Ruts and Rails in Sunday School Work
There are ruts, and there are rails. A plowman who always plows up the same furrow, is not much of a success as a plowman; but an engineer who runs his engine off the track at a dangerous curve, is still less of a success as an engineer. It is a great thing to know the difference between a rut and a rail; and no Sunday-school superintendent is fully qualified for his office until he has attained to that knowledge. Every superintendent ought to be fully persuaded in his own mind as to what are the things that ought to be run on rails in his school, and what are the things that ought not to be run in ruts. And he must see to it that in his anxiety to prevent the school from running in ruts, he does not end by running the school off the rails.—Sel.