muststruggle against our backwardness

If we take np part in the work of the Holy Sanctuary here, how shall we be pillars in the temple of our God ? If we value not the rest of the earthly day. how shall we enter into the rest that remaineth for the people of GodIf the Sabbath of twentyfour hours is to us a weariness, how shall we endure that Sabbath which hath no end"? It is necessary then to keep ever in view, amidst our Sabbath duties, the important one of making ourselves ready for a Sabbath that is not of earth. We muststruggle against our backwardness to tne work against our discouragements,against our weariness,against our want of spiritualty, because unfitting us for the adoration, the activity, the delight in spiritual things, which must be elements of the coming Tory Burch Flats glory. We must rejoice in the Sabbath as'in the beautiful streaks of the light which groweth into noonday sun, as in the first refreshing drops of the rill, which spreadeth into the mighty ocean.In endless Sabtiatli morning; ' And a ttiaft sen commixed with flm Oft drop fbir eyelids, nlaed too Jong fte ftaH Godhead tanln&""The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteonsnees; but of m®ry one that Is hasty, only to wuntPfeor. xzL . Tie gentler charms which wait on female life.Which griee the daughter ml adorn fhe wife, Be these our boast: yet these mir wei admit Of various knowledge and of blameless wit. Of senses sesuWng from a mutaed mind,Of polWaed converse sna m uem wmioa,"The keystone of thy mindto give thy thoughts solidity, To Dind them in an archto fix them as the world is in its sphere, Is to loam from the book of the Lord, to drink from the well of Mis wisdom."To think, is no uncommon employment. The miser thinks about his gold,the young lady thinks about her bonnets and balls. the gossip thinks about her neighbors: yet is Thought a comparatively rare achievement. My Tory Burch Outlet friend,' said John Foster. mlto have thought for zoo liiile, we shall find among the capital faults in the review of life. Tohave m our nature a noble part that can think, would be a cause for infinite exultation if it actually did think, as much and as well as it can think, and if to have an unthinking mind were not equivalent m naving no mind at all.

 

 

 

this labour will be wasted

Nothing else will give that love tothe strayed little ones, which will enable the teacher to search them out in the dark and cloudy Tory Burch Outlet day,to overcome dislike, prejudice. and weariness,to visit them m their own houses, and to watch m after life even the careless and ungrateful. We need not fear that this labour will be wasted, or that it is less man is reauirea. it is a meiancnoiv fact, that there is little visible success in our Sabbathschools, and for this sad effect there must De a cause, wnat is it cnenr uan God be unwilling to save' Has Jesus Christ ceased to say, "Let little children come unto mer" jls tne onirit unaoie to come 'down m floods upon the dry groundNowe must look at our own hearts for the cause,at our own scanty prayers and tardy praises, and slothful preparations.saDDatnscnooi teacmnsr is not omv a measmg, important, and useful duty,it is also an imperative one upon all who are not hindered dv tne iorce oi circumstances, xnere are ever peculiar agencies of evil Tory Burch Flats at work against each rising generation, and if we refuse to come to the " help of the Lord against the mighty." we place ourselves m the awful position "Curse ye Meroz said the angel of the Lord. What has Meroz done ? Nothlnxr.w ay men is Meros so ims cursed. I jsecanse Meros Old nothing What ought Meroz to nave done ? Come to the help of the Lord. Could not the Lord do without Meroz? The Lord did do Bid the Lord then sustain anv loss ? No. but Meroz did. M Meroz then to be cursed? . Yes, and that bitterly. I It rignt that a man should be cursed for doing nothing t Yea, wnen he ought to do something."One other kind of work appropriate to the Sabbath remains to be noticed, and that is Prospective Work. Sabbath evening, too often the period set apart for untimely sleep, letterwritmg, or gossiping conversation, has been beautifhlly called " the seedtime for eternity," ana it is aiso tne Dieaere ana earnesttne Sabbatism of eternal life.

 

 

teaching is an object of easy attainment

Aim then to belong to it, for. though silent and unseen itself, it is destined to govern the world. In it, though out of sight, is Tory Burch Outlet to be found the secret spring which is steadilyThat Sabbathschool teaching is an object of easy attainment and of small requirements is a vefy common mistake: and one of the reasons that Sabbathschool teachers so often fail of success, is surely because they neglect the employment of their whole powers of mind, as well as of heart. No common gift is it to have a sufficiently clear understandA Call to Christians to Labor in the SabbathSchool, by the Bar. D. rotts. Quoted in Monthly Messenger.ing, to make the things, understood by ourselves, intelligible to the young; no ignoble exertion of the intellect to overcome thedifficulty of suiting thought and expression to a lower standard of ideas than our own, and to speak as a child to children, yet as a teacher to the taught, not only instilling knowledge, but eliciting thoughts, questions, and difficulties;no unworthy use of the treasures of a wellcultured mind and memory, to bring the apt illustration, the striking anecdote, the historical event, the phenomena of nature, to commend and enforce the lesson of practical instruction. The benefit of devoting a little time every day in the week to intellectual preparation for the Sabbathclass duties, is very great;it is too often the custom to give only a short space on Saturday evening to the preparation of the lessons for the following morning; there is no leisure for meditation,the required texts and illustrations vanish from the memory, and the lesson is illprepared and ill digested. But the habit of reading and pondering over the passage, verse by verse, during the week, making notes of whatever may occur to us in the way ofparallel texts, illustrations, or practical lessons, will send us on Sabbath mornings into endeared and familiar ground. The importance of prayer, regular, everyday, and individual for Tory Burch Flats our Sabbathschool children, is also obvious.

Many claim a high piace ior music

Many claim a high piace ior music in the home employments of the holy day. but as Cowper says."Love, Joy. mil peace make harmonr more meet jror Sabbath evenings, and perhaps as sweet."It is beautiful to see, as it is in some households. the Sabbath made a day to be distmguisnea dv tne more mm ordinary interchange of affection and confidence between th _ from its social privileges and its happy circle of instruction, is considered as one of the most painful of punishments. This species of Sabbath work need not be confined to home society, but ought to include anxious and individual effort to commend the Sabbath asthe poor man's day," to those of the lower classes who come under our influence, thus doing our best to leaven the mass with the primary element of all that "is healthful and gladdening. The poor man knows little of the blessedness of the day which his God gives him. He is either worn down by hard and involuntary work, or he is tempted by the specious arguments of his superiors, to walk in his own ways, and find his own pleasure,' and speak his own words, in "innocent amusements," which are neither Godobeying nor Goddelighting;or he substitutes by his own darkened will a day of his own, like the shoemakers Tory Burch Outlet of London, who are ashamed to appear upon Sundays in their miserable clothing, and therefore work all the Sabbath, and make Monday or Tuesday their day of unhallowed and disobedient rest. To lead such, therefore, either by precept or example, to know something of that rest and enjoyment to "be derived from vhe intelligent spiritual observance of the Lord s day. producing a contrast and variety of employment which is the Tory Burch Flats secret of all true relaxation. would be one of those im works of mercy" that might take its place m the services of the heavenly Sabbath.Then we have Active Work. If those to whom the Sabbath is a weariness, and its duties but lifeless things, would but try the experiment of teaching a Sabbathschool class, tKey would be astonished at the life which it would give to the day, and at the object which would arise in their hearts and minus ior tnousrnt ana interest aunnsr me week.

 

 

 

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