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10 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- NEW COOK BOOK FREE. 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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. 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