Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1917-09-14

THE REV, HERMAN +. swARTI
Secretary OF Missions in Congr ga
tonal Home Missionary Society
and urged that the world through fed.
GRAFTON of natonates should come to
look upon the oneness of humanity,
DR., Herring was heard again on Tues
day morning on the topic, "Glrdlng
Oneself for an Ampler Ministry ~ when
he described the ideal ministerial char
acter
Prof. /. d. Patton of Hartford, Conn
followed with discussion Of What Il
Working Pastor Should Know About
the Od Testament. II there are any
fossils among the clergymen present
they certainly got wholesale dose Of
up-to.the- minute scholarship from the
distinguished speaker. He discussed
the question of authorship, age litera-
ture and value of the Old testament
and gave the reasons for his position
concerning itin straightforward fashion.
DR.. Herman Swart2, Home Mission
AIRY Secretary gave the afternoon ad-
dress on "A leader Who Leads, The
address dealt particularly on scheme
of church activity at the head of which
the successful pastor should stand, and
the plan suggested the speaker claimed
could be worked in every church no
matter how small,
In the evening meeting at the Congre-
gati0nal church which Wa- largely at
tended, Professor Lyman delivered a
finished address on the conceptions Of
God. Limiting our conceptions OF God
he said, Is dangerous. is through
such limitations that God becomes
tribal diety, such as We have seen the
case to be among some nations.
God is not an offspring of the Cosmc
powers, they are HIS offspring. The
telescope has reyeale many Things but
has never shown the purpose OF God,
yet this is revealed clearly in human
hearts that are loyal to high ideals"
God should BE- looked upon a. a per-
sonallty, ever present creating power
and not be regarded in the light of some
philosophers as one who has merely
created the world in some remote past
and left it in the hands OF men alone
The high water mark of the platform
meetings was reached Wednesday night
when two addresses were delivered by
two men experts in their line, and also
who speak from first hand knowledge
The first address was made by Ralph
Harlow, d missionary of the American
board, recently returned from Turkey,
who gave dramatic recital of the woes
al tbA a rr,,aptuns a.tl.I and
cred by the Turks. He told of being an
eyewitness of the deportation in SO
long trains Of cattle cars of women and
girls and old men, the young men hay
ing already been massacred. He had
seen the sale to the Turks of pretty
girls at 80 cents apiece TO be carried
away into Moslem harems. He told of
train loads of girls from four to IL years
old, torn from their families, herded
into cattle cars and sent through the
country to be distributed along the
road to Moslem homes. He described
scene where 1000 women were used
as artillery targets, and of mothers
throwing their babies out of car wind
ows that they might escape a worse
fate. He drew picture of the wife of
Ambassador Morganthau appealing to
the Turkish official for stop to be put
to such crueIties only to be told, mad
am, planned that massacre, it amuses
me.
Mr. Harlow laid the whole blame for
thS atrocities of Turkish massacres
upon the German power, and showed
how German officers command Turkish |
troops, issued the orders and saw that ,
they We're carried out, and he wildly ,
described the literature printed in Ger
many and the pictures and cartoons |
scattered broadcast over the whole land .
which had for its purpose inilaming the
people against the Armenians and in
citing them to deeds of blood 1 /
In spite of all the dark picture the
speaker believed that at the close of the
war the missionaries would be permit
ted to return to that country and take
up the work from which they have been
driven.
The audience assembled had not re.
covered from the dark picture drawn
by this speaker, when they plunged into
deeper gloom by the address of the
Rev. d. Brewer Eddy of Boston, asso-
ciate secretary of the American board,
whose topic was ''The World Need"
Mr.. Eddy is an orator of frank, naked
utterance of facts. The speaker has
just returned from the British camps in |
England and France and he tore the
mask off what he called the conspiracy
of silence and spoke of what he had
seen and heard abroad.