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[[italics]] FROM NATIONAL BAPTIST HYMNAL [[/italics]]

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489      I Want To Be A Soldier

W. H. S.      W. H. SHERWOOD, D. D.

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1. I want to be a sol-dier for the Lord, I will defend His
2. My Captain's Gone be-fore me on the field, I promised Him to
3. I take my stand a-round his ho-ly staff, I place my hands and
4. The Captain wants no cowards in His band, The Mas-ter calls for
5. And when on earth the bat-tle strife shall end. The Heav'nly sky the 
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[[1]] ev-er-lasting word, I will fight, I will stay, and prove faithful ev'ry day, 
[[2]] fol-low at His will, I will follow where He goes, till He conquers all His foes, 
[[3]] feet up-on His path, I will hold to the cross, counting all the world but dross,
[[4]] valiant hearted men, I will fight till I die, I will hold my banner high,
[[5]] victor's voice shall rend, I will shout the struggle o'er and will study war no more,
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D.S.-volunteered to stay, and be faithful ev'ry day,

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In the ar- my of the Lord. I will fight, always fight, I will
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In the ar-my of the Lord.

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stay, always stay, In the ar-my , bless-ed ar-my of my Lord, of my Lord. I have
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Copyright, 1891, by W. H. Sherwood, D.D.

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THE CONVENTION TEACHER

Published by The National Baptist Publishing Board
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23 Second Avenue, North   Nashville, Tennessee
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   "Lesson material is based on International Sunday School Lessons.  The International Bible Lessons for Christian Teaching, copyrighted by the International Council of Religious Education, and is used by its permission. 

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3rd Quarter, 1948      July, August, September      Vol. 52, Number 3

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R. H. BOYD, D. D., LL. D., Founder
H. A. BOYD, Corresponding Secretary
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MEMBER
NATIONAL NEGRO PRESS
ASSOCIATION
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SUGGESTED ORDER OF EXERCISE
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1. Usual Signal for Beginning.
2. Prayer: Closing with the Lord's Prayer. 
3. Singing: National Baptist Hymnal, No. 489
4. Poem (to be read or recited).
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THE NAMELESS SAINTS

What was his name? I do not know his name.
I only know he heard God's voice and came, 
   Brought all he had across the sea
   To live and work for God and me;
      Felled the ungracious oak;
      Dragged from the soil
      With horrid toil
   The thrice-gnarled roots and stubborn rock;
With plenty piled the haggard mountain side;
And at the end, without memorial, died. 
No blaring trumpets sounded out his fame.
He lived-he died-I do not know his name. 
      And I?
Is there some desert or some pathless sea
Where Thou, good God of angels, wilt send
      me?
      Some oak for me to rend; some sod,
      Some handful of His corn to take
      And scatter far afield
      Till it, in turn, shall yield
      Its hundredfold
      Of grains of gold
   To feed the waiting child of my God?
Show me the desert, Father, or the sea. 
Is it Thine enterprise? Great God, send me.
And though this body lie where ocean rolls, 
Count me among all Faithful Souls. 
-Edward Everett Hale.

5. [[italics]] Scripture Reading-Acts [[/italics]] 10:34-43

[[italics]] Superintendent: [[/italics]] Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons: 
[[italics]] School: [[/italics]] But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him. 
[[italics]] Superintendent: [[/italics]] The word which God sent unto the children of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ: (he is Lord of all:)
[[italics]] School: [[/italics]] That word, I say, ye know, which was published throughout all Judea, and began from Galilee, after the baptism which John preached; 
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[[italics]] Superintendent: [[/italics]] How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.
[[italics]] School: [[/italics]] And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the land of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they slew and hanged on a tree:
[[italics]] Superintendent: [[/italics]] Him God raised up the third day, and showed him openly;
[[italics]] School: [[/italics]] Not to all the people, but unto witnesses chosen before of God, even to us, who did eat and drink with him after he rose from the dead.
[[italics]] Superintendent: [[/italics]] And he commanded us to preach unto the people, and to testify that it is he which was ordained of God to be the Judge of quick and dead.
[[italics]] All: [[/italics]] To him give all the prophets witness, that through his name whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins. 

6. [[italics]] Recitation in Concert-Deuteronomy [[/italics]] 10:  17:21
   17  For the Lord your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward:
   18  He doth execute the judgement of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment [[sic]].
   19  Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
   20  Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name.
   21  He is thy praise, and he is thy God, that hath done for thee these great and terrible things which thine eyes have seen. 

[[centered]] LESSON WORK [[/centered]]
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1. Reading the Lesson. 
2. Singing.
3. Study in Classes. 
4. Recitation of Titles, Motto Text, etc. 
5. Desk Review: Pastor or Superintendent (or may be appointed).
6. Distribution, Collection, etc.
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[[centered]] CLOSING WORK [[/centered]]
1. [[italics]] Singing. [[/italics]]
2. [[italics]] Sentences: Job [[/italics]] 28:12, 13, 23, 28.
   12  But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding?
   13  Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living. 
   23  God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof.
   28  And unto men he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.

[[italics]] Dismissal with prayer. [[/italics]] 
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