Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1866-05-11

brick church was used for the last time for reli.
gious purposes on Sunday May 6 The services
Of the day were Of extraordinary interest, and at
tended by an unusually large concourse. Never,
probably, Was the house more compactly filed by
our own people than in the evening, 10 listen to
the farewell discourse. In the afternoon, the
sacrament Of the last supper was administered,
preceded by the admission Of eleven persons to
the church-fve by letters from sister churches,
and six on profession of faith. The Sabbath
School numbered two hundred and thirteen. The
farewell discourse was in Mr.. Lords best style
impressive, eloquent, and in its illusions to the
great congregation of the dead who had found in
that house the gate to heaven, exceedingly touch
ing We presume the discourse will be printed
The arrangement Of the pieces for the choir by Mr.
Hopkins was beautifully adapted to the occasion,
and the performance excellent
Iron the FreemanJ
! The closing services were held in the old
Brick Church last Sunday evening. The
house was crowded by an attentive and inter-
ested audience, and the exercises we're ap-
proprae and very impressive. Rev. Mr..
Lord conducted the exercises and at no time
in the nineteen years that he has ofRciated in
the de.k Il the venerable church has he been
more fortunately happy in his selections and
prayers and sermon than on that occasion.
The choir was under the direction Of Mr..
Hopkins, who has been cborister in the church
more than eighteen years, and has served
constantly, Eeslousy and accertably during
all that time. The organist of the church,
Mr.. Emerson, presided at the organ.
The services were as follows
Organ Voluntary.
The choir then cbanted the following,
which, together with the chant below, had
been selected by Mr. Hopkins, expressly for
the occasion:
Holiness brcometh thy house O Lord GHOSTS
Ny soul lonseth anteh the the Lord
| F2s day in ny courts i better than thousand,
d~ell 10 the tents Of wiekedness.
JshOysh thou Father all we are the work Of
b. wroth very sorely Lord neither remember lniquy
zon Is wilderness, aud Jerusalem adssolaton.
Our holy and beautiful where our fathers praised
burned with hre and all pleasant thing. are laid
Q lord. remember David and all his Aalctlons,
/ Jacob. S''' WV
surely VIII not come into the tabernacle my nor
win not give sleep to mine eyes slumber to my eyed,
| Until I And ,v. H.. o.. f.s...A
one e Jacob 'l' H's"'
wood "''1' VI '''
We viii tabernacle we will Worship at hi. toostoo
strength '' '' '''' '"' 'N' N'A vt IVY
house Jacob ye, and let US walk in the light Of Je
rfas The Lord forever, for In Jehovah /. the ROCK or
Mr. Lord then read the goth chapter of st
Chronicles.
The choir chapfad
And they shall build the old vssiesi
in'' 'n'' ''i'e UP vac Former 's'o'A''0n''
Tie 6u, s ' q many Ss s sssr i
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l1sS 'h''' eau you the ministers ofs'd
s Far ASHf R1 ig S, ihsl have double
And win direct their work fl, t,n,,,
And will make an everlasting covenant with them.
s Nj sns & ,h sta sss, Thereof shall s5 he removed
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The ar-tree' the pine tree, and The box together,
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Tell ye the towers iisrsot
Marx ye veil her buiuarks, consider Der rauces,
."-' - may '''' !" 10 'As generation following
And he viii he our guide ev, y unto death.
Glory he to Che Father and to the Son.
'Da - ''' "op OH'''
NOilu without end Amt n, Amen.
PRAYER
The choir surg this anthem,
yin In up mine eye, unto the hin. from whence oom.,h ny
vs. fsp oomc,h from the Lord which mad. earth
gs 5 S5 tnS ot to be moved he that kePeh thee
s s I h lGs! Asspa Is SHAH neither sumbr sleep
hand. H' 'l'''' "p'" WY 'su'
The G s ss on nay z. pC WI p bs y 7,
The s9d' .bail preserve ,by going An, , ,.
'ai. time forth and even forever more.
Mr. Lord then preached sermon from
TINS passage OF Scripture, " Old things are
passed away behold all things have become
new.
The sermon, which we shall give in full
next week. was as we have intlmated above,
worthy OF the author and Of the occasion. Il
was an eloquent scholarly production, replete
with lncontrovertioe facts and arguments,
nch IN historic research and "reminiscences,
radiant with beautiful imagery, and at times
rising to the very height Of impassioned eo-
quence. And yet no one could possibly i'm
sgine there was the least striving for effect.
ne vast concourse that filled the house, and !
listened with rant and nleasad attsntion m
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the speakers every word, realized that he |
ne waved the magic wand Of his eloquence
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