The New York herald., 1876-08-14
SUNDAY SCHOOL ASSEMBLY.

INTERESTING SABBATH ExRRCISRs-snnMoNs
ON SOLOMON, THE BRILLIANT FAILURE; THE
BLUNpERs or HOME AND TboU ART TIE
MAN.
FARPoINT, N. Y, August Is, 1875.
The first general to-day The holding
Of the Sixth Chautauqua Assembly Sunday School, ut
nine O'Clock with Rev. A. s. Dobbs, OF Cory Pa, us
pastor; C. n. Nichols Of Springfield, Ohio supcrin.
tendent ana Bliss, of Chicago, leading the sing
ing Ihero nty-iour classes, and the aggregate
attendance WAS l.4o4 persons. One Of tho pupils
Charles Young who eighty five years OF age.
and organized the first Sunday school in Chautauqua
county New York, in 1925. AZ sloven O'Clock divine
held In the auditorium, and able aud
impressive sermon was preached by Rev. Charles b.
Payne D., President of the Wesleyan University, at
Delaware, Ohio. TO about 600 persons Rev. Dr. Tf
fany, OF Chicago, read portion Of Scripture; Rev.
Thomas X Beecher, ID. D., OF Eimira, N. " offered
prayer rene nbcring the friends Of She young ladies
recently drowned and T. p. Bliss and wife sang ''Ws
ing and Watching tor Me
rnx SERMON.
Or. Payne spoke from Matthew, VI, 90, and l.;
Kings b, the general subject being Solomon, the
Brilliant Failure; His Decline and Fail" First fast
horses were snare ~ him; policy was snare 10
are cnsnared by the same principle, and they arc
dying OF spiritual dry rot The love OF many strange
women cnsnared HIM. The speaker urged his hearers
TO beware OF the beginnings OF evil True greatness
Was III sell conquest ard service ~ men.
Al two O'Clock this afternoon Professor II. H. Wells
OF the Union College Schenectady, Y, lectured on
BLuNpERs HOME.
He referred 10 the antiquity OF The Chinese EMPIRE
aud inquired as TO its Iung Wing. The Chinese
Commissioner OF Education in America, IN reply to
question gave the true answer-Tho very first thing
we teach Is obedience IN the home " Ii was the
homes OF tho country that saved In he late rebellion
The young men Of thc country who first sprxng to
arms the result OF noble impulse. went into rebel
prisons; but the ncn who put down the rebellion
ut later day from the homes OF the North. Ger
man homes had made New York the thrd
German city OF tho world. with It's 300 600
representatives OF that race. German accepted
the duty OF a'erniy. English homes had made Eng
land stroug. The sunday school was needed
agency 10 purify American bones. Young America
''sooa ripe, soon rotten The professors doc
trine was, keep your children at home and
keep them young as long You can.
He believed in old men who were always young Men
should be thoroughly educated and trained tor their
work. True reform must como from the home. She
who rocks the cradle rules tho world.
Tho address iuli OF mature, suggestive and
Christian thought
YOUNG MgS's MEETING.
led by Mr. Hall, OF the Young Mons Christian Asso-
cation OF New York state. held in the pavilion
this evening, and {. d. stone led tho third cvcntdo
Conference AT eight O'Clock sermon Was preached
by the Rev wocott CalkiDs OF Bunao, the passage
.'ApG Nathan said unto David Thou art the mao. "
The advice OF the speaker to the audience
to judge chari,aby all wrongdoers and to watch
with scrutiny those who seem nearest perfect David
white In ideness fell. Tho dev tempts busy men,
while Idle r.cn temps tho devil
The discourse was one OF graphic beauty and great