Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-07-29
VACATION BIBLE SCHOOLS
CLOSE SUCCESSFUL SEASON
BY Alice l.. Roop.

Two of the Daily Vacation Bible
Schools. Bethany Baptist and Cook
man. closed last week. All the others,
with the exception OF the Colored Bap-
tist School. which was opened late,
close the end OF this week.
The Daily Vacation Bible School at
Ashury had no special commencement
exercises. but practically all the other
schools gave demonstrations of mem
ory work and Bible study. The chill
dren at the Asbury School were en-
tertained at a picnic in the church
yard yesterday.
The school at Eastlake Presbyterian
Church held its closing exercises yes
terday morning. The superintendent
of the school has been William Leish-
man. pastor of the church, assisted by
Miss Helen c. Oakley. About so
children were enrolled and were di-
vided into primary and junior depart
ments. In addition 10 their Bible
study. the girls have knit a spread
which will be sent TO an institution
and the boys have made a Noah's ark
with a cargo of hand carved animals
The program was as follows: Open
ing exercises and morning prayer;
hymn, Can a Little Child Like Me?';
memory verses; rest exercise; Tooth
Psalm. Thelma Wilson; First Psalm,
Zenobia Lorentzen; singing, Jesus
Loves Me-" stories of the miracles of
Jesus, Jesus Curing the Sick Man"
Julia Gamble. and Jesus and the
Nobleman's Son." David Baker; even
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iclass; singing. He Is Love-" Isaiah SO,
Jessie Flanagan; Ten Command
ments, Natalie Borden; Psalm 81 and
First Epistle of James. Louise Wilson;
Apostles Greed. David Charmers;
books of the Old Testament, Walter
Leishman; books of the New Testa-
ment. Natalie Borden; books of the
Bible in groups, Jessie Flanagan; !;
hymn, "Fairest Lord Jesus" Juniors.
Another school which closed yester-
day morning was the one connected
with the First italian Presbyterian
Church Miss Jennie Riley was the
superintendent and taught the junior
intermediate boys and girls. Miss
! Elizabeth Morton, a teacher in No.
School, taught the primary depart
ment, and Miss Marian Truax, a
teacher in No. 8 School taught the
junior girls. Mrs. Dassori, who was a
pioneer in the Daily Vacation Bible
| Schools, working in New York City
| in 1901, under Rev. Robert Bowie, has
acted as supervisor OF the school and
has told Bible stories. The kinder
garten, which is in operation all year
under the direction of Miss Maud S
Nuttall, a Christian worker in this
field, who also has charge of semi-re-
ligious weekday clubs, was connected
with the Daily Vacation Bible Schoo
during July. Miss Dorothy Sturgi:
assisted her. In the kindergarten 81
children are enrolled.
The work was planned along definit,
lines. Special text books were useC
by the instructors as follows Kinder
igarten. simple Bible stories primary
Stories Jesus Told" junior, Life o
Jesus and How We Are to Live; jun
or-intermediate, God and Chill,
life" Habit talks were given from
Good American Vacation Lessons
and "As the Twig Is Bent" Bibl
talks and missionary stories were Civ
en- by the teachers and Mrs. William
} S. Prickett, Miss Seal, Mrs. Meade
and Miss Grace Baird. The Children
Code of Morals with its laws of health
self control, self reliance, reliability
clean play, duty. good workmanship
: team work, kindness and loyalty wer
, learned, followed by a chant, IN
! country's flag takes care of me, goo
, American / will be-" an appropriat
. motto for school where race an
creed are not considered. Bible lesson.
texts hymns and prayers wer