Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-14
MARKET SQUARE SUNDAY
SCHOOL 100 YEARS OLD
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history, the first school had been
started in New York city.
Great Pageant Monday
Tomorrow. the Market Square
Sunday school. with the members OF
the church will celebrate the CEN
tennial anniversary, and an extensive
program has been prepared for the
day. The observance will be contlnu-
ed on Monday evening, when sun
day school pageant will be presented.
In 1919. three years after the first
school opened, the pastors of the
Presbyterian, Lutheran and Reformed
Churches completed the organization
of sectarian schools in these churches.
For this reason, the present pastors
of Zion Lutheran and Reformed
Salem Churches. will participate in the
program to be given at Market Square
church, and the members of their
churches have also been invited to
attend
Former Pastors Here
The anniversary service in the
morning will begin at 1915 O'Clock.
All of the departments of the Sunday
school will meet in their respective
assembly rooms at 9.45 o'clock and
will assemble with the congregation
in the auditorium room half an hour
later. Judge S. ]. NJ. McCarrell. the
superintendent will preside at this
service, which will open with musical
numbers by the primary and junior
departments of the Sunday school,
This will be followed by other ap-
| propriate selections, after which the
Rev. DR.. George b. Stewart, Ii. D.,
pastor of the church from 1884 until
1899, will preach. The Rev. DR.. J..
Ritchie Smith. pastor of the church
from 1900 to 1915 will pronounce the
benediction. One of the features of
this service will be the reading of an
historical outline of the school since
| its organization in 1916. This will
| be given by Superintendent McCarrell.
The Rev. DIR. George Edward Hawes
present pastor of the church, will pre-
side at the platform meeting in the
| church at o'clock in the afternoon.
Representatives from the schools of
Reformed Salem and Zion Lutheran
Churches will bring greetings. A
| message will be sent from the Carlisle
Presbytery and an opportunity will
also be given to superintendents of
all of the other Presbyterian Sunday
schools in the city, to speak.
| The Rev. George Snavely Rentz,
assistant pastor OF the church, will
preside at the evening service, when
the Rev. DIR. J. Ritchie Smith will
preach. and the Rev. DR. George b.
| Stewart will pronounce the benedic-
! ton.
| Shows Schools of Long Ago
| The pageant will be given on Mon
day evening in the room of the Senior
! Department of the Sunday school, be-
ginning at 7.30 o'clock. The Rev.
Harry B. King, pastor of Paxton Pres
byteran Church, an assistant pastor of
Market Square church from 1895 to
1906, will preside.
This will include a representation
of the first Sunday school class one
hundred years ago. Miss Anna Orth
will impersonate Miss Juliana Fisher,
! one of the first teachers and later
superintendent of the school. The
infant class of rs years ago will then
be shown with Mrs. Wilbur +. Harris
portraying the part of Miss Crane, the
first teacher of an infant class. This
will be followed with the Sunday
school class of the present day, with
Miss Roberta Orth, superintendent of
the Junior Department in charge.
A feature of the pageant will be
screen pictures of many of the per-
sons of the school fifty years ago.
The rollcall of that date will be read
by Miss Carolyn Il. Keefer. Follow
ing the pageant an address will be
given by G.. w. Landes, secretary of
the Pennsylvania State Sunday school
association, and secretary of the In
ternational Organized Adult Bible
Glasses. Greetings will be received
from any present or former members
present, and superintendents and
teachers of all Presbyterian Sunday
schools in the city are invited to be
present. A social hour will then be
held in the lecture room when re-
freshments will be served.
To Register Those Attending
During the entire anniversary cele-
bration book will be open in the
is invited to sign his or her name
address, church and Sunday school
connection, and position in Sunday
school work, whether officer teacher
or scholar Interesting Sunday school
relics will be exhibited in cases in the
church parlor during the anniversary
The Market Square school history is
a remarkable one in that 1T was or
ganized as one of the first in the State
and has grown to be widely known
as one of the pioneers of Sunday
school work. Beginning with Is
teachers and 20 scholars, it now has
membership far above the thousand
mark. It's beginning marked the op.
ening of a new epoch in church his.
tory in Harrisburg, and less than
three years afterward there were
three schools instead of one Now
there are more than eighty in the
city. covering all denominations, and
with a total membership high in the
thousands.
Present officers of the school are
superintendent S. ]. NJ. McCarrell who
took charge in 1878; Miss Keefer.
superintendent of the intermediate de-
partment; Miss Roberta Orth, super
| intendent of the Junior department,
and Mrs. Harris superintendent, of the
| primary department.
CHURCH OF CHRIST
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