The Athens republique. (Athens, Ga.) 1919-????, October 07, 1922, Page 8, Image 8

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8 the School from its inception until now, have been the grouping of teach ers and scholars in classes, the social study of the word of God and the pur suit of religious knowledge by the meth od of questions and answers. Our Saviour and His disciples prosecuted the work of teaching in this way as z well as of preaching. One form of the Great Commission enjoins upon Christ’s Church to make scholars of all who are brought under its control. And the prominence to the cat-e-chist “or the questioning of teachers, and to the cat-e chu-mens ”or the questioned and answering scholars, in the early Church, is in accordance with the re quirements of the great commission. And so it has been, to a greater, or less er degree, from the times of Abraham and M,oses to our time that the Church School has had a place in the plan of God, and God’s people have not ignored that fact in tha divine economy, In giving to the face a Sunday Schoo), God did not by any means, abrogate the family; not did he diminish aught of Us sphere aid Jmwcr. All of the re sponsibility which before rested on the parents for their children rests on them still, together with the added responsi bility of bringing Jheir children also under the influence of the Church School. No parent can throw parental responsibility on the Sunday School, nor can the parent claim to get along properly in training their children re ligiously without the aid of God’s added agency, the Sunday School. Not the family without the School, nor yet the School without the family, but the Family and the school, must be looked at by Parents who would train their children in Gods service accord ing to God’s method. Still later, in God’s plan in the days of John the Bap tist, the Pulpit in its permanent and distinctive its crowning work for the welfare of the race. For prior to that period the mission of the preacher, or prophet had been occasional rather than a cantinous one. And now the family, the school, and the pulpit are the three agencies of the Church not as is so commonly said the family, the school, and the Church but the family, the school, and the pulpit, for the Church includes these three as its seperate and co-working agencies for the rearing and training of the young THE ATHENS REP ÜBI,I QU E Tired Feet I c / Massage gently with soothing cMAiS'y I mentnolatum Cools, rests and refreshes g f/7 7 V- I PLKAJiFTir (((I I IN TINS LOAVES I I YOUR, GROCEK/ I U Sunburn W ■T and insect H K bites make H ■ you unhappy. [J Imentholatum| ■ cools and J W soothes and y ■ gently in the faith and in the knowledge of the son of God, unto a full grown man unto the measure of the stature of the fullnes of Christ. Mr. W. C. Brunt, of the Post Office Department, was called to Salisbury, N. C., a short time ago on account of the death of his grandmother. His daughter, lit- Don’t Fuss With. Mustard Plasters Musterole, made of pure oil of mus tard and other helpful ingredients, will do all the work of the old-fashioned mustard plaster without the blister. Musterole usually gives prompt relief from bronchitis, sore throat, coughs, colds, croup, neuralgia, headache, con . gestion, rheumatism, sprains, sore mus cles, bruises, and all aches and pains. It may prevent pneumonia. All drug gists—3sc and 65c jars and tubes— hospital size $3. Better than a mustard plaster MUWOIE tie Miss Dorothy prunt, accom panied him. Ohartshorn%2 SHAPE ROLLERSah Jw are Perfect in action. *ll fvt*is “xpertenee the ruMnuiacturf G< t ineimproved. No .av«L» equhet- To avoid ■ * ”■£? initacioiis.eo* |«,-e script nani- 4 *a| W flju iUHoiu. oc ‘Abe* ” October 7, 1922