"When We Were Young."

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20922, 11 July 1931, Page 4 (Supplement)

"When We Were Young."

SUNDAY SCHOOL AT HOME.

One of our country members, Zola le Vaillant, has written a letter that touched W e very much, > taking me back over the years to by-gone Sunday afternoons of jSliildhood that were very like those which Zola describes. She writes as follows: x \ vis: wL I™'« any church. -n,;,,,,,.-! Sundav School, to which we had When we. were all at home we mna gervice our9e l v es It was STlffi one. ' collecting the books. find seating ourselves, we begaii. t th R i ver ?" the rest of usJoinniK Mother led on with Shall We trainer Testament, then handing it in After that she read, a chapter from.the New b(jing f ollo^ e d round for us to read a piece by the children's hymn Jesus Love ß M . f mish up with we sang anothei performance, as every one n*.us ewosott 1 Abido willl Me." ; hymn; perhaps Light in -be about 2 o'ciock, singing different hymns (ft*ir ?KdS^! of "i'Jllfr, to A,»t home ««h.ll c.t.mly b.TO our Sunday school once more.

As 1 have asked other » grown-ups » to send letters about « when ftey were 7nuch in'our ** "%"e B had- S oue from the >North Shore to jvhieh.was place-then from the bus y township-oiE tod j . & gid eighfc years home on Bed Hill, with wide hall | d m age from fourteen to six. We old then, and my fom of them, r g {& „ b or lived nearly three miles liorn the U ' Sunday School, she would hold ■" trap/' decided that o ymrs living (own by the null, and £ f boys, from four very shy, very eicited, and wondering whatfey brothers had for hardly any of them had ever been to buna J were placed down either side built soma long forms in their workshop and thesejere pla of the hall. Incidentally, one l gs \ he only adde d to children bumped down on to the nooi in «* the interest of the. afternoon. o • re adinc from a little book called the Mother conducted the entire s^ ce , well . known Bible story. r Peep of Day, and letting us all re d v well,* played .'the hymns, the good One of my brothers who played the pia y <( - Gather at the River? joid Sankey and Moody I tunes alll childien Hour of Pra yer," and ."Hold the Port," ''Pull for ' the iShoie, bai , had b good re . IK K?eX <■* -- -f to .which their mothers and fathers were a ' t { thc ye ,, r for all the prizes SgM with P ev P .r so many piper dresses that could be taken on and off! • , ■ _ 11 +v a jrjrXg and boys came quite early in Then when the great day came, al 8 , den . There were the morning, and played rounders and other g f races, tugs-of-war, blind-m<ms buff, salable home . niade lem onado of, and heaps of eakes, with coloure S £ hoo l Lcame popular among all the ,%"S " nor S they came to have a love for their dear Sunday lasted all through the Wjgj! the W old davs were AH tod .changes; we left M. bsa utifuUV, with gone forever. Life sped by. : n an unknown grave on Gallipoli., Most of ' SSTitttrlitK'safwTth me on the long forms are now mothers with families * "rJtTTew days ago, when going th rouglUhe now laid th rest 1 came auros,, » .little grey y 1 opened it, and there m the dea conduc t, lessons and attendgirls and boys, with the marks g< t r . dimmed eye s, it seemed as though from ance. . . '• And as I gazedl-wrth teai mm e y , am] hj h and tho echo : a long, long way off I heardlttj. P» of childish voices singing, bhali we