Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1910-09-17
HE SPIRIT OF THE ACE
Woodstock, Vermont.
Printed Saturday Morning
bNE DOLLAR A YEAR
WOODSTOCK NEWS
he Old Barnard Church
Universalism Years Ago


1econd dedication of the Universal
In church at Barnard August 9th.
sEe we're present at the first one in
.uue, 1916. There was very full
. muse at the second one; the speak
70 and singing were excellent, and
he historical address read by Mrs.
y astman was very interesting and
+. ..lould be printed. 1t was sad in
Il hiking around the church not to
v 'ee some of the old familiar faces
IA At the first dedication the church
as much the strongest one the
Mace. The Richmonds, Aikens.
beams, Paddocks, Topliffs, Stevens,
y 8auues, Ellises, Swifts, Woods,
n rowells, Tuppers, ,Giffords, Wights,
Boxes, Clarks, Thomsons, Winslows,
N Nhamberlains, Cheneys, Browns,
HShpps, Freemans Bigelows and
q hers, belonged to it The doctrine
shen was Good news, glad tidings
4 h great Joy" and it attracted large
y BOngregations.
N The doctrine of universal saliva
Mon was bitterly opposed at first.
|VTbey would like to have it so. but it
could not be so, as the good book
kaid there was hell and devil for
$the bad and the wicked.
4 At the two months meeting held
kn Woodstock in 1885 by a Mr..
prayers were requested
Nor Judge Dennison and family, as
Sthey we're Universalists, then living
Z Un the Ovid Thompson place, which
was called then the Dennison farm
Nor place
As soon as the request was made,
Horace King, who was in the gallery,
6leaned over and said, II request
prayers for the devil and his family"
d It made a little fun; even Burchard
booked bit funny, but he said,
2"Turn that man out Turn that man
: Out!" 1t was said that Mr.. b was
once an actor
There was a six weeks meeting
X held at Barnard in 1843 by MIR.
Parker. The people were told that
\ il they did not get converted and
have religion they would go to hell,
and some people were so scared
\ that they Immediately professed
conversion.
At a Universalist convention at
Barnard about 1887, as the small
church on the common was not large
enough, it was held in the Congre-
gatiunal church. At the close of
tue services the first forenoon. and
nearly all had left, Capt. Ebenezer
n Hutchinson, as hard and rank an
orthodox as there was, entered the
church, said he had charge of it, and
ordered the ladies out, declaring that
he was not going to have such
heresy preached in it, and locked the
dors.
\ As soon as the affair became
known, Major Solon Danforth, who
was one Of the great ones of Barnard
then, started for the church. lie
put a boy in at one of the windows.
the doors came open and were not
Ocked again until the close of the
Convention.
4 At one of the conventions held at
the court house at Woodstock in
l799 Sheriff Rice, in full uniform
u and with drawn sword, walked back
and forth on the steps, saying that
no one should enter Mr. Ballou
came up with several people and as
he passed him said, Peter, put up
thy sword" and he shrank away out
Of sight This shows little how
The doctrine was first received.
For few years before the new
church was built, the Universalists
at Barnard did not have regular
Preaching. Mr.. Tillotson came uI
nom Woodstock, as did Mr. Streetel
and others. Winters the meetings
we're in the old red school house
which was we'll filed. One summer
two Mormons spoke in the schoo
house, and with a good deal of forct
aud vigor. They had the Bible a
their tongues end. Some of th'
ladies' said they almoet persuadee
them not to be o Christian, but