The Southern Enterprise

Morning Hours for Sunday-School---Defence of Late Rising and Rest on Sunday.

Rev. I. Scheneck, a prominent Methodist minister, at a Sunday School meeting at Brooklyn, N. Y., delivered an address which we find thus condensed in the New York Herald:

"The Rev. N. H. Scheneck, delivered an address, which was the feature of the day. He said that teaching and management in Sunday schools demanded radical reforms. Now, instruction was administered by teachers not sufficiently mature, and the whole system of a want of harmony was reprehensible. He asked for a change of hours for the children. He did not believe that they felt that degree of interest in the afternoon which they would in the morning, after having been refreshed by sleep, and braced by the morning air. A great literary man who years ago poured his volumes from the press with great rapidity, and afterwards astonished the world, rose at six in the morning and wrote till ten, giving the remainder of the day to recreation and his friends. Such was the career of the "Wizard of the North." It had been so with every man eminent in the field of letters. The mind was then vigorous, the imagination healthy and the pen fluent. Applied to religious worship its practicality was undoubted. No minister should be compelled to preach more than one sermon a day. People ought not to rise as early on Sunday mornings as on week day mornings, for had not the Lord declared it a day of rest (Laughter.) It was no laughing matter: it was a religious, physical and obvious necessity. Then, too, ministers should reserve their powers, and but once a week discharge the artillery of the Gospel into the sins of men, and there the shot would lodge until another Sunday's round drove it still further. He was for Sunday schools at ten A. M., and for church services at eleven."