Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1895-04-19

THE Howard Company band seranaded
the veterans at the Soldiers Home this
noon. This was a kindly act mach APP
preciated.
THE winter gates at the Soldiers Home
have been taken down, and the drives
will be free to the public during the sum-
mer
AT the oath annual meeting of Wom-
ans Baptist missionary society held in
Burlington Wednesday, poem by Mrs.
Annie S Hawks of this village was read.
WALBRIDGE will take down your stove,
store it during the summer and set il up
again next fall, for a reasonable price.
This sis long felt want" Leave your
orders at his place of business.
MANAGER LARRABEE, of the telephone
exchange, announces reduction in rates
in another column. Under Mr.. LARA
bees administr .tiOn the exchange has at
tanned high state of efficiency and con-
venienCe.
TODAY is "Patriots' Day. in Massa-
chusetts, the new legal holiday in COM
memoration of Lexington and Concord,
the "shot that was heard around the
world" The next of these Revolution
airy anniversaries is 'the Bennington
Battle Day" not overlooking the Fourth
of July of course.
The Rev. A. II. Webb, the popular
pastor of the Methodist church of Mont
pelier, was married at Bellows Falls,
Wednesday, to Miss Mary A, Barry, who
has been for lG years preCeptress of the
Bellows Falls High School. Both parties
are widely known throughout Vermont.
The Campfire of 9th Corps Post, We'd
nesday evening, following a sewing So
ciety of 9th Corps, w. r. c., in the after
noon was a very enjoyable occasion. The
supper at 6 o'clock was fine, and Com
rade Puirer gave an account of the assas-
sination of President Lincoln, he being
one of the persons present in The theatre
that night. Comrade A. NJ. Downs gave
an account of "B fore Richmond" on the
same date in 1865 The bounteOus hos
pitality dispensed by the w. r. c.. is
highly compllmen'el.
LAST evening in the Congregational
church the Rev. Loyal L. Writ, Superin-
tendent of the Congregational Sunday
school and Publishing Society in Cali
fornia, delivered an address in behalf of
Of hot 10
that in parish of 100000 square miles
there is little time for idleness. Our
work, primarily, is to bring the open BIZ
Bile to communities destitute of religious
privileges. This is done by planting and
nurturing Sunday schools. In the five
years of our work in California about
200 Sunday schools have been organized
and 1000 or 5000 persons, old and young,
brought under the saving influence of
the Word of God. Fifteen churches have
grown from Sunday schools of our plant
ing. When school is organized it is
not left to die, but is revisited and kept
constantly in mind by the organizer. Of
ten special meetings follow and church
is the result. From one Sunday school
organized last July three churches have
already grown. We must save America
to save the world, but we must save the
children to save America. This is what
the c. S. S. and p. 5. is trying TO do. In
California there are $50, 900 children with
out the Gospel of Christ. To these es.
pecially we go and at the rate of one for
every Sunday in the year are establishing
Sunday schools in the midst of religious
! ly neglected people. The Rev. Francis
j. Marsh of Boston, the Superintendent
for the Society for New England, also &C.
/ cupied few minutes. He said "Ours
is the Sunday school missionary work of
the denomination, planting Sunday
schools where there is as yet no Protes-
tant religious service. About forty ear
nest, self-sacriticing men are at work.
During the past year 476 new Sunday
schools have been organized by this So
ciety. About l 800 more which had been
already started have been helped toward
self support Out of our mission schools
seventy.three Congregational churches
have grown during the past year. This
| Society also aids in the circulation of re-
ligious papers in seven different Language
es, which are an important agency in eX-
tending the Kingdom of Christ"