1939. i ——— nt was in irch ceme- ’ress-Cour- atronage. AE HHA rmm— 2 Thursday, October 19th, 1939. THE SOWER A Weekly Department of Religious and Secular Thought Contributed by REV. JAMES A. TURNER, Pastor, M. E. Church, Patton, Pa. TRAIN UP A CHILD. Dr. John S. Bonnell, eminent Psy- chiatrist, writing on the subject of Child Training, says some pertinent things that every parent should con- sider attentively and prayerfully. “The spiritual experience,” says he, “that can quiet and comfort the mind of a child will be a productive source of strength in later adult years. Even those who through the greater part of thei radult years are unaware of their HOFFMAN'S STRAWBERRY ICE CREAM PIE It's waiting for you at our dealers’ . ..a gorgeous ice cream pie! The crust is creamy Vanilla Ice Cream. The filling is made of big, ripe frozen strawberries (not strawberry ice cream). The topping is frozen whipped cream. Here's the ideal treat for party, bridge or dinner dessert. Ask our nearest dealer for Strawberry Ice Cream Pie. Fy. Seallest..arero oi DESSERT-OF-THE-MONTH # Sealtest, Inc. and this company are under the same ownership. childhood training in religion yet have something that will come back to them in the hour of crisis, just as one who has learned to swim in childhood and who has not practiced the art for 20 or thirty years, on being thrown into the water by an accident and by using the strokes he learned in childhood, manages to keep afloat until help rea- ches him. I talked in a hospital one evening | with a man who is an active and in- | terested member of my church. He was recovering from a serious and painful illness, during which he had hovered between life and death. Relating some of his experiences, he said to me: “I did not think it was possible for, & human being to endure as much suf- fering as I have experienced in the past three weeks. Do you know what | it was that helped me keep a grip on myself when the pain was so intense that I was ready to let go of every- thing 2” “Please tell me,”” I said, “I should be | most interested to know.” He said, “It was the Bible verses I learned as a lit- | tle boy at my mother’s knee. One by | one they all came back to me during those black hours when I needed them most of all. It was the realization of God's presence that I learned to know as a child that brought me through this dreadful experience.” “Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old he will not depart from it.” How often those words have been fulfilled in the ex- perience of adults. The sense of fair play, truthfulness, honesty, integrity, honor, reverence, respect for the rights of ‘others, which are iinculcated in childhood have emerged in adult life and character. Parental lack of interest in the relig- ious development of their children is a key to both secular and religious prob- lems. Mothers and fathers who would not think of neglecting the secular ed- ucation of their children are in vary- ing degrees indifferent to their relig- ious training. They will often send their children to Sunday school with- out taking the trouble to inquire what they are learning there or whether or not their children know how to express in their daily lives the religious teach- ing which they receive. Occasionally parents come to me and say, “It is impossible to interest my boy or my girl in Sunday School. They do not feel that they are getting any- thing out of it and I do not think that I ought to compel them to attend.” It is true, of course, that there are many Sunday Schools in the nation with inadequately trained teachers and inefficient organization, but the basic trouble generally does not lie at this point. 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One does not find parents going to the principals in day schools and say- ing, “I find it hard to interest my child in school .He does not want to go and I do not think I ought to compel him | to attend.” As soon as parents in sufficient | numbers insist upon their children ha- ving adequate spiritual training they | will get it. As parents demanded sec- ular education for their children did schools and universities develop. The reason why parents ottentimes adopt an attitude to day schools diff- erent from their attitude to Sunday schools is because they feel that an | education in the day school is absolu- tely essential to the future welfare of the child but that a religious education | is a matter of indifference. No parent has the right to deprive his children of the stabilizing and strengthening influences which relig- ion can eert in the life of even a very little child. In the years during which the foundations of character are being | laid it is of tremendous importance that children should be brought into contact with the uplifting and inspiring influence of the personality of Jesus | Christ. These are the years when their minds are easily richly stored with | the moral precepts of the Bible and its! lofty spiritual messages. passages may not be wholly apparant to the children they do include them in their young lives and the time will come when they are productive sources of spiritual strength and help these young people, when they have grown into manhood and womanhood, to take their place in society as useful and worthy citizens and as men and wo- men of God.” PATTON METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH James A. Turner, Pastor. Church school, 10 a. m., Preaching at 11 A. M. and 7:30 P. M. every fourth Sunday. Epworth League at 6:30 P. M. Mid week bible class beginning Wed- nesday evening, November 1st. 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