HANOVER STREET BAPTISTS

Evening Star, Issue 19617, 25 July 1927, Page 2

HANOVER STREET BAPTISTS

SUNDAY .SCHOOL ANNIVERSARY The sixty-fourth anniversary of the Hanover Street Baptist Church Sunday School was celebrated yesterday by special services full of interest. The scholars had been trained to sing choice hymns by Mr A. H. Hiett, who conducted the service of praise during the day, and their excellent rendering of the selected pieces reflected _ credit upon the conductor. Miss Winnie Smith presided at the piano, and the scholars were assisted.by an orchestra. The morning and evening services were taken by the minister of' the church, Rev. E. S. Tuckwell. His morning address was specially to the voung, and was based on David’s slaughter of Goliath, the Philistine giant, who defied the armies of Israel. Sin, he said, was the insolent foe with which the children had to do battle, and the stones lie urged them to put in their sling were Truth, Holiness, Obedience, Love, and Faith. With these rightly used they would he victorious over all evil.

The evening address was specially lor parents and workers among the young. It was based on Genesis, xliv., 34: “How shall I go up to my Father and the lad is not with me?” Jacob’s passionate love for his youngest son, Benjamin, was not a- type, an adumbration of the love of God tor the children. English Christians had been slow to recognise the worth of children and to redress the wrongs from which they suffered Mrs Browning’s ‘Cry of the Children,’ and Adelaide A. Proctor’s complaint that children were neglected while pet dogs were cared lor, showed how lightly children were, esteemed. Robert Realms, by founding Sunday schools; Lord Shaftesbury, by legal enactments; and Dr Bnrnado, by Ids great orphan homes, had set on foot child welfare movements which had done so much to uplift and protect childhood. Teachers who employed their time and skill in training children conferred an incalculable benefit on the community, and deserved to be encouraged in their excellent work. Judah’s question to Joseph, Prime,/Minister of Egypt, when he wished to detain Benjamin—“ How shall Igoup to my Father and the lad is not with me? ” —revealed his sense of responsibility for his youngest brother, and suggested the heavy .responsibility which all parents incurred. Their children had the right to be born with clean, untainted bodies. But enemies were not religion, and parents were responsible for educating the minds of their offspring. moulding their characters, and imparting to them the truths of religion, which gave human life strength and stability. They should tread the way of life themselves, and take their children with them. In the afternoon the Rev. Eric Evans, who in his early life was a scholar in the school, gave an earnest address on ‘Push,’ and by telling illustrations showed that earnestness and determination were necessary to the highest attainments in life. The congregations at a!M hc_ services were good, and the contributions towards the maintenance of the school liberal.