Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1920-04-28

IF can be allowed space, / will
answer your challenges IN Iast
weeks issue
1st. AS to drive for S5o,0oo,oVV
would refer you TO orleans County
Monitor of April z, 1S2o. wnere
states: ''The beginnings on tne Son,
S.-,e~s t;onaI Forward Movement date
SscE TO the National council at Grand
Rani6s in 1919. At that meeting IL
vas definitely decided to attempt 70
meet the acute selglous needs OF tnS
bour by setting q minimum nnanclaI
1osI Of $50 .OOC 600 to be reached IN
. fve-year program, as an lntegraI
80 Of the Church World Move
ETsnt of North America turther-
more. ! tote from letter rseeivs 51
NV ma Ill Rev. s,S-seS = N'srtil'
| in which he says, 1t IS expected snS-s
approximately one-ffth OF the SoV,
600 900 viii be raised during tne cur
rent wear. / have before me an
.,-+boritative statement of the way
IN which the S1O,000,GOO to be raised
! during the current year Will DC uSeo'
as follows: $4,000, 900 for the Mission
srv Societies. and for current expens-
a. Of educational institutions; SS,oVV-
I000 IN be paid in by May 1st, 1871,
| On tne Pilgrim Memorial Fund;
80 600 900 for educational institutions
/ 70 he secured by each institution
lan,ong its own constituency. Again
/ I quote from Dr. Gordon's letter, men
toned by me last week, Inc sum
sought IS wildly EXCESSIVE; S5O,ucV,-
900 in five years for 6OO,ouo Congre-
gationalists, men women ana ennIrsn
Included" This is enough TO snow
anvone that Bro Gilpin was sadly
Hacking in information when he chal-
Hanged.
| Referring TO my article IN last
weeks issue, reading, In the past
the Middlebury ministers training
Injecting has been taken care OF by
the Vermont Missionary Society,
there was an error In copy,
it should have read, The $4,000 to
be spent in Vermont Is TO be used
/ TO assist small communities which
are unable to provide religious ser
vice for themselves; to assist small
needy churches; TO finance the annual
training meeting for ministers. winch
has been held at Middlebury for the
mast two wears, and provide a fund
of $1,000 to be at the disposal OF the
executives All the above items In
the past had been cared for by the
Vermont Domestic Missionary So
iciety EXCEPT the expense OF the
Middlebury meeting" Bro. Gilpin
desires my ''good authority" as to
INV statement that $4,000, 600 of the
$50. OOO. 900. was TO be devoted TO the
Pilgrim Memorial Fund ! refer him
to the statement Of DR.. Merrill, above
quoted.
End. Bro. Gilpin talks about Civ
ling in proportion to per capita
wealth" would ask him if ne ever
Iexpects to see the day when Con-
gregationalists or members of any
; ing to their per capita wealth" He
speaks of increase of population and
! wealth in the county. Statistics
! show that the count increased from
1900 to 1910 in population, 1456
! What has that got to do with this
! question? The Catholic population
has increased immensely in the county
! since 1890. In 1890 there were three
Catholic churches in the county, now
there are seven Some OF the best
| customers of the Barton Saving:
Bank & Trust Co., are Catholics.
There are less CongregationalistS
according TO the year book Iras
burg (the former shire town. Albany
and Lowell, have good Congregations
churches, and in 1890. a thriving
church, are now closed The present
membership Of these churches N the
fOrder given above IS 20, Is and %
IraSburg. in this drive was not as
!, sessed, Albany Sos and Lowell S1tO
2 this would be So per church member
and for five years would amount t
$1,000 The allotment for Orzean:
.r@r-r - -
April 7th amounted to SS.775 and II
: five years would amount to S43.S75
5 Can anyone OF sound Judgment be
Iieve, IN the condition our country /.
, IN, that those who attend the Con
gregatiOnal churches OF Orleans coun
7 y, can pay their debts, keep thc
2 church property IN repair, pay IN,
much larger annual ~budgeta tina
. must be required of them, for tn,
i next I'VE years, and pay this driv,
D which amounts to S43,S75 in fv,
years? Ii they do they will be II
the condition, described by F. z
r Davidson, Interchurch World Move
!. ment director for Vermont in the Ere
Press for Saturday, 'HThe objective i
10 crush the pocket books of million
OF church members and friendly cit
IZens into shapeless mass II
might well have added, and cause tn
death and destruction OF thousand
OF churches IN our fair land, leavin
r their abandoned churches to stand a
sad monItnent, to our departe
christian forefathers.
= l am sorry th-t the judgment O
Bro Gilpin has become so warped
: that he cannot see the future outcom
: of this colossal mercenary drive; a
= Dr. Gordon of Boston, terms it, 9Th
= boldest and the most ruthless piec
, OF autocracy that / have ever known.
= Frederick W. Baldwin.