Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-15
of New Castle. The building is of frame,
and cost S4,500.
PRAYERS FROM CHILDREN.

| Charming Services Held in Their Honor
All Over the Two Cities-How Various
Congregations Observed the Day-Beau-
tiful Ceremony at an Allegheny Church
Hundreds of children's voices mingling
with the cadences of the church bell, told
the world that yesterday was "Children'
Day" in the churches. In every church of
the two great cities at some time during
! the day especial services were held for the
little ones, and every pew was filed with
fresh, young faces, bright as the June day
itself, instead of the sterner countenances
of the elder worshipers. Each child was
arrayed in her best white dress, starched
and ironed until it ratified at every move,
and as they marched into the various
churches, each little hand clutching q
bunch of fragrant flowers, the simple
beauty of the affair made it a pageant
more brilliant than the empty pomp Of an
Archbishop's train.
Mayhap the prcttiest service was that
conducted at the First Congregational
Church, Allegheny, of which Rev. S. w.
McCorkle is pastor. Both morning and
evening special services were held for the
little ones. In addition to the organ there
was an orchestra Of five pieces and choir
of 40 voices, while 300 Sabbath school chill
dren formed the chorus. The amphitheater
auditorium was decorated in lovely taste.
A half dozen magnificent floral emblems
decorated the pulpit, which was also
banked with flowers, ferns and palms, as
were each of the windows.
In accordance with the custom of the
church Rev. S. W. McCorkle presented each
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arrived at the age of Z, with Bible. Reel
tations were given by Edith Butler and Ida
Weller The service however, which best
pleased the 700 people present, was the
flower service rendered by u little girls
under the charge of Miss Nettie Ghreist.
Each child represented some flower and re-
peated an appropriate verse. In the even
ing the pastor gave a special talk to the
children in which he ikened the growth of
a child TO that of an apple tree and drew ap-
propriate lessons from the topic.
At the First Primitive Methodist Church,
Holmes street, similar service was held
and an address was made by Rev. j. B.
Tyler. The Centenary NJ. f. Church,
Wylie avenue, held appropriate services in
the afternoon, as did the Buena Vista Street
Church, of Allegheny, the Walton NJ. E.
Church, of the Southside, and the Liberty
Street NJ. E. Church, of Pittsburg.
In the Fourth NJ. P. Church, East End,
children's foreign missionary flower service
was held. An address was made by Rev.
Benjamin Stout, Secretary of the Board of
Home Missions In the First NJ P Church,
Fifth avenue, services will be held by Rev.
David Jones.
H. P. Jacobs, Superintendent of the Insti
tute for the Blind, addressed the
children of the Second Presby-
terian Church, Penn avenue, in the after
noon, and at the Bethel Presbyterian
Church, in Allegheny, Rev. Wilson E. Don
aldson gave special children's service in
the evening.
Children's Day was appropriately OBJ
served in the Mt. Washington Presbyterian
Church. The morning services were con-
Quoted by Rev. Mr. Farrand, the pastor,
who delivered Ian interesting sermon on
''The Youth and the Giant" The evening
exercises were rendered by the Sabbath
school scholars and consisted of an original
and bright programme of musical and elocu-
tionary selections.