The Rugbeian and district reporter. (Rugby, Tenn.) 1882-1883, 1882-10-14
RUGBY SUNDAY SCHOOL.
ANNIVERSARY MEETING.

iaSt sunday evening. There was large
audience, neary thirds of the room being
filled. hymn being sung, and prayer offered,
the Superintendent, Mr.. Tucker, said This is
our first anniversary. A year ago to-day we
met as an organized Sunday school. 1t has
been happy year, and there has been more of
harmony than in any school with which have
been connected. Considering the different
beliefs among us, as a Union Sunday School,
| think we have met with large measure of
success, and believe it is due to noble corps
of teachers. with seldom an absentee. 1t is
quite surprising that out of so small COM
munty we have so large an attendance.
must acknowledge, before | sit down, the
sympathy and help you have given us upon
many occasions. This good feeling has helped
us, and we thank you for it.
Mr.. Ross Brown, the Secretary, then read
the report, from which was gathered the
following: The school numbers "A children;
the largest number present at one time, 70;
the smallest number rs; average attendance,
so. The school has purchased library of 80
volumes, and has had presented it by friends
in Cincinnati and Portland, 81 more. Sub
scriptions paid in during the year, $50 20;
cash received by collections in school, $2S. 49,
The expenses have been, including the Christ
mas tee and Fourth of July dinner, Sill 49,
leaving balance in the treasurer's hands of
$3.50.
Mr.. Taylor then sang the hymn, COM
mencing,
Where is my wandering boy Tonight
The boy of my tenderest care,
The boy that was once my joy and light,
The child of my love and prayer. d
At the conclusion he remarked upon the posi-
bilities of boys career, referring to the
we'll known pictorial chart of faces, published
by London firm, wherein is displayed the
chubby face of infancy, and the succeeding
stages, until we see the aged man with face
beaming with peace and happiness there,
too, we see the chubby face again, but with
the succeeding stages of sin and misery, till
the crime scared face Of old age is reached.
Underneath is the question, applying to both
pictures, "What will he become ?" The little
chubby face might be one or the other, accord
ing to the way it yielded to its early instruction
The speaker then related, in an interesting
parable, the diverse influences of two drops of
water descending from the watershed of the
Rocky mountains into the world of men below.
asking the children to try and apply the
teaching to their lives
Mr.. Blackjack said he was not going to say
much, as he was heard to talk SO often. He
then, in very happy way, applied by many
Illustrations, the principle of doing little at
time, and sticking to it, much impressng
his young hearers, who, by their answers
evidently were much interested in the subject
Mr.. Cyrus Clarke said: Anniversary occa-
sons are very appropriate times to retrospect
the past and count up the results Teachers
and others who are at the front in this enter
prise should ask themselves the question.
How much better are we since we began to teach
the truth P how many seeds have we sown P
how much more moral are wep Life is short,
so let us see we do all we can do. You know
that success-material or moral-depends
upon the education of youth. Too many moral
restraints cannot be thrown around life, and
how incumbent is it for us to see that we show
the children We move among no cause for dis
honour. There is no field of such promise as
is in the Sabbath school, Among the many
things our Saviour did, nothing was more full
of human sympathy, than when he took the
little children in his arms and blessed them.
The speaker then recited the hymn COM
mencing, n
| think when read that sweet story of old,
When Jesus was here among men,
How he called little children like lambs to his
fold,
should like to have been with him then.
He continued: Ant those words beautifulp
If the Saviour Of the world loved children so
much, shall not we men do something's What
can we do to save the children, to draw them
away from the temptations of Satan ? As men
go rushing through the world, jostling each
other, what is TO save the children, if we with
draw the moral restraints Let US plant the
seeds of kindness-roses, not thorns-and by
unceaslng vigils and tolls seek to save the
little ones from sin. have no patience with
the men in the States of this country who are
engaged in loosening moral restraints.
refer now to the curse of all curses-intem.
perance. 1t has slain its hecatombs of men.
1t cannot be made respectable. You men of
Rugby see to 1T that you do your part to save.
the children from this disgrace. This is a
depression. Well. I'm glad | am here, and
that the children are here; make a better
report next time; bring some trophy, some
one to the cross.