JUVENILE MUSIC. Furnished for this work by LowELL MASON, Professor in the Sabbath School Hymn. 4 To thee, O blessed Saviour, Our grateful songs we raise; Oh! tune our hearts and voices Thy holy name to praise; Tis of thy sov reign mercy, We're here allow'd to SABBATH SCHOOL VISITER. VOL. III. NOVEMBER, 1835. NO. 11. TO BE READ AT THE CONCERT. A MISSIONARY'S ADDRESS TO TEACHERS. The Rev. Reuben Tinker, Missionary at the Sandwich Islands, has furnished us with the following extract from an Address. He has kindly given us encouragement to expect, occasionally, future communications from his pen. Accompanying this communication were six numbers of the KUMU HAWAII, a religious paper, edited by Mr. T. These papers are in the native language of those Islands, and are designed for that people. That our readers may see a specimen of the language, we will give a few lines of what we suppose to be the VERSE SYSTEM. It is the first verse of the fourth chapter of Romans. KA EPISETOLE A PAULO I KO ROMA. Mokuna 4: 1. Alaila, heaha la ka kakou mea e olelo ai, ua loaa ia Aberahama ko kakou makua ma ke kino? THE ADDRESS: It is extremely natural, you know, to wish to live in the remembrance of others; to be known to generations yet unborn. Hence some carve their names on the bark of trees, or engrave them on a rock, or write them in the family Bible, or leave, while dying, some trifling memento, with the charge, "Remember me. "Others, more aspiring, build pyramids and babels, or hunt for new stars to give to them their names; while others seek renown by their crimes, and write their records with the blood of the slain. In these, and many other modes, do men express the desire, natural to all, of being had in everlasting remembrance. Why then should we be slow to prosecute a work whose record shall last forever; and last forever it must, if it be a service done unto Christ, and his cause. The pious widow who cast two mites into the treasury, and Mary who anointed her Lord for the burial, and Dorcas VOL. III. 21 who made garments for the poor, will be known far and near till the great burning day. Would you be remembered forever? Let your name be written in the Book of Life. Let it be impressed on some pillar or engraved on some stone in the Holy City. And know you not, that the children in your class, if converted, sanctified and saved, will be pillars and polished stones in the temple of our God? Would you be remembered forever? Build not pyramids nor triumphal arches, nor write your name on them; for they shall all be thrown down by the hand of ages; but connect your memory with the soul of a child saved from hell, and your memorial will be lasting as the throne of the Eternal. Our faith, dear friends, must be very slender, if we feel, as many do, that it is small business to be engaged in the religious instruction of children. The fact is, you are engaged in a great work, as well as a good one; a work in which one hundred and seventy thousand teachers are every Sabbath employed in instructing two millions of children from the Book of Celestial Truth. O it is an employment angels regard with delight, and one which, if they ever sinned, they would covet. A small work! What! Suppose you had power to make the sun rise and set, and could send rain, and clothe the woods and fields in green, and beautify the earth with flowers and fruits,— this would be no small work; and yet winter, in a few months, will throw over it his frosty mantle, and obliterate it forever. How much better, greater, then, to rear a spiritual plant for the everlasting spring of paradise. A small work to educate children religiously! Suppose you were able to go through the land and scatter the misery that broods upon it. Suppose you could restore to soberness and respectability the degraded intemperate thousands, and put a praying voice upon tongues of blasphemy, and seat the profaners of holy time in the pews of the sanctuary; suppose you could snatch from the gallows men just going for eternity, and shake down prison walls, and burst the felon's cell, and with a touch transform degradation and crime to honor and worth ;incarnate devils to angelic spirits; is all this beneath you ? this a small work? No. It is a work which the highest created beings are not commissioned to do; a work which God doth not himself do often. But he places it in the power of Sabbath school teachers to do greater works than these; or, in other words, works more important to the welfare of mankind. For it is more important to prevent evils from coming on men than to remove them after they exist. If, for example, you should, by a fall, dislocate your bones, and after enduring severe pain, a surgeon could be found to heal you instantly, it would be a great service, and proclaimed through the land. But would not the individual, who should prevent your falling, do you a more important service, though you might make less account of it? If in journeying, you should go some miles on a wrong road, and one should be so kind as to bring you back and set you right, he would do you a favor, which you could not fail to acknowledge. But he who erects a guide-post, that saves you from straying at all, does you a greater favor than the friend who brings you back. So teachers of Sabbath schools who save the rising generation from miseries which would otherwise come on them, though they be now unnoticed and unknown, are the benefactors of their race no less than Howard, and Wilberforce, and other philanthropists, who exerted their strength in lifting from wretched men the burden of misery under which they groaned. Those, who train children for God, need not, ought not, must not, be ambitious of earthly distinction; no one need write their names in letters of gold on pillars of marble; and fame need not blow their deeds through her trumpet. Their record is on high, to be seen there, when monumental marble has mouldered, to be heard there long after worldly fame has blown her final blast. In a short time we stand at the judgment, the millenium being past, and what a multitude of redeemed sinners do we see. And who are these with robes and palms, and whence came they? They came from lands which were heathen in 1836. Who carried to them the Gospel ?Missionaries of the cross. Where and by whom were they trained for a work so long neglected, yet so godlike? In Sabbath schools, by the instructions and prayers of pious teachers were they trained to be the Apostles of the Lamb. This is not an enthusiastic, but a "heavenly vision;" for nineteen twentieths of the missionaries from England became pious in Sabbath schools; and there is little question with any, who observe the signs of the times, but these schools are among the best means for the conversion of the world. Let others amass wealth, if they will, it shall be melted in the last conflagration; let others bind the victor's laurel on their brow, if they will, it shall wither; let others be illustrious by violence, oppression, and blood, if they will, they shall perish, and their names shall rot; but let me be the honored instrument of converting children to God, and I ask no more. INFANT SABBATH SCHOOL INCIDENTS. I have perused, with much interest, some numbers in the Visiter relating to Infant Sabbath schools. It has been my privilege to labor in that department of the S. S. for the last four years. Many incidents have occurred, which I have treasured in the "storehouse of memory," one or two of which I now take the liberty to communicate for the Visiter. In pleasant weather there are present from forty to sixty children-about seventy names on the list. They manifest great attachment to the school. BREAKFAST SACRIFICED FOR THE SABBATH SCHOOL. On the first Sabbath of the present year, (which it will be remembered was intensely cold,) the children were told to go directly from the school room into church. One little girl, five years old, said, with a bright and smiling face, which shewed that she cheerfully made the sacrifice, that she might be present at her Sabbath school. "I am not going to meeting this morning, for my mother told me to come home and get my breakfast." In reply to the question, "Have you had no breakfast this morning?" she said "No; I did not get up early enough to eat it before the bell rang, and I wanted to come to the |