Tract Number 283

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Why I Want My Children Kept In Sunday School

Before an automobile ever came along the Country road past his house, the writer of this article was a regular attendant at Sunday School. If he could answer the question. “What good has the Sunday School done to him and to others? Perhaps he might be able to say why he wants his children to go that way. Suppose we look at some reasons together.

Sunday School Lays a Good Foundation for Life

When one has learned the Ten Commandments at Sunday School he can never be quite the same. “Thou shalt not” rises before him like a wall and he conquers because he has learned the Word. Many a boy and girl has built a noble life on the precepts taught in Sunday School.

Sunday School Texts Stick in the Mind

Golden texts like, “Thou God seest me,” “Be sure your sin will find you out,” and “Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth” have been hung in childrens minds by their teachers to the extent that no one but God knows what the effects for good have been.

Sunday School Songs Are Sung Through Life

Even now the writer remembers songs he learned in various Sunday Schools; “You May Have the Joy Bells,” “Count Your Many Blessings,” and “Wonderful Words of Life.” Sunday School songs give lifts of encouragement hard to evaluate.

Sunday School Builds a NO Into Character

If we could call thousands of noble characters to our witness stand they would say, “I learned to say NO at Sunday School,—NO to the dance, NO to the cigarette, NO to the bottle, NO to Sunday desecration, and NO to lies. A NO built into character is worth more than a thousand dollars—yes, more than a thousand worlds, sometimes.

Sunday School Builds a YES Into Character

Perhaps the same witnesses who learned to say NO would say: “I learned to say YES to teacher, YES to the BIBLE, YES to the preacher, and YES to the LORD in Sunday School. It takes courage to say YES and NO at the right time and Sunday School boys and girls are taught to say it.

Sunday School Helps to Make Church Pillars

Peep into the Church doors next Sunday and ask the janitor, the teachers, the givers, the attendants, and the pastor how much the Sunday School had to do with their faithfulness. Church pillars take much shaping and Sunday Schools help to do it.

Sunday Schools teach children the only name under heaven by which they may be saved. Sunday Schools teach children that repentance, confession and faith are the steps to a new-born life by which one can become a child of God.

Sunday Schools Lead Parents to God

Children often accept the Lord as a result of Sunday School work and the change in the children often leads the parents to want the same experience and to become workers in the Church.

Sunday Schools Help to Make Martyrs

A little Norwegian boy was told to steal some apples by some big boys. He had learned by faithful attendance at Sunday School not to steal. The boys ducked him time and again in the river but he was faithful unto death. He thought he was going to the pasture to get the cows but he preached a sermon that has never died. Mothers of the countryside said, “May his spirit rest upon my boy,” and strong men wept and said, “God be praised for the lad.”

A drunkards son went to a mission Sunday School and learned some of the ten commandments. His father beat him because he would not steal. He climbed to an attic and was found by a friend. In his dying condition he was heard to say, “Ill never steal again if father kills me for it?” He soon went to live with the God of honesty forever.

Sunday Schools Are Gates to Heaven

Along the pathway of life a gate swings open, “Come, go with me to Sunday School,” and an interested person, by heeding, finds it a gate to heaven. He reflects in later years and says, “That pleasant invitation started me on the way to the celestial city.”

Conclusion

Yes, I want my children, seven in number, to have the good foundation, the Golden texts, the Gospel texts, the Gospel songs, the NO and the YES in their characters, to be Christian martyrs if necessary, and to enter the gates of heaven. I want the same for myself so I will go with them to Sunday School.

—Author Unknown.