The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-03-18
NEWRAtry

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Mrs. Rebscca Brooke health IL very
poor.
Mr.. Isaac Gibbs lost q valuable
COW last week.
Mr.. Joseph Bean 10 very low. DIR.
Sutton is attending him.
The last lyceum had poor a,ten-
dance owing to the poor roads.
Mrs. +. 8. Dana continues serions.
ly. Ill, although somewhat improved
within the last few days.
MIR. Henry Bsrrows has finished
his contract of seventy-fve cords OF
wood, delivered on the rail road. Mr..
Barrows delivered one hundred cords
last winter.
Mr.. II. b. Langdon closed out his
business In this place with an auction
sale on Tuesday. of last week. He has
dolpb, where he has purchased the Cot
tsgo Hotel. He expects TO take posses.
sion the 18th instant. Mr.. Lsngdon
has long demonstrated that he knows
how to keep q hotel, and any Of his
host of friends who may ever happen
over the mountain will be pretty sure
to give him call.
Tho council of the pastors and dele
gates of the Congregational churches
of Addison County convened at New
Haven, on Tuesday, March 10, at 10
O'Clock, AN. All the churches In the
county were represented. Rev. w.
w. Winchester, Of Bridport, was cleo
ted moderator and Rev. J. G. Hough-
ton. Of Cornwall, was chosen scribe.
The moderator opened the council
with prayer, after which he stated the
object Of the council being called,
which was to consider the pastoral re.
lation Of the Rev. Stephen Knowlton
With the church and people of New
Haven, In view Of his recent resigna.
tion. The records OF the church reIa-
ting to the subject were read By E. A.
Dond, clerk OF the church, and the
record Of the society by A. Nj. Roscoe,
clerk Of the society. Several hours
were then spent In eliciung statements
from different members Of the church
aud society rs to the situation of
affairs, after which the council retired
for consultation. They subsequently re-
ported dissolving the pastoral relation
OF Mr.. Knowltsn in compliance with
his letter Of resignation. They highly
commded bis faithful work during the
eight years Of bis psstorate and reported
resolutions expressive Of their high
appreciation Of him az a competent and
csrpsst christian pastor. \
/-Died In New Haven, VT. Sunday
March Is, Benton Frisbie Cove, infant
son Of Mr.. and Mrs. G. c. Cove, aged
eleven months and ten days.
The burial service of the Episcopal
church was read by the Rev. William
J. Tilley Of 1t Stephens, Middlebury.
The sympathy Of the community for
the borrowing parents Is heartfelt and
universal.
There 70 Reaper, vhose name 10 Death.
And. With hls sickle keen,
He resps tho bearded grain at breath,
And the lowers that grow between.
"shaii have nought that is fsirp~ ssith he;
Have nouTht but The bearded grain7
Though the breath Of these nowers i sweet To me.
Iwm give them oil back again.
To many Of as perhaps, death seems
familiar, and yet when We come to think
upon It, how unfamiliar stiii It seems.
Ihe unseen angel has silentiy crossed
the threshold Of another happy home
and ell 10 changed.
1t was difficult for those Of 10 who
looked upon The rare beauty Of the
sleeping boy to realize that It was other
than transieut slumber that hold him,
bat - Of old with the child samuel,
Gods voice had called and He had re.
ceived him to himself. Il has been we'll
said that were Il not for the children,
we "should dread tho desert behind
us moro than the dark BEFORE" but We
also remember that "of such 10 the king.
dom Of Heaven" God gives them TO
us - trust. Should we then hesitate 70
give them into the hands Of Him whose
care Is % great and love % tender that
not evrn . 81 Srow falleth to the ground
without bis n0tics2 "Who plucked that
hover" hastily exclaimed tho gardener
=: he entered his grounds one dsy.
1.-THE MASTER" replied his fellow ser.
want, aud tho gardener held his peace.
And Gehazl said unto her, "Is Il well
With thee? Is 1t we'll with thy husband
10 1t well with the child!" Aud she
answered, at 10 WELL" ~