Milford chronicle., 1915-02-19
MILTON NEWS

|, The revival services closed at the M. E
Church on Sunday evening, after siz
, weeks of successful progress. During
that time seventy-hve persons have pro
fessed conversion, forty-five have con-
nected themselves with the church. Or
Sunday five members were admitted into
the NJ E. Church and twenty-seven into
the NJ. P Church. The meetings will
continue at the NJ. P Church during the
present week. In the six weeks that
have passed there have been one hun
dred and sixty-five persons professed con-
version at this church; making a grand
total of two hundred and forty persons
that have been saved at both of the Meth
odist churches. Most of the new con-
verts have Joined the churches. There
are scattered all over the township, and
many of the country churches have, doubt
less, experienced an addition, numeri-
cally to their congregations. By the
above it will be seen there has been a
great, and we hope, a substantial and
lasting revival of religion in Milton.
There are hardly any "old and blatant
sinners" to be found now in the commu
nifty; and all who have not abandoned
their sinful ways, are contemplating so
doing. This religious revival will of ne
cessity, inaugurate new regime in Mil
ton, if the professors are true and loyal
to the cause they have espoused and sin
cere in their profession. 1t is one of the
fundamental laws of physics, that force
follows the lines of least resistance. This
is not so in the christian life, and the
converts will find it is not so. Force in
religion will by no means follow 1.-THE
lines of least resistance, it must assume
the aggressive, and stem resistance even
to the last. This always has been the
case, and always will be the case. Re-
ligion is progressive. We grow. And,
as in the physical life, we grow on what
we feed. If we keep good company and
feed on good literature, we shall thrive,
otherwise we shall fail.
Heaven is not reached at a single bound.
We build the ladder on which we rise,
From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies,
And we mount the ladder round by round"
All this good work that has been done |
in Milton has been done through the in
strumentality of the ministers, assisted |
by the laymen. They have had no, So
called, evangelists, neither did they need |
any. They are rather opposed to this
order of being.
Captain Potter commenced work on |
his new boat on Thursday and the keel
was laid OH Monday. The boat is sixty |
FIVE foot long and sixteen foot beam.
The floor is in the creamery, and the
boiler is in place; this means the work
may be completed at an early day.
w. H. Chandler, of Scranton, Pa, was
in town the guest of his mother last week,
and looking after the welfare of his peach
trees.
Prof. W. G. Fearing. ]. M. Lank, J.
B. Atkins and Clarence B. Johnson went
to Wilmington on Monday as delegates
to the Annual Council Jr. o. U. A. NJ,
which convenes on tha 10th. Mrs. w. G. '
Fearing and Mrs G. B Atkins, accom-
panied their husbands. j
o Monday Fred Pepper cut part of
the top out of the big poplar that has
stood for hundred years on the corner
Of Federal and Poplar street. Mr.. Pepper
has purchased the land and builta cosy
brick building ou the corner, and there
was so much poplar he feared it as men
ice to his property during high wind.