Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-04-14
MIcKLEToN.


undoubtedly to the uncertainty of the
weather. The house was well filed In
the afternoon and the exercises were
of an exceptionally high order. The
morning session opened with reading
of the one hundred and eleventh Psalm
by the clerk, John Borton, of Woods
town Prayer was offered by Rachel
NJ. LippincOtt, of Mullica Hill. Re-
ports were then taken UP. One of the
characteristics of Mullica Hill First
day School being the effort to include
as many as possible in the general ex-
ercises of the school different indi-
viduals given the opening reading,
also varing the closing exercises to in
clude all Woodstowp reported near
ly their entire force of teachers and
officers former pupils, thus they were
directly reaping the advantage OF prev
ious effort. Salem school has had in
teresting talks on a circulating case OF
articles from Palestine, the property Of
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Han
cocks Bridge, one of the smaller First
day Schools belonging to the Union,
had the largest percentage average at
tendance, twenty-seven, not missing a
I day during the past year; they encour-
aged the true Christian spirit, that of
giving not receiving, by remembering
some elderly people in the neighbor.
hood and also children less favored
than themselves.
What preparation would you recon-
mend for the First-day School pupil2
was answered in an able paper pre-
pared by George Duell of Woods
town She would like to substitute the
| term Bible school for Sunday, Sabbath
or First-day School. Pupils need to
realize that these are schools for Bible
study and should take their own Bibles
with them The lesson for the COM
| ing week ought to be read early, in or
der that the weeks thought might cen
ter on it as much as possible. We do
not want our pupils to be mere spung-
es; but because of familiarity and in
terest in the lesson, able to ask intelli-
gent questions. From one hundred and
fifty to two hundred were served with
lunch at the school house during the
noon recess. The regular order of ex-
ercises was resumed at two O'clock
The auditing committee reported the
name of Albert Heritage for treasurer
for the next two years The delegates
reported the names of Louisa Powell,
of Hancock's Bridge, and ]. Omar
Heritage, of Mickleton, for clerks. The
meeting was then given over to the
young folks, who improved their OPP
portunity most creditably. Mabel
Haines, of Mickleton, conducted con-
cert exercise, Waiting to Grow" with
fourteen little folks whose ages prob
ably ranged from five to ten years.
Raymond Heritage, of Wyoming, a
very little man, spoke well for the fu-
ture of that far away State. Ella Car
ter, of Woodbury., gave Elias May
Day" Thomas Borden, of Mt. Royal,
another little man, gave good advice
to his comrades. Little Miss Dande-
lion was given by Lizzie Steward, and
an Easter song by Rebecca Borden.
Clara B. Heritage gave "The Mothers
of Men" A concert exercise by Wal
ter Conrow, Rebecca Borden and Car
rol Haines was perfectly given for
such little children. Cora Dawson re-
cited ''The Newsboy's DEATH and
Mabel Haines "The Changed Cross. +"
The exercises, associated with Mickle-
ton First-day School, were closed with
a responsive Bible reading by Mary
Johns class of twelve young people.
Mullica Hill School had two recita-
tons Blind Traveller" by Eliza
beth Gardiner, and Through Death to
Life" by Elizabeth Hirby. Woods
town School was represented by re-
sponsive exercise given by twelve
young people, and one recitation, THE
Choppers Little Daughter" given with
much expression by Rachel Davis; but
then she was sort of granddaughter
vi Il !, Tor S1f Dor
tina Davis, nee Haines.
Hancock's Bridge School was repre-
scented by three girls. One gave a
reading, "Out Of the Darkness Into the
Light" another a recitation, Easter
tide;" the other read an original poem
of exceptional beauty, Faithful
Flora" The question for discussion,
what material should be used by
teachers at the critical First-day
School age, from fifteen to twenty
one?" was considered in three papers.
Annie Pancoast, of Woodstown, said
no material could supply the first great
essential, a genuine love for the work;
draw upon science, literature and his
tory for all the helps they can afford;
so varied is the knowledge among Gull
tiyated people that it seems essential
to have clear cut, richly colored images
to present to the class enabling the pu'
pills to grasp all the influences touch
ing the life and times of which they
are studying. Among the helps men
toned were maps, Smiths Bible Die
tionary, Stanleys History of the Jew
ish People, Farar's Life of Jesus, and
Farrar's Life of Paul. The writer
would not place books belonging to the
Higher Criticism in the hands of pu-
pills at the age mentioned. Meet your
pupils at as many points of contact as
possible and from your common inter-
ests lead them on to a realization of
all that is highest and best in the char
acters of whom you are studying.
Mary John thought there was a pos
|sibility of attempting too much in an
ungraded class. She would have a
brief Bible reading, the history asso,
ciated with it and the lesson conveyed.
Teach the beliefs of Friends and en-