TO THE NEW YORK SABBATH-SCHOOLS.
By M. H. Brown
We wish to call the special attention of all who are interested in the Sabbath-school work in our Conference, to the following important points:— 1. Members of the Executive Committee of our State S. S. Association, and all our preachers and T. and M. officers, should consider it their duty to see that every company of Sabbath-keepers accessible to them has an organized Sabbath-school, and assists in carrying out the plans proposed in the following points. 2. A club of Instructors should be taken by every school, and if the excellent hints and valuable suggestions contained in our Sabbath-school paper were carefully read, and acted upon, greater success would attend this branch of the work. 3. Every school should report immediately after the church quarterly meetings held in January, April, July, and October. The Secretary of each school should be prompt in sending such report, even if it is not as full as desired. Let every Sabbath-school officer take pride in doing his part of the work well; and then if mistakes are made in the reports as published, time and patience will secure their correction. 4. Maps and books of reference are needed in every school. Our schools are languishing for the want of these valuable helps. They should be ordered through your tract-society librarian. We ought to be as wide awake, earnest, and thorough in providing aids to secure a knowledge of the word of God and heavenly things, as in getting a knowledge of science and literature. Shall we spend money for books and papers that give us and our children information concerning things of a temporal nature, while our families and Sabbath-schools are left almost destitute of those things which are absolutely necessary for an interesting and successful school? 5. Liberal donations should be made for Sabbath-school purposes, and they should be judiciously used in securing the helps recommended by the General Sabbath-school Association. Fellow-laborers, let us take hold of this work anew, and avail ourselves of everything that will help forward this noble cause. We should think and plan for its advancement, as we would for any other important work. M. H. BROWN, Pres. N. Y. S. S. A.