St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-06-14
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CHiLDREN'S DAY.
Childlens day was generally observed in
the st. Paul churches yesterday. The in
stitution of this festival is accredited to Dr..
LEONARD, a New England UniversaliSt
preacher. who, twenty-four years ago, set
apart the second Sabbath in June to be OBJ
served in his church as floral festival and
called it Rose day." The children of the
congregation took so much interest in it
that it soon became to be known as ''Chil-
dren's day" The Methodist Episcopal
church was the first to formally establish
it. That was IN 1872. Soon afterward
the Presbyterian church Of the United
States followed the example of their
Methodist brethren. Since then one
after another of the various denomina-
tons adopted the idea and now Childrens
day Is one Of the most regularly observed,
Us it is one of the most popular of all the
church festivals.
To have looked in upon the scenes pre-
scented in the various churches in this city
yesterday would have mellowed the heart
of an agnoStic, and if it had not disarmed
him of unbelief it would at least have
weakened his opposition to church meth
DDS. Independent of the lovely floral dis
plays that We're presented, and which
were charmlngly attractive to the eye,
there was an evidence of gladness
in the happy voices of singing
children. and in the still happier faces of
innocent childhood, that was refreshing be-
You'd any of the ordinary scenes of life. 1t
was one of those scenes which make per-
sou feel that it is good to live on earth, and
to inspire in the human heart desire that
there may be realm where such gladness
10 poi pOtQtll. 1lIO 1CooOu VI OtC Sull-
dren'S Day. is worth more to the cause Of
religion than whole years preaching Of
doctrinal sermons. 1t conveys to the
human mind an impression of joy and
brightness that cannot be gathered from
studyGf abstruse theological subjects. The
scene of the seven little girls with their
floral offerings, on the platform of
Plymouth church yesterday morning,
was q more touching sermon than
could be preached with human lips.
The almost divine melody of PAUL SToEv-
iING's violin conveyed to human soul an
Impression that it was an echo of some
celestial harp. And then the daintiness
and the simple loneliness of the early flow
ers-opening roses diffusing their sweets,
soft carnations showering their balmy dews,
lilies smiling in virgin robes of white, pur-
pie violets and varied tulips, all like sweet
thoughts that come winged from skyland;
they tell us to do as they do. to look upward
through this beautiful world of ours. Such
scenes as these are the sermons which teach
US to believe that the story of land of per-,
petual day and ever-blooming flowers and
everything waters is no fiction. The chill
jren are the church's best missionaries after
all, ''for of such is the Kingdom of
Heaven"