SUNDAY SCHOOL CENTENARY.

Waikato Times, Volume XV, Issue 1249, 1 July 1880, Page 2

SUNDA Y SCHOOL CENTENARY.

The centenary celebration of the establishment of Sunday-schools is receiving attention at this time throughout Christendom. In June, 1780, the first organised effort in this direction was made in the city of Gloucester by Robert Raikes, and the century which has since elapsed has witnessed the development of the scheme in a marvellous degree. It cannot be doubted that the beneficial influence exerted by the teaching given in schools, as well as the mass of highly moral and religious literature circulated through their agency, is very great. The centenary celebration is occupying the minds of the leaders of the movement in England, and amongst the principal features connected with it are special meetings at the Crystal Palace, Albert Hall, St. Paul's Cathedral, and elsewhere, and the unveiling of a statue to Robert Raikes, erected on the Thames Embankment. In Auckland, meetings are held each evening this week, that on Monday night being held in the Choral Hall, presided over by His Lordship the Bishop of Auckland. We notice by advertisement in another column that the several Sunday-schools in Cambridge will celebrate the occasion by uniting in a meeting to be held in the Public Hall on Sunday afternoon next, and on the following night a teachers' conference will take place. These meetings will no doubt be rendered very interesting, and especially so to those concerned in the training of the young, and we hope will be largely attended.

It was said of old, "Spare the rod and spoil the child ;" but wisdom replies, " Break not the spoil of thy child by correction, but. rather teach him emulation. The dull hone moves not with many stripes, the willing beast needs none." Man cannot live without contention ; it is the acid of life, the zest to conversation, the stimulant to enquiry, excess, alone, defeats its utility. Ibow rust may be removed from tablecloths by moistening the stain with oxalic acid orystala dissolved in water. Lay in the sun and add the dilute acid till the stain disappears. Then wash and riuse very carefully, or the acid will injure the texture of the cloth, which will break there first anyhow. Oxalic acid is a powerful poison, and must not ccne in cQntaot with scratched or aore fiagerj,