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Show THE CHURCH REVIEW. <br><br> Territorial S. S. Association, <br> (Continued from last week.) <br> Are we to be contented with, teaching only those now in the Sunday school of our Territory while thousands of children are in need of the gospel. It is astonishing how much knowledge the mind of a child can take in and retain when it is imparted little by little. I have only to ask you to notice what the "kindergarten" is doing for the little children to prove this. The Bible must be the great and only text book. Not only should the lessons so splendidly prepared for us be taught but also some knowledge of the scriptures as a whole and the Christian doctrines based upon them. It is not enough to teach each week simply the lesson. To bring the lesson each Sabbath down to the capacity of childhood and to leave room for the simpler forms of instruction so that each Sabbath may bring even to the child the conviction of having gained something which he can remember is the ideal before the true and faithful Sunday school teacher. By such teaching will our Utah children be won for Christ. <br> Did you ever stop to think, teachers, Sunday school work is work for the laity? The world never will be won to Christ by the minister alone. Working for God is the vocation of the Christian. It is a noble thing to work for one who expects from us our best. Those masters who expect from us our best will raise the standard of all in relation to them. Work for God is most often work for our fellows. "In as much as ye did it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye did it unto me." We may almost say that our entire work for our Master is the working and doing for others, as the effort to create right states in ourselves is best promoted by active efforts for the good of others. If it is true that there is such a demand upon us, we ought to know and feel this constantly. I said last week that the aim of the Sunday school here in Utah is a missionary one, it is an evangelistic one. The Presbyterian REVIEW well said, some months ago, "We may regard the Sunday school as the lever which is destined to turn, sooner or later the whole world." I cannot but think that the Sunday school with its simple evangelistic methods antagonizing no one, will be, in the hands of our Heavenly Father, the means of bringing to Christ the thousands of children and young people here in Utah and the millions elsewhere who know him not. The fields are ripe for the harvest and only waiting for the reapers. More Sunday schools, more children for the schools now organized. Those of us who heard Mr. Bright two years ago in Ogden will not soon forget his ringing words, he said, "Be filled with a boundless enthusiasm for your work of winning the souls of children for Christ. Put your whole soul in the work and souls will be won." How true this is "Nothing succeeds like success," and success comes in any work into which we put our whole soul's energy. We need enthusiasm here in Utah. We very much need it here in Salt Lake City. Enthusiasm, seek the children with large faith as well as with large hearts for to doubt is to be weak. <br> [To be Continued.] <br><br> SUNDAY SCHOOL SOCIABLE. <br> At a recent meeting of the executive committee of the Sunday School Association, it was decided to have a Sunday School Sociable in the Y. M. C. A. rooms Monday evening, March 18th, at 7:30. <br> The committee met to consider the advisability of having monthly meetings of the association. All were heartily in favor of such meetings, and the social will be the first one. Now, pastors, superintendents, officers, teachers and workers will you not turn out and show you are interested in the work. <br> The Sunday school work is the most important work we have at this time and let us be up and doing. Please come out and help make it a success. <br> MRS. F. S. PARSONS, Secty. <br><br> LATE Y. M. C. A. NOTES. <br> Put our 4 o'clock men's meeting on your list of regular engagements. Dr. Mabry will lead today and the quartette will sing. Invite, persuade, bring men to this service. <br> The ladies of the Auxiliary are planning to furnish the game room for us. <br> After prayer meeting Wednesday night drop into the debating club social. No man will be admitted unless accompanied by a lady. <br> Sunday Meeting Echoes. <br> Fourteen directors at the meeting last Sunday. <br> It was encouraging to see those fellows who attend regularly come bringing in others with them. Personal work is what counts. <br> Mr. Ober made lots of friends here in two days. <br> Dr. Mabry leads today. <br> We hope to have a good quartette this afternoon. <br> The chorus was larger than usual last Sunday. <br><br> AUXILIARY NOTES. <br> The Ladies Auxiliary held its regular monthly meeting Wednesday and had its regular semi-yearly election of officers. The following officers were appointed, Mrs. Reed, as president; Miss Fowler, as secretary; Mrs. Bartling, as treasurer; and Miss Harris, as reporter. <br> Mrs. Brown an active member is going to visit her old home in Texas. <br><br> |
