may be of no benefit to you. No lasting principle is gained, but the
whole may be lost, as the words of the lesson are lost to memory and
forgotten.

_Eld. B._ What are the results of attendance on the Sabbath school?

_Teach._ That question we answer, partly in faith, and partly by
knowledge. Faith is good;--and we know that our school is a good school;
we know that we enjoy ourselves there; and we know what is learned there
is good. It is there that divine influences and joyful communions fill
with gladness the hour. We enjoy them, and if we could say no more, we
think that this would be sufficient.

_Eld. B._ That is true.

_Teach._ But that is not all; the results go still further. They are not
confined to the hour passed in the schoolroom. The scholar is better and
happier for having been there. Is it not so with you?

_Eld. B._ Yes sir; I always feel better when I have been to the school.
When I have said my lesson, conversed upon the subject of it, and
obtained my library book, I am always glad to have been there.

_Teach._ Your answer is full of hope and promise; for if you now find
your enjoyment in learning the things of the Kingdom of God, those evil
days will never come to you, when you will say you have no pleasure in
them. The Sabbath school scholar who is prompt in his duty is in a safe
path,--one which, while affording happiness by the way, results in the
fulness of joy. To him the example of Christ is an example of love and
goodness, drawing him to the Father by these divine influences and
attractions. "He sees God, not only as the Creator, but as he is
manifested in the world, by his providence, which shows us that he not
only _made_ the world, but that he _makes_ the world; that he is the
same in the creation of the flowers and streams as in the creation of
storms and tempests; that he is not far off, but near, ever blessing us
with the favors of his parental providence; that his power is over
everything; that motion is his power, for there can be no motion without
mind; that God is present in the child. It cannot live by bread alone.
Communion must be held with God--spirit with spirit."

It is recorded of our Savior that he was led into the waters, and was
buried in baptism; the Spirit descended upon him; he heard the
encouragement of that voice which proclaimed his Sonship to the Most
High, and in the enjoyment of that holy time he came up from the river.
Then came the tempter; in the strengt