The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-11-08
CHILDREN TEXT OF AN ADDRESS Sunday School Meeiinss Are Closed. AUDIENCE PACKS CHURCH Mrs. Hamin Gives a Msst hier-
 esting Talk on the Wsrk. Prise ana Certificates are Awarded the Montgomery I.stitutioa Presentfng Largest rercentase of Mem
 bers GatAerea h the As1i-
 teriun-Blue Banner
 is Awarded.

awarded special certificates. At the close of the meeting those present from each of the Montgomery Sunday schools were asked to rise. A count was taken and that school show ing the greatest percentage of it's total enrolment was declared the winner of large blue banner. The banner was won by the Perry Street Methodist Church with A per cent of its Sum- day-school pupils present. or sixty six out of an enrolment of 14S. The Clayton Street Baptist Church and the Adams Street Baptist Church were tied for second place. with q percentage of 8 1-2. ss.
 Mrs. Hamill. speaking for thirty min utes on "The Child and the Home." be- gan her remarks by asking the little people in the audience to be Japan ese little people" because. as she said. q have found the little people of Ja- pan to be the most attentive in the world.
 T once read of a man in ohio who had a very large cherry orchard of which he was very proud and he was counted as a grower of the best cher ries in all that great State. He had lost many crops of cherries because of blightfng by late frost, So he bought 500 oil stoves to place among his trees when they were in bloom, determined that if possible he should keep them warm enough to save the blossoms. fss
 .vWhen heard that story. I said to myself that man thought a great deal of his cherries, but I know a crop that is vastly more valuable to the world than are this mans cherries. thought of the children when said that to myself. am always thinking of them. no matter what I am doing or what is before me.
 Does the church properly value Its crop of children? Do we think of them like that cherry man considered his fruit? am afraid we do not.
 Church 0verdosed.
 'T wish to declare that the church has for many years been overdosed with -adultism.' That is what has neld 1t back from coming into its own. We build the church of Christ as the peo- pie in China build their houses. roof first. The Chinese first build the roof of their houses, and then, raising 1t on posts, build the under construction. It is just as incorrect to build the church beginning with the grown people. as as 1t to build a house beginning with the roof.
 .The church should begin it's work with the children at the time of birth. so to speak. If that was done. the IQlukG VI thC WVQAu " 1@AGAh ened a hundred fold.
 When the city of San Francisco was destroyed by fire and an earthquake, but few houses actually were destroyed by the quake, most of them were burned. but those destroyed by the quake were the older ones and those of faulty construction and bad founda- tion. So it is with the church. Our foundations are bad. Let us make them safe.
 '"The child Is the strongest asset of the church and the church must save its assets from the dangers that en- circle them. The church must take measures to save its children and the Sunday School is one of the surest ways to care for their morals if prop erly conducted.
 Danger in Homes.
 Many of the parents will doubtless be greatly surprised to hear me assert that the child confronts danger in the home. That assertion Is true, sad as it may seem. You farthers present, in your home there Is little boy to whom you are a great hero. He is deter mined to be exactly like you. You mothers. in your home there is little girl to whom you are the ideal wo- man. It is the one wish of her life to be exactly like mother.
 "A little boy, when asked to tell lis age, startled his hearers by saying: At home I am years old, at school am years old and on the street car am 8 years old That is what mean by dangers in the home. To save a Scent fare many people set the example of liar and a cheat to their children.
 Another instance of danger in the home Is the Sunday supplement in the family newspaper. Now many of you will say that 1t is not meant for the children. and that may be true, but they see you read 1t and they can not understand that 1t can be wrong if mother or dad reads it or looks at its pictures.
 Children get all their impressions through their five senses and it fs through pictures that we most try to teach their hearts The results we get are sometimes surprising. In one of the larger cities where have worked, the Sunday School people had an un- ruly boy taken from tbe slums of the stock yards to remake. He was the lowest of the low. A mere founding who had never known a home. As I entered the room one day I saw him | gazing raptly at picture of yard of poppies. nothing else. just yard crowded with great red peoples. I said: Why. George. what are you so NN~ replied: Well, just do not know. but if could look at that picture al- ways feel that could never be a bad boy again
 Dr. Hamill followed with a talk about the last days of Christ's life on earth. Briefly he recounted the story of the day of Christs trial. Statistics of Meetings. At the close of his address, Dr. | Hamill announced the following as names of winners of special certifi- | cates of honor for having attended | every session of the institutes: Miss Alama Hillary. Mrs. J. A. Bullock, E. W. sims Leon c. Palmer Miss Eva | Betts. Miss Annie Chandler, Mrs. l Charles Smith, Mrs. H. M. Hamiil, Mrs. Charles Smith. pr. H. M. Hamill, Miss | Phenie Johnson, Mrs. J. F. Thornton, Mrs. H. F. Bell. Miss Annie Langdon. | Miss Mamie Burch, Mrs. W. F. Feagin, Miss Mollie Thompson, Miss Ducky Reese. Miss Alma Fillmore, Mrs. A. H. Pruitt. Mrs W. E. Smith. Mrs. M H. Norman, Mrs J. G. Spruell. Mrs. J M. 1 Patterson, Mrs. T. D. McGool Mrs. kD. J. Dunn, Mrs. George J. McAdams.