Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-05-24
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John Evans has new Ford automo-
bile.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. H. Hall visited In
Westmoreland Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl T. Reed visited in
Vernon last week.
The pastors wife is expected home in
the early part of next week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clemens of Springfield,
Mass, are visiting at Horace Halls.
Mrs Hattie Reed and Mrs. Abbie
Patch visited Mrs. F. G. Taylor in West
Brattleboro recently.
All who are interested in cleaning the
church are requested to meet there
Tuesday armed with the proper uten-
sils. Come early and bring your din
ner. If 1t is stormy Tuesday, come FRI
day.
Miss Bertha Hazelton was at home
from Mortified, Mass, Sunday ana
helped celebrate Mrs. II. c. Hazeltons
birthday anniversary. There was an
abundance of good things to eat and
pleasant family gathering. Harry
Brown was one of the guests.
The subject of next Sundays discourse
in the church will be "Our present po-
htical situation from a purely Christian
standpoint Text Romans XIV: "
'let us therefore follow after the things
which make for peace, and things
wherewth one may edify another
Memorial day will be observed in
Dummerston Centre May 30 at a. m
A. V. Cox of Brattleboro, veteran OF the
Civil war, will give the ADDRESS IN In
Grange hall and Rev. DR.. River VIII
also speak After the exercises and the
decorating Of the soldiers graves din
ner will be served by the LADIES OF
Dummerston in Grange hall dining-room:
Greenwood post and Woman's Renei
corps Of Putey will be present ana
there will be music by the Brattleboro
drum CORPS, 1t is expected Mrs. r. G.
Tenney and E. H. Miller will sing. Inc
exercises will be in charge OF w. f.
Walker and the dinner in charge OF
Mrs. Emma Downs. The whole analr
is under the auspices OF the town ana
not of any particular society OF organ
ization, but all the latter are expected
to assist and cooperate with the town
and those who are in charge.
The attendance at the church last
SUNDAY was large, owing in part to the
nastor's subject ION capital punish
ment". which attracted some outsiders.
The address was a scholarly, 1nstruc
, tive and persuasive effort 1t explained
lwhat idea or theory underhes any pun
\ ishment inflicted by the state. That loea
is not by any means one of revenge or
retribution in kind (eye for eye); mel
Their that of reformation or prevention;
not either the idea of deterring others
from committing the same crime or fei-
ony. The object is essentially to vindi-
cate at all costs the majesty, the invi-
olability, the sacredness of law, one
without which society cannot POSSIBLY
fare we'll or even subsst. Punishment
must needs be proportionate to the
1ransgression 1t was easy, then, for
the preacher to dispose of certain vag-
aries about capital punishment which
have too often found their way into the
press: and also to decry the absurd
idea, the stupid and morbid sentiment
atty of the people-mostly women--who
send flowers and tokens of sympathy to
downright murderers in their cells. The
text of the sermon, 1.-The wages OF
sin is death, was shown to be true
not merely in the spiritual sense which
Paul had in mind, but in its literal
meaning just as well.