Guilford Union Sunday School Association - 1875

Guilford Union Sunday School Association

Chenango Telegraph, June 24, 1875

 

This association held a session June 16th, at Yaleville [Chenango Co., NY], which was the most enjoyable of any we have attended.

 

Four years ago, it was decided that the June meeting should be the children's day.  It was held at Yaleville which entertained it handsomely.  Subsequently, it was voted that the June meeting should be a basket picnic, and this proves the most thoroughly enjoyable.  We thought as we saw the scattered groups clustered here and there under the shadow of the beautiful trees, discussing the contents of the basket, that it was one of the prettiest pictures we had ever seen.

 

A stand was erected, and all the exercises were conducted in the open air, as the church would not have held a fifth part of the people assembled.

 

The address of welcome by the Rev. Luman Yale, was cordial, and the address to young people by Rev. E.P. Eldridge was interesting and appropriate.  But well as the remarks of the minister were enjoyed, the little preachers of the afternoon bore off the palm.  Seven schools took part in the exercises and all did admirably.  Only three schools in town failed to be represented.  Where all did so well from the little lambs of the infant class to the mature young ladies and gentlemen of the Bible class, it is difficult to particularize.

 

We may be pardoned, however, for alluding to an original dialogue, which was finely recited by two young girls of Yaleville school.

 

The author Mrs. Charity Cooper, is an earnest worker in the Sunday school, and the exercise, well worthy of a place in any volume of concert exercises.  We sincerely hope it may be published.

 

A poem by Miss Gibbs of North Guilford, was very fine, and the presentations of Bible truth by the different schools was both interesting and instructive.  The flower of Guilford was assembled in that beautiful grove, and the ties of Christian brotherhood were greatly strengthened. Christians of different creeds can unite in the study of God's Word and in true fellowship.  Long may the Guilford S.S. Union live, and much good may it do in promoting the study of the Divine Word.  --Mrs. E.J. Richmond.