The Sunday School Teacher

 

 

The Sunday School is the feeder

Of the local church,

This should be obvious to all;

One does not need an expert.

 

A church without a Sunday school

Is destined soon to die

And that its future is rather short,

One cannot seriously deny.

 

The key to any Sunday school

Is the Sunday school teacher

And these two must go hand in glove

Like an open-air and preacher.

 

 

 

Earliest exposure to Bible truths

Is absolutely necessary

And so, the Sunday school teacher

Facilitates this necessity.

 

“Train up a child,” the Bible says,

“In the way that he should go.”

How we need the Sunday school teacher!

By now all of us should know.

 

I was once privy to a document

Regarding the former Glendairy Prison

In which, of its prison population,

Were no Sunday school children.

 

 

 

Not a single Sunday school pupil

Had entered in those gates,

This was back in the nineteen nineties

The information then did state.

 

A survey had been conducted

Re: the impact of the Sunday school

And the evidence was strikingly clear

Even to a fool.

 

Even in these COVID-19 times

In which much teaching is online

No genuine effort should be spared

To impact our children’s mind.

 

More than ever they now need

The enduring Biblical truths,

The present surge in criminal activity

Is more than adequate proof.

 

Hence, the Sunday school teacher

Has to be a definite necessity

If we are to halt this devious trend

And curb this criminal hostility.

 

 

“Train up a child,” I must repeat,

“In the way that he should go.”

If no Sunday school teacher, my friend,

How are they to know?

 

Stewart Russell © September 5, 2021