Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-10-12

two other papers are are also published
here.
From what other point of the universe
does there emanate such power as here
and what means so truly great Great
men achieve wonders. Dynasties rise
and fall, and worle cries, behold but the
nineteenth century is not in the whirl-
wind, but like the still small voice, it is
in the messengers of light that carry
truth to thousands of fresides, and I'M
press it upon milliuhs of honest hearts.
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Vermont BAPTIST State Convention.
EVENING SESSION at 7.3O.
A report from the committee on a new
educational institution for the State, was
received, and the motion to adopt was
sustained by addresses from Rev. DR..
Hovey of Newton, Mass, Rev. DR.. Cut.
ting of New York, and Rev. 81. G. Estes
of Jericho, Vt.
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bur, were appointed committee to carry
into effect a recommendation of the re-
port looking to the organization of board
of trustees for an academy of high or
der in the State of Vermont. Adjourned
The report referred to is as follows:
Report Of the CommjHee on a 7aea0 Edu-
catj0nGI institution.
Your committee, in accordance with
the report of lat year, have prosecuted
the Investigation which had then been
commenced, and aak leave to submit the
following report.
They have received returns from 50 of
the 1O2 churches 10 the State, of which 8.
including several of the most able, do not
report the amount of property connected
with them.
These reports disclose the following
facts There are in these 65 churches,
2.22O persons between IA and q years of
age. OF these 112 are in attendance on
Baptist schools, 20 of whom belong to the
congregation in Fairfax, leaving Al from
the other 63 churches in attendance on
Baptist academies. There are attending
| the schools of other denominations, BAT.
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national control, 325. Sixty-nine persons
over 81 years of age are engaged in at
tendance upon schools, mostly of other
denominati Jns. We have A graduates
of colleges, and SO graduates of other
schools, not including commercial acad-
emies. The property reported amounted
to $5,S19,991.
The facts which we have thus gathered
are very significant in their bearing upon
the question of the demand for a we'll en-
dowed academy among the Baptists of
Vermont.
They show that only one-twentieth of
our youth, of suitable age, are attending
any Baptist school, and if we deduct those
reported from the single church in Fair
fax, they prove that less than one-fiftieth
Of them are receiving their education in
Baptist academies. They reveal the fact
that more than three times as many OF
our children are attending the schools Of
other denominations than are patronizing
our own, aud with the single exception
mentioned above, more than eight times
as many, and the proportion is equally
large of those attending schools under no
denominational control.
Or, to put the same great fact in
another shape, only one-third of our
youth are receiving any academic educa-
ton, and only oue-twentieth of them
are being educated by Baptists.
These statistics disclose some other
truths that we ought to ponder
One is that the Baptist institutions
now in existence among us, command
only an exceedingly narrow local patron
age. They have done in days that are
past, they are still doing, and we devout-
ly hope, and assuredly believe that they
will perform in days that are to come, a
work of great value in their own immedi-
ate vicinity We bless God for their as
-istance and pray for their prosperity,
but they are not NEE ting the demands of
the denomination at large. Our sons and
daughters in any considerable number,
are not ia them nor can they be gathered
into them.
Another fact now made manifest, is
that it is in vain to hope, that to any oon-
siderable extent, our youth will be sent to
Baptist institutions outside of the State.
AS a matter of fact, less than one in a
hundred of them goes away from Yer
mont to attend Baptist Academy.
These statements need no rhetoric to
embellish them. In their plain, unvar-
nished narration they tell their own
story, which ought to arouse every Bap-
tist to feel that our great need to-day is a
irst,clas Baptist Academy in Vermont
Another fact is evident on the face OF
these statistics, and that is, that we have
abundant means for the accomplishment
of all we need in this direction. Fifty
six churches, not including the most able
and liberal, report nearly S6,000,OO0 oi
property. And although this estimate
cannot of course pretend to ything like
absolute accuracy, it is an approximation
and is much more likely to fall below
than exceed the actual amount. 1t Is
moderate estimate then that puts the
property of the denomination in the State
at not less than $9,000,000. A contribu
ton then of little more than one per cent
of the property of Baptists in the State
less than the amount required by thi'
Convention to be raised by the feebles
church whom it aids, for the support o
: the gospel at home-would endow or
Academy with 100000. 1t seems to III
that our need and our ability in this di
rection, are both too manifest to require
any argument at our hands.
Your committee have discharged, to the
best of their ability, the work committed
to their hands. They were not empower
ed to raise funds for this purpose. or to 10
cate or endow an academy. Still they
deeply feel that the time has come wher
this work should be entered upon IN re
solute earnestness. It has come to thei
knowledge that legacy has already beer
made for this purpose, and that another
only waits for permanent organization
to which it can be bequeathed.
: They therefore recommend to the con
vcntion to choose board consisting o
from nine to fifteen trustees, three o
whom shall hereafter be elected By tn
convention, and the board. as to its re
naming members, to be self perpetuatinl
t in three classes, with the sole limitation
: that they shall be members in good stand
ing of the Baptist Churches, who shall or
ganize as corporate body under the law
of the State, and proceed to found frs
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