Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-12-23
THE s. S. CONVENTION.


opening meeting was fully attended, and
each succeeding one increased in num-
bers till Thursday afternoon, when the
spacious church was filled with an at
tentive and appreciative audience. Rev.
H. Clay Trumbull, advertised to be pres
ent, was in attendance from 3 o'clock on
Wednesday till the close, at little past
4 on Thursday. No one not present
himself can even be fully told how much
he lost by being absent.
Mr.. Trumbull deserves his reputation
as an earnest, effective, and very able
Sabbath School worker :. and every heart
was touched by the manner of his doing
and working quite as surely as by the
subject matter which he treated. Of
course very little thought was given to
anybody or anything else except Mr..
TrumbM and what he said The pro-
gramme provided by the executive CON-
mittee was partly laid out by Mr.. T.
himself, and embraced just those themes
best suited to a gathering of S. S. work.
ers in their first Institute.
The first forenoon and until nearly 3
o'clock in the afternoon was employed in
receiving reports of the retiring officers
and the election of the new board for the
ensuing year, as follows President,
Charles Carpenter, West Charleston
Vice President. J. R. Hall. Newport;
Secretary and Treasurer, E. A. Stewart.
Newport; Cor. Sec'y., I. P. Gage, Bar
ton Executive Committee, Corodon Cum
mings, Newport, J. E. Chamberlin, H.
w. Chaffee, Albany.
The report of the Cor. Sec'y. for past
year, contained the following prop
ositions, which were referred to a
committee of three, of which Rev. A. A.
Smith of Irasburgh was chairman, and
A. B. Blake of Barton, A. J. Albee of
Derby were associates. These PROPOSE
lions we're, first, the increasing of the ex-
ecutive committee from three members
to five, and the making the chairman of
this committee the corresponding secre-
tary second, from A. M. Butler, State
Sec'y. of Vt S. S. Association, propo-
sal that Orleans County make its society
auxiliary to the state association third,
a recommendation that the time for hold
ing the annual meeting be changed from
Dec. to June; fourth, proposal that
the method of keeping our S. S. records
be uniformed and systematized; fifth,
the matter of establishing S. S. paper
for our county and the effecting S. S.
depository from whence to obtain all the
needed aids and hel ps sixth, the recon-
mendation that the society employ S.
S. agent or missionary for evangelical
work among our Sabbath Schools; sew.
enth, that the convention reimburse Bro.
Nickerson, of your executive committee,
for loss sustained by him in the business
connected with the fifth session, at Crafts
bury. The committe to whom these pro-
posals were referred subsequently report
ed the following: Upon the first not ia.
vorably, the second the corresponding
secretary was to take measures to bring
such connection about, upon the thirC
not favorably, upon the fourth favorably
the first clause of the fifth was included
with the sixth and referred to specia
committee, of which J. Y. Green of New
port and o. H. Austin of Barton Land
ing, we're members, the last part of tn,
fifth, proposing S. S. depository wa
recommended, provided such could be es
tablished where helps and appliance
could be obtained as cheaply as iron
those already established in our cities
upon the seventh they reported favorably
and their report was accepted and tn
articles, one by one, adopted.
Some members of tha convention wer
disposed to critlcise the programme a
prepared by the committee, but general
ly it was thought to be quite we'll al
ranged.
The first, and perhaps the most in
portant, practical question that was W
on the sheet, that of the growing prevs
lence of profanity among our young pee
pie, and even children-many of thel
members of our Sabbath Schools-wa
considered in brief by several worker
and some plans were presented that ha
with more or less success been in oper;
tion in some schools. Both the leader
appointed upon the theme-"Superil
tendent, man and work. being absen
it was dwelt upon only briefly.
Wednesday evening began the regul;
service of the Institute, Mr.. Trumbu
giving concisely his answer to what it
and what it proposes. His address W;
followed by the consideration of wi
should be in the Sabbath School, al
how to get them there. Various wa,
were proposed, but the verdict was una
imously rendered that every man. W
man and child in Orleans County had
place in our Sabbath Schools which tn,
were Just calculated to fill.
The morning of Thursday was open
by the Teachers work out of the Sa
bath School, followed by the Specim