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by James W. Alexander

Section LXXII

Sunday-Schools

Sunday-schools have at least doubled the working power of every church in which they are well established. The energetic members of any Christian society are commonly Sunday-school teachers, or have been such. Employment in this work is usually the first labour which a young disciple ventures to undertake. The whole business of the Sun*

* James 5 20.

day-scliool tends to promote the spirit of benevolence and the habit of beneficence. Every order of talent may here find a place. You will therefore be consulting your own usefulness and happiness, if you take the earliest opportunity to enroll yourself among those who are devoted to the instruction of the poor and ignorant.

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