Who can tell where and when the fruit of a Sunday School teacher’s work may turn up? It may be at the present time, or it may be years after the workman has gone to his eternal rest. But, let it be when or where it may, fruit will assuredly be found when the seed has been sown in faith and watered by prayer.
Some precious portion of Scripture, some sweet hymn, some teaching, or loving appeal remains buried in the depths of memory (beneath a mass of folly it may be), and comes up again to mind in some quiet moment, or it may be on a dying bed, and is used of the Holy Spirit for the quickening and saving of the soul. Who can tell the importance of getting hold of the mind while it is young, fresh, and receptive, to impress it with heavenly things?
Then again, it gives precious opportunity of presenting the gospel to the unconverted, or of expounding the Holy Scriptures to the children of God. Indeed the Sunday school is a profoundly interesting branch of evangelistic and Christian labor, whether among the young or the older ones.
Let nothing, dear friend, discourage you in the work which you have undertaken. It is a good work; go on with it, under the eye of the Lord, and “Be not weary in well doing, for in due season we shall reap if we faint not” (Gal. 6:99And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. (Galatians 6:9)).