Connecticut western news., 1871-08-11
SABBATH SCHOOL PICNIC.

Last Wednesday was gala day for the little folks. A beautiful morning brought early to the Congregational church in this village, throngs of Sabbath school scholars. At about half past nine o'clock, nearly 20 teams were loaded with them, their teach CTS, parents and friends, and headed by Dr. Knights mammoth wagon, W-o.n-o-n- s-c.o-p-o. moe, drawn by four horses, pro- ceeded to the Methodist church in Lake vile, where we found processions pouring in from all points of the compass. Col. | Tupper says he counted 100 teams as the | Sharon procession passed, which was headed by four Narshals, mounted on splendid steeds, and the Sharon cornet band. Very soon the Millerton schools with from 36 to 40 teams, hove in sight; then the Falls Village and Lime Rock, with about 25
 teams; and the North East Center with
 about dozen teams, and Chapinville with
 eight or ten, finished up tho arrivals in pro-
 sessions.
 At half past ten, the teachers having
 arranged their respective classes, one grand
 procession, on foot, of all the schools was
 formed, extending over quarter of mile
 in length which proceeded to Gov. Hol
 Iey's charming grove, on portion of the
 western bank of that beautiful sheet of
 wafer, Lake Wononscop omac. It was esti
 mated, with all due caution against exsger-
 ation, that there were at least two thous-
 md five hundred people on the ground.
 After a feeling prayer by the Rev. Mir. Boughton of Lakeville, Dr. H. NJ. Knight
 mounted the rostruin, as president of the
 day, and although the wind chanced to
 breeze up pretty strong, ss he was speak
 ing, and shook the trees SO heartily as to
 almost drown his voice, the last three
 words of his remarks, uttered as they were
 with such earnestness of feeling, were dis tiinctly audible. He said ''1e sas hungry Y
 The eyes of young America sparkled
 with delight, as they gazed with entranced
 vision upon those five tables, hundred
 feet long, loaded to rep!etion with goodies.
 After the feast, extemporaneous speaking was indulged in pretty plentifully; all very appropriate to the occasion, and ex-
 pressiye of tue good feeling so extensively prevalent among the mass. It would be . pleasure to us. to give extracts from the many excellent speeches delivered on this occasion, but our space forbids. Among the speakers were the Rev. Mir. Hunt, oi Sharon; the Rev. Mir. Burch of Falls Vil lage; the Rev. Mir Coon of Millerton i. Deacon Charles Sears and Willie Territt ol f Sharon. .E .i. ....... ..... z At intervals between the speaking, tho various Sabbath schools::sang, respectively, j their cheerful songs, which certainly wa. . very pleasant feature of the occasion
 and when the audience joined in the las
 piece, "Shall we gather at the river, accom- panied by the bands, it was indeed grand
 In regard to the singing of these schools we would not choose to classify: They al ? ? sang nicely. The two brass bands played
 excellently, and added much to the enjoy d ment of the celebration. We knew tha :. our band could play nicely, but that Sharon s possessed cornet band that could play = as we'll as they played last Wednesday o was indeed welcome news to us. We hal
 heard that the Sharon band could pla, F well: Now we know it.
 # At about half-past three o'clock, tn ,s exercises ended, and preparations immedi !, ately made for ''home sweet home, an ;, thus closed one of the days which vii 70 long remain in the minds of the children IT as one of the happiest in their childhood d How pleasantly eoerythSug passed off. Tn ,f Methodist society in Lakeville who hay !. the honor of being first and foremost il ,r this picnic, must certainly feel gratifed a ar the successful carrying out of every fes '. ture of the occasion. Not an accident oe cured to mar the pleasures of the day j. ;o the spring of one of the Chapinville wag ,a ons, which was very heavily loaded, whil on it's way between that place and Sails ;s bury; and the rolling off of wheel fror :; the same wagon, when little further or
 but which resulted in nobody being harme ,h and was quickly remedied by the suppl ,,, of another wagon: but all this occurre :, before they reached Lakeville, consequent ,b we should more properly say, not an acc ,n dent occurred in Lakeville went well ,r all enjoyed themselves, and evidently wer glad they were there to see and to heal ,e How pleasant this union of the variou .b denominations in religion. We are a f. serving the same God, some in littl of different form from others, but we kno F. we are aH right. I.t ..t ...