Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1917-09-07
PASTOR ORDAINED
IN DUMMERST0N
Service Follows Congregational
Association Session
Rev. Mr. Boardslee Also is Installed -
Two Brothers of Candidate Partici-
pate in the Service.

ham Association of Congregational
Churches was held with the Dummers-
ton church Tuesday with about 40 dele
gates present from IL churches Rev.
C. b. Atwood of Guilford conducted the
opening devotional service. In the alb
sence of George l.. Durham, retiring
moderator, Rev. w. r. Curtis, registrar,
presided at the organization and bust
ness session following. Rev. John c.
Prince of Bellows Falls was elected
moderator and Rev. Theodore j. Pocl-
man of Putney, scribe.
The sermon by Rev. A. V. Woodwork
of West Brattleboro on Discipleship
was helpful and set high standard for
the days session Mr.. Woodwork en-
phasized the meaning of discipleship,
the need and the cost of discipleship.
His Text was Luke 1923. The com
munion was administered by Rev. II.
II. Shaw of Marlboro and Rev. T. j.
Poelman.
The afternoon devotional service was
led by Lyndon S. Beardslce of Dunn
merston whose ordination took place in
the evening. At the business session
which followed, the association voted
to adopt the assessment of 10 cents per
resident member as recommended by
the state conference. BY vote of the
association Miss Florence Hemenway
Wells of Brattleboro was appointed
to make up so far as possible from the
newspaper files the records of the as
ISOLATION meetings, the official records
having been destroyed in the fire at
Westminster West last year. The com
mittce on ministerial standing present
ed the credentials of Rev. John G.
Prince and Rev. Edward w. Wild of
Westminster who were voted into the
association. The committee on place
Of meeting reported an invitation from
West Brattleboro in ease one was not
received from Wilmington, where the
meeting was to have been held this
year. The change to Dummerston was
made because the date of the ordina-
ton of Mr.. Bcardslee conceded with
the date of the annual meeting.
The nominating committee presented
the following report: Advisory com
mittee, Rev. A. V. Woodwork, Rev.
h. II. Bosworth, Deacon R. II. Ranney;
committee on ministerial standing, Rev.
r. II. Clapp, Rev. John C. Prince, Rev.
w. r. Curtis Rev. II. H. Shaw, G.. L.
Durham; committee on Middlebury col
lcge scholarship, Rev. George +. Chaplin,
Deacon c. W. Osgood, Mrs. Florence
S. Hartwell; delegate to the national
council for four years, Rev. John c.
PRINCE; preacher for the next year, Rev.
r. n. Clapp; alternate, Rev. E. w. Wild;
auditpr, Walter A. Gilbert; committee
>olf arrangements, Rev. A. v. Wood
worth, Rev. L. w. Wild, Deacon f. E.
Weston.
Rev. c. C. Merrill, d. D., of Burling-
ton, business secretary for the state
conference, spoke briefly of the convoca-
ton of ministers to be held Sept. 10 to
II at MddIebury. The program
will include DR.. Herring of Boston,
DR.. Schwartz of New York George w.
Coleman of Boston, Professors Patton of
Hartford, Lyman of Oberlin, Moulton
of Bangor and Rev. ID. Brewer Eddy of
Boston. Each church in the state has
been asked to pay the expenses of its
minister to this gathering, which prom
Uses to be a Plattsburg for ministers. In
Windham county every church but one
has been heard from, signifying their
purpose to cooperate.
At the women S missionary hour Mrs.
Edward Kirkland, recording secretary
of the Vermont Branch among other
things spoke of the Branch meeting
to be held Sept. 26 and q in Bellows
Falls and of the proposed union be-
tween the Branch and Woman s Home
Missionary Union in their annual
meetings. Miss IIcmcnway-W Wells,
branch secretary of young people s
work, told of new missionary material
for women and young people. Miss
Bessie Bralev, county vice president
for the w. II. NJ. IT,, told of the new
home missionary material, and Mrs.
w. j. Van Pattcn of Burlington, pres
dent of the w, II. NJ. L., of Vermont,
urged cooperation and the strengthen
ing of the things that remain in the
present world crisis
DR.. G. f. Clark of Sivas, Turkey,
gave an interesting address on his ex-
pcriences in connection with the depor-
tations of Armenians in Turkey. One
Turkish official said he had been able
to accomplish more in month in eX
terminating the Armenians than Abdul
Hamid had accomplished in 80 years. DR..
Clark said that the Turks were ordi-
narily kindly people, but when excited
would not stop at any length of mas
sacre and destruction. He read from
the recent letters of two missionaries
and told how relief is sent so that it
surely reaches its destination.
The association session then adj
iourncd to allow the organizing of
council to ordain Lyndon S. Beardslee
into the gospel ministry and to install
him as pastor Mr.. Beardsloe presented
n very interesting and thoughtful pa
per and the council voted unanimous
ly to ordain him at the evening SEES
sion. Rev. c. b. Atwood was modera-
tor and Rev f.. w. Wild scribe.
At the ordination Rev G. +. Chaplin
presided and f.. II. Miller sang two
solos. The invocation was by Rev. r.
II. Bosworth. The scripture was read
by Rev. G. S. Beardslec of Southington,
Conn, brother of the candidate. Rev.
h. ii. Clapp preached forceful and
inspiring sermon from Cor. 1850. Paul
wrote to the COrinthian church: 81
will tarry at Ephesus till Pentecost for
a great door and eflectual is opened un.
to me, and there are MANY adverse
rics, - We gage this man Paul as we
must gage every man, by his vision.
We gage the farmer by his vision. Is
it his potato plot or is he studying the
farm bulletins and coming in touch