Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-02-09
Laymen's Missionary Movement.

The Missionary banquet Thursday
evening, was a very pleasant anu
profitable occasion. Despite the Sc
we're snow storm. sixty or more men,
largely young men, were present,
representatives of four churches IN the
village with several from Derby, Or.
leans and Irasourg. The inner man
having been seemingly we'll refreshed
there was a mark ed readiness to con-
slider the work of the evening. After
singing "Blest be the tie, " accompan-
led by orchestral music and prayer
by Rev. C. D. Lance, the chairman
D. M. Camp, briefly alluded to the
new methods and increasing interestlin
Missionary movement and expressed
his great personal satisfaction that
we were returning to better business
common sense methods; that instead
of being first met with the cold prop
osition "double your gifts" there IS
to come first a fair, reasonable pre-
sentation of facts, of what has been
accomplished in the century, OF the
need in the broad field, of the resources
at command and the best business
methods of administration. The re-
sponsibility is now to be laid upon
the laymen, who have the money, the
ability, the vigor, the conservation
needed to accomplish great results.
The watchword is to be "The Evan
gelization of the World in the Pres
ent Generation.
w. G. Brown, methodist layman
from St. Adams, spoke in a pleasing,
plain, practical manner of what mis-
sions had accomplished in the past
century in making political history as
in the case of China, Turkey and Jap
an and in the opening up and develop
ing commercial prosperity in various
portions of the world, notably in the
Sandwich Islands. He also gave an
interesting account of the beginning
and wonderful growth of the present
lavmen's movement and its possiblli-
ties. Rev. w. P. Jackson. pastor of
the Congregational church at st. Al,
bans, spoke at length of the aims and
results of the movement, the aim,
the evangelization of the world in
the present generation, the means,
Christian laymen of the world with
their energy, their wealth, their unit
ed efforts. Could it be done? The
speaker from careful combination OF
figures proceeded to show that Is
would require one workers to go tC
the field, out of every 800 Christians.
One to go, while the 759 paid the bills
at So. so each per year a sum which
any young man could easily give by
merely dropping out theater ticket
or two for himself and best girl. He
might have carried the computation
a little further by showing that this
annual gift of $3.50 means five cents
a week, the cutting off single glass
of soda, cigar or moving picture
show ticket occasionally. Plainly the
question, self Indulgence often hurt
full set over against small share IL
the early Contamination of the
heather world, which? Every maj
must and will answer.
These speakers we're followed brief
" by Rev. r. G. Flagg, G. F. RanDe!
and J.. R. Akin of Newport and Mr.
Adams now in charge of the Congre
gational churches at Irasburg an
Albany. They all expressed thei
hearty belief in and endorsement o
, the new movement.
A grand rally is to be held in Bur
lington March 81. when delegate
, are desired from every church i
] Vermont, at least 1000 men, to er
Joy a banquet and hear some of tn
8 ahlest speakers to be found. ANY
. one planning to attend should at one
4 send application for credentials
r R. E. Bingham, Laymen's Missionar
g Movement, III College St., Burlins
q ton