Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-12-22


Seven months ago said the last good
by to brother Officers and friends at |
Newport, and few days later started
for the new field.
It is about this seven month work [
want to tell you, and | wish so much |
could in your convention 'rchearse all
that God hath DONE for me.
Many of you know the nature of my
work. will only tell you of its footing.
Nearly 5000 miles travelled, one-fifth on
foot, SO addresses delivered, % schools
started, into which are gathered ia
Officers and Teachers and 624 scholars
Is schools visited and aided, in which
are al officers and Teachers and 500
scholars 43O letters written and 500
families visited. Of all these 40 schools
IN the 10 counties through which have
passed, last year only 10 were kept open
through the winter. This year there
are to be &c. And now to crown all this
in four localities, is felt the gentle infu-
ence of the Good Spirit. A quiet ear
nestness fills my heart-some are asking
what they shall do, and protesting chris
tians are revived and quickened. AL
ready | have been present at the forma-
ton of Baptist church, and two Meth
odist classes, and Presbyterian organi-
cation is soon to be effected in another
neighborhood in my field. All this am
sure you will be glad to know. believe
your hearts will rejoice at the signal fa-
vor the blessed Master has given your
representative on these plains of the
great west.
1t is related that the commander of
an English man-of-war in the harbor of
Jamaica, hearing of the capture of the
s'Virginius, y made all possible speed for
Santiago de Cuba, leaving some Of his
ships crew on shore in his haste, and.
arriving in the harbor he made for the
Headquarters of the commander and re-
monstrated at the hasty execution of the
prisoners. He was insulted for his in
reference, the reply being ''all the exc
cutions l have ordered will take place. %
The English commander gave answer
81 forbid your dealing summarily with
any persons who may be British Subjects
and in the absence of an American Man.
of-war [ will look after the interest of
the United States as well. If single
other execution takes place | will bonn
bard your city within an hour
| | thank God for the comfort there is
to me in the thought that you are all
members of one S. S. family Union
of brethren with no partisan jealousies
or UNCONVENTIONAL bigotry. I do not
think | am so much of a Sectarian as
many of my friends sometimes wish
was indeed it was ever my glory that
congregationalism, as viewed it, did
not allow me to be denominationalist
and yet love the church of my choice.
So here in this new field | stand fol-
you all-Congregationalists, Methodists
Baptists and Presbyterians. Much a:
the commander of the British Gun-boat
at Santiago de Cuba stood for these two
great countries. In the absence of your
men-of-war am trying to look after al
your interest and bombarding the enc
my's stronghold whenever an insult is
offered to either one. | want you tt
stand by me and hell me nowhere
just as you used to stand by and hell
me in your own field, our county. Word.
can never tell you how much help to mt
in this new field is the remembrance O
you all in the old.
| have received through your Presi
dent the offering" the "token' from
Orleans County to their Missionary il
Nebraska $l22,S9, and this sum ha
been increased by $50 additional from
other friends in a private way. You
muniicent contribution deserves bette
acknowledgement than l can find word
to convey. In the first place I want t.
thank you all for my own sake. You
gift has helped me in the procurement
of valuable aid to my work, and
thank you out of full heart. Your to
ken speaks to me of the past. 1t ha
pleasant voices full of the sweetest mel
ody of old Vermont and the Orlean
home with its ''little hills rejoicing CT
every side of the village where
''rose up and sat down. day by day
it speaks of the own dear S. S., the lit
tie flock over which [ tried to have
shepherds care; with it comes the mem
DRY of the loved ones of a year ago. l
recalls Newport and Albany, Derby ant
Barton, Craftsbury, Coventry and West
field, and now is Irasburgh added. AL
this your gift repeats. It speaks for it
self, saying with me, is extended to tn
Orleans and Nebraska children's Miss
, ionary the warmest interest in his work
and pledge of future good to the cause
His story shall be told in the willin
ears of numberless friends, and our uni
ted offerings shall pour into the Lord
treasury held in trust by his america
S. S. Union, while one soul young or oil
in all our land knows not God, or unit
Jesus returns to reign.
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