"Uncle Boston's" Spicy Breezes (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885. Excerpt: ... A SUNDAY-SCHOOL IN A CAR. rpHE first frost had come, and with it the question: "What can be done for our Sunday-school? It cannot be held out of doors any longer." It was no laughing matter to our superintendent. He felt that the school ought to continue through the winter. In the new Minnesota town, all the inhabitants were living in the smallest of rooms in their humble homes, not one of them large enough to accommodate the Sunday-school. The superintendent was a man who was afflicted with homesickness, if a week passed and he was denied the pleasure of meeting the boys and girls for Bible study on Sunday. His own little store was so crowded with goods, that no room in it could possibly be made for the school. Not a hall, or even a schoolhouse, had been built; and it seemed as if the Sunday-school must close for the winter. A less determined man would have given up, with the discouraged ones' lament: "It is of no use trying to keep up the school." He could not be satisfied to have only his own family gathered on Sunday afternoon, for Bible study, and all the children of the neighborhood running wild; for he was about the only Christian man in the new town. More than once had he been threatened for speaking out on the temperance question, for he believed it should have a place in every Sunday-school; he had succeeded in getting many of the boys and girls to sign the pledge. He had exposed the saloons of the place, many times; showing by facts and figures the enormous amount expended for the deadly stuff, by their own little town. Several attempts had been made to drive him from the place; many an insult had been given to himself and family; but he still kept on, rebuking evil as opportunity offered; threatening letters were written, and finally his store...