Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-12-26

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the first and has pledged the people to
the care and support of the State. A
man with home and family is loyal to
country and government. | would rather
have IA woman with a baby in her arms
to stand up for the country at a pinch
than a dozen men who have nobody to
care for but themselves. Let us never
trhe with this birthright of home. E.
n third principle of the fathers may be
named-the worth of unprivieged man
hood, manhood stripped of all eXtrinsic
attributes. such as rank, station, culture,
money The men to whom God gave
this country did not come here to make
money but to make men, and to assert
the God given rights of all to win the
best and noblest possibilities. This ooun-
try never had Il servle class. Why? Be-
cause our fathers made labor honorable
and gave it a far chance. Every man
ranked according to his worth. Few
were rich, the many were well-to-do, and
the poor, through no fault of idleness or
profigacy, were cared for and respected.
/ Today there is IA massing of capital and
/ labor in great establishments and labor
class has grown up, discontinued and in
organized wafare over the division of the
common product. What would the faith
ers have thought if they had been told
/ that in 1890 more than half the wealth of
the richest nation in the world would be
in the hands of one hundred of its sixty
million inhabitants. There is something
appalling in this phase of industrial rev.
oution.
| name, as the last and supreme trait
of the first settlers of New England,
deep interest in education and religion.
1t is a hackneyed but true statement that
tho dominant motive which brought the
Pilgrim and the Puritan to these shores
was freedom to worship God. This was
not the only end, but the religious pur-
pose controlled all other considerations.
Intelligence without morals and the fear
of God was looked upon as a doubtful
good. We have made great advance in
many respects, but the fathers knew a
thing or two that we have forgotten.
Open the readers for infant classes here
are some or the first sentences for read
ing "He is in." "She is out" "We go
out" The dog runs" In place of
such senseless sentences the fathers set
this for example: "No man can put off
the law of Coda sentence as easily
learned as the above, and one which,
when learned, lodges in the infant mind
a high moral truth never to be forgotten.
The speaker went on to sketch the his
| tory of the educational institutions of
this town. passing thence to the history
of the church, which he reviewed at some
length. In conclusion he said "Citizens
of Middebury and people of Christ: you
are the lineage of a long line of ancestry
who feared God, loved righteousness and
lived for humanity. You have come into
the heirshp of IA good estate of inteli-
gencc, virtue and sanctity, prepared for
you by the faith and sacrifice of the
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your institutions and hand them on, en-
larged by your labor, to posterity. 1t is
yours to make Middlebury in time to
come what it has been in times past, a
center of intellectual culture and power,
the church of the living God here a holy
fame, above which shall tower the SYM
Dol of the cross calling men away from
attachment to things seen and transient
and pointing them upward to things
unseen and eternal"
The exercises closed with the singing
of the doxology by the choir and con-
gregation and the benediction by DR..
Webber.
THE LADIES SOCIAL PARTY.
4 company even larger than usual
gathered at the vestry on Monday even
ing for the ladies social party. The room
had been handsomely decorated with
hargings, lanterns, evergreens and por-
traits and large part of the floor space
was occupied by the tables, which were
well supplied with all manner of eatables.
c. NJ. Wilds, Esq, was the master of GER
emonies and called upon Rev. j. C.
Houghton to say grace.
The good things provided by the ladies
having been disposed of, the tables were
raped to order by Mr.. Wilds and the
customary feast of music and reason fol-
lowed. First on the programme was DR..
j. r. Rankin's ode, 1.-The Mayfower
Standing In," which was rendered by a
quanet consisting of DR.. Sheldon, and
Messrs. Seeley, Toeman and Thomas of
the college, Mrs Miner playing the ac-
compartment on the piano. Interspersed
with the speeches was other excellent
muse, including solos by Miss Mary
Simpson of Burlington and Miss Carrie
Bono, and another selection by the quar-
tet. The speeches were all heard with
interest, but, like most efforts at such
times, are difficult to epitomize. Suffice
it to say that the forefathers and all their
concTnments, as well as "a good deal of
which they never heard, was talked
abou. Mr.. Wilds performed the duties
OF his position with great skill. The gem
tlemH called upon to speak were Prof.
SeelN Hon. 7. c. Smith, Ii. C. Royce,
Esq, Mr.. Philip b. Stewart, Prof. Samu-
el Sh,ldon, w. II. Bliss, Esq, Prof. How
ard, Prof. Boyce, Prof. Wager, Prof. Pat
on, md President Brainerd. The last
namel also explained in an entertaining
way the portraits of early residents of the
townwhich adorned the walls. Hon. Il.
c. Smith moved a vote of thanks to Mr..
Philil Battell for his efforts in keeping
alive the observance of the day. The