The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1929-05-09
COMPLETION OF HUNDRED
YEARS OBSERVED SUNDAY
Oakland M. E. Sunday School
Finishes Century of Usefulness
and Activity in Community

The Sunday School of st. Pauls
Methodist Episcopal Church celebrat-
ed the completion of one hundred
years of activity and usefulness in
this community last Sunday, May 5,
having been in continuous existence
since April, 1929.
A service of commemoration was
held at the regular session of the
Sunday school at 9:45 o'clock in the
morning, and at the night service a
very large congregation, including a
large number of out-of- town visitors,
attended the formal celebration of the
centenary event. The program, in
charge of Mr.. E. R. Jones, superinten-
dent, was as follows:
Organ prelude
Hymns. DAY is Dying in the West"
Faith of Our Fathers"
Responsive reading.
Prayer. ......... Rev. B. T. Trevey
Anthem .ChOlr
Address,. 80. Looking Backward"
Mr.. Fred. A. Thayer
SaXophone quartet. r. r. Gilbert,
Howard Rathbun, Russell Brown,
Gilbert Yutzy.
Address, To-day" Mr.. j. E. Harmed
Solo, ..., Mrs. Frederick A. Thayer
Address $780,. Looking Forward"
Mr.. Delbert Davis
Hymn. Onward, Christian Soldiers"
Remarks by the Superintendent:
Recognition of long attendance; roll
call of school as constituted 25
years ago.
Hymn ,."Blest Be the Tie that Binds"
Traces Development
Mr.. Thayer, in his address, told of
the organization of the Sunday school
in 1929 by Colonel Isaac McCarty, at
the George Loar farm, now known as
the George Shartzer farm, near Oak
land. He traced its development, re-
ferring to old records and minutes.
still eXtant, which show that it was
next housed in school building on
the mccarthy farm NOV called the
Totten farm and owned by George
Helbig), and when the town of Oak
land was laid out by Colonel McCarty
was moved to the original Methodist
! church structure, the pioneer church
of the town, on the site of the present
building. He referred to the close
association between the history of the
Sunday school and the town, both of
which had the same founder, and re-
lated that in the century of its exis-
tence the school had had but eight su-
perintendents: Col. McCarty, Rev.
Thomas Sampson, William Loar, Sim
gleton L. Townshend, Ralph Thayer,
the Rev. John M. Davis (who served
Al consecutive years. Fred. A. Thayer
and Ernest Ray Jones.
Mr.. Harmed spoke of the present
status of the Sunday school and con-
trasted modern methods of teaching
with those of the past, stressing the
thought that attentive and persistent
reading of the Bible itself was unfor-
tunately declining, while Mr.. Delbert
Davis stated that the opportunities
and responsibilities of the Sunday
school in the future would be greater
than ever before and that the rise of
new conditions demanded even better
and more earnest work than in the
days gone by.
Mr.. James A. Enlow made an inter
esting impromptu talk, referring to
his early days in the Sunday school
and church, and letter of congratu-
lation from St. Marks Lutheran
church was read by Mr.. Jones.
In front of the chancel the gold-top-
ped cane presented to Rev. John M.
Davis upon his retirement from Office
in 1906, and no wheld in trust by his
successor as superintendent, was ex-
hibited, together with Mr.. George
Loar's ancient Bible and manuscript
meetings of the Sunday school.
Upon leaving the church following
the evening service each person was
presented with a memorial pamphlet
containing much valuable information
and history of the Sunday school and
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