NELSON BAPTIST SUNDAY SCHOOL.

Colonist, Volume LXII, Issue 15231, 19 November 1919, Page 11

NELSON BAPTIST SUNDAY SCHOOL.

ANNIVERSARY SERVICES.

(From "Tho Colonist," October 28th.)

Anniversary services in connection with the Nelson Baptist Sunday School were Held in the School of Music on Sunday. The platform was tastefully decorated witn arum lilies. Tho morning service was taken by Mr P. A. Dickson (Church or Christ), who gave an address to the pupils and teachers on the importance of Bible instruction. The Itev. John Laird conducted the afternoon service, speaking on "Seed bowAng." At the evening service tho 1 all was taxed to its full seating capacity,many being unable to gain admission. The president of the school (Rev. Mr. Laird) gave an address, basing his remarks on the well-known nursery rhyme "There was crooked man." The speaker, who illustrated his address with a crooked stick, a straight stick, a piece of ivy, and some tender twigs, con-, trasted the result of leading a crooked life with that to bo gained by the straight life. The singing of the children was a special feature of the services, and greatly added to the success of the gatherings, much credit 'being due to .vlr Ernest Wood, conductor, who trained the young folk. Miss Mabel Thomson played the Cawthron organ at the morning service, and Mr John Tait in the afternoon arid evening. At the afternoon service the children of the primary department received their prizes. October 30th. At the Nelson School of Music last evening the celebrations in connection with the Baptist Sunday School were continued. The hall was again full. The Rev. John Laird opened the meeting with prayer. The superintendent (Mr Thomas Pettit) presided over the gathering. In his opening address he referred to the happy circumstances under which they met, as compared with the past live anniversaries, when tiiey were under the cloud of war. He trusted all would enter upon the new year with greater enthusiasm and zeal than before the war.

The annual report was presented by Miss Thomson (secretary). The number of scholars on the roll was as follows :—Boys 99, girls 140; total, 239. Teachers: Nine ladies, seven gentlemen. Four prises and nine certificates were gained in the Sunday School Scripture examination; and two prizes and nine certificates in the Baptist Union examination. The Senior Young Women's Bible Class, under Miss Baigent, has a membership of 14. The Young Men's Bible Class has been re-opened, under the leadership of Mr Cullen. The infant department, conducted by Mr and Mrs H. Wood, is a special feature of the school work. One scholar was removed by death (Esther Robertson). Forty young men who had passed through the school enlisted and saw active service. Five made the supreme sacrifice. The school contributed the sum of £35 11s towards foreign mission work. The report concluded' with thanks to those who had assisted to make tHe anniversary services a success, special mention being made of Mr A. E. Wood (conductor) and Mr John Tait (organist). A varied programme of musical and elocutionary items was rendered by the scholars.

PRIZE LIST. Mrs Laird presented the prizes, the list being as follows:— Girls. i Junior Bible Class: Ida Holbrook and Marjorie Penny equal 1, Margaret Blaok 2. Class I.: Jessie Greenem 1, Myrtle Mills 2. Class II.: Netta Ching 1, Doris Miller and Flossie .Greenem equal 2. Class III.: Dorothy Holbrook, Bessie Robertson, Ivy Ricketts, ELsie Kinzett, anri Kitty Greenem equal 1. Intermediate: Nellie Miller 1, Phyllis Wood and Rona Barnett equal 2. Infants- Eva Cotton 1, Joyce Wood 2, Marie Boyee 3. Special prizes for Scripture knowledge: Joyce Wood, Walter Burns. Attendance: Ida Holbrook, Marjorie Penny, Netta Ching ,Jessie 'Greenem, Elsie Kinzett, Doris Miller, Kitty Greenem, Ivy Ricketts, Bessie Robertson, Doris liol'brook, Nellie Miller, Eva Cotton, Ronald Wood, Kenneth Hockey, Richard Rawson, Leslie Chapman, Roy Chapman, Fred Gardner, Stanley Day, Noel Chapman, Clifford Day, James Robertson. Boys. Junior Bible Class: James Robertson 1, Oswald Pre'bble 2. Teacher's special, Cecil Hammond. Class I-: Clarence Kinzett 1, Edwin Blackmore 2. Class II.: Ronald Wood 1, Lawrence Hislop 2. Teacher's special, Harold Karscen. Class HI.: Kenneth Hockey 1, Richard Rawson 2. * Intermediate: Fred Gardner, Stanley Day, and Noel Chapman equal 1, Stanley Cullen and Jim Lucre equal 2. Infants: Clifford Day 1, Eric Jennens 2.

Wellington Union Examination: Prizewinners, Margaret Black 87, Netta Ching 91, Trisio Glover 81 S Doris Miller 77. Certificates, Molly Goodacre, Elsie Kinzett, Ivy Rickette, Myrtle Mills, Frances Robertson. Baptist Union Examination: Prizewinners, Margaret Black 91, Netta Ching, 95; .certificates, Doris Miller, Trixie Glover, Elsie Kinzett, Frances Robertson. Myrtle Mills, Ivy Ricketts, and Molly Goo*dacre. Bible Searching: Grade 1., Doris Miller 1 (prize presented by Mr Wood), Netta Ching 2 (prize presented by MiEdmonds) ; Grade 11., Elsie Kinzett 1 (prize presented by Miss M. Wilson), Bessie.Robrrtson 2 (prize presented by Mrs R. Black). Repetition of Scripture: Roy Hislop (prize presented 'by his teacher).~ Aggregate marks: .Netta Ching 1 (prize presented by Mr Pettit), Margaret Black 2 (prize presented by Rev. J. Laird), Doris Miller 3 (prize presented by Mr Blick).

At the Baptist Sunday School anniversary celebration last night, Mr T. Pettit Vas congratulated on having completed 29 years of service as superintendent.