MORGAN'S HISTORY OF THE NEW JERSEY CONFERENCE Page 169
The importance of the work which properly comes under this head cannot be overestimated, embracing as it does the moral and spiritual training of our youth, the present and future well being of our entire people, and the emancipation from the fetters of ignorance of those unnumbered masses whom as yet the light of Christian religion has failed to reach. As our church gains power and strength in its onward march of progress, there ought and doubtless will be an ever increasing interest taken in these important departments of Christian labor.
We, your committee, to whom was submitted the subject of Sabbath-schools, beg leave to submit the following for your consideration:
Whereas, we realize the great importance of the Sabbath-school cause and the incalculable benefit that the church may derive by the careful cultivation and the proper development of the morals of the youth;
And Whereas, Christ said to Peter, (John 21 - 15,) "Feed my Lambs," we believe it is enjoined upon the ministers of Christ to faithfully instruct the children and administer to their spiritual wants; therefore be it
Resolved, That all our ministers be requested to hold special religious services one Sabbath in each quarter, consisting of exhortation, prayer and song;
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