WESLEYAN SUNDAY SCHOOL, GORE.

Mataura Ensign, Volume 6, Issue 308, 27 November 1883, Page 3

WESLEYAN SUNDAY SCHOOL, GORE.

i .S-iy.LI.'.TH cifb'/TH^'it>lTOßr Siß,-Will- you ■ do me the favor of reproducing extract from the '. N.Z. ChnstTan Record.?'.. It was contributed to -.>'. that journal by * lady, resident in Gore.-I r c^: : Q^wmsiE*. Gore, Nov. 26, 1883. ; The Wesleyan Sunday-school in Gore has " -^ly '"just 'been started. We about teachers and all included, and we ' have been asking for a blessing ever since we • commenced. The superintendent of the ••• v school invited his father to Gore, to address ' the school. Mr Stevens' address was om the ■ 1J text, " Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth," etc.' I cannot remember' ■11 he said, I only know it went straight to the hearts.-jof all present. Before he had finished, tw> young, girls, who both kave : - waving fents, had" broken down. W« . A GQuJdrfulsinly hear "the sound of the going ' ' along the top of the mulberry trees." After 1 the address, school was closed, and an invitation given to those who would like to stay •v te have the >way of salvation put plainly v befoie them. Great was our surprise when no one moved to go out ; they all stayed. • T£eh commenced a scene such as I never saw befoie. One. asked the other, "What ' * A ninstrdo'?'' Teachers conversed with the !,*►•;< most -anxious ones. " One said,' " Oh, I am so happy.now.,"- .Another, "I do believe." One 6t the teachers 'sang, . " If ever I loved thee, my JesuP, r 'tier now, »and at the close we had a -sweet taste of heaven below. Every one of thg.-dpar^ children, confessed Sit dear ?-?fiaHie£- f 'dne;o£ fee teachera (a lady) knelt down,; aiid with soba. poured cut her heart biefore the Lord in gratitude, love, and praise, and now; we know that the blessing of out , . God/ rest* upon us. Lit thief be an encouragement to Sabbath-school teachers.