Morning journal and courier., 1892-06-13
CHILDREN,s DAY.
The Members of. the Sunday-Sehool
 and League of Honor of the First

he bright and sunshiny morning happily orresponded to the eager, happy faces of he children ss they assembled to observe hat day of all the year that is especially ct apart to them.
 At the First M. E. church @ very inter- sting service was held. It opeued with he "Children's Day Hymn," followed by prayer, responsive reading of the scrip ures and the singing of hymn 149, "The Young Christian" from Epworth Hymnal, No. 1. The introductory address was then made by MT. William Kirschner, the | superintendent of the Sabbath school and the master workman in the building of the pyramid of honor. which was feature peculiar to the service, the pyramid being furnished by the board of education. He said: cone more glad Children's day has come. great jubilee of all the young people. Of course the Epworth leaguers are always included o ali the days; , make this day bright and helpful to us all, has this year furnished us a program full Of good things.music to make our hearts sing and thoughts to kindle high resolve within us. Our chief exercise is called
 THE LEAGUE OF HONOR.
 "It calls upon all of us to join the league. which is the straugest society in the world. It is to nS or pG po paces et meeting, and requires no fees. Yet it is the most important society ever formed aside from the league appoints himself chief officer over him. self to enforce all required rules and carry out all the purposes of the league
 60 fn- do rY1orp of foo in the full faith that every worldly person. young old, will join it, and that 1t viii continue to as the years and the centuries go on. The exer- else simply gives an outline oe the platform of principles which the league adopts. The several briefly by the different speakers and you will see it grow as an object lesson before your eyes. It @ pe fs the of ss and noble virtue is the chief aim of the lsague. The honor which it seeks to develop is within
 "Honor and shame from no condition rise:
 Act well your part, there all the honor lies"
 ''The platform does not express all that the league aims at. This would be impossible. It aims to include all that the great St. Paul means when he urges us to think about and to seek '.whatsoever things" are honorable" 'true '" 'just" lovely and of good report" ;," purpose will be certain of winning life's highest prizes-they will be earths kings and queens. Nothing mean or ignoble will mar the beauty of their character or weaken the force of their in fuence.
 league and to try to get others to join it by voluntary resolve at any place or any time, and thus the league will live and grow till time shall end.
 'sThe pyramid is used in this exercise as sym bol of stability and durability. Napoleon melted his soldiers t9 valor as they fought under the shouting to them: Soldiers from wonder sum- mits forty centuries look down upon you The this pyramid to-day have stood for more than forty centuries; they have made all the worid's and % gather % strength I for the centures to S come Building on this foundation, we build for the eternal years. Our League of Honor has in it the it. now introduce to you our Leage of Honor builders. who will each bring, explain and put ir it's place his plank in our platform"
 The builders then proceeded with appro priate recitations to put in the various | blanks, as follows:
 First builder-Plank, "Honor Your
 self" by Misr Covert. Second builder Third builder - Plank, "Honor tho Church" {" by Miss Hadden. Fourth build er-Plank, ':Honor the Sabbath" by Mis- Beebe. Fifth-The plank of ''Temper
 ance," by ten little boy
 from the primary departmen
 of the Sabbath school, which is in charg
 of Miss Lizzie Halford. They were as fol
 lows: J. Wesley Mitchell. Willie Langly
 Julius Benedict, Joe Alexander, Ralpl
 Benham, Willie Willoughby, Willie Benja
 min, Willie Candee, Roscoe Reeves ant
 Herbert Austin. Master Roscoe Reeve
 then recited poem entitled "Truth ant
 Falsehood," ," and the plant "Honor Truth
 was put in the place on the pyramid
 Miss Lottie Cooly sang two yer
 nice solos, entitled "Father, we Prais
 Thee" and "Little White Lilies" Sh
 was accompanied by MT. Tollou. Tn
 pledge song of the League of Honor wa
 then sung, which was followed by dis
 logue on 'Going to College" between M,
 Moore of the Yale divinity school an
 Harry. s. Scarborough, Yale '95. Thi
 was the plank of Knowledge" A song
 o Happy Youth," followed, and then th
 sixth builder, Miss Hadden, put in tn
 plank "Honor Christi" which, togethe
 with the plank "Honor Your Parents, completed the pyramid.
 Rev. MT. Kelley, the pastor, made som very interesting remarks as follows: 'Dr. Charles R. Paine is the man wh
 prepared the service which is being carrie
 out through many Methodist congregation
 this morning. He says that the mai thing in such service is to avoid anythin
 tedious and prosy. So shall endeavo
 not to make my talk tedious or prosy. , "Children's day, might say, is like a
 iceberg-most of it out of sight. Il meaning, signi6cation and bearing are co, cealed. Children's day is also like hearin
 hear the conversation at this end, br
 what is that at the other end (
 who is it talking we cannot tel |. It is also benevolent association , | The children hold this service for the ber , l eft of that unseen multitude of youn
 people who are without the light of tt gospel. So here they meet once year { ! children benefactors to help with the } dollars and dimes those poor and destitu, } children. Some of these young people al brown, some black, others yellow. Yo
 are here under the folds of the Stars an Stripes; they are in foreign lands of ba , | barism and oppression. You are we'll fet , we'll clothed and cleanly; you have an e1 P cellent opportunity for education; the
 have to make a struggle for it; the are a working young people, an } they prove by their heroic effor t that they have the stuff in thel | to warrant the church spending few do lars on them. It is the heroic "stuff" ths : was in Garfield up at Williams colleg Massachusetts, when he acted as janitor ( , a building in order that he might obtai , an education"
 Principal Isaac Thomas, the superinteI ] dent of the echool, made few remarks which he said that since 1873 over 3,8( needy students had been assisted and tn. last year the M E. church raised ove
 $57 ,0OO. The collection was then take , by eight young ladies of the Sabbat i school. The pulpit and altar were yer , prettily decorated by Miss Banks and Mi Benedict, who were the committee.