The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-10-05
HOLD RE.DEDICATION SERVICE.
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| tendent of st. Adams, and Rev. Douglas
Guest of Chicopee Falls. Mass, pastor
of the church here in 1917-191S.
| The re-dedcation service began at
7-30 O'Clock with the singing OF a a hymn
and was followed by the invocation by
Rev. G.. G.. Chayer. The choir then rem
| dered The Lord Is Exalted. following
/ which Rev. Mr.. Davenport made an IN
/ troductory prayer to the dedication ser
vice. The scripture lesson was read by
| Rev. Mr.. Guest. following which Miss
! Olive Capron sang a solo entitled L Come
| to Thee.
Rev Mr. Price was introduced by -the
pastor of the church, who explained that
he had disappointment and a pleasure
/ to offer. The disappointment was that
/ the speaker who originally was sched-
uled. Rev. Fred Winslow Adams, ID. d.,
of Springfield, Mass, was unable TO be
present. owing to illness, and the pleas
| ure was that Rev. Mr. Price had been
secured in his place and showed will
| ingneSS to assist in the exercises by MAX
ing the address of the evening.
Rev. Mr.. Price said there was nothing
| of greater interest than the soul, whether
| it be the soul of the nation, of the peO-
| pie, or of an individual. There is no
acquisition that can take the place of
the soul: nor any idea that can take the
| place of the souls life. We are living
/ in hasty time and it seems hardly
possible to keep our lives away from the
| business of the world. In this immersion
LOT business we are gradually drifting
away from the gospel The speaker
| cited William Jennings Bryan who once
said, Il don't know how Indifferent peo-
pie are to church, but / recognize the
| fact that people are not buying property
| where a church is not located
| Turning to the question of the attain
ment of success, the speaker said that in
some corners of the world people often
wonder how North America became so
! peaceful and united whereas South
| America was always more or less in tur-
] moil. The reason is because the Puri-
| tans came to North America to seek
| God. while the Spaniards went TO the
| southern continent to seek gold. What
we need today in the world is not more
! legislation but more religion. With
God as our goal we shall succeed as the
! Pilgrim Fathers did. With gold as our
| motto we shall succeed no better than
| the Spaniards. We need religion from
| the very legislation halls in Washington
down to the mines and factories through
| out this land of ours.
! The great trouble with business men
today is that they are counting without
| God. The trouble with business is right
IN the center of the word. We need to
| take the sin" out of business. With the
| proper religion in the world there would
| be no need for the fraternal organiza-
| rial prosperity that makes America
/ great, for we have really gone daffy over
/ railroads, steamships, electricity and all
/ the other inventions. Americas greatest
Il resources are her souls. In the lands
across the sea. who are the people that
blaze the way for commerce? They are
/ the missionaries of Jesus Christ. We
must keep our souls diligently. and in
doing so we shall make the church and
the community.
The speaker then told of the evils of
the liquor traffic and showed how prOhi-
bition could be enforced if men and
women had the courage to stand up as
Il a whole and stop il. He also spoke
. briefly of the recent masSacres in the
East and in connection Herewith said
that America ought not to be Indifferent
10 the preparation of those brutal
crimes.
There are two kinds of people in the
world. Rev. Mr.. Price said, those who
| lift and those who lean. There is one
who lifts to about 10 who lean, and
| what the world needs in connection with
its soul is a solid front of people who
can lift and keep the world moving along
the lines of religious betterment
Following Rev. Mr.. Prices address,
Psalm I'D was read, after which the
church was presented to the district
superintendent for re-dedication by DIR.
I G @. Wheeler. Rev Mr.. Davenport
was followed by the Doxology and bene-
1 diction.
After the service was over a reception
was held. most of the congregation pres
ent taking the opportunity to inspect the
repairs recently made within the edifice
The interior walls in both the audi
4 forum and the vestibule have been en-
Sl tirely re-decOrated, a buff color being
kused for the lower half of the walls. n
! darker buff giving a border effect on the
4 upper half. A band of gold decoration
8 divides the two colors and emphasizes
the contrast. Back of the pulpit q
4 handsome stucco design in plaster OF
Paris has been brought out softly. yet
contrastingly. in white. New hardwood
8 floors have been laid in both the audito
4 rum and the vestibule and new rubber
n | runners have been bought for the aisles
| and passageway in the yestibule. The
3 | old chandeliers have been removed anC
new suspension lights installed. In addi
ton to the two in the vestibule there
81 are six large lights and four smaller
g ones in the auditorium. The rejecting
4 globes are decorated in brown to harmon
ize with the color of the walls. New
D chairs have been installed in the choir
j space, and the pulpit has been re-car
3 peted and equipped with new rug.
In the basement, both the hall at the
II foot of the stairs and the main yeStry
have been handsomely re-decorated. tn,
q general lines being the same as in tn,
Z main section of the church. New hard
vestry and 70 new chairs have beer