The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-05-24
GOVERNORS
FINE SPEECH
AT Y. M. c. A. oath Ami
versary Exercises.
WORK OF ASSOCIATION
Ably Discussed by States Chief Execu.
tive and Henry Bond of Greenfield
at a Union Meeting in Baptist
Church Sunday Evening.

Church Sunday Evening.
= The Baptist church held a large an
interested audience Sunday evening a
the celebration of the oath anniversar
of the foundation of the local y. NJ
| Z. y. The gathering took the form o
a union meeting Of all the churches
| Through the efforts of Walter 4. Gil
bert and l.. w. Hawley, Governo
Fletcher ID. Proctor was induced to b,
/ present to give an address and his tall
was clean-cut and inspiring. Henr,
Bond of Greenfield, noted association
speaker, was also present and gave {
fine address. The first of the anniver
sary services was held in West Brat
tleboro in the morning when by spe
cial invitation of Rev. l.. NJ. kenes
ton, union service was held at which
Mr.. Bond of Greenfield spoke.
| The anniversary services proper were
| held in the Baptist church at 7.30. The
organ prelude by Dethier was played
| by Miss lzetta Stewart and the con
gregation rose and sang The Son of
God Goes Forth to War, after which
Il. w. Gibson conducted responsive
readings. The united choirs of all the
churches then sang They That Trust
in the Lord, by Frey. Hon. Kittredge
Haskins read for the Scripture lesson
the fourth chapter of Paul's Epistle to
the Ephesians. l.. W. Hawley then
gave a prayer which was followed by
a solo, The Lord Is My Light, by Fred
C. Adams. The congregation then sang
Fling Out the Banner which was fol
lowed by Governor Proctor address.
Attorney General Clarke G. Fits in
troduced Governor Proctor with a brief
address, saying that after 81 years of
existence now was not the time to re-
view or criticize the work that the Y.
NJ. c. A. had done in this town. He
especially mentioned the effort that
Gen. J. j. Estcy had put forth in as
sisting at the foundation of the asso-
citation and the work that had been
done by others. In closing he said, |
~ have the pleasure of introducing |
one who is at the head of affairs of /
Vermont, one who is qualified to speak |
better than anyone else to Vermonters
and especially to the young men of
Vermont. | take pleasure in introduce
ing Governor Proctor"
Governor Proctor began by speaking
of the need of the association and the
Christian church working together and
accomplishing by their united efforts
what neither institution would be able
to do alone. He mentioned the vital
force of the association in forming the
character of its members and lettering |
their condition morally as well as men
tally and physically. The cities are be- {
ing filed year after year by young men {
who 60 from the smaller country
towns and villages and when they 60 t
to the city they are met with open
arms by the saloon and other resorts {
of vice ready to receive them. 1t IS
to offset influences such as these that c
the Y. NJ. C. A. works successfully
the association is doing o
excellent work by helping those whose
are not of the best. The !
association works for the native born, e
also for the large number of foreign t
ers who settle here by making them Ii
good citizens and building up foun- r.
iation from which the future Amerl' l
can citizenship shall spring. 1t seems t.
sometimes as if all things that are D
worth while in life, in honesty and up X
rightness of living, are steadily decIln- u
ing but when one sees the evidence to
The contrary, the hospitals that are "
,pringing up all over the country, the II
lsylums in which the unfortunate in
sane and the mentally weak and other Ia
ncapables are being cared for, the III
Salvation Army doing its great unselt v,
sh work. the Y. M. G. A. doing the 81
work that it is doing, the countless III
riffs of wealth that are being show
red upon the institutions of learning al
md ali the other works of charity and q
yindred Christianity, one is forced to i
Idmit that the world is growing better 1t
fter all. and that man is growing more ia
md more unselfsh and that the father kl
,ood of God and the brotherhood of III
nan is more and more evident. Yer
mont has today better men and better 81
itizens on account of the work that Sc
he Y. M. C. A. has done and it is the III
ntv of every citizen to assist IN see I'll
no that his town has as good an asso- 10
iation as possible, and that it is made te
0 stand for all it possibly may IN the
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D. c. Crosby, president of the board IN IN
I directors, IDeH HtHIlohOo 'HN
hat collection was to be taken and DC
rged that all give as freely as they -,
eff able. While the collection was WI
eng taken up Walter A. Gilbert ana pe
[iss Emma Gregg sang a duet an
Attorney General Fits then intro re-
need Mr.. Bond, mentioning the fact loi
1at Mr.. Bond was present when the
igbtb anniversary of the association
az held and that since that time he
ad been able to give up active bust Nc
ass life to devote himself entirely to
,sociation work. Mr.. Bond spoke at
me length taking as his topic the Nj
NIT of the work of the association fer
e smoke of the association as nome bu
,r those who have no other home, but for
ID that neither the association nor 60,
,vtbing else could take the place OF fer
,me and advised all young men TO VIII
ink seriously of forming a home OF to
eir own. Touching upon the NUMBER 1r in
Inhabitants of the larger cities who bro
% horn elsewhere he told of meet for
q which he addressed in Chicago ba,
here only one-ffth of those, present we
ID been born in that city, the other ha.
nr-ffths coming from the four cor VIII
We, nc If the world One fruit of the inp
sociation is the strong bodies that 1t the