Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-04-20
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West Burke and A. A. Olmstead and
wife of South Newbury, the last two
being nearly an irreparable loss to the
district, Rev.G H. Wright land wife OF
West Burke had been i'll the latter
half of the year and compelled
to relinquish work, the charge being
supplied by Rev. A. B. Blake of Bar
ton. Rev. o. J. Anderson has also had
a long siege of rheumatic fever. Rev.
J. A. Martin has left Derby Center for,
the New England Southern conference
and has been sending for his brethren
to follow him ever since. In December
Rev. J. A. Frost, after nearly eight
years of successful services at st.
Johnsbury, was transferred to the
Maine conference and stationed at Ban
gor. Into the homes of Revs. M. A. Tur-
ner of West Burke, c. w. Douglass OF
Danville and Fred Williams of Danvllle
children have come during the year.
like rays of sunshine from another
world.
The total advances in salaries in the
district during the year has been up
wards of 81, 900, the previous total ad-
vances under the present administration
having been So, 500. Newport added
y
another this coming year. Irasburg is
fast following suit, and several other,
charges also.,
Upwards of S13, 900 has been expend-
ed in improving church property during
the past year. This sum includes
new parsonage at Beecher Falls Ca
man, costing 81, 500, with a goodly sum
spent on the church edifice at Beech
er Falls, the other part of the
charge; So, 800 in completely renovat-
ing the church at Williamstown, this
being done with no remaining debt:
Newport has installed new pipe or
gan and bell; Hardwick and Orleans
have put in a new steel ceiling and
walls in the church auditorium and ell
egant tapestry carpets on the floor at a
cost of $500 in each instance. Nearly
all of these repairs have been incurred
with no debt, while St. Johnsbury has
cancelled debt of So, 500. 1--
In the matter of conditional gifts,
there has been something of an in
crease. Hardwick has increased it's
sum for 'benevolences, 1920, Orleans,
$125, Albany double that of last year,
South Albany treble that Of last year,
and other places lesser increases, while
Barre reports a decrease on account of
the lockout.
In the matter of evangelism it has
been a notable success in many instan-
ces, and something of again in some
churches, while few special services
were apparently attended with little
beneficial results. In Derby and Iras-
burg, Evangelist Davidson of Kentucky
assisted the local pastors, and 80 pres
ented themselves at the altar in each
case. Although the work was a union
one in Irasburg, 66 of the 80 gave a
preference for the Methodist church,
and 80 of that number have already
been received as members. At Evans
vile and Bloomington Center the ag-
gressive pastor reports 40 conversions,
while over $50 have been received on
profession of faith over the district as
whole, the net gain in membership
being over 335.
The attendance of the Bible school
and camp meeting at Lyndonville was
year, and the results of the effort were
good, although not so many conversions
as in some previous years.
The superintendent reported that
during the past six months he has trav-
elled over 3, 800 miles by rail-. During
the entire year the mileage by all con-
veyances would aggregate at least 10,
900. DR.. Lewis after expressing per-
sonal thanks for the myriad favors re-
ceived, closed with an exhortationS to
the preachers to ''get on their job" and
not ''sit on their job,' and to so labor
as to bring things to pass" and
'show results" of concrete kind as a
return for their labors the coming
year.
The hearty applause which followed
the reading Of the report, plainly
showed the manner in which his breth-
rem of the district in particular, and
the conference IN general, regarded the
aggressive and versatile superintendent.