools not practicable ; and hence
the teachers, in the great majority of cases,
present themselves before their classes with
a mere smattering of the lesson. Os course,
here there is no room for the blackboard. If
present, it would be merely a piece of useless
lumber.
Give the board its proper share in the ex
ercises of the school, and, at once, uniform
lessons become a necessity; and from the
grey headed sire down to his lisping, prattling
descendant, all may be led to study the same
portion of Divine truth. Teachers’meetings
are called for and attended by every intelli
gent teacher, and many of the more advanced
pupils. Were there no stronger reason for
using the blackboard, in the Sunday school, I
would give my voice in its favor.
Another reason of greater potency, may
be found in the fact that the blackboard, in
presenting its instructions, enters into the
mind by an avenue different from that em
ployed by class instruction. The ordinary
teacher depends mainly upon the ear for the
impression he may (make upon the mind.
How slight such an impression is, may be in
ferred from each one’s own experience. So
slight is it, under ordinary circumstances, that
not one idea out of one hundred becomes
fixed in the mind of the pupil.
The blackboard, by appealing to the mind,
through the medium of the eye, starts anew
faculty into operation; and this impresses
the lesson with four-fold force. It seems,
indeed, to go as far as human agency can go,
in clinching the class instruction upon the
mind of the pupil. It does more than this.
It gives force and breadth to that instruction,
and oftimes, a practical bearing which may
have been impossible in the class.
As an impressive agency, the blackboard
has few equals, and no superior. Your cor
respondent has often seen large appreciative
audiences held in close attention by a well
directed blackboard exercise. No Sunday
school should be content to exist without
one.
Conversion. —Rev. Dr. Wiley recently
stated that during a period of ten years, the
statistics of which he had examined, a period
which about covers the Sunday school lift*
time of a generation of children, there had
been in round numbers, in the Methodist
Sunday schools of the country, 200,000 con
versions. This was at a period when the ag
gregate attendance was rising from 1,000,000
to 1,200,000, being probably one-fifth of the
children who, during those ten years, had at
tended the schools.
Practical Questions and Answers.
Q. Should non-professors undertake to
teach ? If so, what effect will it be likely to
have on the school ? A. A non-professor, if
Christian, should undertake to teach. Such
au one, in a well conducted school, cannot
long remain a nou professor, and in his course
is likely to have a good effect on his class.
A non-professor, without godliness, should
not teach.
Q. What do you think is the thing most
needed in the Sunday school ? A. Consecra
tion to the work. Fidelity to Christ.
Q. Are we, as teachers, interested in our
school as we should be for the promotion of
Christ’s kingdom among us? A. We are
not up to the point of our privileges and du
ties in this matter.
Q. Why ought not the teachers of this
school to have a meeting at least once a
month 1 A. We may, provided the meetings
are made so interesting and profitable as to
induce people to come.
Q. How shall I get nearer to my Saviour,
and bring my scholars with me ? A. In heart
and life walk toward him, and your class is
likely to follow.
Q. What question should a teacher put to
himself before trying to obey the command
given to Peter (John xxi: 17), “He (the
Lord) saith unto him the third time, Simon,
son of Jonas, lovest thou me ?” A. The com
mand is to “ Feed my sheep.” It is not
necessary to ask yourself any question.—
Obey the command. Go to work. But ask
your commander, “ Open thou my eyes,” etc.
Q. Should Sunday school teachers make
a practice of visiting their scholars at their
homes? A. By all means,and as often as
once in three months; but, be sure and in
vite the Saviour to go along too.
Q. W hat means can be used to get scholars
to attend regularly? A. Be regular your
self Make the lesson very interesting.—
Visit them at their homes. Invite them to
your house, and ask them to stay to tea, and
spend an hour with you after tea in pleasur
able and profitable entertainment.
Q. Are not question books more effective
in stimulating the scholars to prepare the
lesson than lesson papers? A. Experience
says, “No.” Uniform lessons in the Sunday
schools are the best, and the system of les
son-papers helps to secure this more than
question books can possibly do.
Q. Ought not the temperance question to be
brought systematically before the children,
atleastonce in six months? A. It should ;
and if there is no other way, let it be done
or an evening during the week.
Q. How may distracting influences be
avoided,that the attention of the scholars may
be concentrated on the lesson during the time
allotted to it? A. Tell the superintendent
and all the officers that you will not allow
them to occupy the attention of your class
during the time of teaching. See that all
your scholars are present before the signal
for opening the school is given, and that their
report to the librarian has been correctly
made. Teach so that your pupils will be
interested.
Q. What are the needful qualifications to
make a successful teacher? A. Deep piety
of a cheerful type manifesting itself in a con
sistent Christian life. A week clay acquaint
ance with the scholars. Be yourself what
they are in some things. Recognize them
everywhere.
Q. Is it wrong to offer childreu incentives
in order to get them interested in the truth ?
A. No. But let them be offered on God’s
plans.
Q. Can any one make a profitable Sunday
school teacher if he has never been brought
to feel tho need of a Saviour ? A. The value
of a Saviour can be fully known only from
personal experience. If we have this expe
rience,
“ Then can we tell to sinners round.
What a dear Saviour we have found.”
Jesus says, “It the blind lead the blind,
both will fall into the ditch/’
A Hint to Pastors ! —The report of the
Missouri Baptist Sunday School Convention
contains the following suggestive hints to
pastors and church members : “In answer to
the question, ‘ Does your Pastor aid the Sun
day school?’ Sixtv-seven reporls say,‘No/
or ‘ No, sir •/ or ‘Not much/ or ‘ Never.’”
And again, “ In answer to the question, ‘What
would most increase the usefulness of your
Sunday school?’ Seventeen reports say: ; To
have the co-operation of our Pastor; Two
hundred and four say: ‘To have the mem
bers of the church attend, to take an interest
in the school.’ ” The report also states that
the total attendance o£ church members in
the schools is 5,954, which leaves 56,158
church members not engaged in this cause.
A Model Sunday School Scholar. —The
record of the Landreth Sunday school (Phila
delphia) furnishes the most remarkable in
stance of regularity in attendance of any
school, doubtless, ‘in the country. One of
its female scholars has “ attended, uninter
ruptedly, every Sabbath day for nine years,
both the'morning and evening sessions of the
school.”
Greek Sunday Schools. —Forty-four mar
ried priest in the Greek Church in Athens,
havo formed themselves into an association,
for the pnrpose of “aiding the poor in their
own number, the establishment of Sabbath
schools in their parishes, and the encourage
ment of men who are preparing for the
priesthood.” The Archbishop of Athens and
the Bishop of Corfu express their hearty ap
proval of the moval, aud advise similar or
ganizations in other dioceses.
Sandwich Islands.— A Sunday school jubi
lee was not long since held in the Sandwich
Islands, at which near 2,000 children were
gathered. The vast audience was held in
fixed attention by a native, a fine speaker
and an educated Christian gentleman. It was
a glorious sight! What hath God wrought
in these islands of the sea in a brief half
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TRAVELER'S GUIDE.
Western and Atlantic Railroad Cos.
E. W. COLB,, Superintendent, Atlanta
Night Passenger Train— Outward.
Leave Atlanta 10:15 p.m
Arrive at Chattanooga .0:40 a m
Day Passenger Train—Outward.
Leave Atlanta S:ls a m
Arrive at Chattanooga P > ,
Accommodation Train—Outward.
Leave Atlanta.. p, M
Arrive at Cartersville 8:11 p.m
Night Passenger Train — lnward.
Leave Chattanooga <):00 p.m
Arrive at Atlanta 5:17 AiM
Day Passenger- Train—lnward.
Leave Chattanooga 5:50 a.m
Arrive at Atlanta 2:00 p m
Accommodation Train — lnward.
Leave Cartersville ....6:00 a.m
Arrive at Atlanta 9:00 a.m
Ueorgla Railroad.
S. K. JOHNSON, Superintendent. Augusta.
Day Passenger Train.
Leave Augusta 8:00 a.m.
Leave Atlanta 7:10 a.m.
Arrive at Augusta 5:40 p.m.
Arrive at Atlanta p.m.
Night Passenger and Mail Train.
Leave Augusta 8:30 p.m.
Leave Atlanta 10:15 p.m.
Arrive at Augusta 7:30 a.m.
Arrive at Atlanta 6:40 a.m.
Athens Branch train leaves Union Point daily,
Sunday excepted, at 12:25 p.m., arriving at Athens at
3:45 p.m. Leave Athens at 7.30 a.m., atriving at Union
Point 10:40 am. On Monday and Tuesday nights, a
train leaves Union Point at 2:20 a.m., arrives at Ath
ens, 5:15 am.; leaves Athens, 8 p.m., arriving a.
Union Point, 11 p.m.
Washington Branch.—Train leaves Washington
at 9 A M., arrives at Barnett, 10:30 A.M.; leaves
Barnett 11:55 A.M., arriving at Washington at 1:50
P.M. On Mondny and Tuesday nights, leaves Wash
ington at 10:20 P.M., arriving at Barnett, 12 at night.
Leaves Barnett, 1:50 A.M., arrives at Washington,
3:30 A.M.
Macom and Augusta Railroad.— Train leaves
Camak, 12:40 P.M., arriving at Milledgeville Junction
4:20 P.M.; leaves Junction at 6:15 A.M., arriving at
Camak, 9:25 A.M. Connects Augusta with S. Caro
lina, Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta, and Augusta
with Savannah Railroad.
Atlanta and West-Point Railroad.
L. P. GRANT, Superintendent , Atlanta.
Day Passenger Train—Outward.
Leave Atlanta 8:15 A.M.
Arrive at West Point 12:32 P.M
Day Passenger Train—lnward.
Leave West Point .12:55 P.M.
Arrive at Atlanta 5:25 P.M
Night Freight and Passenger — Outward.
Leave Atlanta.. 3:00 P.M.
Arrive at West Point 10:45 P.M.
Night Freight and Passenger — lnward.
Leave West Point 3:00 A.M.
Arrive at Atlanta 10:07 A.M.
Macon and Western Railroad.
A. J. WHITE, President, Mason.
Day Passenger Train.
Leave Atlanta .....500 A.M.
Arrive At Macon .....11:05 A.M.
Leave Macon 7:50 A.M.
Arrive at Atlanta 2.10 P.M.
Night Express Passenger Train — Daily.
Leave Atlanta 3:28 P.M.
Arrive at Macon 11:05 P.M.
Leave Macon 8:50 P.M.
Arrive at Atlanta 4:30 A M.
Alr-Lino Railroad.
A. S. BUFORD, President.
Leave Atlanta for Norcross every Wednesday and
Friday at 5 a.m, connecting at Noroross with stages
for Gainesville. Leave Norcross at 4 r ut. Passen
gers reach Gainesville the same day.
Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad.
J. W. THOMAS, Superintendent , Nashville.
Day Passenger Train.
Leave Nashville 2:30 A.JW
Arrive at Chatianooga 4;fo P.M
Leave Chattaaooga 345 a.M
Arrive at Nashville P.M
Night Passenger Train.
Leave Nashville .6:10 P.M
Arrive at Chattanooga ....4:30 A.M.
Leave Chattanooga 8:00 P.M.
Arrive at Nashville 5:00 A.M.
Night trains run daily; day trains run daily, Sun
days excepted.
Both trains connect at .Chattanooga for Rome, At
lanta, and all principal Southern cities.
South Georgia and Florida Railroad,
H. S. HAINES, General Superintendent.
Repress Passenger Train.
Leave Savannah every day at 4:00 P.M.
Arrive at Jessup (Junction M. & B. R. R.)
every day at 6:55 P.M.
Arrive at Live Oak every day at 1:35 A.M.
Arrive at Jacksonville every day at 6:19 A.M.
Arrive at Tallahassee every day at 0 22 A.M.
Arrive at Quincy every day at 6:27 A.M.
Arrive at Bainbridge every day at... 0:15 A M.
Arrive at Albany every day at 7:10 A.M.
Leave Albany every day at. 7:00 P.M.
Leave Bainbridge every day at .7;45 P.M.
Leave Quincy every day at 0:42 P.M.
Leave Tallahassee every day at 7:42 P.M.
Leave Jacksonville every day at .7:47 P.M.
Leave Live Oak every day at 12:45 A.M.
Leave Jessup every day at 7:20 A.M.
Arrive at Savannah every day at 10:20 A.m!
Macon Accommodation.
Leave Savannah (Sundays excepted) at.. .5:00 A.M
Leave Jessup (Sundays excepted) at 9:30 A.M
Arrive at Macon (Sundays excepted) at 0:15 P.M
Leave Macon (Sundays excepted) at 9:10 A.M.
Leave Jessup (Sundays excepted) at 7:15 P.M.
Arrive at Savannah (Sundays excepted) at.10:15 P M
No change of cars between Savannah and Albany
Passengers for Bainbridge change cars at Thomas
ville.
Passengers for Brunswick take 4 P.M. train from
Savannah.
Passengers from Brunswick connect at Jessup with
train for Savaunah, arriving at 10:20 A.M.
Passengers leaving Macon at fclft A.M, connect at
Jessup with train for Florida and Western Division
A Passenger Car will be attached to Way Freight
Tram leaving Savannah Tuesday aad Thursday at 7
A M., and arriving Wednesday and Friday at 3:20
P.M.