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SATURDAY
NIflHT TALKS
By REV. r. E. DAVISON
Rul'.a.vJ, Vt.
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MEW SUNDAY SCHOOL.
International Bibh Lesson for
Sept. 19, '09.
The Sunday
School or the
f.iture will bo In
many iv:-.pt't;ta
v. much of an
I t i n r o v c::!c.-.t
ovit present
IlKlllOlis U8 to-
lny a better
than yesterJny.
For if there Is
nny tl.ing about
the modern L.mi
lny school in
which there l.i
practical agree
ment. It is the failure, everywhere to
. measure up to the Ideal of teacher
ami pupil concerning Bible study.
No one doubts tint the present i.. s-
tematic study of the, Hook Is a vast
Improvement over the ci.tci'hism, ni:d
question and answer "helps," of ha'f
a century ago. Nevertiieief.s the pie.
ent is but the chrysalis Kf:;i! of the
Btudy, and the cliilstlan world is be
ginning to stir uneasily in Its shell
preparatory to breaking forth into
ne'v and larger life. Since the Inter
national lesson syst.'sn was I r. .'.v.s it
rated teachers and pii;.H.s have worn a
rut of so-called rtmiy through the
Diblo from (!eii( ;iis to Revelation, no
that If the teachers' library hits been
equipped with lc.-'on "help" he li'uls
liiiuself to-day going over precisely
t!i! same, ground that he bas traveled
three or four times previously, chap
ter for chapter and verse for verse,
lie follows a wvll-bjaUn trail bia.cd
fur Mm thirty ;r fc.rty yr,; ar. l
recks cot of the va1 1 uik'X. ;.".'(.!
world of ei'.llliti-i'.T.cnt, inKtrui ! Ion
tk.d pleasure lyini; id! '.'.round hi 1:1. It
is a world in which the traveler c!i:ir;s
to the Blase 1 o;. h in ( refet ein e to
the I'ullmnn c::r, .'e:'i:r; ing crude and
primitive ways of living t') li.!bltiiti(-n:j
of modern in.prove:vcrii.
Of course, It is practically IninoFsd
Mo for individual schools, cr tea: hers
ui Individual clis.;e:s to break av.-.iy
fioni the procession aud start on a
jic.v path of exploration for thovi
FvIvuk. To do that would break up
I'.tii.'orn.Ity of study, in i::any ways
i:,o:it desirable and introduce a chaotic
statu rerally, but t!;;; protect, lo::-;
a id loud find lr.si.tent can, at leant.
In made until the international coin
l il'.tee Is compelled to heed popular
(';, ion and provide for it. Wo iciiy
l.ol .( fuse to keep bep longer in tins
ci'.'i,r?,s belt line to the s.rau old tmns
;' ."t v-... j ".!.-,!.! t.:tt In o ir e'aildho::,.
we o've .'ucnetiiliij of reverenco to
antiquities ar.d to c.iit'.r.'.s that hisvj
become obsolete, but we er.n
Uisux-h under protect and bo ready to
ball deliverance from vhutever quar
ter It conies.
Brighter Outlook,
Meanwhile evidences accumulate
that things are brightening to a better
day. Theological seminaries are tak-in:-;
up the training of ministers fnr
Sunday school leadridilp; universi
ties are offering I'.ible courses, and
extensions; training schools for Sun
day school teachers have been opened
and summer schools multiply; corre
spondence systems have been
evolved; a plan of graded lesi-ons
bas been approved and a committee
t: at work preparing them. This is
the most hopeful sign of the times in
Sunday school work. If those graded
lessons are prepared by men Instead
of fossils, if those who are engaged
In the task arc more Interested In
tuo warm-blooded youth of to-day
thi.n the mummies of Kgypiiun and
Assyrian cr.tacombs, if they do not In
sist upon the use of portions of the
Ilible for children of any uge abso
lutely Incomprehensible to the ma
turest minds, then we tliall have a
renaissance of Bible study epochal
and prophetic of future good.
New Methods Needed.
It Is In this sense that we need a
new ilible, now teachers and new
methods. Given these conditions the
Sunday school of the .uture will be
a vaai iiiipi ovemcit over the p'isf.
The teachers of the future will not
bu callow bnys :.:id girls, whose ig
norance is dense, whose ability to In
struct Is a minus quantity. Tbey
will be trained Instructors, qualified
to bring forth from the treasury of
the word, things new and old. We
shall no more thlr.lt of putting an ig
norant person to tench a Sunday
school class thau we should set 11
blind man to leud the blind. The
Sunday school will be a school, not
un nKgregnllun of classes. Classes
will bo composed of students, not a
mutual adniirr.tion suciety. Attend
ance will bo regular, not haphazard.
Teachers, pousibly will bo paid for
their work, not drafted on account of
r!ie!r good looks or iulluence or con
nection with the best families. We
shall imitate nature which grades
children by r.ge, capacity, home en
vironment, future prospects. There
will bo clr.stes In good citizenship and
itn!:.l lervlce. In a word, the Sunday
ichool o.' tl 0 future will be the church
at study, belns trained to rightly di
vide the word of life, that each may
have his portion in due season.
Such a Sunday school will have no
need for doubtful measures to draw
piipiU. They will come to It as nun
try men to a banquet when thora la
:!:i.hm-;i nr..', to a pare.
A CRYING
NEED.
What Is really wanted at the pres
ent time Is a standard of misconduct
We are constantly doing things In
doubt, as if we hadn't a right to do
them.
The contusion caused by people do
ing things which In their circum
stances wo had no right to expect is
the principal cause of our troubles. It
ought to be definitely settled, for ex
ample, that any millionaire who tins,
say, over a hundred millions, will
thereafter lead an honest life. If he
has only fifty inlli.ons his life should
be semi-honest, and if he has only a
paltry ten millions, then it oitf-ht t
be conceded th-t he can loot a le v
railroads or so until he gets 011 !.',.,
feet.
lTp to, say, ten thousand a year no
man can afford to be dishonest, lie
ought to get up In the cars nnd give
tip lils sent to won.cn under thirty-liv"
at lea.it, and of course be will not
take the chance ot robbing any safe.
From ten thousand up to one hundred
thousand can cngago In little dis
honest llyers by making one of a pool
or putting through a land deal or so
for variety.
When be gets fifty millions or mop!
together, however, every man oiviht
to ask himself plainly the question
whether from now on he ought not to
be a philanthropist. Doesn't he owe
this to his fellow-men?
A DREAM OF A btTTER
CHINA.
Sir Kobert Hart, after spending for
ty years In China in charge of buBl
tiers carried on through the Custom
House, probably knows the country
and its people as well as any iiuo
pean can. Ho says that China Is to
have a great future. He says the
Chinese are a strangely reasonable
people; that they have hated the Idea
of having soldiers or becoming sol
diers, saying, "If right is right, it
ought to bo recognized by everybody,
and we ought not to bo required to
tigut to suppor' It." But In our time
foreign nations have forced upo'i
China the neceslty of arming itself,
and some day out of the four hundred
millions of Chinese a pr-at army may
' be formed and then instead of fight
: i::;r, China will turn around to faco
' the rest of the world and say, "Uentle-
men, there must be no more fighting."
I If a cuuutiy should be attacked, they
I would defend it, and so, with thcii
! vast momentum and great numbers,
i make for the peace ol the whole
! .rid. This is the reverse of the
j "yellow peril" that so terrlflei the
: Ct-rman kaiser.
A SAILING SHIP
SANITARIUM.
The liailing-ship sanitarium for con
sumjitlvcs projected in Kngland and
described by tue British Medical Jour
nal seems an admirable scheme. If a
patient is to be sequestrated and kept
in a long chair out of doors, why not
alevlate his lot by the Interest of sea
life and glimpses of pleasant coasts?
The ship projected would be of about
JOuD ton. 1, -.villi ample deck space fl
eets in the open air. The plan would
bu to cruise In the neighborhood of
the Cai.aries, taking advantage o:'
trade winds and nn equable climate,
and seeking port in bad weather. The
cost to each patient Is not stated, but
there must be a good many invalids
who could afford -1 pay handsomely,
and with fifty patients it might be pos
sible to keep a 000-ton schooner In
commission.
EATING UP
SHEEP.
The world Is eating up its sheep.
The number on Dot is steadily being
diminished and the same Is true of
cattle anci poultry, says the London
Meat Trades Journal. From the avail
able statistics it Is said that In three
years should there be no increase, at
the preseni rate of consumption every
head of cattle, every hog, every sheep
and every chicken In the barnyards
would be eaten up. It has been no
ticeable for several years that the
number of food animals raised
throughout the world was steadily do
creasing. The question Is, unless
conditions are modified, and that
shortly, from where are the meats of
the future to come?
"LETTER"
G3AMS.
The French government has defi
nitely adopted the scheme of "lettei
telegrams" which has been under dis
cussion In Franco ior some time. The
new system provides that letters may
bo telegraphed between any two
points in France at night at a cost of
one-fifth of a cent a word, and that
they will be delivered the next morning.
LUXURY AND
POVERTY.
A thoughtful clergyman has re
marked that "luxury is as great a
curse to the human race as Is abject
poverty." This Is dreadfully true
when t!.e two go together. For where
they go together the luxury of some
spells poverty for the rest. But the
luxury that all might have by earning
It, would that be a curse?
Colorado has the best laws for the
protection of women and children of
any state In the Union. Colorado has
undoubtedly the best Juvenile court
In the world, and it Is the ojjy court
holding the parents responsible for
the deeds of their children. And the
women vote In Colorado.
Grievous wrong Is committed when
society surrounds children with such
influences that by the age of sixteen
boys and girls almost thoughtlessly
commit crimes such as ought to be
impossible except to dcllberuto vo
tary of the most hardened typo.
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