Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-03-28
MISS TYSON TO YOUNG PEOPLE.
Her Happy Faculty for Enlisting the
Iutere.t of CbiIdren-To-Day's Ushers.

Interest of Children-To-Day's Ushers'
Miss Tyson's service at the Young Mems
Christian, Association yesterday afternoon
for ladies and children was well attended.
considering the clustering weather. There
was a decided preponderance OF boys in
the audience. The service consisted OF
songs and talk on the Scriptures Illus
trated by drawings in different colored
ohaIl,s unon the blackboard. Miss Tyson
started out by putting the young people
in a good humor. She gave some OF her
own experiences in church as a child and
r,Ilv confessed that she was not OF the
"goodv-goody'' sort. In chatty sort or
wav more suggestive OF parlor enter
tainment than the lecture platform she
told Of the exDedients to when she IT,
sorted 10 kin time during the sermon, such
as counting the windows, the cohsresa-
tlon and the hairs of the bald-headed
man In front Of her. OF course, she never
remembered the text, she said. Ivy the
time she had got through telling OF
her youthful peccadilloes she was mo
roughly i'm touch with the JuVenie part
OF her audience. The small boys hiu III
their hearts voted her daisy, ana inc
little girls had concluded that they Were
not as black as their mothers had painted
them every time they had the hdgets !"
church.
IN TOUCH WITH CHILDREN.
The talker. for that term applies better
to Miss Tyson than any other Is mo
roughly companionable with children mas
not forgotten that she was once chiu
herself. and enters into her work more
ltff han Vttf
a grown person. Not a." but I'VE are
running this meeting" is the tombstone
Of her success. and as a consequence when
she calls upon all 70 join in Gospel
HYMN all respond with vim, or when
size comes 10 the serious part Of her talk
she is listened to with rapt attention. Her
illustrations answer the purpose of the
nictures I'm a child's book. Many n child
Who is not fond Of reading has picked up
an illustrated Juvenile work and almost
without knowing IL become absorbed In
the text or explanation Of the pictures.
Miss Tyson's obiect-lessons act on the
same principle. Though ostensibly the
pictures illustrate the talk, really as far
as the child Is concerned. the operation
il reversed. and the talk illustrates or
interprets the pictures.
Miss Tyson will lecture every evening at
THE USHERS FOR TO-DAY.
The fdriowing ushers are designated for
this afternoons meeting, and any other
gentlemen who can serve conveniently
are requested To- report to Colonel Phillips
at the tabernacle at 1:5J
r. B. Farrar. j. Pryor Davis,
!. H. Spicer !. Il. SydnOr.
l.. l. Burruss. Il. i. Williams,
W. w Johnson, T.. ~ Shepherd,
Stuart Hopkins, Charles Willroy,
y. Q. Michaels William II. Cartwright,
\. $. Crawford, John +. Ragland,
g. G. Clifton, w. II. Haight.
Or. IN. Eggleston, 2. T.. Throckmorton,
e. Werner. J. b. Walthall.
William l.. Wade. J. T.. Hall,
Wallace Capitaine, r. +. Gasklns,
W. \. Barrett, NJ f.. Gary,
Alfred Benson, oscar Swineford,
George c. jefferson, J. l.. Ridenour
TO SERVE TONIGHT.
The ushers for the evening service, who
will report at $50, are:
Robert Iecky. r. W. Jones
W. i. Walters, George T.. Savile
Dr. Isaac Curd. Henry W. Cottrell
G. p. Gary. Frank l.. Butler
Joseph II. Shepherd. William Dewell
James II. CrenshaW, \. W Baker
Joel Cook W. =. Taliaferro
William IT. Peasants. &. II. GOdsey,
&. W. Mercer JOHN i. Petts,
g. 9. Method. l.. +. Bernard,
Nat. Frazer. Walter AlcGhee,
J. Il. Montgomery, J. j. Duke,
w j. Yarbrough. j. \. Smither,
-. :. Ben"lt NJ Il. Pace,
Howard Gordon. f.. 9. Minor,
John X. Macsee, W. J. Bosher,