Middletown transcript., 1897-11-13

then tobacco, large piece of the same,
then followed long line Of things
some useful and some not which were
represented in like manner, thus for
shoes pair of shoes, for bread loaf
of bread and so on until small Bible
was reached. 1t Iepresen ted amount
spent on religion and the Bible
was so small you could scarcely see it
in the back of the Church. Next he
brought out and hung from the string
an immense circle of paper apparently,
| which was divided into ten sections one
of which he removed hung beside the
nine remaining. On each one of the
latter he put piece of paper on
which was written something for
which this section could be spent as
our home, our food, clothes &c. Then
from the tenth detached he hung. a
church, G. E. society, s. s. missions
&c until they more than reached the
floor. For those who do not know CT
the Tenth Legion l would say that it
is composed of large lumber of peo-
pie who have agreed to give one tenth
of their income to the Lord. Any one
can joi n who wants to and can with
Early service was much better at
tended Friday than Thursday and every
one seemed determined to make the
meeting help to some one else. Every
minute was fully occupied.
At the regular morning service we
heard some fine addresses on missions
but as Miss Houston has something to
say on that subject l will go on to
election of officers. Mr.. Murray of st.
PauPs M. E. Church of Whining
ton, was made president. As st. Paul's
was the first G. E. Society in the
state it seems just right that her pastor
is now our president. We give him
hearty greeting. Mr.. Burns is still
secretary and Mr.. S. J. Horn is now
treasurer. Rev. w. q. Hogg is still
our UNCONVENTIONAL vice president.
In the afternoon we had a Junior
Rally which was one of our best meet
ings. The children did not come un-
til after school so the first part of the
service consisted in addresses by Mr..
VIM. T. Ellis of Philadelphia and DR..
Spoener of N. J. Then the children
came and kept on coming. We arose
and gave the ChautauQua salute as
they entered and they in turn waved
our g. E. state flags which they carried.
They recited and sang, and five of them
gave three minutes talks. One of the
latter was Master Geo. d. Kelley, Jr.,
and his talk was so good that we felt
proud of him as one of our Juniors.
After this DIR. Spooner talked to them
and drew them pictures to illustrate
his remarks and some of the older G.
E's enjoyed this as much as the Jun
iors. At one point in his talk he asked
every child who would like to shake
hands with him to raise his or her hand,
then to raise both hands, and he did
the same thing. NOW everyone shake
or wave their hands and will do the
same" which was done to the delight
of his small audience at such a novel
way of shaking hands.
In the evening came our last and
best meeting Conservation. DIR. Stearns
made an address and then came DR..
Wayland Hoyt, the friend Of all Della
ware c. Els. wish could give you
his whole address and his manner with
it for great deal of his power lies in
the latter. It was on Soul Winning
anu u6 COmpaT0u US tO HSu6IS duu. .Shlu
good deal of the different kinds of
bait and care in landing fish after the
bait was taken. One other thought, ''in
fiuence is the shadow of character" If
our character is good the shadow will
resemble it and do more good. Some at
tempt had been made to seat the de-
nominations together but it failed for |
saw Pres. ministers among the Bap-
lists and Methodists among Presbyter.
ians and in the Conservation service
the responses came in the same way.
From gallery to pulpit and back again
they came with scarcely pause, prom
ising greater effort "For Christ and
the Church" in the future. Every
one was 10th to leave so we stayed and
sang several hymns after the benedic-
finn