Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1877-11-16

THE METHODIST SUNDAY SCHOOL IN
CoUNCIL-REv. DIR. MARTIN ON THE
CoNTRIBUTIoNs-A MODEL STANTON
SABBATH SCHOOL.
&C., &C, &C., &c.
On last Sunday night the Methodist Sun
day School Missionary society held an an
niversary meeting in the Meth odist church.
There was large attendance of teachers
and scholars filling the centre pews of the
large building, and presenting an interest
ing spectacle with their bright banners
This school numbers 267 scholars and 20
teachers and if all their training shows as
good results as the singing, it is model
school.
Mr.. Geo. Harlan's was the banner class
and carried three out of the four banners
displayed by the whole school. The ban
ners were of blue silk with gilded fringe,
notices and texts. One showed it was
presented for the best attendance, another
for the largest single contribution and the
third for largest Missionary contribution
for months, and bearing such texts as
''Early will I seek thee" "Come over and
help us,'' and another pretty banner with
the emblem of ''Cross and Crown" was
carried by Mrs. Maj. Newton's infant class
for largest monthly contribution, inscrib-
ed ''The Lord loveth a cheerful giYer."
The opening piece, cam a soldier of the
cross,'' was sung splendidly after which the
pastor, Rev. DR.. Martin, made a short and
stirring address. In the course of his re-
marks he said with emphasis he was
ashamed of the Methodist church, so much
ashamed that he could scarcely bring him.
self to speak the cause of it. Not ashamed
Of her doctrine, not ashamed of her polty,
but ashamed of her Missionary work. He
had been looking over some statistics of
Mission work done by the Evangelical
churches and the comparison was most hui
initiating. The Northern Presbyterians
averaged $1,62 per me mber to this cause,
the Southern Presbyterians $1,01. The
Episcopalians $1,31, the Northern
Methodists As, and the Southern Metho-
dists only 144 cents and Baltimore Confer
ence, the largest and wealthiest in the
| church allowed the border Conferences to
| 60 ahead Of them in this work for it only
averaged "a cents per member, while the
Texas Conference reached 531 cents and the
| Virginia Conference II. The Rev. gentle
man urged his hearers in the strongest
terms to rouse themselves fully'to this i'm
| portant work and closing his remarks, an
other pretty hymn was sung by the chill
dren, when Maj. J. w. Newton followed
with few remarks fully generating the
S. S. Missionary society from any charge
of illiberality, and stated that their con-
tributions to this cause had averaged over
So per head. Mr.. q. M. Gushing also rose
| to say that the West End Missionary So
| ciety had not spared their pockets in this
good cause. Their eleven members had av-
eraged $50 per head and now had through
the accommodation of the Augusta Nation
al Bank in making advances for them
built their chapel and were only 50 IS in
debt, and had Mission School Of 121.
MIR. Gushing then assisted by several other
gentlemen took up a collection for the
West End Mission, which with contribu-
tions making life members of DR.. Marvin,
Dr.. Martin, Judge Sterling, Mrs. JAS. Lig-
gett and Prof A. J. Turner, amounted
to $780, The closing piece Trusting in
thee was sWeetly sung by Miss Daniels,
Mrs. J. W. Newton at the organ, the
whole school joining in the grand chorus,
and the large congregation dismissed with
the benediction.