Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1893-09-01
Mrs. A. G. oman
Health and Strength Restored
WINDHAM COUNTY BAPTIsTs.


The Best Meeting They Have Ever Held.
At West Brattleboro, Wednesday and
Thursday, the Baptists of this county held
the most enthusiastic, inspiring and profit
able meeting which they have had for
years. The organization was effected by
the choice of Rev. F. j. Parry as modera-
tor and S. H. Sherman as clerk and treas
urer. The annual sermon was delivered
by Rev. Mr.. Hatfield of South Newfane,
and was followed by the letters from the
churches, read for the most part by their
special messengers. The tone of the let
tiers was not specially encouraging, so far
as increase in membership is concerned,
but evinced strong purpose to do more
aggressive work during the coming year.
In the afternoon of Wednesday addresses
were given by DR.. Hazelwood and Mrs. AL
ice NJ. Coleman of Boston, representing
the home mission work of the Baptist de-
nomination throughout North America, in
Guiding far-away Alaska. Hundreds of
missionaries and teachers in the mission
schools are employed and the annual reports
are most encouraging. With the great
foreign immigration, the demands upon
them are constantly enlarging and with of
course, the consequent demand for in
creased benevolence.
The work of the Woman's Foreign Mis-.
sion society was succintly placed before the
association by Miss Brown of Ludlow, rep
resenting the state vice president, Mrs.
| Owens. The plans for more systematic
work and contributions in behalf of mis-
sions as explained commended themselves
/ to all. The other UNCONVENTIONAL enter
/ prises of the Baptsts were brought to the
notice of the audience by Rev. c. II.
! Spaulding of Boston, representing the Bap-
/ fist Publication society of Philadelphia,
and Rev. Dr. Bullen for ministerial educa-
ton.
Wednesday evening an audience which
exhausted the seating capacity of the
church, gathered to hear Rev. w. NJ. Up
craft, the missionary from Western China
whose work has been in the Yang-tse-
Kiang valley, 2000 miles inland, in the
midst of population of about 100000 0C
people, with no other missionary in the three
provinces comprising his district. Mr.. Up
craft speaks very rapidly and is so mag
netic in manner, so possessed of his errand
that it is well nigh impossible to report him
1t is pleasure to know that his worl
has so commended itself to the missionary
union that he is to receive fifteen addition
al helpers, with whom he is to sail NOvem
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the Chinese dress throughout, and ever
goes so far as to shave the head and dol
the cue. He does this to avoid the curios
ity aroused by American dress in Liant
where he is almost the only representative
of his nation, and also in order that he ma,
meet them on the same level. Besides al
this we gained that he rather likes it better
1t is further pleasure to know that tn
people of Brattleboro are to have anothe
oppOrtunRty of hearing him at the Baptis
church next Sunday.
Rev. A. S. Gumbart of Boston close
the convention with an inspiring sermO
on "Being filled with the Holy Ghost
was a most fitting close to a remarkable sc
ries of meetings, and turned the hearts O
all to the necessity of love, obedience an
prayer as the three essentials in Christian
work.
The next annual meeting is to be hel
with the Pondvile church in August, 1885,
OCCASIONAL.