. Proceedings and addresses of the Texas Methodist Educational Convention ... 1906. [electronic resource] . EDUCATIONAL CONVENTION diced against our Churches than he is against our terms of our great Commission compel us to sow by allwaters, and to count no human being beyond the pale of ourGospel. On no field of gospel effort has our labor been entirelyin vain, and against great odds Churches have been establishedeven among our foreign-speaking settlements. If the sheepcan be won for the Church, how much more may the lambs bewon for the school. There is no patent way to go about i
. Proceedings and addresses of the Texas Methodist Educational Convention ... 1906. [electronic resource] . EDUCATIONAL CONVENTION diced against our Churches than he is against our terms of our great Commission compel us to sow by allwaters, and to count no human being beyond the pale of ourGospel. On no field of gospel effort has our labor been entirelyin vain, and against great odds Churches have been establishedeven among our foreign-speaking settlements. If the sheepcan be won for the Church, how much more may the lambs bewon for the school. There is no patent way to go about it. The same methodswhich God has blessed in securing pupils who speak Englishwill succeed with those who speak other languages. Only, inthe latter case, there will be even greater need of courage, tact,business method and unfaltering, missionary love. Whoevermeets this demand will not labor entirely in vain. Whoeverturns the children of the foreigner to our Christian schoolsserves thereby both Church and State, and helps to solve agreat and pressing problem. Knowing this thing, happy arewe if we do 214 The Influence of the Press in OurEducational Work BY REV. G. C. RANKIN, D. D. The religious press has been a dominant factor in thework of Methodism from the time of its organization to thepresent. Mr. Wesley, having been a man of letters, realizedthe importance of this great arm of power early in the progressof his evangelical labors and he made liberal use of it in hisefforts to reach the people and educate public sentiment. Soonafter he entered upon his active work and long before hissystem took on organic shape, he began to write tracts, ser-mons, addresses and pamphlets, and to publish and scatterthem broadcast among the multitudes in order that the com-mon people might read, become informed, and establish them-selves in the truths of the gospel. Later on his monthly mag-azine became a wonderful medium for the communication ofinteresting religious matter to his follower
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