St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1867-12-13
Contention of Churches.

| Mcll SSIlTlSLlan ASSOCIATIONS OF tLlS COul
ty, was held at the North Church, St
Johnsbury, on Tuesday of the present
week, in answer to call signed by the
state executive committee Of the Y. NJ
c. A., the pastors of the churches here,
and a special committee of the Y. NJ, c.
A. of St. Johnsbury.
On Monday evening previous to the
convention, union prayer meeting wa.
held for special prayer for the influence
of the Spirit, and for the success of the
convention to be held the following day.
On Tuesday the convention was called
, to order at Q o'clock, and an honr was
devoted to prayer, the services being con-
Quoted by Rev L. O. Brastow. At 10
o'clock, there was permanent organlza-
ton effected by the choice of Prot. Hun
serford of Burlington, president; Revs.
jenkins of Danville, and Noyes cf SUIT
ton, vice presidents; Geo. May and Geo.
ID. Warren, St. Johnsbury, secretaries.
At 1O3 o'clock reports from the
churches represented in the convention
were called for, giving the following
items: Number of members, men under
10 years of age, additions during the past
year, average number of congregation,
number of prayer meetings per week,
average attendance, number in Sabbath
school, state of religious interest. The
following churches were represented and
reported from:
neutrality-suspicious. church. +.
Neutrality-suspicious. church Dan
willie Methodist and Congregational
churches. Lyndon - Methodist, Con-
gregational and Baptist churches Peach
am - Congregational and Methodist
churches. Sheffield Methodist church.
Sutton-Baptist church St. Johnsbury
Centre-Congregational and Methodist
churches. f. St. Johnsbury-Congre-
@ational and Methodist churches St.
Johnsbury Plain-2d and Sd Congrega-
tional and Methodist churches. South
Whcelock-Baptlst church. Wheelock
IIollow-Baptist church.
In most of these churches the speakers
reported good Or unusual religious inter
est, while In Barnet and Burke rcviyals
are IN progress. A very interesting his
tory OF an unusual religious s,wakenin. at
Coventry, WAS given 10y Rev. L. IL.
White Some fifty conversions are al
ready counted as the result, some of them
very marked. The interest there is re-
markable for its depth and intensity.
There was also an interesting report
from the bradford Congregational church,
where there has been unusual religous
interest
At II O'Clock, the questions, ''What
relation Goes the Young Mems Christian
Association bear to the church ?" and
wv hat are the best means for developing
he lay talent in our churches ?" came
Up for dlscv ssion. Rev. L. Il. F'iske. of
'eacham, opening the discussion. Adj
burned
Frorl one to two o'clock there WIS
'raye',' meeting conducted by Rev. Israel
-ucf. At = o'clock the discussion be- /
.au before dinner was continued by Revs.
T aven, Luce, Barton, Joyslin, Hum
, hrey, Cummings, Weber, Fisk, Hun 7
gertord, Noyes, Jones, Asplnwall, Bull
lard, Bickford, Boutwell, and A. J. Viii
lard, Esq.
At 3 2. NJ, the question, ''What can
be done to carry this county for Christ ?"
was ably discussed by Messrs. Griswold,
Watts, Perkins, besides many of those
who took part i'll the former discussion.
These discussions were of great interest,
the subjects being handled with earnest
ness and yisor by the various speakers
At 4 p NJ, there were reports from
the different Christian Associations rep
resented. Peacham, st. Johnsbury and
Bradford were reported rs Furnishing and
doing good work. The most touching
and deeply interesting remarks Of the day
to us, were made by Prof Hungerford
in reporting the work of the Y. NJ. c.
A. of Burlington. The young men of
the Lake city are doing work for the
Master, which all might we'll initiate.
In the evening, after season of pray
er, IN answer to special requests, many
OF which seemed to touch the hearts of
all in the large audience, Rev Geo. n.
Weber gave a short and most excellent
and appropriate sermon from the text
"And your feet shod with the prepara-
ton OF the gospel Of peace" From
to 9 o'clock was devoted to an expert
ence and conference meeting, when after
4 few farewell remarks from the president
the convention closed
We have thus briefly and hurriedly in
tlmated to or readers the main points of
the convention here on Tuesday but
only those who were present can have
any proper conception of the great inter-
est OF the meetings. All went away feel ,
ing that it was good for them to have
been here.