A history of the Harriet Hollond Memorial Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia, Pa. . in giving pleasure and instruc-tion ; in the refining of taste ; in a beautifulministry to the sick ; in bringing the scholarstogether for other than the ordinary Sunday-school purposes ; and in the practical demon-stration that Christian work has a right tomake use of anything that tends to brightenlifes hard places and to broaden years afterwards flowers found their wayweekly to the superintendents desk (duelargely to Mr. Ogdens liberality), and at theclose of the session were taken to sick scho
A history of the Harriet Hollond Memorial Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia, Pa. . in giving pleasure and instruc-tion ; in the refining of taste ; in a beautifulministry to the sick ; in bringing the scholarstogether for other than the ordinary Sunday-school purposes ; and in the practical demon-stration that Christian work has a right tomake use of anything that tends to brightenlifes hard places and to broaden years afterwards flowers found their wayweekly to the superintendents desk (duelargely to Mr. Ogdens liberality), and at theclose of the session were taken to sick scholars,to whom they were a blessed and beautifulbond of union between themselves and theschool. The Boys Nobility Club was institutedby Mr. Ogden in the fall of 1890, to cultivatenoble ideas of living in the minds of the Hol-lond boys. In order to encourage the boysto familiarize themselves with stories of heroicactions, prizes were awarded to those submit-ting, at a specified time, the best papers con-taining ten incidents representing to theirminds the noblest deeds of Henry A. Walker THE SUNDAY-SCHOOL 149 In February, 1895, an appeal for help wasreceived from the Mizpah Presbyterian Sunday-school, Eighth and Wolf streets. HoUond re-sponded in a very practical way by sending anumber of workers to act as teachers. Amongthese were Miss Bella Chalker, Miss HattieRamsay, Miss Marie C. Sutphin, Miss TillieMcKinley, Miss Elizabeth McKinley, MissCora S. German, Miss Margaret Burns, MissBertha Coward, Mr. and Mrs. Huntley Mur-dock, Mr. Charles K. Gibson, and Mr. RobertG. Maguire. Of these teachers, Mr. ThomasGamon, the then superintendent of Mizpah,wrote : The homes of many of these devotedworkers are quite a distance from the school;yet, with very few exceptions, not a Sundayhas been missed, but, wet or dry, cold or hot,pleasant or otherwise, these friends are alwaysat their post of duty. After rendering valu-able assistance for a time, these teachers finallyreturned to Holl
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