The Sabbath School Visiter (1-2)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1833 Excerpt: ...no time is to be lost in what remains to be done. Life is closing--death is at the door--eternity will soon call us to other scenes. 6. That God is with them that devise and execute liberal things--and fails not to make good the pledge--'He that watereth himself also shall be watered.' We might add more, but I will not tire your patience with a long article. We trust, other schools made the attempt and succeeded beyond us. We would hail with delight another proposition to repeat the same labor of love, and with greater faithfulness and self-denial. May the Lord give us more just and adequate views of the importance of the Sabbath school cause, that has already taken so deep hold, on the hearts and efforts of the church, and of others who, with a wide range of thought, are wont to trace out the bearings of our moral and religious insttiutions with the future destiny of our country and the welfare of a dying world. Yours respectfully, D. A. Grosvenor. Uxbridge, Nov. 1833. We should be very glad to be informed of what was done in other places, on the fourth of July.--Editor. SABBATH SCHOOLS IN SALEM. TABERNACLE CHURCH. There are in the school connected with the Tabernacle church, 72 teachers and 580 scholars, 229 of whom are over 14 years of age. One teacher and four scholars have joined the church during the year. The teachers hold weekly meetings, and the pastor frequently lectures upon the monthly lesson of the senior classes, as contained in Cogswell's Theological Class Book. The monthly collection the past year, amounted to $72,82. The church is represented as taking considerable interest in the school. Special means have been used to increase the number of scholars. The ladies in the senior classes, appointed committees to visit given sections of the tow...