SABBATH-SCHOOL SCHOLARS,
By D. W. Reavis
ALL Sabbath-keepers from three to eighty years old should be Sabbath-school scholars. We are familiar with “Jennie is too young, and father is too old to attend Sabbath-school.” It is much easier for parents to persuade themselves that their children are “too young” than it is for them to spend an hour every day teaching them. Parents in Ohio, we especially call upon you to spend an hour each day instructing your little ones, and then bring them to our Sabbath-schools. You will find that they will not only answer all the questions, but will tell you all about their lesson in a complete story form. Your children that are three or four years old are not too young to have Sabbath-school lessons. All they need is your help. An old man, tottering on his cane, came to one of our Sabbath-schools, and taking a seat by two little boys, began to help them sing their cheerful Sabbath-school songs. Though his voice was broken, neither he nor the boys seemed to notice it. During the recitations and the general exercises, the venerable old man remained with the boys, answering questions in his turn with them, and at the close gave a synopsis of the lesson in as happy, cheerful a manner as though he were a boy. The boys, of course, were delighted to have happy grandfather in their class. He claimed that he was as young, in feeling, as the boys with whom he had recited. Let the fathers and mothers come to our Sabbath-schools, and take an active part with their children, and they will soon become young, so young that neither mud nor snow will keep them away. D. W. REAVIS.