The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-08-13

necessary to supplement the seating capa.
city of the house by extra seats in tie
eisles for their accommodation. Although
the evening was warm and the room
crowded yet all sat patiently throughout
the hour required for the programme,
After the opening exercises Master George
Kelley gave us the first recitation entitled
." OUR PROGRAMME" ..
IT'S long good friends since last we met,
To hold a concert OF our school.
But these good times we don't forget 80
Although for them we have no rule. ,.
With us, It takes both time and palms. .,-
To give you such bill OF fare, -o.
AS that no one OF you complains
or WEAKNESS, too great to bear.
The work OF interesting you
In this our concert exercise,
Is somewhat hard for us to do,
But yet each one most gladly tries.
Tonight We come with varied parts; ''
, Well read and pray; wen sing you songs,
Z And try to please with no more arts
Than to so good work belongs
OF Rotations we have learned, ti.,t,
And should the smallest speak In fear,
IT'S not as though no praise Is earned.
Good words wen place on shield OF gilt,
"a part that is assigned to boys -.
An arch Of truth Is 70 bs huilt,
"a feature which cur CIR 3 employs.)
And last Of all in our programme,
As truly you yOui 81 Ives will see
Wen sing the good old words OF psalm.
Praise God In a ioxo ogy.
This was followed by recitation by
Jennie Kent, entitled, 1.-THE little one. :"
Next came general exercise participated
in by nine boys and three ii Is. The boys
were Will Crazy. Geo. Townsend, viii.
Conover, Charles Crary, Warren Conover,
Marvin Whitaker, George Kelley, But
Marsh and ono, absent. This exercise was
called Sour shield" and consisted Of q
shield in bronze, about two and one half
feet in diameter bearing on ito upper rin
the words sour shield" and on thu lower
rim several stars. All the letters were in
blue and two small pockets of blue upon
its, face held boquets. Iu the center of this
shield were placed by each Of the boys the
letters "Qjd is love-" reciting a scripture
to correspond 10 each letter, which letter
also represented sentiment announced by
the scholar. Daring the exercise recitation
in poetry was given by Miss Mary Pooler,
beginning with the words "Ye shall shine
as the stare, ever beautiful and bright y
also one commencing with "lf | were a
sunbeam by Llya Marsh and responded
to by her teacher in the words, "Art thou
not a sunbeam, child p This exercise
closed with the following lines specially
prepared for this occasion, and spoken by
Miss Alice p. Whitaker
Behold you now our shield;
THIS Is the God we trust,
To him wen gladly yield,
'ris net becau e we must.
The truth emblaz ned there
b.. Our tsther, "God is Low ;"
'f~ But lists Our hearty prayer
30" To live with Him above.
70, 200. BE this our constant Joy, rr~
This gracious love to share,
And moments here employ
In hope Of glory there.
b f,," Be this the shield we take, tt
'n'" These words that "God is Love-"
, And for dear JESUS sake ,...
Let us their help improve.
Following this piece came two recita-
tions, "speak no ill.," by Loncy Colvin, and
"don't forget to pray" by Alice Pollard,
both little folks. The concert closed by
the principal piece of the evening entitled
"the arch of Christian character" the sew
eral parts Of which we're rendered by eight
misses, each bearing two parts. These
were Clara Kelley, Lilly Aldrich, Bertha
Pratt Alice =. Whitaker, Flora Pratt,
May Conover, Mary Pooler and Emma
Howe. The exercises consisted Of a beau
tiful arch made Of fifteen solid blocks of
/ wood, painted and sanded to initiate gran.
lite, and resting upon base bearing the
word "Christ," He being the foundation of
all true christian character. Each block
bore the name of christian grace, such
as love, joy, peace, etc, and each was laid
by miss, recitng at the same time an ap-
propriate scripture, followed by all in con-
cert with another scripture. The letters
on the archwere all in bronze, represent
ing gold. AS the building of the arch pro-
crossed, an almost breatbless silence was
observed by the audience, so great was the
interest in witnessing ita advancement
When the keystone, "faith," was in it's
place and the arch was left to stand with
out support, the eliminating interest was
reached, as from this Keystone, a beautiful
basket of flowers Was hung, while Miss
May Copover recited The following lines as
specially prepared accompaniment
No arch like this will be complete, ''
Although you've heard these words OF ours,
without one more adornme mt meet
This group OF pendant, speaking flowers.
l,. (Yangs The basket,
OF all the graces which compose
Hts gospel semi-circ,e round,
Not one that doth thi, arch disclose
Butts In this beauteous basket found.
To all these flowers are given Of God
The language OF His praise TO speak,
'Tis true, IL may be but nod ''
And yet their worship Is complete,
But still they talk TO US Of Him.
ny language holy. speak these flower.
And theirs IL no communion dim, 80
tnu They point TO one, their friend and our9.
beneath our keystone Faith" they swing
| p Our arch with native beauty grace