The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-10-19
JyEIBRIDGE.

Temperance meeting next Tuesday
evening at the Methodist church.
Insurance assessments are now
over due. Pay up or be reported.
ACT.
Grange meeting next Wednesday
evening. There will be a discussion
and select readings.
Poultry is being bought. Fifteen
cents per pound for chickens is being
paid by Spriggs and Sturtevant.
1t has been very rainy here for the
past week or two, and farmers who had
neglected to secure their crops are get
ting discouraged.
The cider mill has commenced its
annual onslaught on the forbidden
fruit. The mill has been put in apple
pie order, and Hall is now ready.
The temperance drama, "Littlc
Brown Jug" will be played at fhe
Methodist church in this village OH Fri
day evening, October So. Admission
20 cents; children 10 cents. The pro-
cceds will be appropriated to the pay
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Mt the above church. Music will be
furnished by Halls full band. The
actors are in part experienced players,
and no pains will be spared to make il
success. Considerable scenery we
understand has been procured for the
occasion. The object is also q worthy
one, and the fact of its being played in
the church should give il character
| hat fc ha Of l,a 10
Comd one, come all. Per order.
AT the memorial exercises of the
w. M. Sabbath school held at the w.
Nj. church, Sunday, Oct. II, the follow
ing paper was read by Mrs. Harvey +.
Adams, of whose class the subject was
a member:
"Fannie Ann Baker, the subject of
this memoir, was born July l, 1868.
For little more than nine years God
lent her to home and friends and then
took the bud TO blossom in the garden
of immortality. During weeks of the
most intense suffering she exhibited a
spirit of christian fortitude and patience
seldom if ever manifested in one so
young, expressing her belief that it
was the hand of God that had thus af-
flicted her and her desire to be submits
sive to his will. Throughout her illness
her mind seemed impressed with the
thought that she would never recover,
and the many expressions she made of
her love for her Savior can leave 10
doubt on the minds of friends that her
little heart was filed with that peace
that passcth all understanding. Her
aunt one day brought to her bedside a
number of cards bearing texts of scrip
turc and verses of hymns, desiring her
to select one for herself, and upon look
ing them over she chose one with this
inscription, Come unto Me and | will
give you rest.
Il come TO thee Lord Jesus;
| oh, hear me when pray,
And in the fountain of thy blood
| Wash all my sins away
Thus her youthful mind seemed imbu-
ed with thoughts of heaven and heav.
emily things. From her earliest years
she evinccd remarkably thoughtful
disposition, showing watchful care
for her friends and by loving acts and
kind words cndeared to her the hearts
of old and young. Her short life seem.
cd filled with good works, and what.
ever her little hands found to do she
did with all the strength of her earnest
nature. She loved the prayer circle
} and seldom was her place vacant there
The temperance cause, also, claimed
her earnest attention, she being a mem
Der of the Juvenile Temperance Society
at the time of her death. But perhap,
more than all she loved the Sabbath
school. ever willingly and chcerfully
performing the tasks allotted her. Fol
fourteen months and until stricken by
that fatal sickness she never missed hcl
, place in the Sabbath school. Through
: summer heats and winters chills Tho
little untiring feet trod the familiar patl
and her sweet presence cheered the
hearts of teacher and mates. The littlt
, willing feet and busy hands ever read,
| to minister TO the wants of others arr
: quiet now. The sweet voice that wa
wont to make glad our hearts with it
songs of sacred love is hushed forever
here, but we believe to-day that tina
voice is making glad melody in tn,
, courts of heaven. AS we shall gathe
here in the capacity of Sabbath schoo
, from Sabbath to Sabbath we shall sadl,
! miss the little form from our midst ant
the dear voice from our songs. TIM
may soften our grief but can never ef
q face the memory of the loved and lost
Q and while we have laid the little worl
1 out body i'll the silent grave, covering
lovingly with fair flowers, let us re
' member that though dead she yet speak
q eth, and that she has left TO us an OK
q ample that we trust shall live long afte
: the tenement that held her pure spiri
shall have moulded back to dust. Ma
we rs an entire school heed the admOn
: itiOn thus addressed to us and so liv
!, that we may be enabled to meet at las
Il her who has only gone before and wit
c her dwell forever in the paradise G
God. Helpful, loving, patient it'll
G Fannie, the hope and pride OF parents
e the comfort and joy of grandparents
n the loved of sister and brother, and tn
l. favoritc of schoOlmates and friends, VI
u the Master came and called for thee
+ saying Come up higher"
Unto our Fathers will alone
One thought hath reconcled,
i That lie whose love cxceedeth ours
h Hath taken home His child.'"
5 Lines incribed to Mr.. and Mrs. NJ.
Baker on the death of little Fannie:
= oh gently weep, fond parents,
For thy darling, gone TO rest;
l. Her form Is closely folded
?, To the loving Savior's breast.
IA Call not back the ransomed spirit
"a That is waited To the Skies
" II will lie To thee treasure
10 Laid away in Paradise.
d And when earthly cares and sorrows
IL Cluster round thy path in life.
,e Then Thy Fannie's angel presence
y Shall allay the spirits strife,
And shall guide and lead thee onward
From the toilsome paths below,
To the mansions Of the blessed
Where the purer waters flow.
nfl II BRISTOL.
to 4 Human Munson, one of the earl
+. settlers of this town, and quite APRON
ct nent citizen, died last Saturday nigl
!. and was buried under Masonic rite
Monday. Mr. Munson was for sever