The Sabbath-School Index: Pointing out the history and progress of Sunday-schools, with approved modes of instruction.Pardee, R. G. (Richard Gay)
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The Sabbath-School Index: Pointing out the history and progress of Sunday-schools, with approved modes of instruction.
Pardee, R. G. (Richard Gay)
Sunday schools
Our Sabbath-schools, churches and ministers must all rise together.
They should always keep closely together. It is here that Christians
find a good working field under the training of the pastor, who is the
pastor of the Sunday-school as well as of the church. It is here that
the Church finds a great field of labor and her largest additions.
Some pastors simply give their Sunday-schools their patronage and
approbation. This is not sufficient. Much more is needed. Active
co-operative service and direction are wanted. Sometimes pastors must
needs act as superintendent of their own Sabbath-schools, and conduct
their own teachers' meeting for a time, until they can train brethren
and fit them to be superintendents. It is not lecturing, or preaching
to, on the subject that we so much need as how to superintend, how to
prepare the lesson, how to visit, what to teach, how to teach and lead
to Christ, and how to conduct teachers' meetings.
The Sabbath-school enfolds the lambs of the flock. The pastor should,
of course, watch over it very carefully and very tenderly. Every
Sabbath he should at least walk through the school to encourage, by
his presence, the weary teachers and scholars in their work of faith
and labor of love. Many of the best pastors in our land make this an
invariable rule. The teachers need their pastor's counsels and
assistance in the school, the teachers' meetings and concerts of
prayer, as well as in the pulpit. Here he will find his true working
men and women, and if any of the church have especial claims upon him,
they surely do have.
We need our pastors' presence and counsel in all our conventions and
gatherings of teachers. They are _ex-officio_ members of all. We also
need their help in calling out the membership of the churches; in
model sermons and model scriptural addresses, and teachings to
children for instruction and for example. In fact, we feel that we
must rely upon our ministers to raise up and make our Sunday-schools
what they ought to be--the great training-schools of the Church, and
the fitting field of labor for her large membership. As a matter of
necessity, and as a matter of propriety, we throw ourselves as
Sabbath-school workers upon the pastors, and call earnestly upon them
for personal aid and comfort, in the strong assurance that our appeal
will receive a warm and favorable response.
_The Church._
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