Morning Star

INFLUENCE OF PREJUDICE.

There are among us, it is well known, some good F. W. Baptists, brethren and sisters, who are after so long a time still opposed to Sabbath school instruction. Of this class of christians, both already small and daily diminishing, there is one estimable brother, who some fifteen years since closed his last school in District No., in a town of this state. Much pains had he always taken to increase the intellectual treasures of his pupils; nor was he indifferent to their moral and spiritual weal. When he closed the above named school, he gave out lessons to get and portions of the Bible to read, to all of his school who could get them and attend; and during the summer season he would be at great pains to meet with them. Well do we remember the Saturday afternoon, when we were all, a large class of us, assembled at his own house, and all read in God's own book to the beloved man; and we think to this day, that much good resulted from his pious endeavors. This was before any thing in the cause of S. schools had been done in that neighborhood or near it. Our readers will naturally suppose that when the S. school cause did commence there, our pious school-master would have been foremost to render it aid. But no! F. W. Baptists were getting too popular! were getting to be like other denominations! S. schools had a bad origin! there were none such in the apostle's days; Christ gave no such commandment; we were all departing from the faith once delivered to the saints:-and the good man no longer, in all the long summer season, meets on a Saturday afternoon, his class of innocent youths, to instruct them from the word of life :-it is so much like the Sabbath School!

It is not so much to be wondered at, that some Christians who do not read much, nor think much, should be indifferent; but why such a man should be so turned from the way of right by prejudice, we leave to the philosophy of our readers to determine.