OR The Children, the Sabbath School, BY REV. CHARLES GREENWOOD. WITH AN INTRODUCTION, BY REV. E. N. KIRK. BOSTON: S. K. WHIPPLE AND COMPANY, 161 WASHINGTON STreet. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1855, by CHARLES GREENWOOD, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. CAMBRIDGE: ALLEN AND FARNHAM, PRINTERS. CHILDREN are a problem, of which the future history of the world will be but the solution. The infant mind of the next generation, is the most vulnerable point of the nation. It is not so momentous a work to govern as it is to prepare the materials to be governed. "He who plants one truth clearly in a child's conscience, enthrones there a hundred governors." The chief concern of a State should be, the education of its children. "The national heart must be produced, not by influencing, but by forming men." "Public opinion is formed by influences upon childhood." The profoundest principles of Christianity are wrapped up in the simple precepts of the Sabbath school. The salvation of ten thousand perishing souls may result from the correct education of a single child. "The progress of the earth towards the Millennium will be in the ratio of the education of her children." Universal evangelization is as much the price of liberty, as eternal vigilance. Republicanism and freedom, are but mere names for beautiful but impossible abstractions, except in the case of a Christianly educated people." Let the banner of the cross go forth, side by side with the flag of our Union; let the Bible be everywhere on the same shelf with the Constitution; let the tree of life be planted beside the tree of liberty. "The hand which transferred the sceptre of civilization and the crown of knowledge from the banks of the Nile and the Euphrates, is bearing them onward to the valley of the Mississippi." America holds the keys of the earth; she is to perform some of the loftiest deeds of time, solve some of the mightiest problems of nations, and reveal in her destiny some of the profoundest purposes of the Creator relative to man. |
