Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: . - The Sunday-school also is an unwarranted invention of man. There is the supposition that it is a means of conversion, and indeed that is the avowed object of its existence. It has given, it is admitted, a considerable familiarity with the text of Scripture. But when that is obtained without spiritual discernment, as for instance with the unregenerate, it is worse than nothing for the individual. Christians should be happy in the Lord. But are they? Those that know not their free acceptance and blessing in Christ cannot be. No one can reioice in blessings that they are not conscious of possessing. Other Christians though possibly happy at heart, do not exhibit it. They have care-worn, anxious faces through an excessive desire for hair-splitting correctness in ecclesiastical practices to the exclusion of love. This is the other extreme of a few, whereas the great majority represent the opposite extreme. It is evidently the Adversary's work to spoil thus the testimony of Christians' lives. We must follow closely the Word in its teaching in all things in order to have a wholesome, honest, lively testimony before the world. Not in the energy of the " flesh," but in the power of resurrection life in Christ, so that it will be true of us also, that it is " the love of Christ constraining us." " Not I but Christ that liveth in me," as Paul testifies. Another thing is the undue prominence given the young. This is bound up with the failure to train and teach the young at home according to the teaching of the Word. Not much is said concerning the young in the Scriptures. One of the ten commandments, " Honor thy father and thy mother," etc., is repeated and commented on by Paul in Eph. 6:1-3. The fourth verse contains instructions to fathers, viz., to chasten and instruct b... --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.