The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1917-06-21

Commandments, and the shorter cate
chism is imperative; committing Bible
verses Is encouraged and three prizes,
usually books, given to the scholars
who during the year committed to
memory and recited to their teachers
the largest number Of verses. l well
remember one occasion, when my dear
sisters, Ella and Eliza, and their little
brother, were called to the Superin-
tendent's desk to receive the three
prizes of the year, and Of my oldest
sister explaining at home, how embar-
raised she was because Of the Blaine
children carrying off all the prizes.
REGULATIONS ended, books from the
library gre obtained by all who want
them, the Sunday School paper, 1.-THE
Visitor" is distributed and after a
song the school Is dismissed. e.
Church service follows shortly af-
ter, and the teachers and many Of the
scholars, myself among them, remain
and attend the larger service; enter
ing the auditorium, Issee in the pull
pit the familiar form Of Rev. Robert
c. Grundy, the beloved pastor and
friend, who for twenty-five years, gave
his strength, his love and his service
to the Maysyille Church.
The pews with their rich crimson
upholstery are filled with quietly
dressed, familiar forms, and eager
and expectant faces await the begin
ming Of the service. An air Of pur-
ity, and sweetness and quiet peace
fills the house, as with the fragrance
Of the morning dew.
l lift my eyes to the organ loft and
at the organ sits that accomplished
scholar and gentleman, George W.
Blatterman, and about him the men,
bers Of the choir, prominent among
whom we see the talented singers,
Miss Lucy Rand and Mr.. Michael
Ryan; to the right and to the left,
the gallery seats occupied by family
servants and, faithful colored men
and women members of the church,
and for whom seats in the main body
of the church are provided on Com
munion Sundays. To the right Of the
pulpit are seated the young lady board
ers from the Rand anr Richeson Sem
mary with their note books, prepared
to take notes of the sermon, which
are to be written out and handed to
their teachers the next morning. On
the opposite side are the young men
students who instead Of notes on the
sermon are required to prepare and
deliver speeches.
Before the pulpit and extending
from wall to wall is the general con-
gregation, and sitting In their accus-
toned and long occupied seats are
the men and women, whose faces had
become familiar to me as boy, by
seeing them in my fathers house and
in the church; men and women whom
l came to know intimately in later
years, and whom I counted 1t priv
ilege to know and love as friends
men and women whose names are in
delibly linked with the history of
Maysville and with the Maysville Pres
byterian Church.
Here sits the family Of William
Hodge, and there the family of Will
liam Huston, and there the family OF
Andrew NJ. January and his son-in-
law, Robert A. Cochran, and there the
families Of my mothers brothers,
Charles B. Coons and his sweet sis
tier, Hester, and Rev. George w. Coons
who having retired from the ministry
because of i'll health made his home
in Maysville, and the families Of my
own father, Samuel L. Blaine and
James Barbour and his wife's mother
Mrs. Foster and Henry Waller and
Judge Lewis Collins, and his son
Richard H. Collins and George W.
Blatterman and Jacob w. Rand and
Christian Schultz and his daughters
Mrs. Julia Chenoweth' and Mrs. John
B. Poyntz and Mrs. Charles B. Pearce
and William Richeson, and Joseph
Brodrick and DR.. w. H. McGranaghan
and his wife's mother, Mrs. Jane Ellis
and Michael Ryan and John Scudder
and John H. Richeson and his sister
Miss Mollie, and Thomas J. Pickett
and w. H. Wadsworth and Francis T
Hord and James Smith and Henry II
Cox, and Whiteman Wood and DR.
William Wood and Joseph Walling'
ford and John G. Hickman and his
sister, Mrs. Ransom and my own rel.
atives. John B. Hardin and his s0n-in.
law, Joseph Boyd. J. James Wood ant
Miss Lottie Wood and DR.. s. M. Cart.
nell and Hamilton Gray and Charles
B. Ryan, and Mrs. ne Lee and DR.
John P. Phister and frs. Mackey. ant
Mrs. Peers and John Ravencraft ant