Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1920-05-14


and Others whom the speaker mentioned.
The daughters OF the pioneers have be.
fore them great field for the pioneer
Esprit in the tasks of education and re-
ligion.
Comprehensive outlines of the pro.
grams of work of the y. NJ. c. A., the
Y. w. c.. A., and the Pilgrim churches,
were presented under the head of The
Youth OF Vermont Ernest L. Rand
spoke for the Y. M. G. A. in the absence
OF Secretary Byron N. Clark of Burling.
ton; MISS Marion Gary of Rutland spoke
Tor the Y. w. I. a., being field secre-
. tary, ana Rev. Charles N. st. John of
: MohtPeaier spoke n Tor the Pilgrim
,churcheS 't.G.Jf .i,s.;....... .,,t
= 10 open the evening service the Centre
chqrch dogp,e mixed quartet sang an
fanthem ana Mrs. w. II. Bond contralto
solo,. before the addresses Secretary
Merrnl presented the report, as far as
received, OF the financial receipts of the
congregational world Movement in the
state; lie reported that lao OF the 2O9
churches mad reported Sll5,963l0, to-
ward the state quota OF $l30OOO. In
other words ~ per cent OF the churches
mad reported 90 per cent OF the amount
asked for. lie looked to see an over
subscription suflcient to pay the ex-
penses OF the campaign.
Inc closing addresses OF the evening
were made by Rev. Paul ID. Moody, of
New YORK, formerly OF st. Johnsbury,
whose subject was Some Modern Facts
ior Church UNITY Kew: Mr.. Moody based
ms facts on what mad occurred among
the chapiains and soldiers in France,
where ne was associated with Bishop
Brent OF the Episcopal church, Father
Dnhy OF the Catholic church and jew
lsh Rabbi IN control OF all the chaplains
OF the overseas force. He stated that in
his opinion the soldiers who received the
mlnlstrations OF these various religion
lists could never return to the old days OF
sectarian feehngs' Ihey would insist
upon looking at rehglous things through
the eyes of the other man.
Rev. Cornelius II. Patton. D. D., Of
boston, home secretary OF the American
Board OF commissioners for Foreign~Nlis-
sions, was the last speaker, and he gave
thrilling and optimistic picture OF con-
ditions IN the Far East as he saw them
in recent visit to those countries. He
dwelt especially on conditions in Japan
and China which he said were wide open
to the gospel message. The days have
gone when the missionary must seek for
an opening to preach the gospel to those
people. Everywhere the people are for
saking their idols and idol worship.
They recognize the fact that it is Chris
tianity that has made America what it
is, and they are going to adopt it as a
means of national salvation.
In meeting of the conference board
of directors Wednesday Judge Charles
!. Button of Middlebury was elected
chairman. This makes Judge Button
ex-officio chairman of the executive COM
mittee. With him on this committee the
following were elected: Harry ID. Howe
of Burlington, Rev. w. A. Mcintyre of
Dandy, Mrs. Nj. II. Buckham OF Burling-
! ton and Rev. Stanley Cummings of St.
Adams.
The first address yesterday was by
Rev. Frederick B. Richards, ID. D., of st.
JOhnsbury, whose theme was We Our
selves Must Pilgrims Be. He held that
the pilgrims of today must have larger
missionary motive than that which in
tspired the Pilgrims of 300 years ago. He
emphasized the great need of new
evangelism and indicated some OF the
methods which he thought should be en-
pioyed. =,
Rev. Dr. w. "A: davidson OF Burning
intendent OF the vermont baptist state
ton, for Il years the secretary ana super
Convention gave an eniivening ADDRESS
on The lnterchurch world Movement IN
Vermont: lie brought the hearty greet
ings OF the baptists and spoke IN hlghiy
complimentary terms OF Rev. Mr.. Mer'
rill. he expressed the nope that very
soon might come the Inning up together
OF every Protestant denomination.
1.-The Protestant denominations OF TINS
world must hang together or be hung by
our enemies separately, ne declared
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