Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1911-10-26

| Almighty, ana the Almighty hurled Il
| back through the smoke OF burning
Moscow. ana in the snow storms of that
terrible retreat from Russia.
Some Of you" said he. are married
men. with happy homes Of your own. You
| can recall the time when all this iov
was only vision of the future. I well
remember the vision in my own case.
81 had long regarded wife as a
| possibility Of the future. Then ono day
| saw the woman whom 1,knew TO he the
embodiment Of my vision | set out to win
! her l'ut Immediately / found myself con-
| frontcd by the Alps. in the form of six
| husky rivals
zone by one, however. they disappearod
! leaving me only the one who was to offer
mo more competition than the other five
pat together. He WAS a big fellow md
I he heaped abuse and insult unon me at
| every opportunity
Il could not we'll rctaliate. on account
| OF my position A. church worker and a
member Of tho choir. Rut ! kept per
| slstentlv at work heaping flowers and at
tention upon tho embodiment OF my
vision, and presently she said, MIN"
Friends, tho visions Of life take hold
| on life We should realize this We
should have the imagination to see
visions, hg ouos. and the purpose and the
! tcnacitv 20 carry them to fulflment"
The meeting closed with q cons.-
Grafton service conducted hy the Rev.
r l.. DOW Of bennington.
Il wish" said Mr.. Dow that we
might hc cousecratcd to our work az
IdeVotcdly as the base ball and foot
bali players Of to-day arc consocratod
to their duties IN football and base
BAH the mon of n team obey implicitly
their captains We should give this
same complete obedience to our load
erS"
MASS MEETING FOR WOMEN.
Tho mass meeting for women held
Al tho First church. was we'll attend
cd. Mrs. C. i. smith of Morrisville
presided The meeting was opened
with praise service. followed by \
message from the word and prayer
led by Miss Lillian Sprague OF West
Bolton
talk by Miss Elsie Pease OF Swan
ton on How the Organized Class
Grows proved most interesting
Among other things Miss Pease ad
vised giving attention to strangers
who visit the sunday school class
Get their name and address. she ad-
Nised, and early in the week write TO
them and invite them to attend. The
letter should 10 signed by tho super
intendcnt and officers OF the school
Another way TO get new momhers
she said was to have = membership
contest Tho class should be divided
In sections, each section having a sec
tion color Reports should he given
10y each section from time to time and
tho section securing the most members
might be given Il banquet
Again. classes have publicity weeks,
during which time no conversation hut
that pertaining To the classes and thcir
work Is allowed among members
Another way to gain members is tho
good old-fashioned personal so,lcita-
ton way. This way can he made sue
cessful by persistence and by per
sistence alone. Perhaps" said Miss
pease. I'VE fail to secure members be-
cause we talk continually to the MAJ
ses and neglect the individual.'
Another method suggested by Miss
Pease was TO have each class member
try 10 secure new members. All
through ny talk she dwelt upon the
importance Of persistence in work, W
enthusiasm in teachers and system N
eiue"N W.
EDUCATIONAL DEN ELOPMENr.
Mias Ellen II. Wagner OF sheldon, the
| first speaker on the four departments of
class activity. spoke on .'Educational
Do,eI,prent."
she declared that conditions in certain
parts Of the State we're NOT what they
should he and that in some communities
morals were oxceedinplv lax. We are
all moral cn,vards" she said There
are soro things i'm the State that need
hitting and that need hitting hard. The
poIiti,s i'm the state need hitting. The
wron, Of iu,,nrerauoc need, hitting. We
have no, the lighi of The ballot. perhaps
we never SHAH hav. il. but We c1n help
our fathers. husbands and brothers to i'm
prove conditions"
In sunday S'h''' ''"' "i"na' develop
hel''' MIS- N"N"'' SAM ''"' 0"' '''"h III
tie women were INC ""'N'"'' an" H'"e"
~ INC vermont ""fT'rN. VIC H'N' 'd'Ne
purpose 'H' SAM """ ''"' H' 80 I'"S'
nave "lde VISION ''' P'S' ~ '''
CLASS is wal point I''' '"' N'''' ,''
purpose 81 any f'1h CT ""'''" - an"
Will tell YOU "h"t theN IRE me III '"'
purposes OF the 9"nH'N S'hoo' c'as'
Should ne LOT otHerS'
MlS' w dh"'r "e''"''' '""' 'e''
tralnnS dld not make '"'''NI"l 'each
er' but thai II Wo"Id h''p "H' she ne
li"v"d in the OLD saying tNai teachers are