The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-05-11

thai thers were many Others that deserved notice nom
the beauty and elegance displayed in their designs In
front Of the table placed before the Chairman WD For
,enns 3. eS on his Ins. n s .aSs q
liar sle with the following in crpton IN gold etters
ave WON'T give up the Bible" In front II the PLATFORM
rrseptng he figure ofs counryman casting seed bco.d
ca int the ground with the following inscription
"In the morning ow thy seed and below THE seed is
tie werd of Cod Beside it another banner repre-
septipp an infant Samuel il The attitude OF prayer SINH
lar 10 the banner already alluded to, but Of larger
aye with the inscription "laose that seek me early
shall find me On side Of the platform, but
nearer TO the centre, was larger banner with blue
ground, ard having in Ihe centre beautiful painting,
school in Thirteenth street representing castle With
the insert tiop Knock and it shall ne opeoed To yon
On The , Ses o 81 hs S p having
ing Of mother teaching hr children from an opsn Book
with the inception % H tbs was
similarly adorned with number OF hags belonging 70 tne
different schools One represented youthful Cnriss
and his lambs, with the inscription am the dood
Shepherd Beside II that OF school No &C. having
portrait of open Bible, with the inscription Tome
he Lord Another had the following motto-..As the
t-ig l. bent the tree is inclined" Besides the banners
that sdorn ed the platform there were several others us
Of the most pleasing description. After the children had
surg the Festive Song" given above, the Rev !. :.
prayer Of thanksgiving which listened to with the
utmost decorum by the children present. The next
hymnthe same as that at the Castle GardenTss men
dIsssed the children In happy manner comparing
the sunday school to nursery OF young plants which
it rsfembled fer several reasonsfrstly, nursery ia
private property Is the Sunday school, which the
property the kord Jesus Christ, and the children hi'
plants whom no one has right 10 interfere with agaio,
Sabbath school reseInbled nursery because it was
valuable property it was valuable to the church OF
Christ and while we have Sunday school we SHAH have
Bible. Again. nursery requires great care ana ex'
peDe the Sunday school, 10 bring up aud edu-
cate so many little children, for it required many thou
sands OF dollars to take of them ALL Again. the
nursery expected to repay the expense and trouble OF
the nr and IN like Jesus Cnrst expects 10 be
repaid for all the trouble that he had been at He knew
SUNDAY school that had sent out sixteen ministers OF
the Gospel had been well observed by iopert tates
that the good done BY Sunday schools would never
be known until the day OF judgment. iae hes.
gentleman continued In similar strain, illustrating
Ills remarks by anecdotes and tales which, from the
marked attention with s0ich zthey were listened to,
showed evidently that the spea Or knew how gain the
of bis youthful hearers He concluded with an an
eedo'e which, on account OF us originality, we 'nk
worth while give and which INTENDED to enforce
previous sound advice given to the children present
Quaker gentlemen resident in sPars was waited upon
as Is customary in Fronce New Years day oy bis
worknen, who came to congratulate him upon Inc ann,
versary and also 10 receive present The worthy
Bible leaving It to their option to take either as
they might choose The question OF preference was Sc
yersy put them all they up, but IL every IN
stance preference was given for the money, each al
leeipg some for his choice. Wnen the Quaker
to the la he put similar question to HIM. who
vor o. the Bible he would take it home and read it. On
opening the book he found forty franc piece
gold The ether workmep showed evident symptoms Of
modification at cot making the choice TO VIII om
the Quaker gentleman truly observed 'Thee hast made
bad choice''
The children then Sung 'TIe Loved Ones at Home" as
given above and in the neanwhe the different schools
poved ont in regular oder part issuing by the doors in
the Of the building in Mercer street and the other
offered BY the Rev. Dr. somers, of the South Baptist
Church Of this city.
School No which advertised to attend at Castle
Garden did not 20 there but attended at Metropolitan
Hall. They bored about 400 children. The Sabbath
school attached to the Norfolk street Baptist Church
attended without banner, rascal having stolen
their two banners. This petty larceny was not dis
covered till too late. The trustees have offered
reward of $40 for their recovery.
In addition the two large meetings Just mentioned
there others smaller scale at the Baptist TAber
acs in the Second avenue at the Church Of the Puri
taps corner Union place and Fifteenth street, Rev. A.
D. Smiths Church. Second avenue and Fourteenth
street. and at the Baptist Church, Sixteenth street. near
Eighth avenue