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Training Children.
O, this wort of training children
for God ! Il In a tremendous wort.
people think it aMgr. They
here never tried it A child pinned
in the arms of the young parent ft
(• e beaoUfo) plaything. Yen look
Into the laughing eyes. Yon ex
amine the dimples in the foot Yon
wonder at its exqieite organism.
BenoUfol plaything! Bat on some
nightfall, as you ait rocking the
Utlte om, a voice enema to fell
niralght from the throne of God,
•oyiag; “Thai cJkUd it immortal.”
The stars shall die, bat that in «m-
merle/ / Sons shall grow old with
•ge and perish, bat that u^mmortal!
Sow, I know that with many of
yon this is the chief anxiety. Yon
mnmtiy winh yoor child to grow op
Society is fall of worn-oat pleasure
seekers—once the leaden of foahioo,
now mere balks of humanity, wearily
hewing at the cistern of gay Hfe/bat
only to kill time.
The happiness of the Christian,
like the How of the fountain, lasts.
The grey-haired man stoops over
the same fountain which slaked his
thirst when a ruddy boy, and finds
it* waters as sweet as ever.
Bat there is one crucial hoar in
which the difference between the
fountain and the cistern is sharply
defined—the hour of death. The
millionaire can not then, with ail
hie gold, pot off a eagle pang, nor
bribe the silent messenger to pease
a single hoar in his steady eearae.
The pleasure-seeker finds his cistern
empty—he has bad hie good things.
The infidel, with eager, trembling
hands, swings his backet, bat it
rings against hollow walla.
“If I had only served my God,*
said the dying cardinal, “as faithful
ly as I hare served my king, he
would not have forsaken om in my
dying hoar." ft is jast at this point
that God never does forsake bis
people. Many a Christina who has
passed through tile with a dim hope
troth. If fihlip JWfor wore bneret
he would elate that they man all
Lutherans, from the king to the beg
gar. He would state that they boM
the (kith which was hutrnmmilal la
the eoeverston of John aad Charts*
Wesley, that their missionaries were
planting the banner of Christianity
In Tr*n<i debar, Coremaedel aad Mad
tm when John W relay wae an la foal
tr I clip the following,
r flews, from the columns
ros Ofoerrrr, upon which
Kifijionre it in lines,
ilfc NoffWAY.—Bishop
Ate been vMtiwg Metho
gin Europe,reports that
iwodeu ami Norway is
above named re-
fite'diMsn religion In the
litar^ Mkrengli the labors of
If ABsebar, as be is sorue-
irified. This missionary was
ifoubto capacity, ss sinbas-
\m the eonrt of France, by
teTkir, and apostle of chris-
tr missionary at the same
Re details of his enterprise
H'teeeSaa would be tedious,
fits say, the whole of Scau-
Vto christianised. Falling
It isfiuenee of the universal
Hit is &e Popish hierarchy,
g| preceding the groat re
Ml reed of reform was
there as elsewhere.
I lari Peterson, students of
it #fttrelxirg, np to 151*>
finds them today. If he ware hen eel
he would elate that from early in
fancy they are tanght to the fomlly,
by the parochial teoeher, by the min
leter, in school sad to the oh arch, eo
that they ere among the heat indoe-
triaated people to the ehrtotiaa
world. He woald forther my that
the deepest reverence for reilgme
right, bat jos flud it hard work te
make them do as yoo wish. Yoa
cWk their temper, yoa correct
their waywardness { to the midnight
yoor pmow is wet with weeping.
Yoa have wrestled with God to
agooy for the aahaltae of yoor
children. Yoa ask am if all soriety
kae been ineffectual I answer, JTe/
God understands year heart. He
understands how hard yoa have
triad to oaks that daughter do
needing no more religious toetroe-
tion, a single appeal to their wltgi
oos feelings, accompanied by a car*
tain whim and a frees yard Merer a-
Mow or two, wifi eo arouse them aa to
bring them to mwrsrofoe by the more.
If they are thee sod there tohao,
before they have time to eelm doers,
and a fear of death, has at the dose
found that hope strangriy^bright—
the fountain strangely foil. And
right, though ah# to so very petu
lent and rortleesj end whet peine
yon hare bestowed to teaching that
eoo to walk to the paths of upright
Jttkmesod became the first
■ft Gurievas Vasa, who be-
mf%ig is 1523, strangely favor-
I# wformatjon, and the wort
mtiM tedt fbe Synod of Oere-
ri,1l Ififo, anoctioned the refor-
JlB, red the Synod of Upsal in
if Mtlriiied and completed it.
ttirij foe whole of Sweden be-
jtolatiwran. Norway was indu-
■<|§§fl Drum ark soon followed.
Ill whole of 8candinavis be-
rei lefreiau and remains so to
ii&j. I have not space to show
to as% snd gratefully Sweden
JWJGwbt. for the nnucioles of
ItireinBKtMm through ♦TnSTavus
dittos, in the 30 years’ war. Let
t suffice to say that the record of
snd Norway, as a Christian
main-
wrt; but not one word of Mtherity
for It. Jast such mtariseaHm trev
ereed Asia Minor and taught the
churches planted by Paul to Galatia
and drew here. In bin Kptotto to the
Galatians be does act eompttomnl
the taker of those mitoiommrim very
highly, as for instance in tfro 4th nml
5th etor**** aer
yornr tomhremm defoced with the
toesaeeto, before the divine reepooae
will name j hut ha who hath declared,
“I wfil ha a God to time, ami thy
T uTmfT nr i 11 1***“
onr 8avioor, “Go ye into all the
world and .teach all uatioos," to go '
into a Christian land aad make
proselytes!
Jost sack mitmonmry work we would
expect from the Bsptist cbnrrh, for
they do not regard other deoomina
tions aa members of Christ** chwrdb.
A majority of their large member
ship is composed of the baptised
children of other churches. This
we most expect, for they avow their
[principles aboveboard. Ilia diffbr
ent with Methodists. They call tba
I Lutheran* brethren. They assert
[that we are an orthodox, Christian
I church. They find no objection to
I oar docirtoes. They are however
rift! is gnu id, noble and
th^juople, for over three ceutn*
ft rite been industrious, moral,
fpl sad withal deeply pious. The
htouary spirit was developed as
vjiJ as 1705, and before the middle
f&e ltkh century these pious, God-
TOagnen were formed in the four
Pfopn of the globe, and the aris
tas stick they established, liter-
% “from Greenland’s icy uiouu-
ta^ to India’s coral strand,” exist
rtj? as moQumeuts of their labor
tajiety. These people are coming,
enemy as a messenger to them of
peace. But what shah we say of
him, whom death strikes down hi the
midst of health and happiness and
growing activities, and expanding
usefulness V Shall we count him
happy to that he dies! Yes, the
eoice from heaven bids ws call him
such. If, indeed, it be to the Lord
that he has died. He rents from his
labors, forever rests, from all that
bitterness and pnintolnest, from all
that weary toil and tronbta, with
which Ms earthly Christian tabors
wore carried on ; bat, though resting
from all that injects into these earth
ty labors the etomeat of suffering.
to groves the brood to vita
hooarrer will, 1st him take
liar sf Ikfo freely.”
fo# ktaghf IfiB,
a tong and weary rirenit, perhaps of
pm, la establish a ngbtcoosneee
of thtorowa And when they have
ektriad the whole amphitheatre of
Advantages of Sabbath Schools.
The Sabbath school may be mods 1
oue of the most important means of 1
promoting the growth and usefulness «
of Christiana The Christian should
be there to avail himself of Its
privileges, and to lucre*** lU power
for good. The young convert, who
absents himself from the Sabbath
school, will not be likely to become a
very thriving or useful Christian.
By union with the Sabbath school,
yon will come into intimate conaee-
tiou with the most progressive aad
spiritual portion of the church to
which yon belong, and through the
j various Sabbath school gatherings
and associations, yoa will «os*e into
connection and sympathy with the
most active portion of other church
es. You will thus experience influ
ence*, which will bear you ouward to
the development of a higher chris
tian life than yon would otherwise
attain.
Besides this, the study of dirioe
truth as there systematically par
sued, is the very thing that young
converts as well a* older Christians
need in order to growth iu the knowl
edge of divine truths. It ssaksu the
study of the Bible more interesting
by the various help* which It affords.
And the diligent studeut of the Bible
is better prepared to listen to the ex
position aud di sensei on of divtow
troth in the sermon, *aud more di#
po*ed to engage in religious reading,
i ft is safe to say, that you will hare
I clearer and more enlarged views of
cistern after naotbsr, are brought
bark te the forsaken fountain, aad
obtain la a mossest what they have
vilely sought for year*—a foU talva
The supply of the fountain to to
• xhaesti bta—ihot of the utotem Km
Had. Whs* the pilgrim has dipped
undignified repose. Hi# worts shall
follow him. When be takes np on
that resurrection morn the body
which be to to chrry with him into
hto new nod everlasting habitation,
be shall taka op again that service
which before in hto embodied state
he had beee prosecuting. Whatever
difference there may be betwixt the
kind of eervtoe demanded of him
now and the kind of eervtoe com
mitted to him thee, there shall be so
diffsreaoe in the powers of intellect,
of emotion, of will, of notion by
which the services are carried oe.
No difference but this, that those
power*, ‘trained sow to their first
efforts amidst the sins aad sorrows,
trials and difficulties of the present
life, acting here weekly and iaeon
stoutly, raised there above the touch
of ell defiling elements, with all with
to and around, prompting to united,
foil, untiring, harmonious effort, busy
oe they shall be, in their very motion
there shall be rest And foe rest of
that sinless, eternal, untoiling, un
wearied activity, to which, by its
ever doing foe will of God, foe soul
shan be over growing te Its own
power and capacities, aad ever rising
toto closer and closer communion
with the eternal—that by eminence
shall be the rest toto which foe re
deemed in foe resurrection world
shell miter.—Dr. Ho***
laddforeet, tom
to easy to give
that wait II; IS
impart IS to Uw
foty, ioreiy does not need
•tatries. The testimony of the
in the above extract, to the
sad xeal” of the good peo
tatokl be a wholesome rebuke
possessed of Christian
^hes. Does he uot see that
down his mittionary work,
bio, W ith “surprise aud
^ 10 » eootemptable proselytism
f °nhj- dig{| 0 uorable to any
“ta charch ! If I were to steal
2*gkhor’s aheep, j might flud
of an apology to the as-
that they were poor,'starving
.fold without pasture, and that
“The God which tod sre sli my Ufr
toeg were this day , to# aegwt which
ii iismil me from all evil, btaes the
tadef With that history, aad many
serh bwfbrs them, never tat Gad's
ht the heard, ts staggering through ysera,
quality
those- truths which pertain to the
worship and service ot God, that you
will make greater progress to know,
ledge and holiness by attending the
s.ibbafo-aehool.- Ckriotia* fltorfSery.
roe
unujMU* M
rating passion, 1
and
of both lives foe