Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-11-16

according 10 USUAL Congregations
procedure. Their names were thu
following: Henry Taft, Nathanie
Killan, Ezekiel Wood, James Jewell
Joseph Sterling, Medad Hastings
Lucy Sterling, Phebe Wheaton, Eliza
beth Wiley, Mercy Cook, Sarah Rich
ardson, Sarah Hastings.
The Church elected for deacons
Ezekiel Wood and Nathaniel killam
and for Church Clerk, Frames Clark
Meetings for conference and religious
ordinances were frequently held at the
house of Joseph Reed, at Deacon
Wood S and in Nathaniel Carpenters
barn. The Lords Supper was observ-
ed by the Church for the first time at
Mr.. Reeds, April ~, 1900. On
April 10th. 1901, a council was called
to advise the Church in regard to the
settlement of a Rev. Mr.. Kinney, as
pastor. After due deiberatiOn, the
council unanimously advised that
| considering the present state of the
church. together with the feeble pros
poets for a comfortable support for a
gospel minister, it cannot be con-
sidered as a call from God, in his pro-
violence for them to proceed to the
settlement of Mr.. Kinney over them
as PASTOR
For seven years the church remained
without pastor, during which time
the Rev. James Hobart, pastor of the
Berlin church, frequently ministered
to them in the word, received mem
bers and administered the ordinances.
Mr.. Hobart was to this church and
Others an Apostolic Bishop, though
unmitred and a true father in God.
The RevS. EnoS Bliss Of Orange and
Samuel ChceVcr of IIartland, also
occasionally miniStcred to them.
Though these were years of weakness
they were years of spiritual and
numerical growth. In less than one
year from the organization of the
church, 20 members were added, and
when the first pastor was settled in
1907 the membership had increased
from - to 66. From the town rec
ordS we learn that the division of the
"mnsters' money" in 1902 was as
follows: Congregational society, 500;
Universalists, $32.SS; Methodists,
$;l.55: Baptists, $2l.24. This would
S ,em to indicate that the Congrega-
tional society at that time was the
largest in town.
At it's organization the church
adopted % articles OF faith, which,
like all congregational confessions Of
that age. were strongly Calvinistic in
their character. The church cove
nant was also after the pattern of
those in usage at that time. These
have been frequently revised under
successive pastors until those now in
use, modelled after that of the Ma
tional council, were adopted in 1895.
Articles of discipline, to the number
of 10, were also early formulated and
subscribed to. These not only en-
phasizcd an exact moral and religious
life, but made the watch and care of
members very strict. Neglect of pub
lie worship, of the ordinances, of
church meetings, of family worship
morning and evening, or to pay a just
proportion for the support of the
church and charities, made the trans
greSsor amenablc to church discipline.
Neither did the members of the
church suffer these articles of diSci-
pline to remain a dead letter. On
Nov. 3, 1900, proceedings were COM
menced against a member which led
to accommodation Feb. %, 1901,
and on, for about three quarters of
the century, these matters frequently
appear in the records.
Continued tomOrrOw.)