The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-05-07
APPROACHING A CENTURY.
Anniversary Exercises Of the indie
pendent Sunday School.

The Decorations Among the Most
Beautiful Ever Semitic Singing
an Interesting Feature of the Pro-
gramme 49, Supt. Clay Urges Home
Work on the Part of Parents-The
School to GO Into It's New Building
in the Fall.
The ninetieth anniversary of the In
dependent Presbyterian Sunday school
was celebrated last night by appropriate
exercises.
No efforts had been spared on the part
of the ladies of the church to make the
decorations of the church the prettiest
they have ever had. They were among
the most artistic and excellent that have
been seen at any Sunday school ami
versarY.
Hanging from the high pulpit arranged
diagonally was a large and beautiful
cross of Easter lilies and ferns. 1t was
most exquisite design, the beauty of the
lilies being almost equaled by the grace
of the tender ferns. All around the pull
pit hung graceful garlands of Easter lilies
and evergreens In fact the larger part of
the floral decorations consisted of Easter
! lilies. The pulpit was crowned with a
large cluster of them iuterspersed with
ferns, while below and on either side
were wreathes of roses, ferns and ever
greens. The decorations presented most
beautiful effect,
The exercises began at o'clock with
the singing of the hymn "Praise Him"
| by the school, after which there were
several hymns by the infant class, the
choir and by the congregation. The music
was a most excellent feature of the exer-
cises, showing that the care and atten-
tion had been given ait which its i'm
| portance merits.
After the reading of the scriptures
| Supt. Clay read his annual report. He
said there were enrolled 203 scholars and
! teachers, of whom % were teachers. He
| said the Sunday school was much in
! debted to the Young Mems Christian AS
sociation for the use of its rooms while
the school was without its own building.
He said that the school hoped to be able
to get into its new building by next fall,
and that they were working to that end
! He spoke of the fact also that many who
would otherwise be in the Sunday school
were conducting a mission school on the
| Shell road, near the cotton factory
He spoke of the Bible class maintained
by the Sunday school, for young men, and
urged their attendance upon it. There
seemed TO be, he said, too little attention
| given to the study of Gods word among
/
every opportunity for the study of the
Bible, and he hoped they would avail
themselves of it. He urged upon parents
the Importance of doing home work and
not depending altogether on the Sunday
schools.
After the singing of the hymn "'Tis
the Blessed Hour of Prayer" the pastor,
Rev. j. F. Dripps. delivered a short ad-
dress to the children. He said in con
sideration of the fact that it was almost 9
o'clock, the time for dismissing the
school, he would not deliver the address
he had prepared for the occasion, but
would make few remarks to
the children. He spoke of the
and school took in the finishing
with success of the ninetieth year of the
Sunday schools life. The interest taken
in the work of the school, he said, was
shown by the way the flowers had
poured in to make up the beautiful
declarations. He said the schools had
much to be thankful for in the new
year, mentioning especially the new
building, into which it would soon be
able to move.
The exercises were concluded by the
singing of the hymn Hide Me o My
Savior" after which came the bene-
diction.
The exercises were among the prettiest
and most interesting that have been seen
in Savannah in some time, and much was
added to the interest of the occasion by
the exquisite beauty of the decorations.