The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-05-22
[Reported for the standrrd.l
Baptist sunday school Celebration.


ly flowing numbers, in the Sunday School
celebration which came off at Wake Forest
College, on Friday last, participated In by
the schools belonging to the Baptist Churches
at Raleigh, Forestville, Franklinton and
Warrenton We, the Local, had the pleas
ure of being with the party from this City,
as n guest, and shall long remember the oc-
casion with emotions of pleasure, as, no
doubt, every one will who had the good for
tune to participate in its festivities.
At halfpast six O'clock on Friday morn
ing, according to previous arrangement, the
School, with its officers, met at the Baptist
Church, formed procession and marched
to the Station of the Raleigh and CASTOR
Railroad, where train, consisting of six
passenger cars and one baggage car, was in
readiness to take them to Forcstville. We
estimate the number in procession at over
three hundred, under charge of Mr.. w. j.
Palmer, Superintendent, P. F. Pescud, Chief
Marshal, j. G. Williams, T. H. Briggs, Jr.,
A. P G. Bryan, Assistant Marshals, and Mrs
Dodd and NJ. Belts in charge of the infant
classes. Everything was admirably arrang
ed; the School, together with many of the
parents of the children and invited guests,
were comfortably seated, the whistle blew,
and away we went.
We had Il seat in a newly repaired passen-
ger coach, fitted up under the supervision "f
Mr.. o. D. Lipscomb, Master Machinest at
the shops of the Raleigh and Castor Rail
road Company, which was as neat as new
pin and rolled almost as smoothly over the
track as boat glides over the face of a
lake The trip to the College was pleasant :;
the Chockeyotte, Eddy White, engineer, drew
the long train with as much speed was
desirable, while all felt at ease under the
care of Conductor Howard, and the boxes of
good things was safe in the charge of Mr..
Dallas Ward, the baggage-master.
On arriving at Wake Forest College, our
train was met by another from the eastern
end of the Road, having on board the officers
and scholars of the Baptist Sunday Schools
at Warrenton and Franklinton the former
under the charge of Dr. Geo. A. Foote, Mar
shall, and Mr.. A. H. Williams, Superinten-
dent; the latter under charge of Capt. j. d.
Joyner, Marshal, and Mr.. A. D. Ellis, Super
intendent. The visiting schools were met at
the Railroad by the Wake Forest Baptist
Sunday School, Maj. ]. H. Foote, Marshal,
and Mr. W. B. Royal, Superintendent. The
appearance of the sky portended an unpro-
pitious day, but there was a long May-day
OF sunshine in every heart, which beamed on
each i,:aET, twinkled in each eye and smiled
on each lip so that the cloudy skies were no
drawback to the prospect of enjoyment.
All the Schools, numbering together, we
Judge, nearly six hundred scholars, marched
with waving banners to the Chapel of the
College, where the beautiful little song,-
"The Sabbath School-that blessed place.
was sung by all the Schools, after which
prayer was offered up by Rev. H. T. Hudson,
pastor of the Methodist Church in Raleigh.
Mai. ]. H. Foote, of Wake Forest, then
welcomed the visitors in short and appro
pirate address, responses to which were made
by Mr. E. S. Lougee, Rev. T. E. Skinner,
Rev. W. H. Cunninggim and Rev. H. T. Hud-
son, of Raleigh, Mr.. Ellis, of Franklinton
and Mr. w. B. Royal, of Wake Forest Vo-
cal music was intcrspersed between the ad-
dresses the spirited manner in which the
various songs were sung showing that this
most pleasing and elevating part, not only OF
Sunday School education, but of divine
worship. had not been neglected by the
managers of the schools present. We should
like to notice separately and particularly the
addresses of the various speakers, but the
lenptb to which we are running this article
admonishes us that we shall not have space
to do Justice to all, so we close on that head
by stating that all the addresses were appro-
nriate to the occasion and were we'll received
by the audience
Mr. w. J. Palmer, Superintendent of the
Raleigh School, made the last speech of the
forenoon He got all the children in high
state of glce and good humor, and announc-
ed the programme for disposing OF the solid
mart of the festivities; after which the chill
dren and visitors dispersed themselves about
the College grounds to await the announce
ment that "the creature comforts " were
ready for attack.
Now, every body that knows the Local,
knows. or ought to know, that he is much
more given to those elevated pleasures and
enioyments characterised as 1.-THE feast OF
reason and the flow of SOUL" than to such
common-p place realities as meats and drinks"
and therefore will not expect from him
very vivid description of the picnic dinner
at Wake Forest, on this occasion. He leaves
that to Mr.. J. J. c.. of the Progress, who was
present throughout the trip, especially dur
ing the outdoor exercises, and he hopes he
will do Justice to the subject, provided he
was able to withdraw his attention from an
other attractive feature of surrounding OBJ
iects," long enough to bestow it upon the
dinner table. We shall only say that, we
never saw 4 finer table spread upon any
similar occasion-meats of various kinds,
fowles, pickles, bread, cakes and nick-nacks,
were beautifully partaken of by all present,
and there was enough left for another crowd
as large.
After dinner, Mr. J. w. Watson, artist, of
this City, who had brought along his sun
painting apparatus took large ambrotype