Excerpt from An Address Delivered in the South Dutch Church, Albany, October 6, 1829: On the Anniversary of the County Sabbath School Union In presenting before you a brief outline of duty, permit me to say, I. That you should endeavor to gain a deep impres= sion of the importance of the work m which you are engaged. In every enterprise in which men engage, it is nee cess'ary that they should have just views of its impor tance, in order to ensure a reasonable prospect of success: for if the object aimed at be really one of deep interest, and yet be regarded as of compa ratively trifling interest, nothing is more certain' than that the effort to obtain it, will be disproportioned to its importance, and will, therefore, probably, be to little or no purpose. If, for instance, you engage in the business of Sabbath school instruction, chiefly as a matter of amusement, or merely from an instinctive fondness for mingling with children, or from any con sideration which does not involve a sense of the real importance Of the object, it were in vain to expect that-you should discharge, in the best manner, the da ties cf your station. You will never labor with that diligence, perseverance, fidelity, and humble depen dence on God, which ought to characterize the Sab bath school teacher, unless you look at the object in its high and momentous bearings, not only upon the life that now is, but upon that which is to come. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.