The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1877-08-14

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| excitements Of this crazy world turns every.
thing to ashes. II shall outlive all the
records OF time, losing none of It's charm
or transcendiDg power over men. Go where
| you will the greatest news that comes Ia
to you 10 "Behold the Lamb of God"
would gather in all the promises of time
and hang them around the cross. Take
these words, and on the pledge of Gods
eternal troth you will live. They are above
and overshadow all banners, ceremonies,
and decorations, and rise triumphant above
all the excitements Of the hour.
| The 376th hymn was then rendered
All hail, the power Of Jesus name
The services were closed with q fervent
and appropriate prayer by Rev. Mr.. Jen.
nings.
| The sermon of DR.. Clark was one OF
great beauty and power, but many were
disappointed In the theme, and that no
more allusion was made to the centennial
and historical events Of the past.
| SECOND SERVICE.
The services In the old church at Center
Bennington on Sabbath evening we're i'm
pressive and interesting. After preliminary
religious services, Rev. Edward T. Hooker
| of Castleton delivered a carefully prepared,
chaste and eloquent discourse, presenting
the rare merit of peculiar originality. The
text was from the following words:
Beloved, when gave all diligence to write
unto you OF the common salvation, IL was need
m IS esSo s % w5e unto you ana ex9or
| faith once delivered to the saints, Jude 3.
The subject of this valuable discourse
may be termed the common salJ alton. The
| preacher said ours Is the common saliva
ton. l speak for all precious faith with
those who worship or have worshiped
on this ground. None but the com
mon, tho great salvation, is large
enough, profound and free enough for
earnest spirits like those who have
| wrought together with God and loved
each other here. No narrowed episode
of religion can satisfy US, or suit the gen.
erations or the nations. But the universal
need of 80 great salvation is deeply de-
monstrated by ,he fact that through our
failure to apprehend and answer to it, the
common and the blessed becomes measured
by a word OF force or what we call com.
mon place and fruitful seasons filling mems
hearts with food and gladness, first to wit
ness for God to them in natural religion,
30 from revealed redemption fell on many
! beam of warmth or broken rainbow Of
unbroken promise upon sterile hearts, be-
cause Of the obdurscy of the same rebellion
which made natural religion insufficient,
and came through supernatural revelation
in seperate cases Of self-will. And yet
have sworn by myself saith the Lord, and
the word is gone out of my mouth in right
eousness and shall not return, that unto
me every knee shall bow, every tongue
shall swear. For this God is our God for
ever and ever. In this land and on this
| spot, II our feet ever stand within its gates,
| o Zion they do so here In this typical cit
adel of commonwealth and a country to
which God has appointed this common
| salvation. The lessons drawn are.
First. To begin at home and at Jerusa-
lem, the church and its pulpit.
Second. This salvation is not common
in its results, simply uniform in pattern and
equalled in their bent.
Third. But in order that the kingdom of
God may 80 come and His will be done on
| earth as 1t is In heaven, we have great
| work now done and to be done with vastly
greater thoroughness In these favored
| states, to say nothing of other continents,
to make this salvation common.
Our space forbids a further abstract of
Mr.. Hookers excellent, elaborate, valu-
able thought and doctrine.
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Centennial services were held at the
Second Congregational church on Sabbath
morning, and were attended by large audi
ence. The church was handsomely trim
med, especially the pulpit and orchestra,
which was ornamentsd with flags and
streamsrs, and a collection of flowers.
Stretched across the upper part of the or
gan was the inscription sour fathers
trusted in Thee; they trusted and Thou
didst deliver them" The scripture read
ing was the Hath Psalm. The discourse
was delivered by the pastor, Rev. E. G
| Read, and was based on the passage of
scripture found in Ecclesiastes vii, 10.
"say not thou. what is the cause that the
| former days were better than these7 for thou
| didst not enquire wisely concerning this"
The speaker began by saying that we
were TO devote ourselves the coming
week TO the Qualification Of the events of a
hundred years ago. Martial order, music,
oratory and poetry would combine to give
eclat to the proceedings of the week.
Those events are never to be forgotten.
even by the youngest they are educators
| Of the youth. These celebrations give fresh
ness and vividness to revolutionary times,
and teach the youth TO honor the memories
of heroes. Nor is their influence confined
to the young alone; all of US, of whatever
age or calling, cannot but be stimulated by
the memories and lessons suggested by
these scenes. We feel that we have some
thing worth celebrating this week-the
foundations of the liberties of the state in
the stormy times Of 1777. 1t was bold
achievement, and showed the unyieldiDg
spirit of the Green mountain men
OF those days. We celebrate, TOO,
the foundation of Vermont indie
pendence, and the Inauguration of a
successful self-government. That battle
of Bennington in which our grandfathers
fought is particularly noteworthy. 1t be-
came one of the disasters which gathered
around Burgoyne, and the capture Of his
army was fatal blow to British supremacy
on this continent. The battle of Benning
ton was the tuning point. We will do
we'll to keep in mind this time when the
tide was turned and the blow struck for in
dependence. In such lull as at the pres
ent time there is tendency to look back
upon the old days as being glorious. Rug
gedness becomes soft and deformity loses
its repulsiveness, when seen from the
standpoint of hundred years. We have
reserved our fsult-fnding for the present /;
we are more than forgetful of the immense
advantages OF the present over the past.
The speaker then dwelt upon the arts
aud all branches of industry, etc. In clos
ing statistics were given as to the number
OF churches aud church members in the
country at certain periods, beginning with
ITO, and held that morality had increased
In the country, or, at least, were no more
dlshonet now than they were then, there