Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-06-16
TuE BAPTIST SUNDAY SCHOOL.

The exercises in the Baptist Church on Sum
day afternoon last, by the pastor and teachers
and pupils Of the Sunday-school, were OF a very
interesting nature, and were witnessed and en-
joyed by a large concourse. The occasion was
known as "Children's Day. and was a celebra-
ton in honor OF the Sunday-school and missions
cause, consisting of music and Rotations by the
children of the Sunday-school and appropriate
religious observances by the pastor. The church
was most deliberately and very tastefully deco
| rated with eyergreens and flowers-in this re-
spect excelling any previous floral decorations
we have yet seen in Yorkville. In the vestibule
was the inscription, "Welcome ALL and on the
wall in rear of the pulpit, wrought in evergreen,
were the words, "Rescue the Perishing.' The
music was well rendered, Miss Mary Ellen Fer
guson presiding at the organ, and the recitatlons
were delivered almost without fault in either
pronunciation or enunciation. The following
is the programme:
Voluntary-Praiseto the King of Kings...School.
Invocation, ........"..... ..""..... faslor.
Scripture selection-I John, 3: 1-3 l4-24-
Superintendent Sunday-school.
Singing-Around the Throne of Heaven. School.
Prayer, :. fastoT.
Singing-Children's Day Hymn, ..."..... School.
Singing-Jesus loves the little Children, School.
Recitations-Our Children's Day, Miss Eirgie
Ferguson; o Painter of the Fruits and
Flowers, Miss Mamie owrance The Wor-
ship of the Flowers, Miss Jessie Grist.
~Singing-Jesus is All in All, ........".".School.
| Recitations-God is in Heaven-Miss Fannie
Grist, with Truman rist, Lewis Ferguson,
Miss Maggie Ferguson and Miss Lillian
guson Jesus Loves Me-with Chorus be-
t~ween-Clarence Lowrance, Albert Grlst
and Truman Grist-
Followed by "What Will You Give?' Miss Jessie
Gr;cf Mice A11ia Grict Miss JaDia (riSt.
Miss Mamie Lowrance, Miss Nirgie Fer
guson and Miss Ida Ferguson.
S~inging-Good News Comes O'ertheS Sea. School.
Recitation-Our Privilege, Miss Baity Fergu-
acknowledgements Words of Life.."".School.
Address-Sunday-school and Missionary Work
of our Publication Society, ...........Pastor.
Singing-I Want to be Il Worker for the Lord,
School.
Collection.
Singing-Doxology.
Benediction
The address by the pastor, Rev. J. +. Coving-
ton, of which the following is 4 brief synopsis,
was an interesting review Of the work accom-
plished by the Baptist Publication Society since
it's organization sixty-one years ago. He said
In the year 1874, eighteen men and seven
women, met at a private house in the CITY OF
Washington agreeably to a call issued by lead
ing men Of the Baptist denomination, and enter
ed into the organization OF the Baptist General
Tract Society, now the American Baptist Pub
LEGATION Society. After a trial of two years the
society transferred it's headquarters to Philadel-
phia in order to secure better facilities for the ac-
complishment of it's work. For the first sixteen
years of it's existence, it confined itselfto the pub
LEGATION OftractS, which have been scattered over
the length and breadth of our land, and also in
Germany, Sweden and France. In 1910, it COM
menced the publication of bound volumes and
Sunday-schoOl periodicals, when it changed its
name to the one it now bears. Later on it added
a Bible department, and now from its plates are
issued yearly, thousands ofcopies of Gods Word
in most of the languages Of the world. In 1850 it
first purchased a home of it's own on Arch
street ut Il cost Of $4,000, but its rapidly in
creasing business soon demanded still more
ample accommodations, and III 1876 1T entered,
free Of debt, one of the finest stores in the world,
at Il cost Of over S25S, 900.
The capital Of the society is embodied mainly
in trust funds invested in the business Of the
Society, with the condition that the interest from
time to time should be appropriated forever to
the gratuitous distribution Of books and tracts.
There are now in possession of the Society sixty
one of these trust funds, varying in amounts
from twenty-five dollars to fifty thousand dol
lars, amounting in the aggregate to SOL DOL S.
The total amount already received from the
invested funds and expended in grants of books
and tracts is Sl43, 452. Is. The present annual in
come to be eXpended in this way is about $4,000.
The Society conducts three kinds of distinct
Missionary work. l. Circulation of the Bible
among the destitute poor. 1t is stated by those
who ought to know that there arc mt least eight
millions in our own favored land who are with
out the Bible. TO assist in supplying this dcs-
"titution is a part of the society's mission work.
Every warm hearted Christian must want Il
share in it. During the last five years, ending
April, 1885, the Society has given $54,S"-ah
average of lS2 per day-of these perishing ones,
Il copy of the Bible or Testament, ut a cost of
$50, 3l2.7 IS. md. Another kind of missionary
work is Christian colportagc. The colporteur
is a pioneer missionary-a sort of torerunner or
pastors, and besides the distribution of books he
breaches in private families when opportunity
offers. Bird. Perhaps the greatest feature of the
missionary department is its Sunday-scho
work. Distinct agents are appointed for tins,
and it is now the aim Of the society to place in
every State and Territory of the United States,
a first class Sunday-school missionary. The So
ciety's Sunday-school missionaries and colpor-
tours have organized 6, 393-an average of 300 per
year. Last year they organized 462 schools.
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