The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-11-25
MITE OF THE MITES
Tabernacle Children Line
the Peoples Palace MUIR
sery Cupboards for
a Year.
THANKSGIVING ALL AROUND
For the Little Ones Found it More
Blessed to Give Than to
Receive.
THANKSGIVING ALL AROUND


Receive.
The yearly Thanksgiving service of the
Tabernacle Sunday School was held in
the church yesterday morning. For
some years it has been the custom OF
each member of the school to bring a
thAnk-offering in the shape of something
good to eat, which has afterwards been
distributed to the poor of the church,
and the different Homes in the city.
This year it was decided to donate all
the offerings to the Day Nursery of the
Peoples Palace, with the exception of
the Thanksgiving dinners for the poor
of the church. Although the day was
rainy there were about three hundred
children in the church long before the
time of the service, each one holding
a package of g rice or -four, or per-
haps a can of corn, peas or tomatoes.
In the aisles were three barrels. h
ownership of these barrels was not left
in doubt, for aside from their positions
by the classes. the members of the
classes owning them had written clearly
upon their faces, We've given a bar
rel.'
Except for two or three anthems by
the choir the exercises were entirely by
members of the Sabbath School. Super
intendent w. ]. Hunt presided. Mrs.
Scudder read a poem about the first
Thanksgiving Day in 1921, which was fol-
lowed by three reasons from two boys
and a girl why we should be especially
thankful this year. Cecil Williamson,
who carried an American flag. said:-
II am thankful for my country. All this
year she has had peace. China, Japan,
Spain, Cuba and some smaller countries
have lost thousands of fathers, sons and
brothers by bloody war, but we have
seen nothing of these horrors in this
land Our country has had a year of
plenty. The crops have been larger,
business has been better and poverty has
been searcer than at many other times.
This has not been so in all nations. No
plague or pestilence has visited this coun-
try to destroy our people and no earth
quake has rent our land. In this we
have been especially blessed. So I thank
God for His goodness to my country"
WHY THEY ARE THANKFUL.
Miss Alice Williamson said:-'T hank
our Heavenly Father because He has
given me a good home, many loving
friends, a church and a Sunday school.
Thousands of children are orphans and
no longer Know what it is to feel a moth
er's kiss upon the cheek. Others have
no friends to love them and great multi
tudes in this and other lands know moth
ing about the church or Sunday school.
Because He has given me these good
things, l thank God, and ask Him to let
me help the children who are not as
fortunate as /"
fulness was-"In the hospitals of the
great cities, in homes throughout the
land, and especially in the heather coun-
who are unable to play or enjoy life in
any way. They must be still all the
time and suffer great pain. I am very
glad that God has given US good health
the games we please. For the happi-
ness Of health I am thankful" He held
g football, a bat and a baseball glove.
Clarence Wells recited a short piece, in
which he told everyone to be good and
do good and they would be happy. About
twenty children from the Junior Endeav-
or Society sang a Thanksgiving Endeav-
Miss Elsie Wells held her dolly in her
arms and showed the way the Day Muir
her dolly gently, and reciting a little
by Miss Clerihew and Miss Emma Gar
ris0n' fsRptsfsa IN oF affrs.
Then came the part which every child
had been eagerly awaiting, hdgeting and
child was a prominent actor. First the
primary class. which was seated in the
the re rows; Of sta tRe cS Suwh the wb alslef fbe e0
formed q double file and marched up the
side aisle and over the platform, drop
passed. After they had ernesgsaaif ned t ansy
seats the classes of the main school took
UP their offerings. The CLASSES in the
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the platform and placing tiseir gifts
and back to their places. The CLASSES
around the church in the same order. In
some classes it was evident that the
sfhalarf IN h 5rins 9Rsyed th tasir o 6Sn swee ]
molly collection being the result. Other
classes had been invited and all brought
ens money asms shin Ks;v. cameo NJ. M E1GafS' CT class sugar e.
young men gave money. Several Of the
larger classes had collected money and
c eGsshs so@ ciag sn Of s young ladies' die; p geosEs
Hunts Bible class of ladies gave a bar
bag of buckwheat, one being piled or
top the other and rolled up nn a bar.
aisle carrying a barrel Of crackers ON :
ing ahead. holding the rope in front
Last Of all two members Of the choir
labelled aTabernacle Choir The Off.
GERS Of the Sunday School received the
to the goods already mentioned there
was a basket of applies a bacon and
one stray chicken.
The things were all arranged on tht
platform and left for the evening ser.
vice as an object lesson to the grown
folk. Two barrels were put side by
side, where the pulpit usually stands
with a box on top of them. The othel
two barrels, ornamented with baskets O.
, miscellanies, such as potatoes, carrots
onions, turnips and fruit, were on eithel
side of the improvised pulpit. Stacked il
: front were the canned goods and cereals
; from the barrel pulpit. Before dis
missing the school with the ,Mizpai
Stewart, matron of the Day Nursery. t
the platform and introduced her to tn,
: children.
Y, F. s. @. E. ANNIVERSARY.
: In the Wayne Street Reformed Churci
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