The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-08-27
Y.P.C.U. ELECTS
OFFICERS
Society Shows Growth For
Year
THREE NEW UNIONS ADDED
Young Peoples Union Convention Closed
at Noon UniversaIist Church Con-
vention Opened at 2 This
Afternoon.

The 74th annual Universalist conyen
tion Of Vermont and the Province Of
Quebec, the 18th annual convention of
the Y. p. O. u. OF Vermont and the
Province Of Quebec, and the 18th annual
convention of the Woman's Universalist
Missionary society held Its opening ses-
sion at the Univarsalist church last even
ing and there were about eighty dele
gates present had it not been that the
early evening Central Vermont train was
three hours late, delegates from all over
the state being on this train Last
evenings session and this mornings ses-
sions are devoted to the convention Of
Y. p G. u.
At 1880 o'clock a devotional meeting
was held under the leadership Of the
Rev. Verdi Nj. Mack Of GaysviiIe. Mrs
NJ D. Lamb led in the singing. Fol-
lowing this service addresses of welcome
We're given by G. S. Andrews, president
Of the state Epworth league, who spoke
in behalf Of all the young peoples soci-
eties in the city, and by Miss Stella
Brooks, who extended the welcome of
the local uniyersalist Y. r. G, U, Fra
ternal greetings from the Unitarian
Young Peoples Religious union were to
have been given by the Rev. J. Edward
Wright, d. y. Of Montpelier, but he was
unable to be present. The president of
land Of East Corinth, responded to the
words Of welcome and also delivered the
annual presidents address in which he
spoke most eneouragipgly of the work
done by the union in the past year and
In closing said that the union never was
in better condition or position to do
great deal of work for the church than
now, and urged the members to greater
individual effort to make the union an
even greater success in the next year.
The presidents address was followed
by sermon by the Rev. Fenwick l..
Leayitt OF Bellows Falls most interest
| ingly on what he said was the great
problem before the world today, "The
Young People He declared that the fu-
tnre prosperity Of the church, the coan.
! try and the world depends on how we
tit the young people as they come into
manhood and womauhood. Between the
ages OF Ia and 90 be declared, was the
most important period Of our lives. It
is the age in which we form our habits
and ways that continue with us through
the remainder Of our lives. He said it
was most noticeable that at the age Of
Ia the young people begin TO lose in
terest in the church and Sunday school.
and at the age of IS they drop out al
together from the regular attendants Of
the school. "If the future Of the Uni
versalist church depends on the young
people today. what is the outlookg Com
paTatively speaking, there are very
| few people at the ages of is and 20 who
are vitally interested in the church
work. II is not so in the Universalist
church alone. but in every church. There
fore, the problem is, how to hold the
young people in the church. There
/ is something wrong with the system, he
declared. In the first place he said the
| blame was in the home, where no reli-
gious observance Of any kind was held,
and again the failure OF the parents to
appreciate the nature and conditions of
the young man at the age of II, and the
second place the fault was in the church,
which has also failed TO understand the
nature Of the young men and make their
services too old, and expect too much Of
him when it comes TO entering into the
church duties and services as laid out
by much older people.
The meeting closed after the president
4 had made the following appointment of
committees: Credentials, Miss Stella
Brooks, Barre, Stanley Miller, East Cor.
inth, Mrs. 0. s. Raspe Morrisville; nom
mating, Rev. A. ~ Blackford, Whining
ton, Rev. a. f. Walsh, st. Johnsbury
Miss Labaree, Bellows Falls, Miss Maria
/ Tinker, Morrisyille, Mrs. Paul Tinkham,
Rochester; auditing, Anna Whitcomb,
Gaysville, Mrs Howe, Lyndonville, Mrs
4 Adolph Lane Barre; resolutions, DR.. Ad-
ans, Huntingville, p. O., Miss Lucy A.
/ CaIef Washington, Miss Carrie Under
wood. St. Johnsbuy, Rev. G. G. Conner
Barre, Ralph Holbrook Cheever, Wood
/ stock; missionary, Rev. f. J.. Leavitt
Bellows Falls, Rev. Frances A, Kimball
Richmond, Miss Martha Jenness, St
Johnsbury. Mrs. + +. Burr, Barre; union
at large, Rev. Verdi Mack, Gaysyille
onward, Mrs. A. N. Blackford, Whining.
ton.