Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-04-29
VERMONT CONFERENCE.

The ordination Of the elders ana
deacons took place at the Congrega-
tional church on Sunday at 80 p. m
It was a very impressive service and
many attended it. the male quartette
! of the Congre ga Iondl church sang
several sacren songs and the ritual
ordination services followed. Both the
members of the deacon class and the
elders wero fine looking young men
who will be heard from in the future
| The names of the deacons consecrated
were G. g. McDougal, F. K. Graves
and N. A. Ross. The elders were NJ.
j. Smith, F. K. Graves, E. W. Sharp,
w. T. Miller, O. E. Newton, O. W.
Ross. E. L. NJ Barnes and @. M.
Charlton.
The lecture Sunday evening at
Music hall by Dr. M. @. B. Mason of
Cincinnati was one of the grandest
and most inspiring of anything which
transpired at the conference. DR..
Mason is one of the blacklist and
brightest of men. He took for his
subject "Africa." He gave good
idea of the general condition of that,
the dark continent. Liberia had been
colonized by free negroes from Amer
lea, and was a little republic which
had prospered from the beginning.
It is a Christian nation and an asylum
for the colored people from every
land. There is no race prejudice in
that country, and every man may
have chance to make the most of
himself whether he be white, cop
per colored or black. He showed
that the inhabitants of that land are
in sympathy with the benighted races
of the continent. This nation tOgeth-
er with the colored missionaries from
the United States, in the providence |
of God is to evangelize the whole |
of the dark continent. The speaker |
referred to the many colored schools
and high institutions of the Freed
mems Aid society in the South which
are fitting the brightest young col
ored men and women for mission
work in Africa. He related several
Incidents which showed great sacrifice
On the part of young men and women,
who had graduated in medicine and
n the sciences and languages, who
1ad the brightest prospects before
hem if they remained here, who had
given up these prospects to spend
heir lives in teaching and lettering
he moral, social, and intellectual
condition of the heather in Africa.
He believed the black race is to do
most of the work of developing this
lation. He referred to the great
york of Bishop Taylor and Bishop
1artzel, and to the power of influence
'ur African bishop has both in Eng
and and America. He showed that
he nations are looking to the black
nan to day. They are slicing up the
lark country; almost every European ,
lation is after slice, and that COM Z,
nercially this continent is paying all $
has cost to develop it thus far. 1t ,
) being opened up to trade, railroads +
re being constructed. It's destiny ,
will be nodded very much by the Ne ,
no race of America. It is impossible
o give but faint idea of this won I
erful lecture in the space allotted I
his article. But it is sufficient to say
hat the sixteen hundred persons who {
stoned to its recital were enraptured q
y the eloquence of the speaker and
be many cheers which greeted every 8
utburst of eloquence showed the ap
recitation the audience had for the :
peaker and their sympathy for his +
ubject He reached the most sublime :
limax at his closing. The wonderful
ision of Africa in the future as pre- .
ented to that vast audience, which r
asted for about twenty minutes car
led everything before it. And when 9
ne spell was broken as he sat down
UGH cheers as followed will not be y
orgotten for many year by those f
mo heard this, one of the grandest 7
,ctures of their lives.
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