The Rutland weekly globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-10-24
8utIand at'eekly 6lobe.
FRIDAY MORNING, OCT. "a, 1878.
The Embury Monument Unveiled.
INTERESTING CEREMONIES.

INTERESTING CEREMONIES.
This event occurred on Monday, the goth
inst, in the presence of large assembly,
and under the auspices of the National
Local Preachers Associations body Of |
fine 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 unyeiling ceremonies were Bishops
Simpson and James, Bishop Campbell OF
the African Methodist church, Rev. DIR.
Wakeley of New York, b. l. Ives of ma
tional repute as a solicitor of funds, good
ly representation of the Troy Conference,
Revs c.. H. Hubbard of Bennington, and
]. +. 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 1900, which sum was cheer
fully and promptly assumed by them be-
fore the unwilling 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 edifce 1t 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.
lie said. we are here to dwell within the
realm of memory and to look into the future
being called to unyeil and dedicate gran
tic shaft at the grave of Philip Embury. A
visit to this grave awakens feelings of sad
ness, because it is to the grave that we al
are tending, and whittier every pathway
leads Life is short, and just as we fee
that we are prepared to live we must die
True, we are connected with the great pas
hy the facts. memories and influences tina
run on in history. And though we neve
saw Embury, we know him. We know
him less by what he left on record than b,
the power of his unconscious influence
during short but earnest public life in tn
early annals of our country, and in the be
ginnings of our church, in this new worl
an influence which runs on to these times
Not wealthy, nor highly educated, nor i
official position, he was an humble, patheti
preacher. We are here, therefore,
l. Because the life of Embury was COZ
nected with the origin of Methodsm in thi
country. In one hundred and seven yeaI
the several families of Mcthodism anon
us have grown from six persons to 25O, 900
There has been a corresponding growth i
all other departments of church enterprise
The contrast is wondrously great We al
here,
2. Because of the agency by which tn
growth and development of the churc
have been secured. Embury was loo
minister. This is an order or rank of I'll
ministry somewhat peculiar to us, and NJ
formerly nor generally recognized nor use
by other churches. But now it is BEN
advocated and utilized by others. In ii
late great alliance it was openly and abb
advocated by the clergy and by prom
nent layman of Philadelphia. 1t is
needed agency, both because of a scarcit
of men for the regular ministry and fl
the want of means to sustain them. The
again, being unprofessional, it has {
adaptation to the populace whence the
themselves come, and with whom they a
in full sympathy. 1t is an unpaid ministr
Its ministry is to the people and from Il
people. The illustrations used are fro
common life and the better adapted to Il
common mind. Like Christ they CT
reach and lift the lowest, and as a elias
they are needed now as ever.
3. We are here because the local mi
istry is protest against ritualism and fC
malism, less as a direct negation, as an a
tagonism to them than as a presentation
broader foundation on which all m
stand. Not in opposition to the Pray
book and Surplice, but because of the utt
impracticability of carrying and usi
them in the early rustic stages of @
church, did our fathers lay them asiC
Mr.. Wesley introduced them here, and
early preachers used them until they W.
compelled to travel extended circuits a
to preach in barns, in residences and
school houses. We and you are citiz
ministry. The first church edfice, in orr
to meet legal difficulties in the Dutch c
ony Of New York, had a fire place a
other domestic arrangements. And a
was kindled there which has not yet &C
cut. The great people want to find God
their sanctuaries, some divine presen
And TO meet this want the cOnscentiC
and religious Roman Catholics think Il
find Him in the Host. When elevated
priestly hands they bow as in the I
presence of Christ Because of this abs
thing they cling to their church.
High Church EpiscOpaians make the d
ma of apostolic succession, their vsi
and real evidence of the true church {
of veritable ordinances. And though
the light of the Scriptures and of histo
this is a Pigment, they yet cling to it,
do not debate this matter We only 81
it as a fact claimed by them. The Bapt
make dimensions to occupy the same pli
and with those who have not been
mersed they will not fraternize at the Lo
Table. We do not debate nor cont
with them, though we believe them in g