Surely every one can but see of what immense benefit such lecturers would
be, especially to the young in our churches. One physician might be
employed by and serve several societies, giving to the different societies
once or twice a week a lecture in each society, fully illustrated by
drawings, plates, stereoscopic and microscopic views, which would attract
young and old, and fill our churches to overflowing with those who now
attend no church; and the latter, when they found a physician, with the
consent of the church, thus clearly pointing out the great evils of life
which cause so much suffering, wretchedness, sorrow, and so many premature
deaths, and calling young and old, from a religious standpoint, to shun
them as sins against God, could but feel that our churches are striving to
elevate humanity, and are a great blessing, and that it would be desirable
to belong to them, and especially to have their children brought up under
the influence of the Church.
Nearly the same could be said in regard to the important services which a
second class of teachers of which I am about to speak could render. By the
lectures of the two new life would be infused into our churches, and they
would stand upon a sure foundation by manifesting love to God and man in
our external natural lives, by teaching and leading men to act from
spiritual motives, and to be willing to see their evils, and to commence by
shunning well-known evils as sins against God. What a glorious day would
this open up to our churches and for the elevation of our race through
them!
THE SECOND CLASS OF TEACHERS REQUIRED.
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