St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-06-08
Caledonia County Conference.


Caledonia County Conference.
The annual meeting of the Caledonia
county conference of Congregational
churches was held at Danville on Tues
day and Wednesday of the present
week. The opening sermon was by
Rev. DIR. c. B. Hubert of LyndOnville
from the text in Romans 8 3, 4-'"For
what the law could not do in that it
was weak through the flesh, God send
ing his own son i'll the likeness of sin
full flesh, and for sin condemned sin in
the flesh, that the righteousness of the
law might be fulfilled in u.s." etc. The
preacher elaborated very clearly the
an outlaw !; that while all the law could
do for us was to condemn, God sent his
Son to do what the law could not do
redeem and save.
After the sermon the organization of
the conference was effected by the
election of Rev. c. B. Hubert, mOder-
atOr; Rev. Henry w. Jones, scribe T.
NJ. Howard, treasurer, and Rev. Henry
Fairbanks, committee on ministerial
standing. The churches of Barnet,
McIndoe's, East Burke, Danville, East
Hardwick, LyndOnville, Peacham, st.
JOhnsbury North, South, and Centre,
and Waterford were represented, all
by delegates and all except East Burke
by pastors or acting pastors. The fol-
lowing were appointed delegates to
the state convention to he held at New
port: c. l.. Merrill, Danville Rev. S.
;. Martin, Peacham; w. X. Monteith,
MclndOe's; l.. NJ. Green, Waterford :;
Franklin Fairbanks, st. JOhnsbury.
The next conference is appointed at
st. J0hnsbury Centre, with sermon by
Rev. Edward T. Fairbanks, and Rev.
;. 5. Martin, substitute.
Immediately after dinner a ladies'
missionary meeting was held in the
chapel of the church which was fully
attended and rendered interesting by
reports from the several auxiliaries in
the county and the reading of extracts
from Miss GleasOn's letters from Con-
StantinOple. At half-past two "A Sun
day school meeting was held at which
the gOodly number of children and
young people gathered were addressed
by Pearl ID. Blodgett, Franklin Fair
banks, w. r. MOnteith, and Rev. Mr..
Darling of the Danville church.
At the close of the children's service
Rev. Mr.. Russell of Cabot read paper
on GLOW to interest the churches in
missionary operations" This he would
do by having every family supplied
with missionary papers and periOdi-
Gals; by missionary concerts, taking up
field by field, with customs, habits and
conditions of the people; by getting
people either old or young to write ar
tlcles for the missionary meetings; by
systematic giving for missionary oper-
atiOns; by attending missionary meet
lngs, especially those of the American
Board and lastly by preaching the
great truths often of glad tidings to all
people and frequent expOsitions of the
various religions of the world.
Mr.. Russell was followed by Rev
Mr.. Chandler of East Hardwick who
made three points: Want of interest in
missionary work comes largely of q
want of knowledge of the work of not
knowing how money raised is to be
; expended and interest can be greatly
augmented by procuring some particu.
lar individual in the missionary field
to work for, follow and receive reports
) from. This speaker was followed 10y
Rev. S. 5. Martin who emphasized the
monthly concert and systematic giving
l as means of increasing the interest il
l missionary operations. He was fol
2 lowed by Revs. Jones, Hubert anC
f Morse, and Franklin Fairbanks.
+ Wednesday morning the topic 'Tru,
e church life and growth and tests of tn
| same" was discussed by Revs. Martin
e +. 7. Fairbanks, Winch and Darling
= with much earnestness and eviden
e thought and preparation on the part @
= some of the speakers. Afterwards tn
t reports from the various churches wer
= heard from which we summarize brief
t ly: The MclndOe's church has held it
B. own and is in some respects stronge
= than year ago. Some opposition ha
o been attempted, but it has only serve
e to unite the church and make ther
II more active without drawing especial
t from its numbers. In the Cabot churc
l. There has heen no nnnsnnl relininns y