The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-10-04
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fattering compliment Truly Salem
Union Sunday School is achieving an
enviable reputation.
1t was organized in 1872 when Sa-
lem Station was as it were in it's prim-
tive days. But subsequently its rapid
growth, prosperity, and facilities for
intellectual, moral and religious I'M
provement exceed the expectations OF
even it's most sanguine inhabitants.
And the advancement is attributed in
a measure to the religious element
which predominated in the place and
adjacent country-an element which
like the tiny mustard seed soWed IN a
field has grown and become tree, and
many birds lodge in the branches
thereof.
It is not humiliating fact, that in
1872 Salem Station was without a
church, 80 the good people rented what
was then the garnet Of Matthias Loesch-
er's store. To be sure the apartment
was not elegant like the Union church,
still it answered for all religious pur-
poses. The room was spacious, but
innocent of lath or plaster; there were
no pretentions to tapestry or other
hangings, except a few filmy spider
webs which perchance might have
dangled over the ministers heads. The
pews consisted Of pine benches cover
ed with no luxurious cushions, and
the sanctuary in good taste CORES
pended with the other appointments.
The only way of ingress was by steep
and narrow flight Of stairs; hence the
congregation, dressed every Sabbath in
robes for the occasion, entered the
place Of worship by ascension, and the
first visible approach Of the ladies was
the floral department of their hats.
In this humble room Salem Union
Sunday School had it's birth. The
school "grew and Waxed strong and
now numbers over one hundred mem
bers. It has continued increasingly,
summer and winter, with unf1agging
interest, which fact shows that there
has always been an able corps of Off
GERS and teachers at the head They
are deserving much credit, and it
seems to me that the prosperity Of the
school speaks eloquently in their be-
half.
And what Of the scholars! The
spiritual truths they are receiving are
safeguard against temptations in
their maturer years, and safe guide
over life's fitful ways. The Sunday
school affords protection from evil as
sociations to which those children are
exposed who are not under it's improv-
ing, moral, and restraining influence,
but are left to run the streets where
soeyer they please. AS street disci-
pline develops Sabbath breakers and
vicious characters, spiritual discipline
develops exalted characters.
OF course boys and girls you have all
heard of that boy whose mother said
that "be a0as azaOoys good" He be-
came a great General, the Father Of his
Country, and the first President OF the
United States. There now [ need not
tell you his name. He had true, no
BILE, christian mother. Biographers
never tell us that she had bad habit
Of reviling her neighbors and Of in
dulging in neighborhood gossip; or that
she wasted her time and talent in fash
ionable follies Instead she consecrated
her Womanhood to better things, and
biographers tell us that she searched
the scriptures" and taught them to her
boy. Indeed were there more such
exemplary mothers the world would be
morally better, and [ say so not with
out good reason. For when the news
was communicated to this mother of
her sons successful passage Of the Del
aware by numerous friends, she re-
ceived the glad tidings and eulogistic
illusions to her son with placid self
possession and remarked that George
appeared to have deserved well OF his
country for such signal service" and
added: But my good sirs here is TOO
Imuch flattery; still George will not for
| get the lessons l have taught him."
Mothers remember and initiate the
example of Mary Washington Send