Christian Theology - Media Sabda Org

N.B. Answers of a certain kind to many of the preceding questions
may be obtained from travellers, historians, &c. But these generally copy
each other, and are not to be much regarded. I wish you therefore to see
with your own eyes, and hear with your own ears; and to answer from
knowledge and fact. Look at nature and practice as they lie before you:
but when obliged to relate any thing from the testimony of others, see that
the testimony be credible; and generally give the reasons upon which your
own conviction is built?
Poor Shetland, I have worked hard for thee; many a quire, many a
ream of paper have I written to describe thy wants, and to beg for
supplies; and several thousands of miles have I travelled in order to raise
those supplies which by letters I had solicited for thee. It is now "almost
done, and almost over." May God raise thee up another friend, that will
be, if possible, more earnest and faithful, and at the same time more
successful! And now I may say, May the HOLY TRINITY be the incessant
Friend, O my poor Shetland! Amen.
SUNDAY SCHOOLS.
THE amazing success of Sunday schools has nearly annihilated the
proverb, "A young saint, an old devil;" as we find in all directions both
men and women, whether wives and husbands, or masters and servants,
walking in all the ordinances and commandments of God unblamably,
who were brought to an acquaintance with God, when little children, at
such schools; whose piety never forsook them, but has carried them on
through most of the troublesome and trying relations of life; till, now past
their meridian, their sun is growing brighter and broader toward its
setting, having before shone more and more to its perfect day. Nor do I
know a Sunday school in the nation, under the direction of godly teachers,
that has not been crowned with instances of this kind, and that has not
had the satisfaction of registering the true Scriptural conversion and
happy deaths of several of its pupils. When these results have been so
numerous, and satisfactorily witnessed, we need not wonder that pious
parents have been encouraged to cultivate their children's minds with