“Have Children’s Day” from the June 29, 1917 Door County Democrat
HAVE CHILDREN’S DAY
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MORAVIAN CONGREGATION FOLLOWS ESTABLISHED CUSTOM.
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Children Honored Sunday By Grown-Ups—Church Decorations Very Splendid.
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Written For The Democrat.
In conformity with an old, well established custom “Children’s Day” was duly and fittingly observed at the Moravian church on Sunday, June 24.
The children of the primary grades of the Sunday school had been carefully and most efficiently drilled and prepared by their teachers, who had spared neither time nor pains to make the occasion a perfect success.
The altar and pulpit were tastefully and lavishly decorated with flowers and ferns. A large congregation was present to listen and to do honor to the children.
Rev. Edward Helmich feelingly called the attention of the audience to the fact that the great Master and founderer of Christianity was once a little child Himself; he reminded them of the great love Christ had for the little ones, a love which He expressed when He told His disciples: “Suffer little children to come unto Me, for such is the kingdom of Heaven.”
A varied program consisting of songs and recitations was then presented by the little people, who did themselves proud in going through the different exercises. Each child held is its hands a bouquet of flowers, suggestive of the idea that they themselves are budding flowers of humanity.
No doubt, the sight of the children took many of the grown people present back through the long vista of years, when they were little children themselves. It must have impressed upon their minds the fact that the church and the Sunday school are trying to do great and wonderful work to assist the young people to become good Christians and useful members of human society.
As to the little ones, they will ever in after-life remember the joyous occasion of that beautiful Sunday morning in June.
“Long, long be their hearts with such memories filled.
Like a vase in which roses have once been distilled;
You may break, you may shatter that vase if you will,
But the scent of the roses will hang round still.”
J. C. L.
Courtesy of the Door County Library Newspaper Archive
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