SABBATH SCHOOL UNION FESTIVAL.
The holiday observed on the Anniversary Day aws this year, as last, made the occasion of a celebration by the Auckland Sabbath School Union, designed to afford the Teachers and I "upils ail opportunity of keeping tin? day, 11 it only pleasurably, but also profitably, and ill a manner which would prevent the temptations to mere frivolity to uhicli they might oll.i-ittise have been exposed. At ten o'clock i„ (be morning, the Officers, 'lVathers, and Scholars connected with the Presbyterian, the Wesleynii Methodist, the Primitive Methodist, and the Independent Sunday Schools assembled a' the Scotch Church, together w : lh a iiumhe. of the parents and other friends of the religions i junction of the rising generation of the colony. Devotional exercises were conducted, in which the Uev. T. 1 lamer and the Itev. J. 11. Fletcher took p>rl, and an appropriate ivddress was delivered liy the Re\. U. aid. After this, the Schools were formed into a pro-ces-don, and taken to the Government Paddock, the use of which had been kindly granted by [lis Kxcelleucy the T.ieutenant-Govenior. Here, arcoidingto a well arranged p-ograuime, several hours were passed in innocent recreations, interrupted—not disagreeably to the youthful company —by the repeated distribution of buns, milk, Sc. At inteivals, several hymns were sung. The attendance was very numeious, although no doubt much less than it would have been but for the prevalent Influenza. 'I Ins has, however, led to a postponement to a liilure day of the Tea Party which had been appointed for V.st Monday evening as a sequel to the Festival of Satmday.
On Sunday last the Anniversary Services connected with the I'rimitive Moihmlisis iven; held in the (.'lmpel. The Rev. A. Macdmiald preached in the afternoon ; and if. the evening ;i Service »v;is <;ondmlt'il hy the Uev. k. Waul in the'course of which several ol the children repeated portions of Scripture and pieces of rclirrions poetry, and two of the 'I eacliers delivered solid and instructive addresses.
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Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume V, Issue 109, 24 February 1853, Page 4
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331SABBATH SCHOOL UNION FESTIVAL. Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume V, Issue 109, 24 February 1853, Page 4
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