St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-04-24
Letter From Boston.
boston. April Is. 1851.

!
/ from Boston found its way into its
pages which gave it a two-fold in
| teTest to lis. Then Boston seemed a
far-away place, city that we had
heard and dreamed about but had
never seen. Now it is so quickly and
easily reached from almost all parts of
| New England that most can visit it
and see for themselves. The weather
this spring has been most disagreea-
BILE. Only Il little more than week
\ ago saw few crOcuses blooming i'll
the State house grounds but they per
ished with the storm that came few
days later. However, the season is
now so far advanced that we may look
very soon for the warm spring weather.
One of the most noteworthy events of
the spring in church matters was the
installation of Rev. George A. Gordon
rs pastor of the Old South church
very fully noticed in the papers. DR..
Manning, the last pastor, was installed
| the first installation in the elegant
new church on the corner of BOyl-
ston and Dartmouth streets. The
new pastor is native of Scotland and
came to this country some twelve
years ago and located in South Boston
where he was engaged in the occupa-
| ton ot stone-cutting. He attended
| the Presbyterian church whose pastor,
Rev. Mr.. Angler, noticed the young
! the services. Later Mr.. Gordon united
| with that church and also became an
| inmate of the pastors family. Seeing
much of promise in the young man
| Mr.. Angler aided him in obtaining an
| education sufficient to enable him to
enter the Bangor theological seminary
where he graduated in 1877. In that
year he was ordained as pastor of the
Congregational church at Temple, Me-,
entered Harvard University taking a
two years special course Of study
Going from thence to Greenwich Conn,
he became pastor of the COngrega-
| tional church there where he preached
| three years from which place he was
called to his present pastorate at the
Old South. Perhaps it is not generally
known that only three out of the sixty
members of the council were wholly
satisfied with the pastors liberal views
However, it was thought best under
the circumstances to go on with the
exercises.
DIR. Withrow's Friday evening talk'
ut Park street church have been stead
lily gaining in interest during the pas
year. They are conducted in an in
formal way and are attended by many
outside of the regular congregation
The subject is given from week tC
week in advance, so that those wh'
are interested can be prepared if the!
desire. Several hymns are sung at tn
beginning, prayer offered in the inter
walls between the hymns. A short pas
sage of scripture is then read and the
pastor turns ut once to the subject
often asking questions of persons il
, different parts of the rOem and remark
ing upon their answers in his exceed
ingly pleasant and concise way. FO
several successive evenings the ques
tiOns i'll the shorter Catechism hav
been taken for the subject of the meet
ings. All who attend them feel tina
these social talks are very helpful.
The winter and spring have been a
full of musical attractions as ever AM
of the highest order. Each seaso
. seems to excel the preceding in tn
array of talent that appears upon tn
: musical stage. The series of sym
phony concerts under the direction {
Mr.. George IIenschel have given un
usual satisfaction, and when such solo
lists as Mr.. Ernst PerabO, Mr.. Ca
, Baerman and other talented artists al
engaged for the successive evening
little is left to be desired in the wa
of most delightful entertainment. NJ
Henschel resigns his position as col
ductor of these concerts with the seaso
Just ended and goes to Europe to It
main some time.
The operate season at the BOstO
l theatre was successful and was undo
Mr.. Abbcy's management, whose con
pany included Nilsson and Sembricl
Campanini and Stagno. When NilssC
comes to Boston she brings every boo
out as she is a favorite. She deserv
" her hOnOrs, for not only is she one
the worlds most famous singers, b
she Is also a true woman. The folloN
ing incident shows her character in
pleasing way Some one handed h
an album for her autograph, and CLAN
- ing through the book she saw up,
the last page this autograph of h
rival in song: Last but not lea
Adelina Patti" Quickly taking a p
she wrote upon the cover oppOsit
- Last and least, Christine Nilsson"
One of the most enjoyable cOnce
that the writer has attended the pi
X. season was one of the series given
the Cecilia club. This society is co
posed of about one hundred and fl
picked voices and is under the dir
ton of Mr.. B. J. Lang. Each me
". ber is assessed annually to meet
expenses of the club and therefore
E Elsh tickets are all complimentary from
W mem hers tn their friends. The clnh