The Sunday School and the Home
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tory, we find that learning originated with the church and that to begin with there were no schools except church schools. Since church and state are separate in our country and since there is no biblical training as doctrine or creed of life, the church must bend every effort to make our Sunday schools every whit as strong, if not stronger, than our secular schools. I say this because if a child has no spiritual schooling and only grows up with secular schooling, how can he handle the atomic bomb? True wisdom is of God, and it is a sad commentary that America, known as a Christian nation, forbids even the simplest prayer in our secular schools. How could there be a problem with the Ten Commandments . . . cer tainly the laws of our land are based on them, as our Constitution is based on Christian principles by men who possessed an abiding faith and trust in the Lord Jesus Christ and the Christian way of life. This is why we have freedom in America! May God burn this fact into our hearts! The earliest picture I can remember as a child is a picture of Jesus surrounded by little children, which hung in the little Baptist church at Italy, Tex., where I first attended Sunday school. No matter what the stress might be during the week, somehow when I meet my children to take them home after Sunday school and church, we are all at peace and renewed for the week to come, looking forward to the privilege of serving the Lord in our daily lives and putting into practice the things we have all learned in Sunday school. May God bless our Sunday schools in a wonderful way throughout the weeks and months to come.
T h e Christian Sunday school is of vital importance to the home. The Bible says, “ Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it.” My mother pondered these words in her heart and believed them. She took my brother and me to Sunday school from the time we were mere babes, and we were “ trained up” in the Christian way of life. At the age of 10, during a revival, I asked the Lord Jesus to be my Saviour, but unfortunately did not own Him as Lord of my life. As a result, I strayed from the fold for many years. Nevertheless, my eyes kept looking toward the church and from time to time I would be drawn toward the place of my early spiritual training. God rewarded my mother’s faith in God’s promise in the 22nd chapter of Proverbs, and 10 years ago, like the prodigal son, I “ came to myself’ and returned to my Father, Who forgave and accepted me. Since surrender ing my heart and life to the Lord Jesus Christ, I have truly found life abundant and glorious! On the other hand, my son Tom, was also trained up in the way he should go and paradoxically he, too, accepted the Lord Jesus as his Saviour at age 10, though in a wonderful, full commitment of his life. As a result, he has been an outstanding example of what Sunday school training can do toward keeping a child on the Christian path right up to manhood. It is a wonderful thing for children to look forward to the Lord’s Day with pleasure, knowing that they will leam more about the Master in company with others of their own age group. I feel that spiritual schooling is the most important schooling of life. Looking back into his
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