The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1871-09-28

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aaf denomination oi Christian, msy hs4
HU belonging IS h. society TIE pre-
amHlc tuthe constitution ~ ili. eelefg
commences uauk SIC ti.e subscribers
behaving tiai "a meeting House uoua
aad la q aaod degree totieedYancemsni
Of religion, sud improve lhe mor4i 81
DIS community d. therefore form oU
selves iuio society 70 bc called auu
SHOWN D. ibc namc 81 Dandy Est VIE
agc Union Society for the purpose Of
bafldju1 Meeting House for the use of
tbe Episcopal, Methodist, Close Commune
iaa Baptist and DE Society III Friends,
who occupy Use old Meeting House iu
Dandy We hereby -cygully agfee and
bind ourselves 20 be governed 10 al Our
connections with #id house. IS Tie iol-
lowing constitution llIerc follow, die
eou.titutioHJ
Article u az this constitution reads
thus. sWAon said house Is finished, the
Society shall elect dooskeepcr, whose
duty il shall be to keep the key Of said
house, and open Il for the n,e oflhe 500
cicu, according to dc following reguia-
ti0ns. Each member Of Ills society shan
have a right TO occupy said house accord
Ing TO lbc share be on She owns ia said
house, under The lame and control Of
either ofthe three named societies"
Article lainthe same constitution reads
thus: cit is agreed aud understood that
lbe Meeting House is 70 be open and free
lor all people to hold funerals ID, Al any
time. Aud also Iorthc Society Of Friends
who occupy The oh Meeting House In
Dainty, for tic accommodation OF travel
ing ministers Of their order-iuncrals OK.
cepied. An the privileges OF the Friends
shall not exceed Incorporation time"
The foregoing contains all the purposes
aud uses Of said house set iorth in the con-
stilu ion OF said society The house has
been occupied by said society according
to constitution ever since 1888.
Some three years since difficulty arose
here IL the Methodist church, which re-
suited ia a secession OF part Of It's menu
bcrs, and the formation Of the present
Congregational church.
The Congregational church aud society
claim that by purchase and otherwise 10
have acquired majority Of the shares in
this church, and the officers Of said socio-
" belong TO The Congregational church
and society, and on divers times and oc-
casions have locked out the Methodists,
and claim a right so to do whenever they
please. The Methodsis have broken open
the church once with iron bars, and have
on two other occasions brought iron bars
10 force an entrance Whcnunder threat
10 force an entrance tile house has been
reluctantly opened On one occasion Tie
Methodist, having an appointment in The
house came eto meeting and finding
the house locked, after demanding an adj
mittance in writing aud verbally, quietly
withdrew after admission was refused.
The Mcthodisls claim that they have a
right to this house by constitution and
lease, tagrccablc TO constitution and shat
il has been dedicated TO them and the
Baptists and Friends, and no other relig-
ious body can take il from them by pur-
chase OF otherwise, The Congregation
alists claim it, as understand, by pur-
chase, and that il is like any other real es-
tate, and that the Catholics, Uniycrsalists
or Mormous have right 10 purchase the
shares and have their peculiar doctrines
preached therein, If they have a majority
81 the shares ana TO the exclusion Of The
Mcthodists, II lbcy arc IN minority.
believe have fairly stated the claims
of the contendng parties III have not
the Rutland itdepeRdcat Of september 9,
1871, contains a copy Of the constitution
of the Dandy East Village Society, which
will furnish on request.
II has long since passed into proycrb
lin substanccj that no one house is large
enough for two families The same Is
ainineutly true Of churches, aud all Tn
lon Meeting Houses" should be written
apis-uuion Meeting Houses Where two
sunday school libraries are kept in tie
same house, tie books viii get mixed, be
lost or appropriated, aud very soon each
party viii charge the other with larceny.
ana what d worse they viii finally be-
ljeye that they charge according 70 fact,
and often each party will want The house
al thesame time IN short il Is self eyi-
dent that the way tic Meeting House in
Dandy Borough h1s been used for The
as three years, does not ieud IN "a good
degree t. The advancement ofrcligion or
improve tie morals Of the commuuiig
and something Ought TO be dJne lmmcdI-
.t,f,.to5.,ttt,y sri. meter moro diFprtIe