The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1883-07-17 00:00:00

ALOWIR snrics .4T ST. JOHNS

On Sunday afternoon last • somewhat unusual sight
wee witnessed by people on the Esplanide, f c • great
many children were observed weeding their way to Si.
John's Church, all oirrying beautiful bunches of
'WKS, which tber Wging,ing t devote to the inmates
of the hoepitals. Toe church was filled to owed 'wing
with adnitts as well as many hittelrecis ofchildtete.
The service commenced with singing the 384th
hymn, alter which the Rev. 0.1110111 STIZMION briefly
addreised the children front the steps of the clusecel,
reminding them that they hni come together to offer
some beautiful gilts which God had bestowed alms
them to film for a special reason and for • special
object, namely, that they might be given to the sick,
who a mid not be moat, and who wanted so much to
cheer them in their skit rooms. Their object was to
show that the children were thinking about the sick,
felt for them and wished to heighten their home..
They bad met to bring flowers to God's house, and
offer them to Him, that HA might make them cheer
sod brighten up the banes of some of their sick
friends._ _ _

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The Confessioo, the Absolution, and the L ,rd's
Prayer and following emanate having been said, and
the hiss:role ust sung, the children were 000 ducted by
their teachers and Mende in a louroontlnued pro.
condos to the antrum) of the chanoal, where they
handed pretty bouqaers of 11 ,wers, many of them with
short tests of Scripture attached, to the Rev. Cahoon,
who deposited them in basketa, to be transferred to
the spew in front of the Onninunion rails. The rev.
gentleman observed that teat year the contributions
made at the service amounted to £lO, and invited the
children and all present to contribute. Five hymns,
Noe. 574, 02, 425, 571, and 575 were sung whilst the
children were passing in order and presenting their
flowers.
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Oseou &mammon den seanded the pulpit
and delivered an 'direr I, the children. Ose oblmt
they big in dew, ea he had said. was to cheer those who
were Ma end sufferiu, and to teach the children to care
for them. But he hid another object in view. lie was
very anions indeed that the chador who attended their
churches and schools should look back upon the.. Yoram
with a great dal of plains., sad renumber the happy
Sangre and days tbey had spent in the schools sod Intl.
church. Souse people thought It was a doleful thing to go
to church on Sundays, but he hoped the children would
be taught that the House of God was • very beautiful and
humpy place. They sere told that on the auto( Brittany.
In Fr More was • whole 'Mr. submerged. sad It
was said that matetimes wan the fishermen are paring
the spot they herd the aura bells Macias do on ander
the water, or they fancied IN at say ralm A very grant
6110, Mad a Teti mischievous tme—perhaps One Of the
most :mischievous ma livla at the present hiss—who
was maid Tory religiously Mead, but who had given op
his religion sad taken to sew ways. sad thought hiusseU •
great deal wiser than doss radars who used to admit
; this ma mays—" Tee. them is that old Gareth sad
they hearth, boils riming mar Ur water, sad though my
old faith Is gorse down deep In my heart.l cannot help :1, I
amid get rid of it—the church bells kap diming."
That, said the rev. giatiemae. is what we want. The
liras that we Meek you no • In your scrag days do not
out sway. Perhaps some day, whim you ars far sway
from us, ta t of Lite hymns you were singing Jost
low, and the beautiful lorries you have had this after.
soon okay wed back epee you. Yeas of our boys sad
girls are far away and sometime Ws hare not got
the souk, you have her., bet If may them hymns keep
la their ears. sad these thoughts keep uppermost
My boy.' 2s
:11will be someala& sod I do not dirk
sad will go off sad speed fatsßeaus% or
*Mk it • heavy Shag top to der* bet will like
to has then limas sad to johi Is theme bemetiful sarvier
sale. He thought if • area did anti.,, Bowen he did
sot love deldese, sad them most be sominking erase In
sea a person. Oar eses weft Übe "so de young Pleat%
ad our anghters as the pollard earners of the temple.
God meat the Madre to batiks*. flowere—onsaminte.
He waled thereto have mina beauty shoot them. If they
' looked through the world they woad see that God loved
what was beatifttl. LA them look M the sky, the twinkling
stare, the lady tints of eater.. the I mem sod the
words at G • ore-clo•h• gnu of the field . . .
shall be not much lore clothe roil.' He did not know
anything much more bewail al than • little child. If
th•ve was one boy peewit who was no: kind to his little
st-ter at home, he was is at • noble toy, and U be grew op
as h• warn now living ha would nollef b, a man. God
wanted us to have the be only of hollered, ant if tare was
ay boy or girl there who had sot that, them was such a
charm shod tam that people could not help liking them.
They Dever saw anybody that would be moil to a baby.
They MI felt there was a charm shoots little child. Ors
liked t lek at it, and G el resent evo7 one to hare the
I beauty of goo Iner. The reason why the little child was.
perhaps, bettor loved that wan he grew older was that
they sew Ma mare •• Gods ode him, and before be wee
spoilt no roe. oletternan thee sp he of the importune
o? children loving the Serlo.tr. and sad he wanted them
to be be .utiful sal to h sv. • rest many charms about
them Ho also referred to the nicest terrible alailts at
8 ederland. and spoke at the rs malty of taking are of
I'.. children, and concluded by urging de children to
Follow the rot advice of their parent, and teenhers, sad
to ea the Lied Jesus to make them lovely by putting
His love int, their hoists.

The own of Ce Is. 01. waa oolloct•d and banded over to
Hospital.