Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1893-01-27

the home of Mr.. and Mrs. George .E
Crowell. About 80 students, representing
seven educational institutions, and mem
bers of the state and international com
mittees were present. After lunch had
been served the company gathered in the
drawing room. Mr.. Wishard, secretary of
the international committee, presided. c.
II. French of the University of Vermont
gave a report on deputaton work, and G..
ii. Hasseltne of Mddlebury on the work
planned by the institutions.
r. +. Lewis of St. Johnsbury delivered
an address which was illustrated by a
chart, giving statistics of IL of the educa-
tional institutions i'm Vermont. These in
stitutons have membership of 2040, of
whom l03S are men Of these 42l are
protested Christians, - having been con-
verted during the year. Mr.. Lewis, who
has had charge of this branch of the work
for two years, was again placed at its head.
Deputation men from the University of
Vermont and Middlebury college will be
sent out, organizing new associations and
building up those that already exist. Mr..
Wlshard spoke on the college work in In
dia and Japan. A rising vote of thanks
was extended to Mr. and Mrs. Crowell for
their hospitality.
There was a large attendance in the Cen
tire church Saturday evening. The meeting
opened with a service of song in which the
boy choir of st. Mchael's Episcopal church
took leading part. j. X. Hague conduct
ed the question drawer and Mr.. Moore,
Mr.. Shaw and Mr.. Wishard and others
were called npon for answers.
The extension of association work was
considered in our state, by Gen. Estey; in
our country by Mr.. Moore of Boston !;
throughout the world, by l.. d. Wishard of
the international committee. Gen. Estey
thought that we should first be loyal to
ourselves, our community and state, and
then the nation and the world. He paid
high tribute to Vermont and spoke of the
pride which he felt in being VermOnter.
Something is now being done in the way of
association work in the smaller towns and
If the associations there can be equipped
and maintained the question for the state
is solved. The associations will take care
of themselves in the large towns where
they are already established. In some of
the other large towns there is a desire for
an association, but only desire. There
must be at least one man to take the re-
sponsibiity of the work to insure its sue
cess, and better results would be attained
IL the responsibility was shared.
Mr.. Moore traced the growth of the as
ISOLATION movement from 1858 up to 1880,
when, he said the workers themselves
hardly knew what they wanted. Then the
work was taken up by young men and for
young men, and now Y. NJ. c. A. meant
the same in Portland, Maine, and in Port
land, Oregon. In 1880 we had only 40
associations, now 400. Today it was nee.
IN hav &c oh ~
as well as piety for general secretary. Ten
years ago hardly an association had gym
nasium. Now there are 43l gynnasiums
connected with the associations. The edu-
cational work is also feature, more stu
dents being enrolled at the Boston associa-
ton alone than in Harvard college. We
are now in the building era, new buildings
being erected for associations at the rate of
40 each year. There are in all 270 associa-
ton buildings in the country, representing
with their contents a value of SIP 900, 900,
while the membership is 1, 239,000. In
Brattleboro there was great need of build
ing for facilitating the manufacture of
character"
Mr.. Wishard spoke of the wonderful age
of wonderful achievements, and of the mar
velous business enterprises which were
successfully carried out. He then showed
that it was within the bounds of possibility
to Christianize the whole world, and to lit
orally fulfill the command of Christ to go
into all the world and preach the truth.
With 10000 missionaries, supported at an
average cost of $500 each, and the Chris
tian people of the world working unitedly,
this great plan of Contamination could be
accomplished, and the problem would be
small compared with some of our enter
prises of war and commerce. Mr.. Wish
ard has recently returned from tour OF
the world in the interest of the college
work of the associations, and the latter
part of the address was devoted TO points
brought out by his journey. He spoke eff
fectively of how the collegians of Japan
had said go back and tell the young men
of America that we are with them" Mr.
Wishard made a strong point by showing
how one of the poor, small cities of eastern
Asia had erected building for association
work while Brattleboro still existed with
out one.