Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-02-22
Another Boston Notion.

Another Boston Notion.
There is but one Joseph Cook. He filleC
fremont Temple full at noon Of a Monday
Not that Monday is SO bad II day TO fiji
fremont Temple. He would have all th'
ministers. and many laymen and wGme
coud 60 rs well that day as any. Begin
nng in a small hall. he grew to the might,
proportions Of full temple. The winter
,fter he went a road. Viz, n year ago, =
committee tried to keep up the Monday
lecture by bringing upon the platform th,
best men in the country, including thai
great temperance reformer, Doclor Crosby
but it was an abortion, and the experiment
was no rept ated A little time since +.
Pox on Hood under his own auspices. per-
hapS, S,spoke in fremont Temple Ut IL noon
% one hundred people. They must have
looked cold and unless his audience grow,
amaln, he will be out of pocket and out OF
cloquehce before the twelv' lectures of The
course are completed. 10 eph Cook and
his Monday lecture WAS one Boston notion
We have another. That is, Rev. r r
Meredith and his Sunday school teachers
class.
Mr. Meredith is pas or of Phillips Con
gregationalist. South Bos on. Four years
ago or so, he was pastor of Temple Street
Methodist Episcopal church. So low are
the bars which separate the evangelical
churches now q days.
Rev, Mr.. Parsons, then Of the Central
church, originated II Bible class in Wo>-
leyan Hall. When he went to Buffalo the
class ceased lis meetings. After while
Mr.. Meredith took 1t up. He developed Il
wonderful ability in doing Just that thing.
The class ou'grew Wesleyan Hall. Then
he went, think, to the Mount Vernon
church-then TO the temple. 1t is held on
Saturdays. at 3 o'clock in the afternoon.
rhe temple will hold from twenty y-five
hundred to three thousand. It Is not full,
but it is more than half full. l have at
tended the two last meetings; the first day
WIS rainy. the second was fair. The au
dience was about the same. 1t filled all
but the upper gallery. The audience Was
not much below two thousand. They are
mostly teachers, though not wholly; the
majority are women, one half-are younger
ly women. Thtre are q few ministers al
ways, some un the platform, Lut none
scattered through the audience. NJ. Mere
dith is evangelical, orthodox, Arminian,
positive and enthusiastic. Joseph Cook
won more by his rhetoric than by his logic
The same is true Of Mr.. Meredith. He
wins by assertion, loyalty to truth as he
understands it, and eloquence of state
ment. lie asks some questions and gets
some answers; but u man or Il woman
takes life in hand when he or she un Ter
takes to assert an opinion or PROFOUND a
question. In the tWinkling OF an eve he
brings down the sledge hammer of correc
ton on the head of the uckless wight who
has provoked his opposition. lie does it
good naturedly, however, and oftentimes
an unsatisfactory answer TO a question OF
his propounding starts him OF in an clio.
quent harangue.
A specimen lesson may not be amiss.
Take November 5th. The meeting opens
by singing, reading the lesson in alternate
verses by leader and congregation. and
prayer. 4 collection is taken TO ply tx.
penses, which average, say, 1925 per
III nth. He opened with an introduction
in which he stated that tho reason why
God revealed himselfin types and sy mbols
to tho ancient people was because they
were so low down that they were unprepar.
ed for more spiritual revelation He
then answered the inquiry why we should
study these symbols First, he said.
because we want to trace the beginning
and development of the redemption idea
just as tho geolugist desires to trace the
history of the enrlh's progress; and Sec
ondly, because these symbols become
illustrative of the clearer truth of the New
Testament.
Mr. Meredith then took up a study of
the furniture of the Holy of Holes. The
ark and its contents we note. The mercy
seat and the cherubim were next examin-
ed, and out of the hour and quarter de.
voted 10 the whole lesson, three quarters
of an hour was given to an expo, i,ion OF
the significance of the cherublm. He took
the ground that they are referred to only
five times in the Bible; in connection
with the entrance of The garden of Eden;
in the lessons of he day; in Ezekiel 10th
chapter; ISAIAH 9Th chal ter and the four
beasts OF Revelations, and that they repre-.
sent in every case and always reaeem,d
humanity.
Iu lesson on the atonement It seemed
a httle like n waste of Time to spend hplf
of all he had on this side issue, and one
of small importance and Of uncertain ex
position. 1t was however an lnte, es,inp
and exhiarnting discussion. Having dwell
moment upon the Snekinah as part Of
the fuI nishlng Of the Holy Of Holes. BIZ
proceeded To trace the services OF the day
OF atonement. Thcse were:
I. Washing and changing iobos on the
part Of the high priest.
2. Slays buloak tor bis own sins. In
this be differs from Christ the antilype.
8. Take the blood and incense into the
Holy Of Holes, sprinkllug the blood upon
the mercy scat.