Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1890-09-19
VERMONT PHdNIX BRATIEBORO FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 49, 1890
TOWNSHEND.
some Interesting Notes Called out by the
Recent Meeting Of the County Baptist
AsaOcintiOn.

some Interesting Notes Called out by the
Recent Meeting Of the County baptist
AssOcintiOn.
Iownshend is a pretty village seventeen
miles north of Brattleboro. Here is the
seat of the old Leland and Gray academy
Among its honored principals in the past
have been Moses Lyford II. l.. Wayland
Horace Burchard, Edward Judson It is
under the care at present of Mr.. David g.
Smyth, recent graduate Of Brown univer.
sity. This school enrolls about sixty pu-
pills The Baptist church Of this quiet vii.
lage nesting among the hills, is under the
pastoral care of Rev. w. d. Athearn, who
had brief pastorate in Minnesota lie
sought New England climate for an in
valid wife, but she survived only few
months. Here Rev. Horace Fletcher
preached for more than a quarter of cen
fury. Here Rev. Mark Carpenter, father
OF the missionary, DIR. G. II. Carpenter
spent the closing years of his life. It is
typical Vermont town. The homes bear
the evidence of thrift and comfort, and an
air of intelligence pervades the community
The little church entertained in a sumptu-
GUS manner the Windham county Baptist
association during the last week in August
1t was this gathering that brought the
writer there. Most of the churches of this
body are comparatively few in numbers,
except perhaps the Brattleboro church,
which is cosmopolitan and metropolitan in
all its features. Rev c. A. Votey directed
the meetings Rev f. j. Parry Of Brattle
boro preached the Introductory sermon on
"Enduement of Power" 1t was IA strong
sermon The obituary notices made special
mention of Dea Jacob Estey whose Chris.
tian philanthropy has contributed largely
to the growth Of many Of these churches
1t was he who built the church editice in
Putney, whose gifted young pastor, Rev
II. NJ. Douglass. is full of the praises of the
good works of Mr.. Estey. 1t was pleas
ure to meet at this gathering Prof Geo. A.
Williams the honored principal Of Vermont
academy at SaXtons River. After one
year of service full of assured promise Mr..
Williams sees the promise largely realized
and begins early in September his work for
u second year, under the stimulating en-
enlargement of the trustees, with a large
roll of students in prospect
1t was also pleasure to hear Miss Lenora
Hamilton who has had three years of ser
vice at Lukunga, on the Congo. Miss Ham
ilton speaks words Of sweet and simple ties
timony and entrances her hearers at every
syllable. Addresses were made by the New
EHRlunu SECRETARY OF Iut puDucdJlOn aOcle-
ty and by Mrs. q. f Genung of Suflield,
Conn, state secretary of the WJman's
Home Mission society. Rev. A. A. Bennett
of Yokohama, Japan, made a powerful
speech for foreign mission work. He has
the heart of fire and the tongue OF flame for
missions. But it was good to witness the
strength and the earnestness of these
preachers among the hills. Pastor Votey
told with tears of JOY Of the little church at
Wardsboro, which gave Miles Knowlton to
foreign missions, of the church at Whiting
ham which gave Nathan Brown TO the work
of Bible translation From one of the
churches Of this association came Rev. d.
j. Pierce, at the head of the Baptist college
in the frontier state Of Washington. Here
too, was present the mother Of Rev. ]. A.
| Leavitt, whose father was the late Rev Ii
| G. Leavitt. Mr.. Leavitt preached two or
three Sundays since for the Brattleboro
| church of which his mother is a member
Mr. Leavitt leaves his work as Sunday
school missionary Of the Publication society
in Illinois and assumes the presidency Of
| Ewing college in Southern Illinois. Surely
these Vermont pastors have right TO be a
| little complacent over their past, and not Il
! little over their present