The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-04-23
superintendent of St. Johnsbury dis
triet who gave report

time of their highest religious expert
ences. Humanity in the concrete is
not to be trusted. The so-called democ-
racy is more often moboeracv He
compared Christ S experience on the
Mount of TRANSPORTATION. the time of
his greatest temptation to leave the
work of redemption 70 God to work
out in some other way than by the sac
rifiee of the Son of God, with the temp
tations that often come to ministers
The more sensitive a minister is. the
keener his intellect and the more given
to the desire to help mankind, the more
subject he is to temptations. He urged
the ministers to keep steady and not
tiOn. 'There never was an idea born
in the brain of lunitic that if per
sistently preached would not find be-
levers and even martyrs. If YOU do
not believe that, I viii take a soapbox
and stand on it on any street corner
and preach the veriest rot conceivable
and when [ have finished there will be
someone to say: j tell vou Bill, there
is something in it. - He said he
sometimes thought it must be terrible
| to be God trying to- help the delirious
patient of humanity.
The morning business session was a
busy one, including the reports Of the
St. Albans district by Supt. w. B.
Dukeshire and of the St. Johnsburv
district by Supt r. f. Lowe. In con
nection with Supt. Lowe s report the
| bishop took occasion to comment upon
| the suggestion that ministers partici-
| pate in social activities. He said that
| he supposed that ministers were to
stay in a place long enough to get ac-
| quainted with their next door neigh
| bors. There are ministers in every
conference who are constantly laying
wires, holding the bishops hat and
| hanging to the coattails of the super
intendents seeking a change and they
never stay long enough anywhere to
get a chance to participate in social
activities He added that in the last
analysis a minister made his own APP
| pointment, bishop or no bishop.
Vermont Conference Strong.
In commenting upon the evangelis-
tic movement, also suggested by Supt.
| Lowe S report, he said that ministers
cannot cast moulds in which the spirit
shall work ~ think that if we
preached with the intent that someone
| should be converted every time we
| preach, more would be converted, ano
| this applies to bishops as well as 9th
ers. The fault with our preaching is
that we preach without expecting i'm
mediate results. -
He took occasion to say to the con-
| ference, after some particularly good
reports had been made by pastors, that
the Vermont conference has no occa-
sion to be discouraged but, instead, if
it keeps on at the pace at which it is
now moving it will soon be one of the
livery strongest in the country. He adj
monished the young pastors to remem-
ber that the grass was just as green
in their own meadows as it was in the
neighboring ones and to stick to the
| Vermont conference.
A collection of $40 was promptly
gathered upon the report that Rev. f.
W. Smith of Bloomfield had under
gone unusual misfortunes within few
months, including the loss of all his
personal property by fire, the death OF
his father and the long illness of his
wife.
i Rev. w. T. Sheridan, D. D., general
secretary of the Epworth league, spoke
lbriefy on the work of that branch of