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FROM MY STANDPOINT
When the tale is told and the lire is
cold,
And beauty is faded and bleared
and old
And the Silver-Cord is riven—
Do you hope to mount by the golden
way
To the blessed Land where the angels
stay
In the perfect peace and the glad
array
That brings the Christian Heaven?
Do you think you will stand with the
shining throng
Ten thousand throats with a single
song ?
That ever the praise of God prolong
At the Court of the King of Glory?
Would you share in the bliss of the
souls who trod
In the pitiful path of the Son of
God
As he bore the weight of the cross and
the rod
A Children’s Day of Ye Olden Times
Children’s Day is often considered
a characteristic day of the twentieth
century. It is a day of flowers and
song, and thus ageres with the spirit
of the age, which seeks to make re
ligion joyful rather than gloomy. It
is a day devoted to childhood, and
modern religious effort is centered in
youth.
But we must not suppose that we,
“the latest sons of time” are the first
to have discovered the value of the
child. An ancient Dutch letter, pre
served in the archives of the Classis
of Amsterdam in Holland, tells the
story of the first children’s day on rec
ord. It was written in 1696 by Dom
ine Selyns who was pastor of the
Dutch church in New York from 1652
until 1701.
From its time stained page we gath
er the following facts:
The lads and lasses of the quaint
Dutch town, “little old New York,”
must have been very busy in that pleas
ant spring of long ago. Within the
gloomy school room on the corner of
Broad and Marketfield streets there
was an unusual hum in the air. It
was not the drowsy sound of lessons
carelessly conned nor was it the tense
murmur of lurking rebellion. The kind
domine had bidden them try to learn
the entire book of Psalms and some
thirty children had set themselves man
fully to the task. Afterward, excit-
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A DEPARTMENT OF EXPRESSION FOR THOSE WHO FEEL AND THINK
Arthur Goodenough.
By Charles E. Corwin.
THE GOLDEN AGE FOR WEEK OF JULY 23, 1914
With his back all seamed and gory?
Well, it isn’t enough to pose and pray,
To dress in black —or at least in
gray,
To go to church of a Sabbath Day
And to keep the law to the letter!
But to add a share to the joy and
mirth,
Os an empty heart or a fireless
hearth —
To gladden the sick and the sore of
earth
Is a surer way and a better!
For it isn’t a matter of forms —and
Creeds —
What this one writes—or that onu
reads —
So much as it is to heed the needs
Os our suffering fellow-creatures!
’Till gradually, as here below,
On love’s unwearied rounds we go
The very faces we wear will grow
To look like the dear Lord’s features.
ed by their zeal, the number grew to
sixty-five. After supper in the sweet
spring evening, while myn heer sat
smoking a placid pipe on his narrow
porch beneath the budding trees, and
myn vrouw was putting away for the
night the implements of her spring
cleaning, the boys and girls in clus
ters were still busy with the mighty
Dutch Psalm book, for it was no light
task which the domine had set them.
The afternoon of the second day of
Pentecost, 1698, at last arrived. Per
haps the sexton had decorated with
spring blossoms the new Dutch church
on Garden street for the occasion. Cer
tainly, the Heavenly Father had strewn
the woods and dales of Manhattan Is
land about the little town with ten
thousand flowers in honor of the First
American Children’s Day. Domine
Selyns and his grave consistory were
assembled before the pulpit and the
seats and aisles were full of proud
fathers and fond mothers, anxious that
their children should do honor on this
great occasion to the family name.
Forty-four boys, whose names are giv
en, between the ages of seven and
fourteen years, repeated two hundred
and twenty-seven portions of the
Psalms. The portion recited by each
is named in the ancient letter.
Twenty-one girls of the same age
repeated of the Psalms and Pauses
two hundred and thirteen parts.
Therefore,’ ’to use the honest remark
of the letter, “te girls, although fewer
in number, had learned and recited
more, in proportion, than the boys.”
The age, name and portion of each
girl is also given.
There is no mention in this docu
ment of any hymns or songs sung
joyously on this occasion. But the
pastor made a prayer and gave an ad
dress to the children, and afterward
the most interesting event of the day
took place. It was so interesting be
cause so unusual that time —a time in
which it was not as common as now
for praise to be perfected “out of
the mouth of babes and sucklings.”
Domine Selyns says: “After my
prayer and address, our regular Sun
day prayer which is made before the
sermon, was recited without any mis
take, and with energy and manly con
fidence, by Marycken Popinga, a child
of five years. It was then repeated,
not without tears, by my church mem
bers.”
The sun must have set on this chil
dren’s day of Ye Olden Time, when
the exercises were finished and the
pleased people streamed out into the
narrow unpaved Garden street, now
Exeange Place.
But a company of boys and girls,
proud of their attainments, and flush
ed with enthusiasm, crowded about the
domine, and urged him to write an ac
count of the days’ proceedings and
send it to the reverend church fath
ers in the distant city across the sea
from which their parent had come.
The good pastor was only too glad
to comply with their request, and
with quill and ink, he carefully wrote
down in tables and the names, ages
and portion of each of the little ones,
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adding such information about the ex
ercises as he thought appropriate.
Then he sealed the document and en
trusted it to Robert Sinclair, captain
of the good ship “Bever,” who carried
it safely across the stormy Atlantic
and delivered it to the clerk of the
Classis of Amsterdam. Within the ar
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little Marycken Popinga and his play
mates grew to manhood, maturity and
old age. Long after all those merry
Dutch boys and girls had laid down
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