Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1869-08-14
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Eloquent Sunday school Address.
l BY request, we publish the beauti-
full and eloquent address, OF Miss
Beetle Moore, delivered at the Sunday
School celebration--held during the
progress bf the great Camp Meeting
at Trotter's Landing on the Tennessee
River ''s'es',i ''''sr''..'-s-'-e's.. ''7'l
THE sALUTAToRY AT THE THE SUM-
DAY SCHOOL CELEBRATION, BY
MISS BETTIEv. MOORE.
KIND FRIENDs-It has been made
my duty TO greet you to-day as Chris.
tians and friends, and to welcome
you to this, our District Sunday
School Celebration. Female timidi.
ty, or rather our true Southern female
modesty, counsels my feelings to
shrink from such q task; yet having
been appointed by my beloved Senior
Superintendent, and that appoint
ment having been confirmed by our
earnest Presiding Elder and approved
by the smiles ofthese mates and chill
dren, both reason and duty alike bid
me not TO falter. N'di ~ El'I'll'i
! Then permit me to say, without
disregarding modesty, that I feel tru-
ly proud of such an honor, and most
cheerfuly do / bid you welcome! vel
come thrice welcome to this, our
Sunday school celebration. ari.f
.Ifany Apologies needed for the pres
ence of this "Battalion of Sunday
School people" as the new feature at
our Camp Meeting, then we claim.
that in it, there is beauty as we'll as
profit; especially, when you contrast
their presence with the useless display
of glittering carriages and costly
equipage, the periodical gallantry and
purse-proud fashion of former times.
without mentioning the other him
ORANGES to profitable wordship, which
"the enemy of soulsv has not vet
marshalled to disturb us in this con-
secrated grove, and for which we
should be truly thankful.
This, then, is one Improvement for
| good, upon the old system of Camp
meetings. This band of orderly, low
ing children is in most delightful con-
trast with the clusters of rude bows
and idly Cabling girls, that thronged
the outskirts and infested the avenues
of our camp grounds thirty years ago.
But, fathers and mothers, we would
not recount the evils of by-gone days
those days, the thought'of which is
followed iby tears of joy but rather
do we beg you to accept heartfelt
thanks for your aid and your presence.
enabling these children when thew
shall take your places, to revert to
this as one of the most; pleasant
among their youths happiest days.
Tam not here to tell youof the eccle-
siastical history Of the New iTest.-
ment, Orofthe Church founded by th.
ministry and death of Christ, nor the
external history of the Church, but
OF its Internal history, to point you
TO the Smiling faces and happy voices
of these Sunday School Scholars
here to-day as the perfume of incense
upon this, our Altar, dedicated to the
Sabbath School cause.
Honored as L am to-day, 1t might
be expected of me to bring for your
attentive ears rich gems of thought
dug from out the stores of ancient lit
erature, or to sean classical verses,
with musical rhyme, that We're writ
ten in matchless elegance; or in the
modern style to seize some new fang
led hobby, and in pompous diction
endeavor to lead you as he of olden
times with his charming strains sled
the listening oaks" yet such is not
my aim, my pride, nor my ambition;
but being now most prominently one
of these "Cross Bearers" my hope is
sincere that that banner, bedecked
with itssymbOlic cross, may serve as a
tlag-of-truce to shield me from the
harm of the darts of criticism.
To the members of these Sabbath
schools it is expected that wise heads
and christian hearts will speak with
truly eloquent tongues;yet must con-
graduate you of Ebenezer school, be-
cause you have so many sources of
Joy and so few causes of sorrow
Since your reorganization, little
more than q year ago, your number,
which was then fifty, has been in
creased to over hundred and fifty.
Death has visited you but seldom.
Two months ago your little mate
from male class No. 3, with scarcely
a moments warning, departed;
and it will soon be year since she
who was, for ten years, our faithful
teacher, was called to lay down her
Bible that she might take up her
crown; but her many pupils may all
go to join her in songs where Sab
baths shall never end. gf p.
Fondly hoping that you, "Little
Learners,n Earnest Workers.
Truth Gatherers," Peace Makersr
and the {" Cross Bearers together
with all who hear what is to be said
and sung, will be pleased and profit
ed, l must, in conclusion, to you,
revered ministehU who have this |
morning vacated This pulpit for the
benefit of the Sunday school interest,
/ now greet you with thanks-yes,
many thanks, not from our Superin-
tendant alone, but from each and all of
that phalanx now rising to greet you
hi song. .,.. i..
Her salutatory was followed by o
song by the schools after which the
Elder introduced the Rev. A. p.
McFerrin as the speaker. His adj
dress was u plain practical talk" for
nearly an hour, followed by another
celebration song. 1t was indeed APP
propriate that SO many children
should listen TO his words so full of
earnest pathos and christian love-
His sermon was fully equal TO the oc-
cassion. The attendance this day was I
the largest of any during the meet
ing. ...
In the afternoon the Rev. Jordan
Moore preached the funeral sermon
of Theodore Dickson, the little Sun
day School pupil who was drowned
two months ago.
1t was the day which will not soon
be forgotten by the children and their
parents. Yours, etc. OBSERVER.
TOBACCO PRosPECrs.-M J. NJ. !,
Buckner, of the firm of Hale, Buck
ner 4 Terrell, of this city, has just re-
turned from n trip through the
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