The development of the Sunday-school, 1780-1905 : the official report of the eleventh International Sunday-school Convention, Toronto, Canada, June 23-27, 1905 . ern that the timehas come to break out of the swaddling bands of pettyconception that hedge in our ideals of Christian activity,to pierce right through all the limitations that wall us infrom the great Christian duty, to rise up into the clearconception that what God has brotight us together for,what he has given us sympathy and coherence and co-operative fellowship for, is that he may make us agreat army to go out and conquer the who
The development of the Sunday-school, 1780-1905 : the official report of the eleventh International Sunday-school Convention, Toronto, Canada, June 23-27, 1905 . ern that the timehas come to break out of the swaddling bands of pettyconception that hedge in our ideals of Christian activity,to pierce right through all the limitations that wall us infrom the great Christian duty, to rise up into the clearconception that what God has brotight us together for,what he has given us sympathy and coherence and co-operative fellowship for, is that he may make us agreat army to go out and conquer the whole world, andnow in this generation to obey that last command ofhis, that will never be obeyed at all unless it is obej^ed in The Sunday-school and the Great Commission 381 some one generation,— Preach my gospel to everycreature. Ye shall be witnesses unto me both inJerusalem and in Samaria and unto the uttermost partsof the earth. Those were the last words that our Lord Jesus Christspoke. May they be the words that we carry awayfrom this convention. And if that was first in his heartat the last, woe betide us if we place it not first in ovirhearts Bethlehem— 1904 Christ Cometh . . out of the town of Bethlehem.(From Glimpses 0/Bible Lands) -John 7 :42 382 The Relation of the Sunday-school to MissionsThe Man with the Hammer Rev. CAREY BONNER General Secretary British Sunday-School Union From out the silence of the century now closed comesa message to the Sunday-school men and women of thisnew century. That message is suggested by what isheld in my hand. Here, carefully kept and passed on through fourgenerations, is the hammer actually used one hundredyears ago by the pioneer of modem missions, — the consecrated cobbler, — William Carey. The mere sight ofa relic belonging tosuch a man stirs oiorthoughts and awak-ens our think of it inrelation to the greatmissionary educa-tionist whose handsonce held it, andwho, in the North-amptonshire villageof Hackleto
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