Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-07-05
Sunday in the Country.

CHILDREN DAY AT IIEBRON-A MODEL
SUNDAY SCHOOL-A PROSPEROU'
CHURCH AND A HAPPY PASTOR AMI
DEVOTED PEOPLE.
[Reported for the Staunton VINDIcAToR.l
Hebron church is situated in one OF th'
prettiest groves of oaks in the Shenandoah
Valley, about four miles from Staunton
The building is a comfortable, roomy
brick structure: the pleasant Sunday home
of a large and prosperous Presbyterian
community, embracing a membership Of
245, and Sunday school, including &
branch one at Swoope's, of 245 scholars and
teachers. The grounds are surrounded by
a bran new enclosure, which also embraces
the pretty red brick, vine-clad parsonage.
situated at the end of the well-kept grassy
lawn, that slopes down to the church
grounds and when the writer saw the
place last Sunday, alive with the large
crowd gathered together for the services OF
children's day, and the scores of carriages,
buggies and saddle horses standing thick
among the new hitching posts, under the
grateful shade, he thought that the city
could never furnish scene SO pleasant
and attractive as this rural one
THE OPENING SERVICE
was some fine singing, led by Rev. J. e.
Booker, the pastor, accompanied by Mrs.
Booker on the organ, the whole school
joining in. Some Of the prettiest pieces
CI1n Inv fbo choir tha cnbnn1 cinninr
the chorus. Then the whole school re-
peated in unison the LIST and the 23d
Psalms, and did it very well. After PRAYER
and more singing the pastor, who is also
superintendent of the school, delivered a
missionary address, which was very inter-
esting and received the closest attention.
He spoke of the S50,OOO,OOO of heathens in
the world, who had never heard of Christ,
giving the children an idea of their num-
bers by stating that the world was $4,000
miles in circumference, and if these mil
lions of heathens were standing in line,
touching hands, they would make a line
that would go around the world twenty
times,
hLAC11NU COO,OUO MtLCSs
He illustrated the treatment of the little
Chinese girls in the cruel practice of de-
forming their feet, by a little image Of a
child's foot compressed into a shapeless
club with the toes doubled under the foot,
and had a monument sketched on the black
board with great broad base representing
the hundreds of millions of money spent in
this country for liquor, while the small
short block forming the cap stone on
top represented the pitiful five millions
OF money that had been contributed to mis-
sions. After the address the children
handed in their contribution to Foreign
Missions and the collection amounted to
the nice little sum of $27.
A MODEL SUNDAY SCHOOL.
During the two hours services the writer
witnessed the very unusual sight of per-
fectly quiet body of about 200 children, and
though facing the school he never saw a
single child whisper to another OF a teacher
reprove a pupil for inattention OF misbeha-
vior, OIL a child get up and leave the ROOM
One striking feature of the school is the
ladies Bible class, which numbers just fifty
and is taught by the pastors wife. There
are also forty children in the infant class,
which is taught by Miss Carrie Goodwin.
GROWING CHURCH.
AS might be expected of a church which
has such Sunday school, there were dur
ing the last year, 56 additions to the men,
bership, of which 3S were on profession and
Is on examination. The congregation pre-
sented the pastor with a fine horse and sad
die and a handsome suit of clothes this
spring, and largely increased their contri-
buttons to the various benevolent objects of
the church and is daily growing in numbers
and efficiency. TEN.