The Importance and Purpose of Sabbath School Work
An Important Work
The Sabbath school work is important, and all who are interested in
the
truth should endeavor to make it prosperous.-- A Marvelous Power for Good
Our Sabbath schools are nothing less than Bible societies, and in the
sacred work of teaching the truths of God's word, they can accomplish far
more than they have hitherto accomplished. The Sabbath school, when
rightly
managed, possesses marvelous power, and is adapted to doing a great work,
but it is not now [WRITTEN IN 1889] what it may and should be. The
influence
growing out of Sabbath school work should improve and enlarge the church;
but in no case should it ever be allowed to divert from the interests of
the
church. There is a most precious missionary field in the Sabbath school,
and
if there are now omens of good, they are only indications and beginnings
of
what may be done.-
God's Instrumentalities
I feel a deep interest in our Sabbath schools throughout the land,
because I believe them to be instrumentalities of God for the education of
our youth in the truths of the Bible. Constant efforts should be made by
both parents and teachers to interest the youth in matters of eternal
importance. The Sabbath school is a missionary field, and very much more
of
a missionary spirit should be manifested in this important work than has
been manifested in the past.
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