THE SUNDAY-SCHOOL WORKER, A MONTHLY MAGAZINE FOR THE Help and Encouragement of those engaged in this branch of Christian Service. Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days. Ecc. xi. 1. The Sunday-school Worker. "LET US NOT BE WEARY." It is a very seasonable exhortation: "Let us not be weary in well-doing: for in due season we shall reap if we faint not." (Gal. vi. 9.) There is much to cause us to be weary, and Sunday-school workers are sometimes tempted to think that no work is so wearisome as theirs. We remember a dear devoted labourer once remarking that he believed every workman suffered in the work he had to do for the Lord; and if they did not suffer in it, he questioned if they were in their right place. Without going so far as to say that this is always the case, it certainly is so very frequently as far as the body is concerned. Thus we have noticed some who have to walk long distances from station to station, who are either lame or have bad feet. Others have to pass hours in a bad atmosphere in close rooms which brings on dreadful headaches; and thousands of labourers can testify that at the close of the Sunday they are "dead beat;" the work of the Sunday being the hardest day of the week. How important then is the exhortation, "Let us not be weary in well-doing." Not that the suffering is confined to the body. We have all to suffer in spirit more or less at the utter indifference displayed towards our message; |