Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-03-07


, Nor fear approaching night;
0 Calm comes with evening light
And hope and peace. Thy duty heed
= Today.
In 80 years the Freedmen's Aid so
. ciety of the Methodist church ha!
reached over 100000 students, sent GU,
about 1000 teachers and 1900 minis
tiers, enrolled about 551, 900 members
and accumulated property worth over
81, 600, 900. The secretary of the society
says that it's object is not to make the
negro smart, but to make him good.
The society has forty-three schools
with over three thousand students re-
ceiving industrial education, and q
: total attendance of ten thousand stu
dents, and last year less than 800, DOC
was expended. The several schools
are all prosperous.
In religion, in philosophy, in com
mercd, in the arts, and-let it not be
forgotten by the thoughtless who are
accustomed to regard the Jews as un-
patriotic money getters merely-in
every struggle that pan has ever
made, in any land, under any sun,
since Abram tended his tlocks, the
Jews have contributed their full share
to the advancement and the enfran-
chisement of mankind. A people with
out country, they have made all
countries their own. They have thriven
on persecution and survived the des
potism of blind hatred. They have,
with a tenacity nprecedented, pre-
served their racial integrity while
keeping pace intellectually, with man IS
! MT, In he ,Sh I'm
cyclopedia," which is the joint prod
have for the first time had full and
Frank Putnam in National Magazine
for November
At the recent Episcopal missionary
conference at Rochester, N Y, the
following things were brought out:
First, the Episcopal church has pre-,
eminent call to mission work in Latin
American lands: second, it sadly needs
young men for its mission work both
at home and abroad; third, its present
supply of funds for prosecuting its
present mission work and for entering
upon its larger opportunities is utterly
inadequate; fourth, the laity, and even
some of the bishops and clergy, are
responsible for the apathy which pre-
walls throughout the church toward
missions and the niggardly pittances
which are given in the name of the
missions; fifth, the church at large
needs a revival, a fresh baptism of the
Holy Spirit and systematic instruction
in order that zeal for mission work
may be aroused, stimulated and sus-
tanned sixth, the men of the church
should be Systematically organized for
the purpose of coming to the aid of the
missionary cause and sharing the bur-
dens which have so long rested upon
the women and children.
At the Baptist congress recently
held in New York, Rev. Daniel Shep- |
ardson took the ground that higher
grade of e,angelists is needed. Evan
gelism, he said, meaning the special |
calling of the evangelist, or timer
ant preacher is the scrap pile of the |
ministry, the intelligence office OF
saint out of job. We want no more
freak evangelists, no more sensational,
half-educated enthusiasts. 1t is
probably true, comments the Observer,
that the calling of the evangelist has
in the past done very great deal,
either to build up the kingdom of God
or to discredit both church and minis
try in the eyes Of men. 1t all depends
on the quality of the evangelist and
the nature of the truths preached.
Lately fraternal evangelist has been
people in Brooklyn, who in
Inmates that he is another Elijah,
claims that he has been thoroughly
tested,' and that God has given him
power to call the spirit back to the
body after it has left it. His attitude
appears to one of great indifference,
or not any one heeds the mes
sage that he is delivering. He is sim
ply notifying humanity of its last
chance to be saved. The preaching Of
such men brings some of the hottest
of Christianity into con-
tempt before the world because of
sad Misrepresentation or misapplica-
ion of them. The simplicity of Christ,
he pure truth as it is in Jesus, is far
better.
The newest of queer religious sects
S the Association of Christian Breth- (
EN-, which Is sailing down the Misss-
ippi in modern imitation of the
Ark to tell people that the millennium
s surely coming IA 1871. "Megido"
S the name of the boat and nearly 100 Q
PERSONS, men. women and children,
i've on her Megido, according to the
means ''The Lord is in this
lace with an Army The doctrine
f the organization is that the world is
o undergo a complete transformation
orty years from now. Mems bodies
re to be so changed that they can
ravel through space. Every planet
ill then be visited and for that reason
ext to the Bible. the brethren study
stronomy Among their predictions
one to the effect that the
of the earth will be
evelled and the valleys raised
ntil the world is one vast plain, in
llfilment of the prophecies of Scrip
IRE. The president of the sect is L.
. Nichols, who is also its founder.
lie holds himself mainly responsible
IT the support of his followers, though
ley add to the revenue of the COM
unity by the manufacture of lamps
ld small wares. The members of the
,ciety expect to live on the Megido
ntil the day of the millennium. The
JASON the brethren have chosen a boat
# their work of preparing the world
+ the spectacular millennium which
icy predict, is that they believe they
N lead holier lives themselves by be-
& shut off in a large measure from
e evil influences of the world. The
ciety owns a big tent, 75x150 feet.
,wever, in which they hold meetings