Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1878-10-29
rnE ANNIVERSARY CONTINUED.
Addresses ON sunday school Work ans
to the children by Drs Allen, M'Cab'
and Oth.rs
HAPPY REUNION OF FORMER PASTORS


dist church yesterday afternoon, about the whole
school being present, under the charge of their
superintendent, Mr. Kimball. The services were
opened with singing by the school, and prayer by
Mr. Charles To~ne. DIR. MCahe then sang q
HYMN with the congregation.
q Mr. Joshua Heath, a former superintendent OF
the school. called upon for remarks. lie said
that he had been member of the Sunday school
for forty-fve vears. He had known a great
many little bows asd girls like those before him
lie wished to know how many of the children
would keep in the school till they grew up to be
men and women, and asked all those who so
intended to raise their hands. Nearly ali of the
hands we're rsised) Here in the SUNDAY School,
children, you are trained up to know about God,
and you the Bible to become acquainted with
Him. Believe its Instructions and always follow
its teachings. He had at one time while he had
charge of the school more than 240 scholars, and
Rev. Mr.. Allen was the pastor. He closed by
telling the children always to listen to their in
instructors.
Mr. Dunn OF Wsterville next spoke. He had al
ways felt when child that he ought to attend the
Sunday school A nursery is always made at home
Tue Chi''cui ohu ~ stC"ch "
that he Sabbath school was the nursery
of the church. What q blessed thing il
Is TO have the Sunday school. All that Jesus
does for you, children, does not end here be-
low, but II goes in Heaven. After arrived at
the age OF discretion thought had no further
need Of, and so | grader ted from the Sabbath
school. Ru, when | became converted | went
back to harm something from the school. The
work Of the SUNDAY school seeDed to him the
most important of the church.
"Notbing bnt leaves" was sung with fine
effect by DIR. MCabe, who must have been graft
fed, as the congregation certainly was, at the
chorus volunteered by the sqresking boots Of the
sexton moving about up and down the aisle.
DR.. Allen was called uron for rema ks He
he'd been ia the Sunday school since he was q
very little boy. This was at the establishment Of
the first SUNDAY schools in the State. He remem-
bered that one of the teachers of the school was
greatly surprised at receiving the present of q
bible from his class. He related "reminiscences Of
teachers who had gone up to heaven, while active
workers 10 the Sunday school. He once knew an
war and received discharge signe by Washing
ton himself. O, how much he priced that
precious document! On q certain 4th Of
July great celebration was to he held,
and the governors and gres, men of
the land came together. There was
a seat of honor by the side of the chairman,
and il filed by a poor, lame old man He was
not well dressed, he was not handsome, he was
not rich hut they gave him the seat of honor, be
cause he bad been a soldier in the revolutionary
war. So the Lord Jesus will crown His soldiers,
when they come up to heaven from the conflicts of
life.
Mr. Nve was glad to look into the faces Of the
children In his Juvenile temperance organization
there were more children from the Methodi t
church, than from any other church in town.
Fifty FIVE wears ago, he signed the temperance
pledge, hi, hand being guided by that OF HI, faith
err and he thought that in youth was just the time
for engaging in all these various moral and relig
ions works
Rev stephen Alien said be remembered many
interesting events of rs pastors'e here. He was
pastor in lS47, when the church was enlarged,
and the work of the church highly prospered
On one day there was an accession to the Sunday
School of eighty members. The 3 bool had some
uncomnouy ia iihful teachers. He though, that
even the youngest child could come to Jesus. He
called to mind an occasion of a baptism in the
church One little girl who had Intended to he
haltised, WAS not coming, because her father
thought her too Young to understand the meaning
or significance of the ordinance. But he was told
that such course might discourage his child and
he the means of losing her soul, and he yielded.
The child received the ordinance, became teach
er 10 the SUNDAY School, well as the schools Of
the town. and i. now the wife of one of the ahl-
est preachers in the denomination, Rev. Ammi
Lsdd. We cannot begin religious instructions too
early.
Rev DIR. M'Cahe was tho next speaker. While
iin Ohio he bad been told Of a remarkable woman.
A clergyman WAS called upon to offciate At the
death of q ladv, and without knowing ANYTHING
particularly shout the case prepared a sermon on
the brevity and uncer snty of human life. They
were passing INTO town when long funeral pro-
| ression winding tn ough the street. In
qUiry was made as to the friends Of the deceased.
| "They are all her friends" was the reply. "But
where are her relatives" The reply was that
she had none They didn't know who she was or
where she came from. She was a poor working
| girl, a sesmstress who came to that town. pes
| thence in the shape Of typhoid fever, ragged in
| that community, md she proved herself angel
| of mercy, going from house to house in her kind
| ly minisrations. There was no church in that
| neighborhood, but she built one, and gathered q
| Sunday School. II was pageant, instead of q
funeral, snd the minister changed the subject Of
his discourse to the triumphs Of the child of God
| in the dying hour. He urged his hearers to try
| and do something that will lat.
| He loved the Sunday School because it helped
| him keep his hoy. He was converted when eight
wears old; lis name put upon the church
| book at baptism. and there it had been since. He
| believed in children coming early. He told story
Of bis boy temporarily lost by being carried away
| on train of carr, and drew lesson therefrom.
We are all on tightening express train. hurrving
| on to eternitv Give your hearts to God that YOU
| may die right. Give your hearts to Him in your
youth; after the age of thirty the chances that
you will not be converted at all. He would rath-
er have his boy Christian than a king.
/ AIter singing ouhil VIC Rhtucf ~ Tue IlNtTf
| the meeting closed.
| The reunion Of the former pastors was held in
| the evenipR-the venerable men occupying seats
upon the platform, while the church was filed
We give list of the pastors for the last fifty years
| indicating the deaths which have occurred
1928. d. b. Randall; 1929 o. Beale. dead 1890
81, J. r. Hustled. present; 1892, Z. Croker
1888, j. G Warren, dead; 1884, George Wehher
dead 1895 J. Spsuding, dead 1896 A. Csd-
well, dead; 1887, ID. Fuller dead; 1898 +. WI
| ley, Dead 1899. J. c. Aspinwall; 1910. ]. III
Jennis: 1871, A. F. Pa uard. dead; 1923
| Caleb Fuller, present; 1874, A Moore: 1S45-46
Charles W. Morse, present; lS47-4S Stepbe 4
Allen, present; 1890, c. Allen prese /; 1851
50, II. NJ. Blake, dead; 1853 "a, ii b. Abbott. dead
1885, Stephen Allen; ls56-57. J. Colby; 1883
SO. A. Sal derson; 1860, A. J. Church :.lS6l-62
VIM. Mex. Bray; lS63-64. CHARLES Munger
present. 1886 H. b Randall; 1867 $50
| & A. Kiog; IS7O-7l-72, +. Martin; 1924
rs. r. Ssndsr.on; 1857. f. T. Adams; 1873
w NJ. Sterling, present.
| The exercises of the evening began with sing
ing the HYMN, Aud are we get alive y Ferveni
| praver wa offered by the venerable II v. Charlie.
| W. Morse. After the singing, Rev. Mr.. Beale an
| nounced that this would lie ministerial ano
| christian love feast A. representative Of one
of the oldest families in the society he had beer
| ca led to preside. He welcomed the venerable