Church review . THE LATTER RAIN. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL PROBLEM. By Mr. Harry Handy, Superintendent of Fourth Congregational Church Bible School. J? and Vicinity. The latter rain, — it falls in anxious hasteUpon the sun-dried fields and branch- es bare, with searching drops the rig d wasteAs if it would each roots lost strength.(0 xis SuisHOBJd Aq luiri nurqi repair;But not a blade grows green as in the spring;No swelling twig puts forth its thick-ening leaves;The robins only mid the harvests sing,Pecking the grain that scatters from the sheaves;The rain falls still,—the fruit all

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Church review . THE LATTER RAIN. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL PROBLEM. By Mr. Harry Handy, Superintendent of Fourth Congregational Church Bible School. J? and Vicinity. The latter rain, — it falls in anxious hasteUpon the sun-dried fields and branch- es bare, with searching drops the rig d wasteAs if it would each roots lost strength.(0 xis SuisHOBJd Aq luiri nurqi repair;But not a blade grows green as in the spring;No swelling twig puts forth its thick-ening leaves;The robins only mid the harvests sing,Pecking the grain that scatters from the sheaves;The rain falls still,—the fruit all ripen-ed drops,It pierces chestnut-burr and walnut shell;The furrowed fields disclose the yellow crops;Each bursting pod of talents used can tell;And all that once received the early rainDeclare to man it was not sent in vain. —Jones Very. At the present time the attention ofthe church is being more and moreturned toward the young as its futurehope. This may be due in part to thestress that is being laid u

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