The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1889-03-14
North Bennington.


~ tuOse VINO are interested IN the
progress Of Christianity, these facts
concerning the prosperity of any divis-
ION OF the Lords army are of interest !;
and doubtless there are many readers of
the BANNER who will be interested to
know that the Baptist denomination has
not been idle during the past year. 1t
is considered that the presidential year
as rule is not marked by large ingath-
erings. Political matters attract and
absorb the attention and thought of all
classics OF people, yet the past year has
been one OF comparative growth but not
reaching the advance of the preceding.
According to the American Baptist Year
Bopk, there were connected with the
Baptist denomination Jan. /, 1889, g.
609, 45S members; 3S,4S3 churches; 25,-
4S5 minister's; 152,631 baptisms exclu-
slve OF Great Britain. There were in
the United States 81. 420 ordained minis
ters. 43S being ordained during the year;
300 churches, sol new ones organized
and 329 new houses for worship dedicat
ed, in the year; 1897 94 members, of
whom 1874 563 were baptized during the
year. The Foreign Board registered 262
missionaries; 1,79S peachers; 1895
churches; the expenditures of this
Board were SAIL, 1856 80. The Southern
Board have 115 missionaries; 1857 mem
6ers; 336 were baptized, and expended
1874, SOB. IL. The Woman's Foreign Mis-
sion Society have 81 missionaries: have
expended $l06 036.2S. And the colored
African $775 05. The Home Mission
society has TAB laborers, 65 being added
the past year. These are laboring among
the natives, and the foreign population
that are coming to this country by hun
dreds of thousands annually. The Board
have expended 1851 ,595 so. Intimately
connected with this work is that of the
several State Conventions that employ
1881 laborers, The Woman's Home
Mission Society sustain about 100 mis-
sionaries, and the Publication Society
has 20 Sunday School missionaries. 55
colporteurs, 80 being added the past
year. The. denomination has expe ded
on the work for the evangellzation of
our own country through the above or
ganiz atoms that are all doing home mis-
sion work more than a miIliun..o of dollars
in the year just closed. Most if not all
OF this outlay has brought and is bring
ing good retu n. The denomination
is doing something along the line of ed
NNaA'Ohhi WIN. dIt & lneOlURl-
cal Seminar 8, with GAL students pre-.
pairing for the mini.try; "a Universities
and Colleges with 1923 students; 500
have the ministry in view; 80 semina-
ries for female education exclusively,
with 1000 pupils; AZ Seminaries and
Academies for male and cG-educali n
with a, 1856 students, 300 with the minis
try in view; II institutions for colonel
race and Indians, with 9 500 students,
100 OF these are looking toward the min
istry. Tot i number of students 1859
of whom 1904 have ministry in view
These facts and figures will give only a
faint idea of the work being accomplis.
ed BY this denomination; the design has
been not 10 overstate, hence MANY of
the SUNNI Try figures do not reach the
full measure of work done. IL is very
difficult to secure accurate figures Gov
erihg 50 much ground.
The closing pubic exercises of the
Graded school, were held in Bank Hall
Friday afternoon, March 9Th, with .au
audience as large as could be conven-
iently accommodated. The following
programme was presented and the parts
were listened to with more than usual
satisfaction. We give the order of ex-
ercises as follows
Prayer. ............. Rev. G. A, wilkins
Greeting song.
Fashionable School Girl. ...... Mabel w hite
The Meaning Of Our Flag. 81. Charlie Adams.
The Rumseller's Dream ........ Bertha Minott.
Boys Comforts ............... Willie Shanahan,
Singing, "lf were Sunbeam"
The Temperance Cause. ....... e. Stella Bottum.
The "Stagnant," Charlie Cole, Annie McGovprn,
Hoy's Rights ................. Ernest Gilbert.
VINO Is Your Friend '......... Hattie Walbridge.
Why Can't Girls Whistle ?! ....... Willie Powers.
Two Sides to the Question, Harry Cunningham
and Minnie Colvin
Compromise ................K Kitty McGoyern,
Calisthenics.
The Clowns Baby. Geo. yelling.
Inc Anxious Mother. ......... Katie Garfield.
Inc DANDY Fifth. ................. Geo wilkins,
The Meddlesome Somebody :. Bridget Maloney.
Singing, Twilight is Stealing"
Tn" report of the standing of the
pupils, as to punctuality AMI absence.
was given by the principal, Prof. Z. w
Howe, who made some remarks upon
he condition of the school;the audience
was dismissed.
ST. pATRICK's DAY AT THE CATHOLIC
-. CHURCH.
s.. PAtrick's DAY will be feast of a
Church, Sunday evening. The Rev. FIR.
Maggie, who preached the mission here
last December, will / e the speaker. At
the end of tho service, three clergymen
will take part In the Benediction of the
biessedSacrament, "a ceremony which has
never been witnessed in that church be-
tore: The music under charge of Prof
Harry Phillips promised to be grand
The name alone of the speaker, Father
Maggie, is more than sufficient to draw a
large congregation.
There being no entertainment on Tues
day evening, the ladies' Aid Society
broke up in season to give an oppoItuni-
ty for the friends to go to the maple su.
gar party at the Baptist Church. IL was
very pleasant gathering and the new
wax upon snow and the sugar, were pre-
| nOunced to be of this years make. Such
an Offering of the tight hand of fellow
ship, must bave the effect of cementing
closer the bonds of union.
Fred Thomas arrived here last week
from California. He is a brrther Of Mrs.
9, E, yelling and has been away thirty
years. He had just begun to get over
the excitement of Joining and meeting
OiH q ltItRidUl ItdGueu
him from Maine, that his wIfe's friends
were very sick, so he left on the next
morning train.
The grand list in our part of the town,
was increased few days since by near
ly thousand dollars, and if you could
see Richmond, the foreman at Il C.
Whites shop, on his way home when
meal time comes around, you would
judge it was nearer fifteen hundred,
though we understand It is daughter.
The contata which will be given by
the Congregational Sabbath school, on
Friday evening bids fair to be very
largely attended. A platform has been
built rising three tiers, so as to seat the
chorus in iull view, aud the dill has
Been very thorough. Admission 20 cts.
and 10 cents.
Rev. Chas. II. Peck, who has accepted
the call to the Congregational Church,
and whose minis ry will commence
about the first of April, will supply the
pulpit next Sunday. He intenCs TO come
80 AS to attend the cantata entertain
ment, on Friday evening.
J.R. Hunt, the Waterman at the Stone
Mill, has not improved SOFAS TO resume
his position. Uncle Jim Clements, who
took his place was also put upon the
sick list, and Thomas Buchanan now
carries the watch clock.
The storm on Saturday last, coming
20 near the anniversary of the last years
blizzard" ana with the fury it did, re-
minded many for a while, of that long
to be dreaded combination Of the ele-
ments.
The new maple sugar soci4Dle at the
Baptist Church Tuesday evening was IN
every way success, doubtless being the
largest held this season, about one hun
dred sat down To sumner