St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1895-07-19
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prettiest devices being a large shield,
inst before the pulpit, made OF red
and white immortelles, arranged 50
as to show Boston, 90" above the
monogram. The hrst part of the
reception was in the church, where
short addresses were given, chiefly
by Vermont men
The exercises we're informal and IN
the bappicst vein. After they were
over the East Boston Endeavorers
gave the Vcrmonters rouSing recep'
ton in the yestrics and parIors down
stairs
Nearly all OF the $50 Vermonters
in East Boston were present, and
the rest OF the large auditorium was
filled with East Boston members of
the society and the general public.
Pres. e. G, Osgood OF the Vermont
society presided The pastor, Rev.
Smith Baker, sat beside him, and
spoke in the course OF the evening
Mr.. b. F. Moore, the manager OF
Kurn Hattin, the boys home at
Westminster, spoke. This home was
instituted and is chiefly promoted by
Rev. Mr.. Dickinson of BerkeIy Tenn
pie in Boston. Mr.. Moore said that |
the Christian Endeavor work is val.
liable because it is so timely. 1t
takes the young people at an age
when they are impresslonable, instead !
of leaving them, as in years past,
until their characters are already
formed
Rev. Mr.. Smith of Pitts6eld began
by saying that it was well known
that Boston was the centre OF wis
dom and Vermont the centre OF beau
ty. He then read from the Bible the
story OF the Queen of Sheba coming
to see King Solomon, and closed by
saving that when the Vermonters
went home they would say, like the
African Queen, that the halt had not
been told.
Rev. J. D. Waldron of Enosburg
Falls, said that since he was only an
adopted child of the state he could
declare that it was the noblest state
in the union.
Mrs. Mary Clement Leavitt, hon
orary life president of the Worlds
Women's Christian Temperance
Union, was introduced and received
with applause. Mrs. Leavitt was
born in New Hampshire, but early in
her life her father moved to Vermont
and she was educated at the old
Thetford Academy in that state.
Afterward she went to Massachu-
setts, but for the last 10 years she
had lived in a trunk.
Since she had been around the
world, she was more glad than ever
that she belonged to New England.
She gave some interesting reminis-
cences OF her life in the East. She
declares that heathendom is an iron
furnace to every woman low or high,
in that country. MAY the Lord
help young people not only to
endeavor, but to do"
After speaking of the changes in
church methods since she was Young,
and particularly of the difference the
young peoples society had wrought,
she referred to her missionary career
and temperance work.
"NeXt to bringing souls to Christ,
said she, most attention should be
paid to temperance. Most of us,
workers in the W. c. r. u, are get.
ting gray haired, and all we can do
pretty soon is to pass the work on
to you.
Il have seen more of missions than
any one else that has ever lived, >"
said she. More missions of more
countries under more boards. | be.
lieve in missions more since | have
seen so much of them than ever did
before"
Rev, Frank Gardner, of the Central
Square Baptist church of East Bos-
ton, spoke of the pleasant impress
sions which his few visits to Vermont
had left with him.
Rev. F. F. Lewis of Hardwick
pastor of the only purely c. E. church
in Vermont, told of the founding OF
the church and OF the building, which
they have just erected. This is a
church where the pastor and few
old men are not expected to dc
everything, but where the young
people run the church.
Rev, John l.. Sewall, now of Mis-
souri,, but formerly state president