Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-11
cHiLDREfsss SUNDAY
 IN LOCAL CHURCHES
Special Sermons and Bible Gifts for
 the Little Ones.

nrSt part or the morning service at Park Congregational church was de-
 voted to the observance of the day. | The Sunday school occupied the front
 of ti.~ -jnurck and 1aada a goodly
 showing.
 Dr. Howe spoke to them of two
 kinds of children in the house; the | children who have to be asked several
 times to do a thing before they do it,
 and those who immediately do the l service required of them. Some little girls and boys give such unwilling
 service and some see what father and
 mother wish done even before thy ask l it. | Every child should strive to give willing and loving service. In many | homes there are now telephones. Often | these boys and girls answer the ring l Perhaps they take message for some
 one in the house or it may be the mes | sage is for them, pleasant invitation | to go somewhere or to take part in
 some good time. May they in turn
 ask some service of the friend at the
 other end and often before they have
 really put it into the words the friend
 will say Yes, l understand, or Il
 will. We must anticipate others | needs and wishes.
 1 Just as this telephone brings our l thought and words near even though
 the one we are talking to is very tar
 away, we must remember that our prayers on earth may be heard by our
 Father in Heaven, far away as that | may seem to us. And he answers us | always, although perhaps not for
 long time. Perhaps not until we're
 quite grown up. When boys and girls become men and women they some
 times realize that their childhood's
 prayers are answered. No child Is too l small to be heard of God. A tirnid i little girl once wanted to ask God something and since she was afraid He might not hear her little voice, l she asked her father to pray to Him
 for her For" said she. I'm afreid H O will f1a
 angels singing about Him. Her father explained to her that when her faintest whisper floated up to Him, God would hush the sound of adora- tiOn while He listened to one of His little ones on earth.
 At the close of the children's ser mon Bible was presented to each member of the Sunday school who had attained to eight years since last June. 1 With each Bible was lovely and fragrant little bouquet. The follow ing children received these: Esther May Evans, Helen Butler Tirret, Ja- net Plant Blackstone, Frances Dana Colt, Harriet Allyn Geer, Elizabeth Gertrude Collins, Irene Laura Belle Broadhurst, Grosvenor Ely, Robert Nelson Keeler, Aaron Frederick Keel CT, Elliot Seeber Graham and Otis Ed ward Fellows.
 Two children were presented for baptism by the parents: Weston Carpenter Pullen and Ralph Waldo Eaton.
 For his sermon to the elders Dr. Howe took the story in Acts 23 con taining the warning to Paul by a
 youth his theme.
 The Bible is book for children and
 much of it has to do with children.
 Much as we make of the incoTnpre- hensibility of the Bible, children like to read it. There is no other book so good a guide to them from early childhood to maturity
 We speak today as if the doctrine of heredity were a new one to science. It is fundamentally a part of the Bible. Let a character stand forth as ex- ceptional and his ancestry is traced, often for generations back. It is fall acy for us to expect our children to be
 better than ourselves. Our lines and example affect them in the highest degre. We can expect nothing else. We cannot neglect our duties and ex- pect them to be faithful to theirs. Oliver Wendell Holmes says we must begin with the grandmothers to have good children.
 All instances in the Bible connect ed with children suggest in every in stance says one, the thought of help fitness. The idea of service cannot be over emphasized. The idea of boy Scouts is not new. The boy in the lesson was one in spirit.
 Much of the Bible is not only writ ten about children but by them. This boy wrote the last five chapters of acts. But for his warning of the plot to kill Paul there would have been nothing further to write. The epistles to the Romans, Ephesians, Corinthians and Thessalonians would never have been written.
 Today the young people are eager for service. The whole country is rousing to the need of service. Hith ertO we have been absorbed in our own little circles of home and com munity, but today a broader concep tion of life and duty has come to us; a duty to humanity at large. The whole world is rising to put down the beast of savagery and hatred; to op- pose barbarity with civilizations Hor- rible as war is, it seems almost as if the weakening effects of our eras of peace were more harmful and more to be dreaded. The settling back in ways of ease, the gradual lowering of ideals and the consequent insidious advance of viciousness in our midst is appall ing And we become Superlatively sell fish This Liberty Loan is coming hard. sad to say. because we have not become accustomed to giving and do- ing for humanity. We have got to become used to that idea. This loan is but the first. We shall have to give and give again, to pour out our money | like water. Our rich will give beyond | comprehension. We shall have to give | everything. When we have really | come to understand this, it will be l easier for us.
 First Bal ptist Church.
 The evening service at the First | Baptist church was omitted for the an nual Children's day service, at which | the following pleasing program was l well given by the young people: Song, 1 Happy Sunshine, school; the tooth | Psalm, repeated by Polly Mitchell, l Helen Risley and Dorothy Farrell; l prayer. offered by the pastor Rev. Mir. | Strouse: recitation, Our Greeting. 3fil- | dred Douglas; song, Welcome to ChE- | dren's Day. school: recitation, The l Boys Robert Otis, Jr.; exercise. Which | Flower? Miss Fannie Brown, assisted l by Dorothy Farrell, Blanche Wilbur. | Helen Risley, Polly Mitchell; song. by | primary department; exercise. The 1 Fable of the Ffog, Laura Peckham. Helen Kuprach; song, The Herald of Summer, school offering Masters Clarence Tracy. Raymond Royce Er- nest Rankin, William Cuprach, col lectors: song, Joy in the Masters Ser