The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-10-31
THE NEWS AND OBSERVER TUESDAY MORNING. OCTOBER 81 1899

hood Of which he was Jealous member
himself.
Mr.. Battle mentioned that of the orig
inal members of the school only MIR.
Walter Woollcott, who assists Mrs.
.nanff I'm the management and teaching
of the infant class, Mr.. Edwin Taylor
and himself are now connected with the
school. Many of the teachers and schol-
airs of the original classes have children
now representing them in the school.
MIR Rattle said further that while the
school had not grown and fourished as
he could have hoped, still it had attained
a considerable work in the past. The
members OF the Sunday school have by
their work aasd contributions Furnished
the windows for the chancel and some OF
the chuncel furniture, and assisted their
elders I'M the payment of the great debt
assumed by the church at ats organlZa-
ton. He further said that since the re-
moving of the old church to its present
position and the furnishing of the parish
rooms for its accommodation, it had been
re-organized and the force Of teachers
was ROW greater aud possibly more eff
Gent than ever before A young lady,
recently married, who was one OF the
new teachers. continued to instruct her
class faithfully up to and including the
Sunday preceding her marriage ON We'd
| nesday.
The number of officers, teachers and
pupils now on the roll, which has been
carefully revised. is nearly 100, a number
far too small, but which it is hoped will
be considerably increased ign the near
future He alluded to the great progress
Of our beautiful little city in the past
few years and the growth OF the manu-
featuring interests OF the State, which
has added SO much to its prosperity in
the last few years. He called upon the
teachers, the pupils and the members OF
the congregation who We're present at
these exercises to see to. it that the wei
fare of the church should not fail IN
their hands, but that they should surpass
the zeal and euergy which had enabled
the congregation, assisted always by the
Sunday school, to raise upwards OF
thirty thousand dollars CbeSides consider
able sums which have been paid for in
terest) for the purchase of the property
and the building and furnishing eff the
old church, the expense of removing and
improving the rectOry and the church
building they now occupy, and laying the
lOulHiHtltHl VI INT ufalEihhliNNitA tiitNA "a
which the congregation hopes to worship
| in the future.
sAs smaller numbers have done so
much, is it too mach to hope that our
growing congregation will achieve still
more in the near futmeE' he asked.
| Mr. Battle concluded by saying that in
view of the great progress he had wit
messed in the past he could not but envy
the children and youths present before
him that many of them would live to see
| development in State and Church here
| ana elsewhere in Ncyth Carolina that
he could not have dreamed to be possible
few years ago.
| After him the rector, DR. Pittinger,
/ introduced the Rev. DIR. Strange of st.
| James church, Wilmington, the second
rector OF the parish. DIR. Strange had sug-
/ gested the idea of providing a memorial
to the new church as Joint gift from the
several rectors of the parish. DIR.
| Strange proceeded in beauhful language
/ to explain to the children what a cred
/ ence table was. and TO present it to the
congregation through Mr.. II. I'll. Battle,
/ the senior warden.
| Mr. Battle, who is the official repre-
sentative m the congregation, received
the gift with strong expressions of appre-
/ citation Of the interest and libcrality of
! the rectors in making the church so beau
| tiful a gift The wood of which the
credemce table is made was brought from
| Jerusalem by the present rector, and IS
prepared to be put i'm the new church
where it will be placed near the altar,
and in as conspicuous place as possible
in the chanceI The Inscription upon it,
he said would forever remind the com
gregation of the church of the zeal, the
! liberality and devotion Of the four rec
| tors VINO had served the Church of the
Good Shepherd up to the present time.
! Bishop Cheshire, at the request of the
rector as chief pastor, then made
short address to the school. He said
that he FASTENED away from far off st.
! Louis before the election of a missionary
| bishop in which he felt a great interest,
in order to be here during these interest
ing services of which the ONE in which
we are now engaged was part He went
i ON to say that parents turn over to teacn-
ers, some of whom were not sufficiently
| equipped for the purpose, the Christian
education of their children to which they
| ought to attend themselves, but that in
his opinion if this duty of personal in
! SITUCIlUH ny inc lidItAlS WIS nv w.
looked the Sunday school could be very
useful adjunct or as it is sometimes
called, "a nursery for the church, as
he hoped and believed the Sunday school
of the Church of the Good Shepherd was
proving itself to be.
| The Bishop spoke at some length, com
mending the faithful teachers whose III
| struction contributed so much to the
growth and success of the church. His
| remarks were i'm excellent taste and
made deep impression.
The vested choir, consisting PARTLY of
the children and teachers of the Sunday
school, had entered at the beginning of
| the service, followed by the other mem-
bers of the school, singing a professional
hymn. After the concluding prayer and
a benedicti0n by bishop Cheshire they
retired to the parish rooms below singing
a sweet occasional.
A NIGHT or TERROR.
awful anxiety was felt for The 'dow