Evening star., 1898-05-28
SEVENTH ANNUAL BANQUET
Calvary Baptist Sunday School Entertains
Its Friends at Stated Function.
Responses to TOasts by Selected
Speakers DR.. HOyts Address
Touches Upon Pending War.

The officers and teachers of the Calvary
Baptist Sunday school. their pastor. the
Rev. DIR. Greene, and their friends last
evening sat down to the seventh annual
banquet of the school. The tables. prettily
decorated with plants and flowers, were set
in one of the many commodious rooms of
the church and there were few vacant
chairs A pleasant half hour was spent in
receiving the guests. and at the banquet.
after the good things had beer discussed.
Mr.. P H. Bristow. the superintendent cf
the school, assumed the duties of toast
master introducing those selected to re-
spond in very pleasing and happy man
ner.
The first toast was THE Coming Nation.
to which Mr.. w. s. Shallenberger respond
ed. He asserted at the outset that the
coming nation of Americans will have due
respect for the teachers and preachers
The nation really had its birth about thirty
five years ago. when at the close of the
civil the unity OF the states was for
ever sealed. Mr.. Shallenberger referred 70
the Washington city of thirty-five years
ago, remarking that few seeing it today
for the first time could realize the great
changes which have occurred here since
then. He spoke of the changes in the
sciences which have been made since the
close of the war, and said the world is not
only steadily advancing, but that it is grow
ing better. AS much will be done in the
coming InlTIN-nNG years, ne DelleEed, as
had been done in the past thirty-tive years
and long before that time, he predicted the
United States will be one of the very great
est naval powers in the world, if not the
greatest, with a commerce without an
equal
Reference to the President.
Mr.. Shallenberger referred to President
Mckinley one he has known we'll for
many years. man who will leave the
White House after of the most pros
porous and successful administrations in
our history. and with the respect of the
country.
The Avenues That Lead to a Boys
Heart" was the next toast. and Miss Nellie
Hoyne responded. Processing ignorance as
to the avenues leading to the hearts of boys
no longer young, she having explained amid
much merriment that she had experience
in reaching the hearts of only little boys
Miss Hoyne said that curiosity, perhaps
Is the first avenue To a boys heart. Graft
tude is one, she declared it taking so little
to make a boy grateful. There is a rnusi-
cal road which soon reaches a boys heart
and hence she believed in giving the bows
plenty of good music. Honor and chivalry
will win boys, too, she said. and rarely
does a boy violate confidence reposed in
him. But the sweetest, the nearest and
the dearest road to "a boys heart. declared
Miss Hoyne, is through tine love of his
mother Invoke that and give him a world
OF sympathy. and use just a little tact and
the quickest road to boys heart is taken
Character Shaping.
The pastor of the church DIR. Greene re-
sponded to the next toast ..Character
Shaping and Character Showing" He de-
elared that character is the sum of those
qualities which distinguish men from one
another He gave the teachers and officers
OF the school some excellent advice. i'm
pressing upon them that truth and char
acter will do more than all else In their.
work e''
Miss Hetty n. Diver responded to the
next toast. Concerning All of U.s. and
had something pleasant and kind to sa,c ids l'f
All tne forty officers. the eighty teacb.Y.
and the fifteen hundred scholars in m,
school. 40 'iie
se"sscs Stepping Upward
Ine Rev Dr. Wayland Hoyt of Philadel-
phia was TIE last speaker of the evenip,
responding to the toast. Stepping In
ward For an hour DIR. Hoyt held tho
Close attention of his auditors He referred
TO the gathering as an unique one, and as
putting him iP the position nj c,rr,i
Goals TO Newcastle in suggestine 70 hi
Una ne might advise the officers and teach
ers OF the school as to now best to succeed
In their work. Nc school. he declared.
holds a more exalted position than doas
that Of Cavalry Baptist Church and it 10
giving, IL Is thought. n grand ideal of stem
ping upward To step upwar6 he ~
Gou oiess MN. was due to lofty thoughts,
Lofty thoughts result in lofty teaching
The marvellous victory of Admiral Dewey
God bless him. was due to leftyzthouehts'
just as much as the defeat OF the Snanish
admir- al was the result of low thinking.
In this connection. DIR. Hoyt referred tn
the criticisms which are being made upon
the conduct of the war. Ii does not re-
quire brains to criticise. he said, but IL
does require brains to prepare the army
and navy for victories, to enable the navy
to bottle up Ceryera and keep him bottled
up. and II is the lack Of education on the