The Newtown bee., 1903-04-03
HISS LORD AT THE CONGRE0A-
TlONAL CHURCH.

SHE SPEAKS TO A LARGE AUDIENCE
ON SUNDAY EVENING ABOUT HER
WORK IN THE STATE.-SHE WILL HOLD
SUNDAY SERVICES IN THE CHURCH AT
7.30 O'CLOCK UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.
AS was planned Miss May B. Lord,
field worker for the Connecticut Sun
day school Association, was at the
services of the Congregational church
on Sunday. She was an interested
listener in the morning when the
people in the true spirit of Christian
Fellowship gathered about the Lords
table and found real spiritual delight
in the service that opened their beau
Estiful church home. At the Sunday
school hour Miss Lord added not little
to the profit of review exercise by
relating some stirring incidents from
her work. When she suggested that
into the bonfire which the boys were
going to build the old grudges be
thrown that sometimes even good
christian people seem to delight in
cheriShing against each other, a
hearty Amen was uttered in many
hearts, At the Endeaver missionary
meeting Miss Lord brought the Gospel
great deal nearer home than Africa
by telling what the putting of small
boys lapel had done.
The church missionary service held
at 73O O'Clock was good one. The
singing was spirited, the prayers were
from heart-depths, and the speaking
was of the sort that drives conviction
home as the heavy blows of the mallet
drives the nail into the wood. The
audience was a large one, very large
considering the number that can ordi-
narily be gathered on Sunday evening
to service in NewtOwn street. The
interest shown was so good that it
came as asuggestiOn to be acted upon
quickly to continue these services on
Sunday evenings while Miss Lord is
in town. She will, therefore, speak
every Sunday evening until further
notice in the Congregational church
at half past seven O'Clock, and will give
Observation-Disclosures Gospel message
A II are asked to come, and the workers
Of the church are earnestly asked to
help in inviting others to the sery-
ices.
Miss Lord, last Sunday evening, gave
many a thrilling experience from her
work. A worker that gets results as
she has done is worker to be support
ed. Her recital cheers our hearts
with the thought that the Gospel has
not yet lost it's power. "For l am not
ashamed of the Gospel of Christ, for it
is tn power of God unto Salvation to
every one that believeth." 1t was
power for Miss Lord in Newtown.
Friends, let us pray that it will be-
Perhaps the most startling incident
that Miss Lord related was of little
three year old girl who attended a
banquet with her parents. Wine was
on the table. The sparkle of it attract
ed the child. She wanted some
"Dink, mamma, dink." A little sip
was given just to please the child.
More, mamma, more" More was
given just to please the child and soon
she was laid aside upon sOfa-asleep...
Ten years passed by; and this same
child,a girl now of thirteen, rushed to
the sideboard. No wine was there,
for the parents had diligently tried to
keep it out OF her way. She turned her
pocketbook upside down. No money
was there, for no money could be
to fall in her way. Driven by
a burning passion the girl rushed up
stairs, seized a costly jewel, and ex
changing it at pawn shop for money
bought wine. She was brought home
in hack. Three years passed, and
none but the nearest relatives ever
enter that home. The blinds are
closed, the curtains are drawn; there
is sorrow in that home, continual sor-
row. In darkened, padded room this |
girl is kept, for her reason has aban-
doned her. At times she becomes |
frenzied as the desire for the inf1aming
cup rushes holly upon her, and she |
screams for wine. Her mother only, |
tenderly Unfolding her in her arms,
can sooth her. True it is that time
will wear away the markings on the
marble slab, the writing on the brazen
tablet in years will be gone;but an i'm
preston indelibly fixed on child's
mind lasts forever. So the Connecti-
cut Sunday school Association takes
for it's motto: 1.-THE Bible for every
child, and every child for the church,"