Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1903-02-12

I out-"I'm coming, father.n Il was nG
however, in this church but another ths
the preacher having become fairly dis
couraged and desperate at the univeIsa
stupor OF the congregation, with q bold
eNpedient to which we were not o.
customed in our New England churches,
I suddenly stopped and called upon thepeo-
pie to stand up and sing
my drowsy powers, why sleepye ~
Awake, my sluggish soul"
but must have experienced some lacer-
lions in his own breast as he heard them
calling out IN the very words which BE-
had put them to
Nothing hath half thy work to DO
Yet nothings half so dull"
Blessings on the memory Of the minis
tiers who used to look down upon me from
the pulpit OF that old church The inst
Methodist preacher / ever heard and that
YVES too early for me distinctly 10 remem-
ber-was the Rev. James NJ. Fuller, who y
still doing good service as presiding elder
OF the most important district in the state
OF Michigan. What a throng OF pleasant
and sacred memories cluster about the
name Of Elisha j. Scott One OF my most
distant and vivid recollections is Of bap-
llsmal scene in which he OBLIGATED
lWenty-elght young men and women
marched from this church TO the POND
which had been extemporized as a hap-
tisnal font, singing-"On Jordan's stormy
banks | stand"-and were all immersed
by Bro. Scott. just twenty years later N
this same church l received from his hand
as the minister OF religion expressing and
confirming the ordinance OF God, that hesi
OF all gifts in my earthly life-my wife
In that locality for two score OF years Ms
name has been like precious ointmens
poured forth. And then there was Eleazei
smith, whom | have since heard preaen
most excellent sermons to his prison con
gregation at Concord; and John Currier'
VINO used 10 preach, as well as eat ieit-
handed, but his sermons were Win ln
demonstration OF the spirit and VIE
power; aud John G. Dow and 5. ?. VIZ
hams, both men OF unusual vigor Of chM
acter; and A. q. Button, who was for ne
quite a fayorite minister and was genera,
~ voted as "bright as a button;H ana =.
Il. Billiard. an earnest and sagacious man
who usually knew his rights "and know
ing dared maintain but was never PES
fectly happy and triumphant IN hls
preaching unless he was fiaying alive solus
Calvinistic hereto or Universalist sinner
and O. M. Legate, one of the keenest any,
most discriminating OF men. but lasl
little too much inclined 10 cut up people,
and Edmund Copeland,a faithful and con
scientious man, who baptised me ana ~
ceived me into the church; and {. W. ~
logg, who was always Staying ms 49,
for revival" and Lewis Hill, whose -
mons were models of symmetry, as wen
evangelistic JUNCTION. Alonzo webster -
III. p. Cushing were little too late ts ~,
TO be my pastors, though ] have oi !.
heard their excellent sermons in that
miliar place. Indeed the last sermon W a
heard from Bro. Webster was there ahu -s
was one of the most admira bic j ever nehiu
from him, which as all who know h
know is saying not little. ,bs
But may not call the roll OF az ~.
precious names which are inscribed on ~
memory and engraven on my ne
heart. Again / say, blessings on ~ "a
of the dead and on the heart -
lives of the living What would isb
been the history Of that community "a
Dut that humble church What Wee a.
have been? Ny soul shivers with lsal.si-
look down into the abyss of dark posi-
oilities