WESLEYAN SABBATH SCHOOL. GRAFTON ROAD.

Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 428, 25 May 1871, Page 2

WESLEYAN SABBATH SCHOOL. GRAFTON ROAD.

Ihe fifth annual tea meeting in connection with this school was held yesterday iv the church, Q-rafton Road. There was a very large attendance of members of the church, parents, and friends of the children, and the children themselves. Mr. Shera occupied the chair. After tea, the annual report was read, from which we gather the following facts: There are fourteen clashes in the school, eight of girls and s;x of boys. The number of children on the books 94, (52 girlg and 42 bojs,) female teachers 8, male teachers 9. The average attendance of children in the morning is 41 (25 girls and 16 boys), of teachers, females 5, males 5. The number of children entered during the year 68, left 58. The lavgeat attendance on one afternoon was 82. Teachers' meetings are held monthly, and are well attended, and a prayer meeting, also well attended, on the second Sunday of every mouth. The gum of £2 16s 2d has been collected for missions, exclusive of juvenile offerings, which' amounted to £5 2s sd. Periodical,- The British Workman, Sand of Hope, Early Days, and Juvenile Offering, are distributed on the first Sunday of each nonth. Thanks were given to Mr. Shera for prizes, and to Mr. Wayte for a valuable gift of ten volumes of the Tract Magazine. The library contains 290 books, the average weekly circulation being 29. Upwards of 62 volumes have been added during the year. The receipts amounted to £2i 12s 4d. The Chairman addressed the meeting, showing that the ten Jency in countries where education was supported by the State was to secularize the teaching, and this made the Sunday School almost a necessity for religious culture. He exhorted the teachers and scholars to renewed exertions in carrying on the work.— Air. Me Masters, the superintendent, ad; dressed the meeting. He described the condition of the school as exceedingly satisfactory.—Addresses were delivered according to' a programme previously arranged: By Air. Rigg, on " Worldly Conformity" ; by Dr; Wallis, on "Domestic Tyrannies"; by Mr; Lewis, on " Sabbath School Experiences"; and by Mr. Merry, on " Home v. School." All these addresses contained a great deal of interesting and not a small amount of humorous material. They were loudly applauded. Several hymns, the words being to popular tunes, were sung at intervals. The National Anthem closed the proceedings, and the Benediction was pronounced by the Bef. Mr. Bigg, after which the meeting; separated.