Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-04-28

nave piaceu tue dSSdllduL IN DAD posi-
ton He had not better come back, I'M
less he wants to feel the law.
The prisoners in our County Jail
made another attempt to break from their
confinement last Saturday night. They
were, however, thwarted by the vigilance
of Mr.. Jacob Dewey, our jailor. The
rogues may with safety calculate that the
approaching June term of our County
Court will witness their trial and removal
to Windsor, where they can work out at
their leisure their sentence, under the di-
reotion of the proper State authorities.
We are rejoiced that Col. Tracy, our
new Postmaster, has taken measures to
accommodate the public with new quar-
tiers for the Postoffice, where with new ar
rangements, the Office viii not fail to give
universal satisfaction. The new Office is
to be in the rooms formerly occupied by
E. r. Wright, Esq, for law purposes. In
this room IN old times the 2. o. used to
be located. 1t is central in position and
easy of access. Success, then, we say, to
the new arrangements and the new Post
master.
AT recent annual meeting of the s..
School society of the M. E. Church in this
village, Prof. Fl. M. Seely was elected Su-
perintendent and VIM. G. Langworthy
Assistant Superintendent of the Sabbath
School the ensuing year. TIE school is
in a very prosperous condition in every
sense OF the word.
Rev. L. S. Walker, who has been for
the three past years preacher in charge of
the M. E. church in our place, preached
his farewell sermon last Sabbath after
noon, to large and attentive audience.
His text was Luke, 4th chapter and
43d verse, and Mark, 10th chapter and
10Th verse. His subject was the nature
of the ministers mission, etc. He alluded
to the commission of Christ to his disci-
pies, and as applied to ministers of the
NJ E, church. Christ preached his own
Gospel to the people, and in this timer
ancy was his rule of action. He gives
his instructions to his followers in the
text, $50 We into all the world and preach
the Gospel" &c. The world is the minis
ter's parish. The itinerancy is of apos-
tolc origin. Paul himself instructed it
in his ministrAtion to the churches. The
longest time spent by him in any one
place was about three years. Jesus went
from city to city preaching his Gospel to
fallen men. Consider the itinerancy as
the popularity of our system as Metho-
dists. 1t commenced with J. Wesley, and
has continued down for more than one
| hundred years, with continued success
and power. All churches are more or less
adopting the itineralaey as matter OF
necessity. Very few ministers of other
denominations spend a long life in any
one place. On the average, in New Eng
land, other denominations change their
! ministers as often as ours, but not as regu
larly. Ours is a systematic itinerancy
others not. The Methodists in this coan'
try are the only religious organization
that has this popularity of perfect sys
| tenn in the itinerant work. He showed
the benefits arising from the workings OF
the system. First, in the distribution OF
talents in variety, and adaptation of min
isterial capacity and pastoral duties, tc
! different fields of labor. This is demand
ed by the tastes and characteristics of the
people No man has right to choose the
ministry as means of gaining liveli-
hood, as he would the profession of the
law or medicine. None should enter the
sacred work of preaching the Gospel OF
Christ unless called by the Holy Ghost
God sends out his swn ministers. This is
His divine prerogative. None can ques.
ton the right or dispute the authority
No one church has the right to monopo.
lie commanding talents in the ministry
The itinerancy equalizes the matter
Second: Another bener1t arises frUm the
desire for change existing in our nature
We dislike sameness. Everything in life
demands variety. This is constitutions
al. This is the Divine mind, as shown in
the works of nature and mankind The
mountains and valleys. the rivers and the
ocean, the brook and the spring, the snow
and rain, the infinite variety of flowers
and fruits, all for the qualification oil
mans taste, and to make up a variety in
mans existence.
Then again, in man himself, some are
| impulsive, some slow, some reach conclu-
sions by intuition, others by the slow pro-
cess of severe logical reasoning; and it
needs change of men with different gifts
and talents to reach and instruct all. An
other benefit arises from the fact that in
our system every charge has a pastor, and
every pastor a charge. Both are provided
for. Our sister churches are deprived of
this popularity, and often as the result
decline in spirituality and religious
growth. But all this demands, on the
past of the minister, sacrifice. Without
it he cannot bless the world. They enter
the ministry of Christ fully knowing all
this, and they must follow their Divine
Master. There is only one safe way for a
minister of the New Testament to follow,
and that is, true unflinching fidelity to
Christ and the Church.
But these relations of minister and peo-
pie must be dissolved sooner or later, and
the best time to do all this is when all are
friendly and loving. Thus the change is
and is effectual without any commissions,
for all are previously prepared for it in
accordance with the discipline of the
church. To all, therefore, who object to
the itinerant system as practiced by u.s.
say in answer at works we'll" In proof
of this, witness the growth of the church
for 100 years, from members to more
thans1 500, 00Q) one and half million Of
| he GlOS6u Will SOtIl6 OK
cellent advice to the church and conclu-
ded in terms of deep kindness and warm
affection.
Many were affected to tears, for he is
very much beloved, not only in his own
church but by the community generally.
My sincere prayer is that he may live
many years to bless the church and the
world as a faithful minister of the Lord
Jesus Christ. Ha goes from us with the
christian love and kind regard of all, for
himself and family, in which none more
fully joins or deeply feels than your cor
respondent. The following are the sta
tistios of the M. E. Church for the three
past years, and the past year, in our viii
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