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Excerpt from Sermons for Children IT was in May, 1881, after long waiting, that I ventured to announce to my people a series Of sermons for chil dren. I did not think the series would last many weeks, but it still continues, one every Sunday preceding the usual sermon, with a short hymn between the two. Others had attempted it, but their success or failure did not bring the children in my parish out to the church ser vices; so, in fear, I ventured to attempt the feeding of the lambs in my flock with food suited to them, and so to win them into the sanctuary. About the same time we began a roll-call every Sunday in the church school, embracing three things I. The number of scholars pres ent, excluding new scholars for any Sunday 2. The num ber of perfect lessons; and 3. The number at church services. AS the name-number of each class is called by the superintendent, the teacher reports for each of the above points, and the superintendent records the answers in a book prepared for the purpose. On these answers percentages are made of lessons and church attendance, and announced to the school. New scholars are not reported the first day they appear, as such report would unjustly reduce the percentages. It takes but a few minutes to make these reports, and it gives the actual attendance upon our church service for every Sunday in the year, and the per cent. Of those present in the Sunday-school, excluding the infant class, who have attended church. That per cent. Of church attendance, as thus accurately reported, was, for 1885, 76. This object of the sermons and of the roll-call has been attained much more fully than I had expected. And the interest in the sermons manifested by adults as well as children has led me to regard this part of my labor as the most fruitful of all. The sermons have aimed at plain and practical instruction, and not at sensational results. Hence they have not been highly wrought, or embellished with stories that seldom benefit hearers. This volume is almost exclusively made up of sermons published in the Congregational paper of Michigan, T he Beacon, from January, 1885, to May, 1886, and in a little volume printed for an Easter gift to the children Of the Sunday-school, and entitled The Fruit of the Spirit. 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.
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Abel Hastings Ross was born in Winchendon, Massachussets, the seventh of the nine children of Phineas and Betsey (Marshall) Ross. The family lived at different times on farms in Winchendon, Gardner, and Ashburnham, and the boy's life was one of poverty and hard labor.
Lacking financial backing, he gained his education by his own indomitable persistence. After some study at Winchendon Academy, he entered the preparatory department of Oberlin in 1851 and the college in 1853, graduating from the latter in 1857. Returning to New England, he continued his studies at Andover Theological Seminary, from which he was graduated in 1860.
Ross was ordained in the Congregational Church at Boylston, Massachussets, on Oct. 17, 1861. He served as pastor there until 1866, being absent for several months during the Civil War in the service of the Christian Commission. His other pastorates were at the First Church, Springfield, Ohio, 1866-73; Plymouth Church, Columbus, Ohio, 1873-75; and Port Huron, Mich. , 1876-93, where he died.
From 1871 to 1891 he was lecturer on church polity at Oberlin Theological Seminary and from 1882 to 1886, Southworth Lecturer on Congregationalism at the Andover Theological Seminary. Ross was an authority on the history and polity of the Congregational denomination and one of its best known and most influential leaders.
He early realized the imperfections of the denominational organization and the loss of power resulting therefrom, and he labored for a generation to correct them. He was a strong advocate of an ecumenical Congregational council which should be advisory in its nature but destitute of authority, and like the local and national councils of the denomination, should not infringe on the independency of the churches.
His views on this subject set forth in his article "An Ecumenical Council of the Congregational Churches" (Congregational Quarterly, April 1874) bore fruit in the International Congregational Council in London in 1891, in the proceedings of which he had a prominent part. His publications included: The Ohio Manual; Statement of the Historical, Doctrinal and Ecclesiastical Position of the Congregational Churches (1877); The Church of God; a Catechism (1881); Sermons for Children (1887); Immanuel Catechism for Infant Classes (1893). His literary work was marked by clearness of definition and lucidity of statement and when on controversial ground he was fair and good tempered. His simple and sincere manner and kindly spirit gained him a wide circle of friends.
Ross was known a constant contributor on social, denominational, and religious subjects to the reviews and quarterlies. He was the author of twenty-three books and pamphlets. His Church-Kingdom (1887), comprising his Southworth Lectures at Andover, is of permanent value, and his Pocket Manual of Congregationalism (1889) ranks as one of the best treatises on the polity of that order.
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"There can be no doubt, " it has been said regarding his service to Congregationalism, "that our churches owe more to him than to almost any other man of his generation for their growing sense of a common life and of the need and the possibility of a more perfect union in their fellowship and their activities" (W. H. Ryder, in Andover Theological Seminary Necrology, 1892-93, p. 90).
On October 15, 1860, Ross married Mary Maria Gilman, an Oberlin classmate, who survived him.
