The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-04-24
MEET NEXT YEAR
IN MONTPELIER
Methodist Church Accepts Invitation of ReyWiIIam
ShaW-Case of Rev. Vivian Hendee Referred
Back to Committee u S. Senator William P.
Dillingham; Makes Brief Remarks

gfesSt ne asserted, ''whO stands
higher or whose word carries more
weight or is given more considera-
tion. - He spoke of Senator Dillirg-
ham S successful efforts to provide the
national capital with electric car ser
the university grounds and other
growing sections after others had fail
ed.
The chancellor then spoke briefly Of
the university, in which the Metho-
dlsts of Vermont are as vitally inter
ested as are those of any other state,
and applause and shouts of Amen fol
lowed his statement that while in two
years 19 colleges and universities had
pulled down the denominationai dag
because of the lure of secular silver
the University of Washington never
would do that. He said that the uni
versity had raised the first half of the
$l,000,000 which the churches re-
qulred it to raise for an endowment
and that between $200,00 and $780,
600 of the second half had been
pledged. Another outburst of ap-
plause followed his remark that the
Methodist church did not need new
creed, but that it did need new en-
thusiasm for the old faith of the faith
ers
Bishop Addresses Candidates.
Bishop Cooke delivered his address
to Duncan G. Porteous and p. F. Bar
ton, who are to be ordained tomor-
row. He took for his text, As a Man
Is So Is His Strength. He said that
the church is very particular about
the moral and spiritual character of
those who seek entrance to her minis
try as well as to their intellectual at
tainments. The fundamental necessity
of successful minister is manhood,
one of the rarest things In the world
He cautioned them against the posi-
blhtles of self-deeeption. It is as a man
lis in the very fibre of his soul alone
with God in a dark room that his real
character is. He touched upon the in
creasing strength of the church and
declared that Unitarianism is a spent
force; that it requires the smile of
Taft to give it popularity. No man in
these days can successfully hide him
self. No man can do anything great
er than he is himself He will never
reach for anything bigger than his
dream. Where regeneration begins
| there heredity stops. He praised Bill
| Iy Sunday s work because of the re-
suits he was getting. Be a man. Be
y
and stick by the people and you will
be happy man and have a happy
ministry and there are not bishops
enough to keep you down. You will be
placed somewhere where you would
not give So for the whole place. but
remember the boy and the girl will
watch you. They will form opinions of
you from your walk, your personal ap-
pearance and every action It will be
your unconscious self that will count
in your work, not your studied actions
Change in Program.
The anniversary of the Board of
Home Missions and Church Extension
held yesterday afternoon at . o'clock
called for the only break in the sched-
uled program to date. Rev Dr. Free
man Bovard of Chicago, who was to
have been the speaker. failed to ap-
pear, although expected on the 1.56
train. Rev. A. Fl. Webb of Fairlee,