The Newtown bee., 1903-04-03
HISS LORD AT THE CONGREGA
TIONAL 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
7.3O O'CLOCK UNTIL ,FUKTHER 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
tiful church home. At the Sunday
school hour Miss Lord added not little
to the profit Of review exercise by
relating some stirring incidents from
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
a great deal nearer home than Africa
by telling what the putting Of small
temperance button, with prayer, on
a boys lapel had done.
The church missionary service held
at 7.3O 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 large one, very large
considering the number that can Ordi
narily be gathered on Sunday evening
to a service in NewtOwn street. The
interest shown was SO good that it
came as suggestion 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
instraightforward Spelmessage
A II ere asked to come, and the workers
Of tile church are earnestly asked tC
help in inviting others to the Serv-
ices.
Miss Lord, last Sunday evening, gave
many 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 a
power for Paul at Rome. and it will be
a 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 d little
three year old girl who attended a
hnn hor rtc
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 a 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
wa - there. for no money could be
a burning passion the girl rushed up
stairs, seized costly jewel, and ex
changing it at pawn shop for money
bought wine. She was brought home
in a 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 a darkened padded room this
girl is kept, for her reason has aban-
doned her. At times she becomes
frenzied as the desire for the inflaming
cup rushes holly upon her, and she
screams for wine. Her mother only,
tenderly EMBEDDING 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: 'The Bible for every
child, and every child for the church."