Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-08-30
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Rev. w. d. Smith of Clarendon has
accepted cali from south Royalton Con-
gregationalists.
President Elliot announces that Howard
college has received, during the past year,
gifts amounting to nearly 100000.
Mrs. Sarah B. Jacobs of Boston has given
5000 for the endowment of five scholar
ships in the university of Vermont.
Rev. F. S. Rice of South Berwick, Me.
has accepted call extended to him by the
First Universaist church of Springfield.
David Turner. A. NJ, for many years
principal of the Thetford academy and
librarian of the Latham library, died re-
Gently.
VIM. P. Hill, known throughout central
and northern Vermont as "Squibbs," has
accepted position on the New Hampshire
Daily Monitor.
Rev. W. W. Foster of Lowell, Mass,
preached two able sermons recently at the
NJ. f. church, P!ttsford. This was Mr..
Fosters first pastorate, he being there from
1873 to 1876.
Rev. e. p. Watson will close his pas
torate of the Congregational churches Of
Sheldon and Franklin Sept. 10. He has
remained there six years and now pur-
poses 10 settle in Minnesota.
Rev. G. M. Ward, recent graduate of
Garrett Biblical institute, Evanstown, ILL.,,
and formerly Of the Vermont NJ. f. confer
ence, has been visiting relatives in Hard
wick. With flattering prospects Mr.. Ward
settles in one of the western states.
W. Stanley Jevous, MA. author of the
logic in the course Of study for Methodist
ministers, was drowned on Monday morn
ing of last week, while bathing at Bethill,
England. Professor Jevous was note d
scholar and teacher.
Carl Zurrahn, conductor; Mrs. Martha
Dana Shepherd, pianist; Mrs. Anna Louise
Gage, sophrano; II. G. Snow, tenor; H.
D. Cornell, basso-all of Boston, and a
large number of other eminent musical
people from other sections, including j.
II. Humphrey, noted tenor ofNew York,
are among the celebrities 10 be present al
the Bellows Falls musical convention
September lib This is the fifth festiva
of the Connecticut valley musical associa
ton.
Some inaccuracies occurred in the para.
graph in the papers last week, relative to
Rev. Peter Merrill and taken from the
Concord On, H.) Monitor. Bro. Merrill
was not aware when he met a former
acquaintance on his journey that he was
being interviewed for a newspaper item
and the inaccuracies are the fault of the
reporter. They are not of material i'm
portance, however, and we mention the
matter only to say that this is the case and
that those who observe them have nc
occasion to suppose that the subject of the
sketch msstated any facts for the sake oil
feet.
The Texas Christian AdUocate says il
SO well, and it fits so many outside of tha
state, that we copy the following: "a
member of the church declined to take
his church paper. He was afterward in
quiring when the life of Jesse James
would be published. He was anxious tc
procure a copy. The older children sell
dom 60 TO church and take no interest il
the Sunday school. The stewards do moi
rely very strongly on his aid, and the pas
tor looks in other directions when be need,
assistance in protracted meetings.
man who will place the sensational life O
desperate in reach of his children ant
Withhold religious literature may prepar,
himself for very serious consequences.
Gen Booth of the Sebastian army wa:
converted when Is years of age and wa:
for many years a::Methodist minister. A
writer in the New York Independent says
that the years spent as Methodist minis
ter gave him the training which fitted hin
for bis present work, and that, with tn,
exception of his Quakeristic views of tn
sacraments, his creed is largely Method
istic. Mr.. Booth is absolute in his gov
eminent of the army, holds in his hand
all the property the income of which il
estimated at nearly 100000 year, con
trolls with absolute authority 1898 evan
gelists and 645 paid officers, and ha
charge Of all publications, the officia
Gazette having n subscription list o
$25O,OOO. The Sebastian army makes
speciality Of working among the lowe
classes. Gen. Booth, saying of his mission
IL have been sent into the world to do tn
Lords gutter work" In this work b
has been eminently successful, thoug
some of his methods seem to most folk
very Objectionable.
DR.. j, NJ. Buckley, of the N. Y. Chris
tain Adrocate, is becoming somewhat pess
imistic in his views as is evidenced b
some of his recent utterances. In th
AdUocate issue Of August Sd. he review
DR.. Storr's GRAFTON at Woodstock, Conn
on The Moral Life of the Nation" |
this review be admits the full force of a
the dangers which DR.. S. says menac
our nation but fails to see the power of tn
coun,eracting forces which were presente
as being able to Offset or overcome thes
dangers. He says" We do not see tn,
attachment TO home, in the sense whic
can sustain moral life, is increasing; tb
press executes divided influence; the r,
gard for the established authority of la,
seem to us to be diminishing every year.
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