The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1920-07-10
BAPTIST PASTORS
EARN AVERAGE
OF $500 YEARLY
Board of Trustees of State
Convention Urge Evan i,
gelistic Work

III 96th annual report OF the
Board Of Trustees of the Vermont
Baptist State Convention tell
an interesting story Of the progress
made by this organization during ,hc
year. 1t was submitted at the ana,i-
al conference a. Newpor. by Rev. w
4. Davidson.
The report says.
Dear Fellow Workers:
| bring to you today the Ninety
Sixth Annual Report Of Vermont
Baptist State Convention.
We are glad to meet again in New
port, and in this beautiful church
This church was organized in 1917
with % members, but today reports
100 and splendid propcrty-church
/ and PARSONAGE. Like most of the
Fehurches in Vermont, it is Il child
Fof our Convention and for Is or more
years was aided directly bv the Con-
vention. The present pastor settled
here in 1911 and has done splendid
work, building I'D the church spiritu-
ally and numerically and rebuilding
the church edifice so we can enjoy
this attractive and beautiful building.
The Convention was entertained here
in 1868 and again in 1909 and now in
| 1920: we arc sure of all that loving
hearts and willing hands can do for
us. We trust our presence and our
services NAV prove help not only to
this church but to all the churches of
! this beautiful city.
We come again to Newport which
is city and has two churches the
First as described above and the
Main ST., which was formerly Free
Baptist, but united with our Conven-
ton in 1908 and today has 191 mem
bers, q splendid property working
force indeed none better in the state
with Rev. J. H. Blackburn as pastor
a man tried and found true, a
workman that needeth not to be
ashamed rightly dividino the word of
Truth. With these two splendid
churches as our hosts, we are sure of
all that loving hearts and willing
hands can do for US.
During the year death has visited
! our ranks and called home our BROTH
CT, B. A. Park, a quiet, intelligent,
faithful and efficient member of our
Board. Mr.. Park had already given
$4,000 to the Convention, the church
es at Chester, Grafton and South
Londonderry receiving the income
from $1,000 each and the Convention
for its regular work the income from
the other $4,000 He had also plan
ned to do more, and on the dav of
his death asked your Secretary to
prepare a form for another will
whereby the Convention could be
made trustee of his funds.
The members of the Board have
been interested in the work, and the
attendance at the Board meetings
has been uniformly good.
During the six months we have
had with US Rev. Walter F. Sturte-
want, who has been doing heroic and
aggressive work. He has visited rs
fields and given 1872 addresses on ste
wardship and personal evangclim.
He has given to the churches a new
vision OF what they can do. He has
helped some of the churches to in
crease the salary and become self
supporting, and others to increase
the salary without asking for further
aid from the Convention. Altogether
he has done splendid work.
Rev. ]. Allan Spidell has been with
sabout the same lenpth of time
doing evangelistic work. Mr.. Spidell
is ~ood preacher and singer, and
enjoys this work for which God has
adapted him and in which He has
blessed him. For the past three
months, however, during the cam
paign. he has been giving stcreop-
ticon lecture on the conditions in Yer
mont. the nation and the world and
what must be done to remedy these
conditions. This lecture has been
we'll received.
The Italian Mission at Barre has
been kept omen, and good work has
been accomplished under the leader
ship of Pastor Lehiph of the First
Church, Barre. We hope to continue
the work in this way, gettin" a
young woman who will give all her
time to the Mission as the pastors as
sistant.
The following churches have been
aided bv the Convestion during the
past year: Addison, Andover,
Braintrec, Brookline, Corinth, East
Bethel, East Charlotte, East Dover,
East Hubbardton, East Poultney,
East Randolph, East Wallinrford,
Georgia Plain, Groton, Hardwich,
Huntington, Ira, Jericho, Lyndon
Center, Montgomery Center, Mount |
Holly, Montpelier, Newport Center,
North Danville, North Troy, Norton
Mills, Perkinsvlle, Pittsford, Ran
dolph, Readboro, st. Adams, Shafts |
bury. South Londonderry, South |
Newfanc, South STAFFORD, South
Windham, Starksboro. Sutton, Town
send, Vergennes, Wallingford, Wash
ington, Websterville, West Bolton,
West Corinth, West Charleston,
West Dummerston, West Halifax,
West Haven. West Guilford, West
Wardsboro, Wheelock, Nottingham,
Windsor. In these 81 churches 65
new members have been received by
ba rtism
The churches on the whole are we'll
and there is nowhere-in
home or foreign mission work-a
more consecrated and sacrificing
body of men than our Baptist pastors
IN Vermont.
We are more than pleased-yea,
be able to report that
Eight pastors have had their salar
les increased 500 per year.