Lower Subject: Christ with the Little Children
Inscription: “Faithful Unto Death”
Dedication: In memory of Marshall Carter Hall
Donor: St. George’s Sunday School
Maker/Date: Colgate Art Glass Co., New York, 1907
Description: There are at least 3 scriptural references with Jesus and the Children
Matthew 19:13-15;
3Then little children were brought to Jesus for him to place his hands on them and pray for them. But the disciples rebuked those who brought them.
14Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.”15When he had placed his hands on them, he went on from there.
Mark 10:13-16;
13People were bringing little children to Jesus to have him touch them, but the disciples rebuked them. 14When Jesus saw this, he was indignant. He said to them, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. 15I tell you the truth, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.” 16And he took the children in his arms, put his hands on them and blessed them
Luke 18:15-17
15People were also bringing babies to Jesus to have him touch them. When the disciples saw this, they rebuked them. 16But Jesus called the children to him and said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. 17I tell you the truth, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.”
The window was dedicated in October 1907 by W. L. Caldwell, a representative of the Colgate Art Glass Co. The window cost between $400 and $500 with the cost contributed by Sunday School. We know from a previous contractor visiting St. George’s that Colgate went bankrupt in 1910.
Daily Star wrote October 4, 1907 “It is a beautiful and appropriate tribute to his work in the Sunday School as it is to his high Christian character.”
Like Tiffany, these are double glazed windows.
Marshall Hall (1843-1903) was a Superintendent of Sunday Schools for 38 years and druggist at J.B. Hall Sons Druggists with his brothers Horace B. & Robert R Hall His father was John B. Hall druggist on Caroline Street and Marshall was one of 7 children. John B. Hall served in the second church and there is a portrait of him in the Fredericksburg museum. Robert Rush Hall also served St. George’s.
Marshall served Braxton’s Battery in artillery in Civil War. They are related to the famous colonial doctor Benjamin Rush of Philadelphia – a Hall married Rush’s Aunt.
One of the best quotations about him was in his obituary – “Of him it can be truly said that he was a man of spotless, plainless character untouched by any form in vice or any sense of the word.”