The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-10-23
The Embury Monument unveiled.
INTERESTING CEREMONIES.

fne looking men, rather superior in per-
sonal presence to an annual conference of
itinerants. They are generally older men,
and all of them here assembled have the
| appearance of solid, well-to-do business
men, who have come together from widely
separate sections of the country-lawyers,
| merchants and traders. Drawn together
by the unyeling ceremonies were Bishops
Simpson and James, Bishop Campbell of
the African Methodist church, Rev DIR.
| Wakeley of New York d. |. Ives of ma
tional repute as a solicitor of funds, good
ly representation Of the Troy Conference,
Revs c. IT. Hubbard of Bennington, and
J. +. Yates of Illinois.
| Notwithstanding all the efforts made to
meet the expenses of the erection of the
monument, the Association found itself in
debt about 200, which sum was cheer
| fully and promptly assumed by them he
fore the unyeiling took place Though
ample arrangements had been made for an
outdoor gathering near the monument and
grave, on slope of the cemetery, and
overlooking the village and the
valley of Cambridge, yet. because Of a
storm prevailing the addresses were made
in the church ediiicc. II was packed.
A beautiful address of welcome was
made TO the Association and delegates by
Rev. O. A. Brown, pastor of the church
there. A letter of graduation from the
Preachers Meeting of New York was read.
These and other Introductory services over,
Bishop Simpson made the chief address,
of which only an outline can be given.
BISHOP SIMPSONS ADDRESS
He said, we are here to dwell within the
realm of memory and to look into the future
being called to unveil and dcdcatca gran
tic shaft at the grave of Philip Embury. A
visit 10 tins grave awakcns feelings of sad
ness, because il is TO the grave that we all
are tending, and whittier every pathway
leads Life is short, and Just as we feel
that we are prepared to 1--we we must die
True, we are connected with the great past
by the facts, memories and influences that
run on in history. And though we never
saw Embury, We know him. We know
him less by what he left on record than by
the power Of his unconscious influence
during g short but earnest public life in the
early annals of our country, and in the be
| ginnings Of our church, in this new world
an influence which runs on to these times
Not wealthy, nor highly educated, nor in
official position he was an humble, pathetic
| preacher. We are here, therefore.
|. Because the life of Embury was con-
nectcd with the origin of Methodism in this
country. In ono hundred and seven years
the several families of Methodism among
us have grown from six persons to $50, 900.
There has been corresponding growth in
all other departments of church enterprise.
The contrast is wondrously great. We are
here.
| 3 Because of the agency by which the
| growth and development of the church
have been secured. Embury was a local
minister. This is an order or rank of the
ministry somewhat peculiar to lis, and not
formerly nor generally recognized nor used
by other churches. But now it is beng
advocated and utilized by Others In the
late great alliance it was openly and ably
advocated by the clergy and by a promi-
nent layman of Philadelphia. II is a
needed agency, both because Of scarcity
OF men for the regular ministry and for
the want of means to sustain them. Then
again, being unprofessional, it has an
adaptation to the populacc whence they
themselves come, and with whom they are
in full sympathy. 1t is an unpaid ministry.
Its ministry is to the people and from the
people The illustrations used are from
common life and the better adapted to the
common mind. Like Christ they can
reach and lift the lowest, and as class,
they are needed now as ever
3. We are here because the local min.
istry is protest against ritualism and for
malism. less as a direct negaton, as an an.
tagonism to them than as presentation of
a broader foundation on which all NAV
stand. Not in opposition to the Prayer
book and Surplice, but because of the utter
imprncticablity of carrying and using
them in the early rustic stages of our
church, did our fathers lay them aside.
Mr.. Wesley introduced them here. and his
early preachers used them until they were
compelled to travel extended circuits and
to preach in barns, in residences and in
school houses. We and you are citizen
ministry. The first church edifce, in order
to meet legal difficulties in the Dutch col
ony OF New York, had II fire place and
other domestic arrangements. And fire
was kindlcd there which has not yet gone
out. The great peop'e want to find God in
their sanctuarles, some divine presence.
And to meet this want the conscientious
and religious Roman Catholics think they
find Him in the Host When elevated by
pricstly hands they bow rs in the real
presence Of Christ, Because of this absurd
thing they cling to their church. The
High Church Episcopalians make the dor
ma of apostolic succession, their visible
and real evidence of the true church and
of velitablc ordinances. And though in
the light of the Scriptures and of history.
this is figment, they yet cling to it. We
do not debate this matter We only state
it as fact claimed by them. The Baptists
make immersons to occupy the same place,
and with those who have not been I'M
mersed they will not fraternizc at the Lords
Table. We do not debate nor contend
with them, though we believe Them in Uroot
error. Now, what have we in our church
that occupies any similar position Moth
ing positively nothing, unless it be the
presence of the Holy Ghost in the CONVEX
sion of souls at our affairs. Rcvivals and
conversions are orr distinctive evidences