Smyrna times., 1896-06-10
iILDRENS DAY AT THE Nj. E.
CHURCH.
An Occasion Of Beauty and Brightness.

An Occasion Of Beauty and Brightness.
It was "Children's Day. at the |
Methodist church last Sunday morn |
ing, and was as gladstone day as the |
"spring time of life" thus manifested |
with so many of the young taking the |
place of instructors, with the accom- |
paniment of flowers and the enthusi- |
of members could make it, 1t was a |
bright morning of moderate summer
temperature, and by the time the first
bell rang, the ample galleries were
getting well filled.
The dressing of the Church was not
elaborate, but very chaste. The pull
pit furniture and choir drapery were
removed to give room to the Infant or
Primary Department who in several of
their exercises occupied the platform.
In the front centre was simply a bank
of field daisies relieved with fern, with
full vases of roses at either end of the
chancel, q collection of pot flowers at
one side of the organ loft and vases of
flowers resting on the ledge of each
window of the right and left aisle.
A few minutes after the ringing of
the second bell the children COM
menced the procession from the rooms
a suitable voluntary on the organ, the
boys of the Infant school taking the
"Amen corner" of the left and the
girls the right. Then followed the
school proper by classes, filling up the
space reserved for them-the centre
blOcks-tO within five seats of the door.
Such an audience filling the audi
tOrium below and the sides and rear
end of the gallery, very naturally had
an inspiring effect on the young parti-
cipants who had the platform in the
place of the preacher, for they never
did better. John H. Hoffecker, the
superintendent, had charge of the pro-.
| gramme, and the hour and a half was
gone through with, without flaw.
| The par excellent feature of the occas-
| ion, (and it naturally forms a conspic-
uous part in all such demonstrations
was the singing. The music of the
! New York Book Committee who get
| out q Children Day leahet was not
satisfactory and rarely is, and the
chOrister, Walter O. HOffecker, made
selections of his own that were striking
in their adaptability, spirit and beauty,
and the accuracy with which the
school got through with the diminuen-
do and crescendO features of the music
was surprising. There was apparently
not O discOrdant note. If there were
no scriptural or moral lessons taught
in the Sunday School, the training
thus received ought to commend it to
parents, Sunday by Sunday. To help
''swell the anthem" the orchestra of
the school joined with the organ in the
!; full chOruses. The following was the
Programme:
| q IL q 4,
Prayer-Rev. Adam Stengle
Bible Lesson-121st Psalm
Church Collection.
Song by the School-"Children' Festival. y
Opening Address-Anna Beckett.
Song by the Infant Glass
, Recitation, by the Little Folks
Natures Voices
Solo and Chorus June is Here
D.. Nina Wells and six girls
Dialogue 1.-The Butterfly and Rose"
Reed Prettyman, Mary HAZEL
(Infant School-SOng In Our Gladness.
y {RecitatiOnS,
Recitation-"L Little Ones He Blessed'
; Mary Grow
n Recitation-"Y Your Offerings for Jesus"
4 Belle HAZEL
Q Anthem by the School
|
o Address-PastOr
= Collection
. Song by the School
: March, March Away.
s Benediction-Re L. H. Haynes
q The part taken BY The pastor (te
i minutes being assigned) was as uniqu
as the other features, and might prop
5 erly be termed sermOnette, from til
e following text: The Book of Nature
z subterranean Epistle, Mineral Chapte
IL CarbOniferOUs verse-using q piece
r. stone coal as the text. A comparisO
le was drawn between the Bible and Coz
y as the source of heat, light and powt
), when on fire-the one spiritual I'll
- other material.
VI 1t was approaching noon when ii
le large audience dispersed, all seen
% ingly gratiied with what they had see
~ and heard.
!, The following constituted the con
mittee of arrangement: Miss Ann
y HOugh, Chairman, Miss Lizzie M
r Dowell, Miss Mary w. ThOmpso
le Miss Laura Bell, Mr.. and Mrs. w. {
III HOffecker and l.. M. Price.
Ne The collection for Education W
re $22.64.
ne AT JERNIAN CHAPEL.
It's The Children's Day services we
held at Jerman Chapel Sunday eve
dy ing before a gathering of four or fl
ur hundred people including inside al
ON outside, about half this many not bel
ali able to get seats. The decoratio
un were of patriotic order, the mot
he being strung across the platform Fl
b. God and Home and Every Land
lie Temperance Victory" The fOllOwi
is was the program rendered:
re- Organ Voluntary
- March
Iiy Singing by School-"Golden Age"
ny Prayer-Pastor.
re- re- Responsive Reading, by Superintt
icy dent and School.
u Introductory Address-Miss Mel
Mattiford,
Solo-'In Life's Fair Rosey Morn
Mrs. Joseph BrintOn.
Song by SchoOl-"The Cold Wa
Army"
Address-Miss Florence Mattiford.
It'll Song by School-"The Good 9
his Beautiful and True"
lay Christ's Crusaders represented by
cen scholars-Venie Moran, Col
ON Morris, Minnie McAfee, D,
ing johnson, Louis Robinson.
hen Address - ''First Attempts - NJ
He Morris and Willie Carol.
late Representation of the Soldiers
g in Patriots and defenders by
en- Scholars.
r of Address-PastOr
llar Closing Hymn-"Stand up for jest
this
arm
pm A $50 Prize Awarded to Gilbert S. JOl
Gilbert S. Jones received le
orr from the Philadelphia Press Satur