Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1908-11-18
Barton Landing Page
News and Views from This
Hustling Village
G. l. SHAEFFER Local Editor
G. L. SHAEFFER, Local Editor

of members into bands of personal
workers and of the singers into a
great chorus, has wrought remark
able results in more ways than one
and not few have come to taste the
joy of religious work as never before.
1t is easy to see that if this can be
kept up it will mean very much to
the religious future of the place.
While all of the services on Sunday
were attended by large congregations
1t is safe to say that the meeting for
men only at the opera house at {:
o'clock in the afternoon was the most
At least three-fourths OF
all the men of the entire village were
present when the sermon began nd.not
a few came in from surrounding Sec
lions to share in the enjoyment of the
service. A large male chorus on the
stage added greatly to the interest OF
the occasion and the solo by DR..
Davidson held all spellbound. The SER
mon by the evangelist on 1.-The INSULT
cheney of Merely Moral Life" was
strong, clear, convincing and scriptural.
While the number of decisions was. mot
large at that service it was. plainly
evident that the crowd of men was do
ing an immense amount of careful
thinking. Probably at no previous time
in all the history Of the place had so
many men been assembled at purely
religious service and the attendance
was great tribute to the belief of the
community in the principles of Chris
tianity and the hold secured by Evan
gelist Davidson.
At 6 o'clock Sunday evening meet
ing for new converts was held and
every seat in the church parlors was
taken and many new chairs were re-
quired. After excellent counsel by the
evangelist the converts = themselves
took part, many of them speaking in
meeting for the first time. At T
o'clock that evening>a great audience
assembled in the church and again
the gospel songs and sermon were not
without striking and immediate
effect upon the people.
1t may be said that the meetings
have been having cumulative effect
upon the people and that the longer
they have been held the wider has
been the radius of their reach. The
Congregational and Methodist pastors
from Irasburg have been present as
interested listeners and active particle
pants as was the Rev. w. C. Clark
the pastor of the Congregational
church at Lyndon, who came nearly 80
miles to be present. The pastor of
the Congregational church at Coventry
wrote note saying that he would
also have been present but for the fact
of revival meetings in the Methodist
church in his own village. People
from sections of Irasburg, Coventry,
| Bloomington aud Evansville have been
present. at almost every service. and
the effect of the meetings bids fair to
be far reaching and permanent.
| 1t is too much to say that no criticism
has been passed. upon DR.. Davidson
but it is the plain truth to say that
the criticisms have been confined to a
small coterie of people and to but two
or three minor matters. It IS very
rare thing for man to work in com
munity SO long and to receive sc
little adverse comment. On the Other
hand multitudes are speaking in nj!
praise and are rejoicing over the day
that brought him to the community
He has preached a straight. Gospe
and has done il in manly fashion
his appeals to better. life have beel
given from a heart full of yearnine
and with a voice thrilling with in
tense earnestness.
Not the least among the feature
of interest in connection with the cam
paign has been the meetings at tn
mills and railroad station at the moo
hour. Two such meetings were he'll
last week, one at each of the large
mills. and two others this week at tn
railroad station, the time of the sci
vice being at IL 80. In each instanc
large company of men on their wa
to work gathered for snort servie
and gave thoughtful attention to tt
message given. Not few have sui
sequently spoken to the evangelist an
thanked him for his coming anon
them.
DR.. Davidson will. go to-morro
Thursday to Bristol, where fot