Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1872-01-31

A Yankee Abroad.

DuLurn, MINI, Jan. IS, 1872.
Dear Polaads --I am out here attending The
Worlds Prayer Meeting" and as this place s
the North Pole Of the praying world you might
like 70 hear how the important point is supported.
answer, " Orthodoxly.n At least four churches
in this precocious city have instituted a per-
feet school OF prayer, entitled as chalked on the
board
Prayer or the world
for presbyters, Pastors and Mission
aries.
80 for Translators Of the Bible.
for Teachers and all engaged in Chris.
tian work
They all assemble together Pre~byterians, Con-
gregationalists, Biptists and Methodsts, com
mingling without di-putaton Calvinistic and Ar
minlan doctrines in prayer. exhortation and song
in the most interesting manner possible for seven
evenings entertainment, 70 say nothing Of the
programmes perfect adaptation to the subjects
proposed. Tie prayers are after the style Of the
direction Of a sensible old eastern minister to his
brethren in prayer meeting, " Short. fervent and
pctiy. The exhortatons arc business like and
fluent The singing is divine " Come thou
fuunt OF every blessing reverbomtes the cerulean
mir Of Duluth 10 the delight of all ears and IL
Lowell Mason and Thomas Hastings could hear
these young, northern saints, away at the head
Of Lake Superior, now joining in " Thus far the
Lord hath led me on ~ and now, in " Majestic
sweetncs, sits enthroned, would not their hearts
rejoice At all events, mine reioiccd for them
What a constitution it must be to those two old
psalmists to believe, that if they ever get u
heaven, (lnd they will, il they ever get ready to
leave the WORLDLY that while they sing in realms
above, their songs below will continue to prepare
earthly mortals to join them " by and by
Amen
Well, dear Editors how stands Montpelier ?
Do you keep the " State House 80? * il used ?
Montpelier how beloved thy sacred by cones !
The days OF the red sleigh more than thirty years
ago and of " blowing and striking for Uncle
William 10 turn horse-sh0es at midnight after
rich oyster suppers, and of the first American
Musical Convention, D." and Of the Brick Church
services under Rev B. W. Smith, when the fam.
lies Of Judge llowe~, Gen. Walton, Judge L,o.
mis-, Judge prentis-, Dei Storrs the Pitkins.
Cndwell~, Merrlls, Reeds, Spauldiugs, Lqngdons
llubbards, Bildwins, BayIic-es, Uphams, Jewetts
and others, and last, but in some respects not
least, Father Arbuckle himself, met " around ne
common Mercy Seat, are far back in the dis
lance but late, brief visits to Winona, MINI.
and Prescott, Wis. have opened the fountains OF
those memories. How dear are those scenes ol
early years Not second to Woodworth's "Oll
oaken bucket that hung in the we'll "
But there is no holding the horse Of time.
What a perpetual eternal trotter he is NJ
stopping at stables or watering tronghs
Awake, asleep. at home abroad,
We are all aboard, n
compelled to ride on, catching as we 90 onl,
/ glimp>es of the stations of childhood youth
II sihood and Old nge-the unceasng tendenc,
being toward the great ship or balloon Of eternity
into which we launch, to sail on forever and ever
MosEs T.. CHENEY