The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-03-18
More Than 100 at Dinner in
COpley Square Hotel
Yesterday
RAPID RISE OF A
BRATTLEBORO BOY
Engaged as Missionary Secretary
for American Baptist Publication
Society with Headquarters in Phila-
delphia.

LOT american Baptist Publication
Society with Headquarters in Phila-
delphia.
More than 100 leading Baptist min
listers and laymen sat down together
yesterday at the CopIey Square hotel
in Boston for a farewell dinner to Rev.
Guy {. Lamson, one of Brattleboro's 5
most promising sons. In the past two
years Mr.. Lamson has won a host of
friends in all the New England states
as district secretary of the American
Baptist Publication society. On April
l he viii enter upon a new field as
missionary secretary for the same so
ciety at a salary of $1,000 having his
headquarters in Philadelphia and hav-
ing charge of extensive missionary op-
erations in regions west of the Mis-
sissippi river from Canada to Mexico.
Mr.. Lamson : rise to prominence in
the denomination has been rapid since
he graduated - years ago from the
| Rochester Theological seminary. The
highly culogistic speeches which fol
lowed the dinner indicated the solid
reasons for his advance. Seminary
mates, fellow secretaries in New Eng
| land and brother ministers told Of an
/ indefatigable energy, a tactful direct
ness, a cordial goodwill, an unusual
| gift for getting at the inside of men
and movements and of enthusiastic
/ absorption in the work to which he de
voted his strong personality when he
entered the Christian ministry.
/ Never afraid to do a lowly deed or
| daunted by difficult task. it has been
impossible to bury him either by the
obscuritv OF the Vermont churches
which he first served or by the burden
Of tasks which awaited him as district
secretary, and through all this out
| stripping of his companions and broth
er ministers he has held their goodwill
and constantly widened the circle of
his friends by his own genuine friend
illness.
The dinner was presided over by
Harry Y. Meyer, Boston manager Of
the publication society's book depart
ment The speakers We're Dr. Charles
III. Spaulding. Mr.. Lamson : predeces-
sor a district secretary; Rev. \. I.
Baldwin of Fall River. a seminary
roommate; Rev. Mr. Baker of Leo
minister Mass, another seminary mate 4:
Ernest :. Butler. treasurer Of the Am
eTican Baptist Publication society, and
bF. FRANK W. Badclford. secretary or
of the Massachusetts Baptist conven-
tion. DIR. Howard b. Grose. editor of
Missions, read a brief. but highly ap-
preciative poem.
Mr.. Lamson modestly responded to
all the good wishes and in character
istic fashion promised n hearty vel
come to all who might find him in his
new home. DR.. John r. Cow of this
town and pastor Of the church into
which Mr.. Lamson was baptized and
r where he was ordained and married
closed the exercises with prayer oi
thanksgiving and Godspeed.
Mr.. LamSon is the son of Mr. anC
Mrs. Caleb =. Lamson of Washington
street. After a brief ministry in Wes
Cornwall he became pastor Of the Bap
: tist church in Montpelier and was TO
one session chaplain of the House
He then moved to HYDE Park. Mass
where he built up the church to whicl
he ministered and SO entered into tn
"a life of the town as To fill the import
ant position of selectman. as the resui
e of a lively fight for temperance.