A Brief Exposition of the Character, Operations and Claims of the Sunday-School Union of the Methodist Episcopal Church

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Page 18 - The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field : which indeed is the least of all seeds ; but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in thq branches thereof.
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Page 35 - ... but by the Spirit of the Lord of hosts, that the world is to be overcome, and the kingdom of righteousness and peace established.
Page 6 - The children were to come soon after ten in the morning and stay till twelve; they were then to go home and return at one, and after reading a lesson they were to be conducted to church. After church they were to be employed in repeating the catechism till half after five, and then to be dismissed, with an injunction to go home without making a noise, and by no means to play in the streets. This was the general outline of the regulations.
Page 6 - I immediately determined to make some little effort to remedy the evil. Having found four persons, who had been accustomed to instruct children in reading, I engaged to pay the sum they required, for receiving and instructing such children as I should send to them every Sunday. The children were to come soon after ten in the morning, and stay till twelve : they were then to go home and return at one ; and after reading a lesson, they were to be conducted to church. After church they...
Page 10 - ... co-operation of as many of our members as they can ; to visit the schools as often as practicable ; to preach on the subject of Sunday schools and religious instruction in each congregation at least once in six months ; to lay before the Quarterly Conference at each quarterly meeting, to be entered on its journal, a written statement of the number and state of the Sunday schools within their respective circuits and stations, and to make a report of the same to their several Annual Conferences.
Page 71 - ... attended by his wife during the time he may be an inmate of said home, but no wife or widow of a soldier or sailor shall be admitted as an inmate of said home unless due and sufficient proof is presented of her marriage to such soldier or sailor prior to the year eighteen hundred and eighty. § 9. Powers of the board of managers. — The board of managers shall have charge of all of the affairs of the institution, with power to make all necessary by-laws, rules, and regulations, for its government...
Page 6 - Having found four persons who had been accustomed to instruct children in reading, I engaged to pay the sum they required for receiving and instructing such children as I should send to them every Sunday. The children were to come soon after ten in the morning, and stay till twelve ; they were then to go home, and return at one ; and after reading a lesson, they were to be conducted to church. After church they were to be employed in repeating the catechism till halfpast five, and then to be dismissed...
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Page 6 - Hireling teachers can scarcely be expected to possess either the zeal, or ability of those who now engage in the work from motives of pure benevolence. Gratuitous instruction, was an astonishing improvement of the system...

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