Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-05-05

Pastoral Adu2'BSS-W. Bedeli, y. w.
Alderman, H. Blanchard, G. Meeker, NJ.
White, J. Phillips.
Post Ofices-E. Baker, A. Osborn, g.
Il. Sutton, J. G. Gooding, H. L. Smith, i.
B. Half.
RELIGIOUS SermceS-D. W. Dayton, n.
o. Freeman, J. NJ Edgerton, B. Eaton.
Published Ifa7autes-The Secretaries Of
the Conference.
Observance of the Sq55att--J. III. Edger-
ton, B. B. Loomis, ID. B. Mckenzie.
1t was decided that the Conference
meet at o'clock a. m. and adjourn at
IL m.
Bishop Jaynes entered and was intro
duced to the Conference by Bishop Ames.
After the announcement of the COM
mittees came the examination of proba-
TONERS, and the consideration of the cases
of the supernumerary and superannuated
ministers.
DR.. Butler, Secretary of the American
and Foreign Christian Union, presented
the claims of that society, after which the
Conference adjourned.
The afternoon was occupied by commit
tee meetings.
TUESDAY EVENING.
The exercises of the anniversary of the
Education Society were of very interest
ing character.
Addresses were delivered by Rev. ]. W.
Lindsay, d. D., of Boston Theological
Seminary, and C. @. North, N. Y, Secre-
tary of the Board of Education of the III.
E. church, and Rev. S. d. Brown.
In the absence of Rev. +. Wentworth,
d. D., who was to have presided over the
meeting, Rev. DIR. Newman was elected
chairman. Prayer was offered by Rev. FL.
H. Robinson.
MIR. LINDsAY's ADDRESS.
Mr.. Chairman readily accepted the
invitation to address the meeting, but 1
was at somewhat of loss to decide in
reference to the subject upon which
should speak tonight. Before | advance
in my topic let me congratulate our de-
nomination over the prosperity that has
attended our institutions of learning.
We are doing great intellectual work.
I am often led to admire the labors of the
Jesuits, considered in the light of intel
lectual effort. Their great success was
largely due to their mental cultivation
with them knowledge was power. The
Methodist church, with its unriyalled
powers of combination, is to become q
great opposer to Romanism. To oppose
If successfully, we must match cultivation
with cultivation; our ministers must be
able to meet their opponents in debate,
and feel sustained by extended research.
I thought to speak of the Ideal Minis
ter, and see how that idea can be realized.
God, Universe, Man belongs practically
to the Christian minister He should en-
deavor TO comprehend his duties and re-
lations to each and all. A correct under
standing of these duties depends largely
upon our comprehension of the Word of
God. We have no business to be ignor-
ant of this Word. The true minister
should study it intently, for there will he
find the deepest thought, the foundation
for the grandestIargument, the most per-
feet models of composition. The true
minister should always keep before him
the idea of greater excellence, and in this
particular we may learn an important les
son from men of the world. He must al
ways have great and abiding faith in God,
must be man of prayer, or his efforts are
powerless. He must ever have a feeling
for common humanity must come near
his fellows with a warm heart and an
open hand. He must not be separated by
a wide gap from his people.
There is great waste of power in the
church of God. The unskillful sculptor
wastes but a block of marble, the unskill-
full minister hampers with an immortal
soul. We do not desire a culture that
shall satisfy itself with abstruse specula-
tions, but one that employs the mysteries
of science for the good of man and the
glory of God. Every church ought to
feel that it can give literally to aid those
who are longing to go into the fields al
ready white for the harvest. 1t is a part
of the minister's duty not only to preach,
but to find some one who is to fill his place
when he is called home. The address was
excellent.
MR.. NORTH's ADDRESS.
Mr. North put the audience in excellent
humor at the commencement of his speech.
and succeeded in awakening a deep inter
est in his subject before closing, although
he occupied but a few moments. He
heartily sympathized with the sentiments
of Rev. DIR. Lindsay in regard to the ne
cessity for educated and cultivated min
listers. In his connection with the Board
of Education, he was led to reflect upon
this subject a good deal One of the grea:
things was, and is, the want of money.
The Methodist ministry must depend upon
the poorer classes to fill its ranks, and
they are the very ones who need the most
assistance. Hundreds of young men are
deferred from entering the ministry be-
cause of the money needed to fit them to
occupy the desks of the fine churches
built all over the land. Not only this.
but the expense of a college course IL an
other great stumbling block in the way.
We have been praying for years for the
walls of superstition TO be broken down.
They are now removed, but where are
those who should occupy the land They
are here, in the workshop, in the Office,
holding the plow; many Of them hindered
from what they feel they ought to do by
the want of means. This thing must not
be. We must come up TO the work
Money must be had. The manifest duty
of the hour must be met.
REV. 5. d. BROWNS ADDRESS.
The Chairman stated that few mo-
ments yet remained before it was time to
close the meeting, and called upon Rev.
S. D. Brown, who spoke earnestly and
pointedly upon the subject of the in
creased demands of the church, as regards
both men and means. He said:
We have had the picture of an ideal
minister, and how is this to be realized /?
Plainly, by the exercise of greater benev-
olence, by greater faith, by continued la
Dor. We have been told what believe
to be true, that we must depend upon the
poor for the supply of the Methodist min
istry. These are the ones we need. We
want those who have had to fight their
way in the world, those who will be self
reliant, independent. determined. l be-
heve that the coming generation is to
fight terrible battle with the powers of
darkness. The infidelity, the unbelief,
the superstitions that have been growing