The Portland Daily Press

CHILDREN'S SUNDAY
It Was Generally Observed in Portland
Churches Yesterday.

Children's Day was generally observed
in the Portland churches yesterday.
The day, although warm, was pleasant,
and there was a large attendance at the
various places of worship.

Chestnut Street Church.

The audience room of Chestnut Street
church was decked with flowers and
plants yesterday in honor of Children's
Sunday. Beautiful memorials of various
flowers were there for John F. Chase,
Grace H. Loveitt, Mrs. Jane Beal, Mrs.
Callie M. Green, Carlotta Gosse, Mrs. H.
V. Donnell, Harry R. Chase, Lizzie B.
Libby, Harry and John Chase, Helen F.
Scott, Mrs. May L. Scott, Frank L. Web-
ster, Ethel A. Plummer, Mrs. Carrie W.
Willard, Mrs. Annie LeGrow.

The sight of so many children with
their light clothes and happy faces in
connection with the profusion of ever-
greens and flowers will not admit of de-
scription. A very pleasing part of the
exercises was the baptism of seven little
children, most of them babies, by the
pastor. The school's singing accompan-
ied by the cornets, was particularly fine
and plainly showed the care which had
been given to it by the leader, Mr. M. T.
Doten. In the programme the following
had parts: Prudie Jones, Emie Willard,
Alice Woodbury, C. W. Sampson, Mor-
ris Andrews, Sadie Woodbury, Master
Whitney, Philip Mason, John Locke,
Gertie Soule, Morris Cole, Chester Pot-
ter, Florence Callaghan, Bennie Martin,
Chester Hersey, Christine Wyer, Her-
mann Lunt, Tillie Ulmer, Eddie Boak,
Miss Fisher, Helen Carrl, Emma Allen,
Pitt F. Parker, Emily F. Fisher.

Rev. Mr. Hughes made a fine address.

Free Street Baptist Church.

An audience filling nearly every seat
was present at the morning and evening
services. The decorations upon the pul-
pit platform and the chancel screen were
very beautiful. Rev. B. L. Whitman,
the pastor, preached with great earnest-
ness and eloquence from the text: III
John. "Beloved I pray above all things
that thou mayest prosper and be in
health even as thy soul prospereth."

At the Sunday school concert in the
evening there were recitations and music
appropriate to Children's Sunday and a
fifteen minute sermon by the pastor from
the text: Gal. v. 22. Theme: A Crop
worth having.

An offering was taken for Sunday
school mission work in the West and
South,

Congress Street M. E. Church.

Children's Day was appropriately ob-
served yesterday by Congress Street M
E. Church and Sunday School.

The floral decorations in the audience
room were profuse and arranged very
tastefully. There were also a large
number of beautiful memorial designs.

In the afternoon after the baptismal
service of children the pastor, Rev. Geo.
D. Lindsay, preached an interesting and
practical sermon on "Breaking Through
the Hedges' from the text in Eccles-
iastes tenth chapter and eighth verse-
Whoso breaketh a hedge a serpent shall
bite him.

The music was excellently rendered
by a chorus of some twenty members un-
der the direction of Mr. Carl F. A. We-
ber; Mr. Harry F. Johnson, organist-
The Sunday School concert in the ev-
eing pleased a large audience. Among
those participating were Frank Chase,
Frank Nickerson, Frank Twitchell, Grace
Tuckey, Percy Shaw, Ernest Leighton
Nellie Tuckwell, Myrtie Littlefieid.

Williston Church.

The bright day, the profusion of flow-
ers, the pretty costumes and the happy
faces of the children conspired to make
the Children's Day a memorable one in
the minds of the congregation that com
pletely filled Williston Church yesterday
morning.

The principal feature of the day was
the baptism of infants and the presenta-
tion of Bibles to each child who had pre-
viously been baptised and had attained
the age of seven years, accompanied with
a brief address by the pastor.

The evening was devoted to a praise
service, which closed the exercises of the
day.

First Free Baptist Church.

At the First Free Baptist Church there
was a concert in the evening. There
were many beautiful floral emblems and
three wreath memorials to Nettie S. Fullam, Vena Watson and Ella E. Roberts
There were the usual religious exercises
and responsive readings, recitations by
Marion M. Crindles, Katherine Aageson
Ellen Hunt, Clara Smith, Willie Fullam
Edith Webb, Percy Thompson, Lewis
Skillings, Harry Leighton, singing by
Mrs. Merrymann, the quartette, the
school and congregation, a selected read-
ing by Mrs. Leighton, a very pretty ex-
ercise by six girls and remarks by the
pastor.

St. Lawrence Street.

At 10.30 a. m. the pastor preached a
sermon to parents on "The Treatment
that Discourages Piety." The sermon
was a carefully studied digest of Dr.
Bushnell's great chapter on that subject.

The Sunday School concert in the eve
ning was of unusual interest.

There were three general exercises
First, that entitled "The Little Crusad-
ers," which was very pretty. Second, a
vocal exercise by the infant class, which
was well rendered. The last and crown-
ing exercise was entitled "The Floral
Rainbow," by 21 young misses of the
Sunday School robed in white, with
shoulder sashes and flowers representing
all the tints of the rainbow.

This exercise surpassed everything of
the kind we have ever seen.

The exercises concluded with a brief
address to the children by the pastor and
the presentation of a potted plant to each
member of the infant class.