The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-01-27
BANQUET TO THE BROTHERHOOD.
Enjoyable Evening Spent by Guests OF
q. l., Durham.

About 100 men and boys accepted thu
Invitation OF George l.. Durham 10 com
plimentay dinner at the Brooks Hous'
| Tuesday evening. The guests were mem
beers OF the Brotherhood OF the Centr'
Congregational church and their friends
John X. Howard, jr, of Boston, who u
identified with the work IN connection
with the Thompson trust, and Frank Dyer
of Chicago, general secretary OF the Ma
tional Brotherhood.
The dining room was opened at about
o'clock and presented very attractive hp
pearance, a long table being laid at the
farther end and number OF smaller Ia
bes filling the room. Before sitting down
prayer was offered by Rev. Mr. Lewis OF
West Brattleboro. The dinner consisted oil
grape fruit, fried scallops with tartar
sauce, praised filet of beef with mushroom
sauce, lemon ice and cake, cheese, crack,
ers, and coffee, and was well prepared
and carefully served. During the dinner
Leitsinger's orchestra played, and as soon
as the coffee had been served the post
prandial exercises were opened with the
singing Of Kiplng's Reeessional TO DE
Koven's music, by the Brotherhood Glee
club of eight voices.
Mr.. Howard then spoke briefly on the
subject, The Mems Glass, and was warmly
humorous song, A Cannibal ldyl, and Mr..
Dyer spoke. at some length on the subject,
The Brotherhood. His address was force
full and extremely interesting, Its keynote
might be said TO be found in the revised
version of the childish prayer, Now ! Lay
Me Down to Sleep, which he repeated sew
eral times as follows
Now | get up and go TO work,
| pray the Lord | may not shirk,
Jf | should die before the night,
/ pray the Lord my works all right.
This, he said, was the prayer for the
men OF the Goth century. Down in Maine
they tell story of two men, one Of whom
was asked if he knew the other. "Know
him." he replied, II should say | do.
slept with him for IL years in The same
church." 1t is disgrace TO the men of
this country, Mr.. Dyer said, that in the
Congregational church alone there are
100000 less men and boys enrolled as
members than there are women and girls,
and the same conditions prevail in other
denominations, so that altogether there are
100000 less men and boys actively identi-
fled as members of churches than there are
women and girls. The word Brotherhood
is the noblest word that can be used to
express the relation of man to his fellow
neighborhood, but it remains for the 10Th
century to make it one Brotherhood.
1t is seldom that the men Of Brattleboro
have an opportunity to hear speech on
any subject that is more interesting or
more enthusiastically applauded than was
Mr. Dyer's. Mr.. Durham presided over
the exercises and his opening remarks made
some allusion to the subject of the Broth
erhood and the work of the mems class,
which numbers some 20, and takes up
every Sunday the problems which are OF
interest to citizens of Brattleboro as well
as all other places. Mr.. Durham said it
was the duty of every man in town to
vote on the license question, although he |
did not assume to say on what side their
vote should be, and he urged all the men
present to attend the meetings of the
class for the discussion of temperance
problems.
Hearty appreciation of Mr.. Dunham's
was expressed by al guests.
The exercises closed at 1870 o'clock with
he singing of two verses Of America by