The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1892-07-15
From your ever true friend.
HAZEN X. WILSON.
TO THE UNION MEETING HOUSE
BY HORACE w. BAILEY.

ADDrEss TO THE UNION MEETING HOUSE
BY HORACE w. BAILEY.
owe the subscribers" begins the RECORD
OF the Union Meeting House written in 6
clear legible hand sixty years ago.
"We the subscribers, inhabitants OF
Newbury and Bradford, Vermont, do here
by voluntarily associate and agree to form
a society by the name of the Union Meet.
ing House Society in Newbury, for the
purpose of building ameeting house accord.
ing to the first section of an act entitled,
IAN act for the support of the gospel, pass
ed October Goth, 1867" The said house
shall be the joint property of the society
until by them disposed of at public auction.
Then to be occupied for public worship by
the following christion denominations, viz.
Presbyterians, Congregacionalfsts. Methc-
dlsts and BaptistS, according to the shares
that each shall own in said house. To be
regulated annually by committee on the
first day of January, and to be chosen from
each of the said denominations owning the
house. And any pew owner shall have the
privilege of uniting with either OF the de-
nominations when he shall think proper
in said division. We therefore jointly and
Severally promise to pay to the collector
of said society, our equal proportion of the
expense of building said house according to
the number of pews annexed to our names,
provided such expense does not exceed
twenty-five dollars on the pew. And the
payment for said pews shall be One-third in
money, the remainder in salable neat, stock
or grain, or part of each money and stock
by the 10Th day of October next, and the
grain in January next following, deliv-
cred at the dwelling house of David and
Elijah Tucker in said Newbury. In
witness whereof, we have heTeunto set our
hands. Dated at Newbury this 10th day of
Iahr m hn Of f,rtr ord
Name.
John Smith,
Dudley Carleton, Jr.,
James McIndoe,
Daniel Kimball,
Samuel IL j. W. Rodgers,
James Boyce,
Daniel Eastman,
David Hazelton,
Elijah Hazelton,
William A. Boyce,
Lew HaZeltOn,
EbeneZer Kendrick,
Jesse Jones,
Ebenezer Abbott
William III. Carter,
John b. Carleton,
Elijah & ID. Tucker,
Thomas r. Brock,
Charles Brock,
Jonas Tucker,
Nathaniel Niles,
Joel Putnam
lsreal Prescott,
Levi Rodgers,
James Brock,
Daniel Purnam,
Nicholas White,
Samuel Eastman,
Charles Smith,
Enoch Virgins,
Moody Chamberlin,
Richard Aldrich,
Ashbell Buell.,
Robert Fulton,
Thus begins the record; These names are
lmiliar to us. These men are departed,
nd in departing have left behind them
DOT prints on the sands of time. 1t cost
)mething to build ameeting house in those
avs. but those sturdy pioneers took no
ackward steps. Each generation has left
s finger marks on these walls. Changes
ave been wrought, the ancient style of
lis audience room has dissolved into the
IOdern. And could the departed fathers
nd mothers come up from the dust of six
ecades they would say to their children
nd grandchildren, Well done.
AnnO Domini 1928 and Anno Domtllt
,q2 are the principal periods of history in
lis grand old Meeting House, planted by
lose noble fathers firmly on the rock of
res. and dedicated to the worship of Al
lightly God by christian men and christian
omen. Like a ship at sea she has rode on
Ie crest of the wave She has withStOOd
Ie storms of more than half a century.
he has not yielded to the SHOWS and frosts
sixty winters nor the scorching suns of
xiv summers. She has had her times of
.ioicing and her seasons of mourning.
ne has been down in the valley and shadow
death. She has assembled the mount of
ansiguratiOn.
These sixty years have been firmly bound
= a golden chain whose links were not
elded BY mortal hands. As these sixty
,ars come up before us IN grand review;
nat a panorama unfOlds itself TO our vision.
he hardships, the deprivations, the self
crifice of those noble ancestors who
auted this house Of God on this hillside
xtv years ago are unfamiliar to us of this
neration. The grandeur of their chris
,nity. the purity of their domestic rela-
ms. the simplicity of their lives, the man