The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-08-23

of barrel of Santa Croix found in his store
house settled the question, and he was dis
owned. This was before temperance socie
ties had been thought Of.
The old meeting house looks very gloomy
and deserted to those who remember 1t in its
usefulness, with its window blinds now per-
petually closed in apparent and undstnrbed
repose ; and much as If 1t had buttoned up
Its plain coat about it, conscious and proud
in its simplicity and rest of having done its
work for generation that is gone, and was
in its good old days awaiting in the same
patience that had been taught within its
walls that final change which comes to body
and structure alike. Yet there was time
when it housed upon First-Day mornings
many sincere and devoted souls, who sought
its precincts to worship the God they be-
lieved of in spirit and in truth None can
look upon it as it now stands except with
feelings of sadness. None who remembered
it in its fullness, as memory prompts re-
turn of the picture its interior once prcscn-
ted, but whose hearts glow with good
thoughts; and perchancc to some, who as
children will connect with it the recollection
of good father or mother, now numbered
with the long gone dead, the struggling eff
fort of pcnt.up memories may prompt u
tear.
rhosc mn;ct meetings of former times.
seeming So cntranccd with their patient ST.
Icnco and solemn and i,npressiye stiffness
where the humblinp mind met the God
,bo, had given IL. and held communion with
the soul that He had made in His own i'm
mortal image-will long remain impressed
in the memory of those who knew of them.
Upon the high seats of the meeting room,
facing the assembly on the south side. once
SAT in thc earnest solemnity. Abijah Purin-
ton. Joscph Crintnall. ZacIariah Garuryck
William Rcnmf. Aaron Jones, Hezekiah
Williams. Daniel and Jacob Merritt. and
Nathan;el Starbuck JTnop the soutb side.
in narollcl seats. we're Isaac Merritt. Jona-
than Mnbb;tt. Thomas Betts. John Weaver,
Robcrt Darton, and Samuel Peckbam.
THE GOOD MOTHERS.
Il, ,,ri,;ro ,b;s sl.tcb of ,be rise and
Growth ot his society tbo subject would
not he nronerlv treated unless mention was
made If The GOOD women and the mothers
VIC ,voro .ssoc;a,ad with II and contributed
the;r ;nf,uencc RI ito ma;ntenancc. for there
,,as n ronI;t, In tho;r I;vos that deserves an
omnbotic mention in ito interesting history
Si,nnl,, do;ng what thoy consider the;r Mas
tor's will shutt;no tbnm,elvos out from
,rhat tbov regarded ne tho frvolitics of life
and 6nd;rg tbo;r inhibition grot;6nd in tho
s;n,,Jo garb which n Main iiv;ng nromntod
With hand omen 10 charity. an cnr IN
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mndisturhcJ bv its foundations or nnncryed
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