Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1916-03-08

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Vermont and perhaps of all America is
Fl. A. Blake of Sutton and he has been
sending the news of his town to the
st. Johnsbury Caledonian for AZ years
| "a most remarkable record. Inciden-
tally, he had taken the Caledonian for
eight years before he became it's cor
respondent. Among other things he
has chronicled the death of every
person in town living when he began
work, and in some cases of course two
or three generations have passed away.
Burlington News.
Ozora Davis for Dartmouth.
Frequent and favorable mention is
made in the press of New England of
the Rev. DR.. Ozora Davis, the presi-
dent of the Chicago Theological Sem
mary. as a candidate for the presidency
of Dartmouth college. DR.. Davis is
known and loved by all old residents of
Springfield, where be was for many
years the popular pastor of the Con-
gregationl church. Since he left here
his rise has been rapid, and he is today
not only one of the best known men in
his denomination, but one of the lead
ers of the church universal in the
entire country, and bis election to the
presidency of Dartmouth would mean
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grown so rapidly of late years.
Springfield Reporter.
The Rural Church-Man Problem.
A little church in Westfield has an
endowment fund of $4,000 which
yields an income of five per cent, or
$500. This, with the effort individuals
have been making should secure for
that church an exceptionally strong
man. Here is great opportunity for
the church, under the guidance of
trained and competent man, to take
hold of community problems and make
OF that little town a shining example
of what the church may be in rural
yillage.-Barton Monitor
That depends upon what one under
stands by "strong" man A man
who can be of the greatest and mos;
permanent benefit to the rural town is
not necessarily a high-priced man,
because the high-prced man is nearly
always pulpit orator, and the weekly
sermon has come to be a very small
part of the labor of the country
church pastor.
The fine old-feshioned ideal of the
country minister as spiritual mentor,
a pulpiteer, an eypounder of doctrine
and dogma, an exponent of creed, was
excellent in its way and developed SON =
of the noblest characters in our social
life. This idea. however, is gradually
| being merged in the modern pastor,
who is more of mixer, more of a
manager, more of community expert,
more of good fellow
J Country ministers of today who be-
! come power in their communities
know not only their books hut men
They know as much agriculture as
literature. They are posted on dairy
: ing and orchards They can discuss a
? balanced ration or rotation of crops
, They have definite ideas about inteu-
, sive farming, vocational training anG
domestic science. They know theology
and bugology- They can preach 8
&. little. but teach great deal more by
example and influence than by pre-
cept. AS he is not specialist, but an
5 all-round we'll balanced, human sort OF
S type, he does not command large
] salary, hut the influence of a man of
!, such type is inmeasurable.
In settling the problems Of the rural
church, it comes down to question of
S men. and men who can be of positive
Y and decided good to community are
:. often men to whom money means very
little, Nevertheless, if Westfield were
j type outlined herewith. it would no,
4 only be fortunate from a church stand
point, but the community would be
something of a shining example tc
others.
d Yet the result would not be a ques-
i ton of the employment, but of the
. man. Men, not creeds. are the prob.
lens for the churches of today in rural
r mont.-Rutland Herald.
e Some Vermont "Firsts" in History.
S Vermont, the first state to be ad
;, mitted into the union after the original
Is states, is 125 years old as CON
monwealth, and an integral part of
the United States The Greater
I Vermont association has noted this
e anniversary by issuing some attractive
: matter, recltlng conspicuous facts ano
=, attalnments of the state and its people
The list is Imposing surely and cannoi
n fail to Impress Vermonters with the
h Importance of their state and inculcate
a feeling of pride in the youth.
Here are some striking things:
Vermont produced the first man tc
!. make globe for school purposes; t.
k make swivel pillow; to advocate civil
q service, Dorman B Eaton; to make
Bessemer steel in America, John F.
! Winslow; to make a successful tins
lock, James Sargent to make saw
for marble, Hiram A, Km1sl!; tt
make cookstove, Phllo P. Stewart
TO make an electric motor, Thomas
y Davenport: to make gimlet, Tx az
e w. Harvey; to make q carpenter.
= square, Silas Harris; to build an ele
waited road in New York, Albert M
Billings; to take battleship aroUn;
a Cape Horn Charles E. Clark to max
it an electric locomotive, Gardner @
Cotton to baptize Cninaman in tn,
Christian faith. Ira G. Trac, to ca.
meat in America, William r Capp: t,
Ia punt "The Country Gentleman,
Arthur Ticker; 10 make sieam
caiIiope, Joshua c. Stoddard tn dis