WELLINGTON SUNDAY SCHOOL UNION

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 293, 6 September 1919, Page 13

WELLINGTON SUNDAY SCHOOL UNION

: N ' '~<T At. St. John's Sunday Schoolroom last evemne the urizes won by Sunday School scholars,, at the recent annual examination 'conducted by the .Wellington, Sunday i School TJnion in July..last'were presented hv. IJer Excellency .the' Counters of -Liver- . nnnl. ■ - Mr. Arthur, Hoby.'tlic president of the union, nresided, and there was present n very large gathering of parents and scholars;' The' Countess of Liverpool, in tho course of a brief .speech, said she desired to say a fei\- words to the young people, 'because no doubtsome of them did not appreciate ■tlieiv 'Jiirit.diiv' sHiool mct.s'i.ws ns mwli as thav- should do—at least if she could judsp them by herself when she,' was their age. /'Boys and girls," said Her , .'Excellency,••"when you grow to lie as old' . 'a'S- !•; ain' ; 'yo,u will 'look"back- on these lessons with.pleasure. I often feel grate-, fui".to. my/parents,for r giving. nie'such ' a good' Scriptural education.' I can re- :. .pent; the -Psalms 'by' heart and .moat of rbo Coll?"f=, a''d irisiny .chapters ot' foe Pible." . Her Excellency eongrri tula ted Hie prize-winners and also those who did . not got prizes, because/she was suro they all did their best. 'The MjCrotiirv' of the union (Mr. A. • Johnston) announced '.hat only '■ one se.holar hnd secured the maximum number of marks. TTe further .stated that Ins scholars had obtained 75" marks, over U5 secured between ; ' 60 and 70, and 125 between M 1 and 60 marks, and . 53 ruinils .failed. : These results, ho contended were most satisfactory, and this was emnhasised In- '.lie fact' that al-' though, ..there had been six fewer'competitors tha'ij; last vtfnr. thirty more prizes had lireiu won. At intervals several of the'children recited. The prize list has' alri„(]v bKOn published; . ; The examiners were: Mesda'nies. A. li. Atkinson and T. IT; Gill'. and Miss C. [ Kirk nnd Messrs.. G. B. Hopkirk and .T. It. Gill. *