A CHILDREN'S DAY.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 658, 8 November 1909, Page 8

A CHILDREN'S DAY.

SJHtDAX SCHOOL AfINTV JBSABY. .• ilt was cMdiedV',day-iav corfe-ectidn '.with' ; tho W«bb'Street Prtmifivo M«&sdist Church >~yesterday.- Tho ■ Sunday Scizool ,w!is colebr&ting" Jts forty-first anniversary, and special services .Fore held at the church in tho morning, and f--,. the^Town. in^the'eTenmg.' " . , Tho Eov. 'W..S. Potter,.>pastor of tho church, : fxaoemog st th® . morning <• service, 'took' 'his 1 vM from tie Book of Buth—"Ho shall bo pmtofcbea a restorer of. tbykfe nnd nonrisher . if. thine old age." ~ The preacher dwelt upon ; leatesafeo influratee of children He fcUnded to tho troatmeat. which-children rejfdve m countries whore tho Bible has not v paetfed -its cm ihsing :■ and Christianising influence, ;and,.. claimed, j that 'tttdYßihle 'mofco than ••• pn%gather,, bexjk -had taught 'tis tho -valne of -337iJnboc&-.- Holatso:al&nned: thrft .reverence or - jnedect ; shown. towards childhood was. a sure I. - ifeaer ;of:. tho..nronrl condition of; an> individual ••" .a 'Conunoliity. vCtardnen were senwes ofj Sseosure imd ,trne profit,', relieving mianvi'honrs couitteTaeting; the ■Bonrihg>and • hardening 'influences' that;often l '.como ■to men >,'. women in,tho'stress ami strain of' lite. ' V '® : Musw! ad ssnenig • occupied , most of the tame • K tn : children's aervjee in tho afternoon. The EBot.-v John, 'D&reson ■■ spojto .briefly,: ■. drawing ?• kEEOB) from tho'experience of tho boy r.those five Ibises were. miraculously increased t» feed the lAultrhide. [j iThe sery'ice in; the Town Hall in the evenb,png; TOS' largely, attended. ."The Roy. J. Dawson a Raided,. and the Hon. G.l?owlds, Minister for (ducatum/delivered :an»addit«s' > I;-,- . - Mr-j-FowHs-toolt,'as l text,'Eroverbs XVI; 32— ganger" is 'than 1 thio ; "/ mighty, and he; that .rnlctJi his spirit than ho ... that, taketh -a city.'' ! In a -plain' and simple .iDsisted'upoii 'bf.'file^weakness:'of > anger,' and •'; the'; dirty. of.selfSBstraiut,' and- (tesoribed the ' endless, conse-' >-„? that.'.flow 'from both.' Prayer was j ."indicated .rs >tbo moans' whereby the mastery s, ~ of .tamper; and all things good -for one are to 1 fe) obtained ;Special .music -was. rendered by.the 1 scholar',. * - choir,, and orchestra at all.-the sernecs, ifr- I i.i: Ernest-Dawson iconduoting,.with' Miss H: Col t-'l r man.as.orsimst, and Miss" D. Jackson 'tisj ?! 5 pianist. . iThe:.Central Mission ißnnd. assisted"'' » u. tho afternoon., , ( I • the srfioolroom to-morrow- evening,- but hos-i i.-,../been postponed ;Wiifl -Wednesday of next week. 1 . rt mill be fottowwl by a meeting, at which tho . Hon. ,'A. T. Ngjfa will preside, arid an -address'fin be-grren .by- Mr. C. -H. Poole, M.P. 'A . ' • pjogrtnnmo of, mnaic and • recitations is being ; pepared. The children's ,te.a will take plaoo on i;;;!V|ne 'f(mowing : :'e76niii^-)V -1 -Thf!; Webb „Street J'nmifl'rd Methodist Sun-.4ajt,',Sßlpol.-haß'.' (of-, tho-f oity-first ■■:,f'v;yiar of its.,existence 25. oflioers and teachers and (^^^jd«^bn«ot!B%Vj'aiS9r v f' i: partment 102,'seniori SO, %dult 26). Tho 'aver-' : ago attendances are ,21 officers and teachers and .188 scholars. ■ The Sunday School Choir : has !v. ■; 12 :members, the Bible Reading. Association ■ 57, tho -Christian r-Endeavonr' Societies '77 (senior ;.;:K.v SO, :: inhior ; ;i7];.VsThe?ac^nhts,shbw,.'receipts dnr-. ■' ing-.'the', y«ar;»:.£lol.' 18s.- 101 d,',' exceeding-: the * :expenditure by \£2 12s. lljd.