Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1898-07-30
the influence for good which has been 's
erted in the world save that ohe VIM :
omniscient. We can only conjecture
A LITTLE WHILE.

1t seems but little while since w"
for the first time scholar in the SUNDAY
school. 1t is almost three score years
three-fiths OF the period OF which VIC az
thinking and speaking today. we AnO '
something of the past. Who can lore'o'
the futurtp He alone who sees the GU.
from the beginning. One who is ever wiz. y,
his people. From this portion OF on''''
church have gone out the descendants o.
that little band which assembled IN 'n''
place to organize parish. They are 10
be found in many lands. Others nave
since joined themselves to the ever lncreas'
ing number and in like manner been help
full in the great work assigned them by 'ne
great Head OF the church when lie oaue
His apostles go forth to teach and bap''ze
in the name of the Father, and OF the o'h
and of the Holy Ghost. So true 1t is that
all who find the Master will tell their
brethren. Many are they who rest from
their labors but their works do follow them'
We are entered into their labors.
FAMILIAR NAMES.
As | give utterance to words descriptive
of the past, know they will be familiar to
some who hear me, my story will be to them
as an oft-told tale. To others it may be
of greater interest. We can say but little
of the first 10 or Is years of the time which
makes up the century just ended. In the
year 1910 we find record OF baptlsmS'
Familiar names are they to me and Others
here today. We may read them on the
stones in the church yard adjoining this
House of God and on those erected in the
old cemetery where their ancestors were
buried long before the years OF which we
speak. / give them in their order as writ
ten upon the pages of the parish book;
Felt, Williams, Barry, Pierce, Tuttle,
Morgan, Sargent, Guild, Skinner, and
Hargood, the Rev. Daniel Barber being
the officiating clergyman. In 1912 and
1918 we read the names of Evans, Camp
bell, Webb, Billings and Eastman, the
same clergyman officiating In 1916 the
Rev. George T. Chapman baptized several
persons, among them Joseph William Bel
lows.
In 1898 and 1899 we find record made
of al legal meetings, also in 1900 we
learn that the episcopal society of Rock
ingham" as it was named had for its clerk,
Alexander Campbell, land the wardens were
Samuel Cutler and Oliver Lowell; vestry-
men, Peter Evans, James Bancroft and
George Campbell. At a meeting held
April 6, 1901 DR.. Cutler and DR.. Page
were wardens and the name of Jonathan
Blanchard appears as one Of the vestrymen.
A court was appointed to confer with the
Protestant Episcopal society of Westmin-
ster" about uniting in hiring a clergyman
and treating with said society on the means
of forming permanent establishment for
the support of the Protestant Episcopal
church in Westminster and Rockingham.
OF this meeting no mere can be said, a
portion of the record being lost Another at
tempt was made the same year to form a
union Of the several Episcopal societies in
New Hampshire on the east and Vermont
on the west side of the Connecticut river.
No record of the proceedings of that meet
ing,so far as l can find, is extant.
AT meeting in 1903, the name of Quar-
tus Morgan and Solomon Hapgood are
found among the names of vestrymen.
CONVENTION IN ROCKINGHAM.
Drs. Campbell and Page, Peter Evans
and Samuel Cutler were chosen as member
to sit in a convention to be holden in Rock
ingham the first Wednesday in September
We note that provision for entertain
me mt was also made. At an adjourned
meeting May 5, 1884, Messrs. Campbell
and Cutler were elected delegates to gen
eral convention to be holden at Weathers
field in August of the same year. A gen
eral convention was held at Westminster il
1905, on the last Wednesday in August
DR.. Page was the representative from thi
parish. A meeting was held in the house
of Samuel Cutler at Rockingham in 1S0t
and delegates elected to a convention il
Claremont, N. H. In 1907 delegates wer,
sent to attend convention in Hartland OF
the third Wednesday in September of thu
same year. 1t was also voted at the meet
ing of 1907 that $15 be appropriated to
defray the expenses Of the Ri. Rev. Abra
ham Jarvis in attending the churches il
this diocese in September. In 1908 David
Oaks is vestryman, and Alexander By.
ington member of convention held in
Rockingham in September of that year.
We get but little insight concerning
what was done at those gatherings. The
record of proceedings is very brief. Il
did not seem probable that any future in.
terest would be had in what took place
when the few faithful ones met in council
How gladly would we read of their doings
had more been written.
ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION.
New articles of as ISOLATION were drawn w
on March IS, 1909; to recite them here
would only weary you. The preamble and
resolutions were probably signed at or neal