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2 8 JAN 1971 
 
 EXERCISES 
 
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 CentenniaU Anniversary 
 
 OF THE 
 
 BAPTIST CHURCH, 
 
 ABBOTT'S CORNER, P. Q., 
 
 SEPTEMBER 6, J899. 
 
 KOITKD BY 
 
 LEWIS B. HIBBARD. 
 
 HKiHLANDPARK, IIJ... 
 
 SHEKU.AX Road Xews-Lkttkr p«,nt 
 
 1900. 
 
 BIBlfOTHfQUe 
 
PRELIMINARY. 
 
 f Punti^t Church, Abbott's Corner, P. Q-, was 
 , ,^^'''=f:,''T8,V;^;vW .frnSd^s-ell as men,l.-rs ot t Le 
 held April Zv, 1^^'', I'J ^y»' " .nHkint? arraugenieiUs for cele- 
 
 ohnrch\veve iuvited for the purpose of f "^/j;*^"!, ,,,, aecided to 
 bratin, the Centennm Ar.mvei.ary o^^ ^^.^ ^^._^.^^^^ 
 
 wereappointe.1 on the several committees : 
 
 ON REPAIRS. 
 
 Deacon H. A. Chafff.e. 
 Mr. M. a. Leavitt. 
 
 \\\' A. S. AuMSTnONG. 
 
 Mr. a. 
 
 E. 
 
 Mr. 
 
 Mr. 
 
 Mr 
 
 Bridce. 
 
 J. ,1. McCartv. 
 
 W. P. lllRBAUD. 
 
 Freeman Rogers. 
 
 ON PROGRAM. 
 
 Rev. W. G. SconcLi). 
 SiTDENT A. 0. Baker 
 Mrs. \V. p. Hibbard 
 
 Rev. a. 1^. Arms. 
 Mrs. J. H. Broe. 
 Miss M. A. Smith. 
 
 ON ENTERTAINMENT. 
 
 Deacon John Broe. 
 
 Mr. AND Mrs. H. K. H. Iracv 
 
 Mrs. Arnold E. Bridge 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. S. R. Whitman. 
 Mrs. a. S. Armstrong. 
 Mrs. J. Powers. 
 
 , . I v.^u^,^r Kpv \riiold L. Arms prepare 
 
 It was also voted to have ^^\^l^;^Z^.i, u. Hibbard, of 
 
 the Historical l^-^^r^^nd^ndt^r.^t^of this church, and a great 
 
 Highland Park, 111., l^^'^f ^{^^/^^j " Ce^^^^^^ Discourse. 
 
 grandson of its ^^^^'^^' :}f' ^^^ ;,, , ,„ost thorough and satisfac- 
 
 ofTillol, «m te foumUu the foUowum l>»Ses. 
 
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 HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 
 
 BY RRV. ARNOLD L. ARMS. 
 
 CHE Baptist Clnm-1, in St. Armand was organi.cHl cm th. mh 
 day ot S<.pten.h.r, 11^. Of tl.e proceedings at tl.e tinu' 
 ami the names and nnn.her of tlu. constituent members, nn 
 ecoid IS tonnd, and I Mm satistied the records for the first ten 
 months are lost ; but from information obtained elsewliere, it an 
 pears that there were seven constituent members. Tiiis was sfated 
 to he writer ov<u- forty years ago hy Kev. William Kogc^rs of 
 
 m St. Aimund, an<l one ot the seven constituent members He 
 was evident y soon after eleced deacon, being referred to as such 
 as early as August It; ISOO. The first extant record of a chirc 
 meeting bears date July 12, 1800. At this meeting Rev. Jede! 
 dinh Hibbard was chosen standing moderator, and Roger Hibbard 
 c^iurch clerk At the next meeting, August IC, ISOO, Rev J 
 Hibl>ard and Deacon William R<.gers w.a-e chos'en deh'ga . s to 
 tne Richmond Conference held at Bolton, Vt., Wednesdav An 
 gust 2.. INOO January 24, 1801, by a unanimous v^^'a t i 
 was extended t,> Rev Jedediah Hibbard to become the p. stor o 
 ihe cnurch. The ca 1 was accepted, and is on the churcl/recorr 
 A council was called to recx.gnize him as pastor, which convened 
 at he house of Roger Hibbard, now the liome of Edmund In 
 galls Angus 27, 1801. Eight churches were reprerente 
 namely, Oi-j^ell, Fairfax. Bolton, Swanton and Westford in Ver 
 niont, and Sutton, Hatley and Stanstead, in Canada. The minis- 
 ers present were Elnathan Phelps of Orwell, E.ra Butler of Bol- 
 
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 ber^'Tvif ' Wl ^'^'^"'f ''''. ^"^''" ^" Canterbury, Conn., Octo- 
 
 tIj I . '^" 7 '"''''''' ^''^ '''"" ordained is not known. In 
 
 1^SI he was pastor of a small church in Lebanon, N. H., where 
 
 aid a h™,rds when in C^.rnish he performed much missi<l^ 
 
 ynl n ^ eimont. As early as 170;j he was i>reaching in Georgia 
 
 ml other places. In 1797 he moved to St. Arniand. Canada am 
 
 labored as an evangelist in all the surrounding region. At Is 
 
 early date preachers, as well as settlers, wer'^e few and w dely 
 
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 scattercd. He evidently did a noble work, not only in winnin*; 
 souls to Chi'ist but in organizing, edifying and encouraging 
 Christians. He served the Church faithfully for about eight 
 years after his installation, and died October 4, 1S(H), l)*J years of 
 age. Many have since risen up to call him blessed, not only iii 
 Canada but also in Connecticut, New Hann)shire, Central and 
 Northern Vermont. 
 
 On May 5, 1801, Joshua Smith was chosen deacon, and Dea- 
 con William Rogers was licensed to preach, and in S ^)tciid)er, 
 1802, he was called to ordination by the Baptist Church in Stan- 
 bridge, and served them two years. He moved thence to Rich- 
 ford, in 1804, and was pastor of that church more than forty- 
 five years, and died March 0, 1851, in his 78th year. Most, if 
 not all the members of this (Abbott's Corner) church, and their 
 pastor, were then immigrants from the New England States, and 
 it has since been composed very largely of such and their de- 
 scendants. 
 
 October 0, 1802, George Wales gave to the Baptists half an 
 acre of land as a building lot, on the crest of the hill north of the 
 Methodist Church, on condition that a meeting house should be 
 buiit thereon, and soon after a house was erected, in which wor- 
 ship was maintained for many years, both by Baptists and Meth- 
 odists. It was abandoned as a place of worship about 1880, and 
 after remaining in a dilapidated condition for some four or five 
 years was torn down and the material used in building a school 
 house, in which the church held their meetings, more or less, 
 until the erectioii of the present editice, in 1841. The country 
 at this time, 1802, was rapidly being filled with settlers, and fre- 
 quent additions were made to the church, and a branch church 
 existed at Dunham as early as December, 1802, and a church had 
 been formed in Stanbridge, evidently a colony of this church, at 
 an earlier date. May 24, 1800, William Galusha was licensed to 
 preach, and soon after examined for ordination by a council com- 
 posed of ministers and delegates from the churches in Sutton, 
 Richford and Berkshire, 
 
 Under date of June 28, 1800, is the following record: '• Voted, 
 to'give letters of dismission to such brethren and sisters as should 
 desire it, that a second Baptist Church might be gathered in St. 
 Armaud." The brethren and sisters who requested letters were 
 William Galusha, Cooley Sumner. Bezaleel Bridge, Eli Bagley, 
 
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 Siumud Bridgf, l^rana Hasvlcy and Azuba SatFord. It is pioha- 
 bk' that Mr. Galnsha bccaun^ pastor of this second churi'li. and 
 served them a few years; but as he was called to the |>iiatorate of 
 this church after the death of Rev. Jedediah Hibbanl. we ju'c- 
 sume the second churcli dissolved, and the nu'inhers were scat- 
 tered, or re-united with this church. The meudjership at this 
 time, June, ISOI). was probablv about fortv, anil thev had elected 
 the fourtli deacon, R()<j^er Hibbard. 
 
 For two or three years the church was evidently in a deelinin*^ 
 state, beinix vlistracted and disheartened bv internal ditficuUies. 
 In the latter part of 18()S the health of their former pastor, on 
 whom from the first they had been accnsttmied to lean, bi'^an lu 
 fail. The last meeting he attended, of which mention is mad(\ 
 was in May, 1(S()0. He di(-d in October f(dlowing, and his re- 
 mains are buried in the parish cimietery at Frelighsl)urg. In 
 July, 1810, the church engaged the services of Rev. William 
 Galusha, and in November following apj)ointed Allen Miner clerk. 
 For a few years they appear to have enjoyed a good degree of 
 prosperity. July 19, 181"), they sent Rev. William Galusha, 
 Deacons Roger Hibbard and Allen Miner, Brothers Gilbert 
 Jenue and Homer Smith to the Stanbridge Association. In 1819 
 the church apjiointed Nathaniel Hibbard clerk, who was suc- 
 ceeded in 1822 by Hcmier Smith ; Jesse Scofiehl was numbered 
 with the deacons, and in 1825 Gilbert Tenne was elected clerk. 
 The pastorate of Mr. Galusha appears to have closed somewhere 
 between 1825 and 18:}(), a term of at least fiften years, and the 
 longest one in the history of the church. Many additions were 
 made, but there were also many exclusions and dismissi'^ns. If 
 we except the last few years of his pastorate, it may be regarded 
 as a prosperous and successful one. In May, 18;Jt), the church 
 called a council to examine and ordain Homer Suuth. who served 
 the church as pastor about three years, when a seri<jus difficulty 
 arose, occasioned by the unwise action of a y)art of the church 
 in en^jfatjinor Rev. William Galusha, while Mr. Smith was as vet 
 the regular pastor of the church. Thus matters continued for 
 several years. At a covenant meetin*' Saturday, August 27. \H'M'>, 
 t(-M members were jiresent; tive renewed covenant, and live did 
 not. All honor to the noble five who, wh"n the church was with- 
 out a meeting house or pastor, and near the verge of dissolution, 
 stood firm and faithful. October ()th. the same year, an advisory 
 
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 ronmiitlcc. ii|.i)()liit»il by (lie nssocialioji ut tin* rccincst of tlic l;itr 
 Rev. Peter C'h.'ise of Friinkliii, eoiisiKtiii;L( of Revs. Alvnli Sn!)iii. 
 Pelcr Cluisc. S. Cole. IsMiali Huntley, A. Ruler. Al. Fliiil, with 
 JJrotliers 1. (*M]'ey mid J. Wriglitnuiii. met niid .sureeeded in re- 
 storing Imnnony. Rev. Homer Smith iijjfain became the pastor 
 of the elunvh. which he serveil witli ti(h'Iity till ids sudden death. 
 Octohc !-J. 1S.')T. jji tlu o.ltJi year oi Ids ajL,'«'. ('ontideiicc was 
 lart^rely restored, and disntfeeted mendu-rs returned to their 
 places. 
 
 In Se]>tcnd)er. 1S:]7. the church voted to unite witli the Fair- 
 lield Ass()ci;ition. anvl elected their pastor. Rev. Homer Snnth, 
 with Deacons Rojrer Hibbard and Allen Miner as deU'^aies. In 
 January. ls;JS. Rev, Jonathan Baldwin, missi(»nary of the Xvy- 
 mont Baptist vState Con\eidi(m, came and held a series of mi-et- 
 ings with the church, which resulted in a jjowerful revival, and 
 the greater portion of the converts united with this church, 
 though some went to other denominations. Many backsliders 
 were reclaimed, and the church was i;reatlv encourajred and 
 strengthened. Rev. M. Britain at once became pastor and served 
 the church for a timf-- the tirit pastor not of New England 
 origin, and of whom, in fact, but little is known. In IS II Rev. 
 Peter Chase of Franklin, Vt., a brother of the late Prof. Ira 
 Chase of the Newton Theological Institution, became their pas- 
 tor. During this year C(>lumbus8cotield generously gave a lot, 
 and the church erected their present house of worship. For ten 
 long and weary years they had been without a meeting house, 
 had passed through great diffiiculties, and they entered their new 
 house of worship with songs of thanksgiving, greatly encour- 
 aged. The ne.\t year Rev. Francis Bosworth, then recently frcjui 
 England, nunistered to them a part of the time, and in 1S4;3 be- 
 gan the long pastorate of Francis N. Jerisey, who served the 
 church as pastor, preaching half of the time, for fourteen years. 
 He was born in Enifland, Januarv t), 1707; came to this countrv 
 with his large faunly in 184-2, and located on a small farm in 
 Stanbridge the next year, where he continued to reside till his 
 removal to Potton, in 1857, where he died xMarch V, 18()0. In 18i8, 
 the year Mr. Jersey's ])astorate began, the church united with 
 the Montreal Association, whosi' se.ssion was held in that city in 
 mid\ in^cr. The same year Casjjer B. Hibbard and Isaac Janes 
 were elected deacons, and soon after two young men, members of 
 
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 llu' cliucrli. wt'iv ooniiiuMidrtl lo lli»' new jumI Kliort-IiviMl ihcolo.*^- 
 iciil Hchool m( Montreal: both complt'tcd tli«'ir coinhr >>( study and 
 «'iit('i«'d the niiuiHtrv. thoiigli om; of Iht-ni. (Miailcs Smith, diiwl 
 A])ril. iSol. and tlic otlior. John 1). Frcligh. went west, and all 
 trace of him was soon lost. In ls4<» Kov. William I'ortcrlield 
 served as a temporary sii|t]>ly. and in December. iSoO. Arnold L. 
 Arms was licensed to preach. Durin«^ the pastorate of Mr. Jer- 
 sey the clmrch was nnit<'d and measiiraV>ly prosperous: adtlilions 
 W(>re nuide. and in ]^-)2 there were a])ont sixty nuMnbers. In 
 ISo-t. after eleven vears' connection with the Montrenl Associa- 
 tion. thev united with the Lamoile Association in ViM'mont. and 
 the next year electeil H(»race N. Jjuk^s (^lerk. in plac(! of Nathan- 
 iel Hil)bard, who had served for sonu* twentv viwirs. Rev. F. N. 
 Jersey offered his resifjfnation March 2*2. 1>^^U. which was ac- 
 cepted the l-l:th of June. The church ?(t once e)»<^a<»'ed Hov. 
 Abram Bedell of Plainfield, Vt.. as a supply, and called him to 
 the pastoratt^ in February, l^o^. Uurin<» the first year of his 
 ))astorato six were a<hled by baptism and four by letter, making 
 the total membership Hfty-eight. 
 
 In 1S58 Columbus Scofield, deeply inter(^steil in th«» welfare 
 of the church, though not then a member of it, generously gave 
 ten acres of valuable land, adjoining the meeting hous«\ for a 
 parsonage lot, on condition that a suitable residence for the pas- 
 tor should be erected thereon, which was done that year, and 
 trustees were duly elected to receive a deed of tln^ land and to 
 manage the pro[)erty. In October, 1X58. Sherman P. Schofield 
 was chosen clerk, in place of Mr. Janes r«?signed, and February 
 12, ISfiO, Lewis B. Hibbard was licenstid to pnmch. There were 
 no marked events in the history of the church till ()clf)ber. 18t) !, 
 when Mr. Bedell's pastoral relations with the c])urch terminated, 
 and he removed to Now Hampshire, where he died not long 
 after. He was a native of Maine, where he sj)ent the greater 
 [)ortion <jf his life. On the whole, his j)nstorate here was a pros- 
 perous one: valuable additions were made to the church, whos*^ 
 nundK^rs and resources were increased, and an excellent parson- 
 age was built He took an active part in t he orgatdzation of the 
 (^mada Baptist Missionary Convention. East, and was the father 
 of the Missisquoi Baptist Conference, which did a good work 
 during its brief existence. 
 
 During the winter following Mr. Bedell's resignation the 
 
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church wns Hupplicd by Rl'vb. A. L. xVrms ami P. C HinioH, /uid 
 the suninior following l)y J. 0. Yulo, a Htud«>nt from tho Literary 
 liisUtute at WoodHtock, Out., who preached with marked afce[)t- 
 ance. In October. ISC).'). Eben M. Rice, a graduate of the same 
 Institute, settled and remained one year, when he left, on account 
 failing hejdth, and went west. During the winter of l8()0-()7 
 Messrs, Arms and llinies again 8U|)[)lied the church, and during 
 the summer llev. Jc-shua Donovan, having recently come to Dun- 
 ham from Scotland for the benefit of his health, supplied the 
 pulpit. He was an able, vigorous |)reacher. and is now (jne of 
 the foremost pastors in the city of Toronto. In June, 1S08, Rev, 
 Merrill Howard, a native of Chester, though recently located in 
 East Enosburg, Vt., where hc! was ordained in August, 1857, was 
 called to the pastorate, and entered upon his duties the Ist of 
 July, In MaK'h, 1HV)\), Rev. J. F. Ferj^uson aided in n series of 
 meetings with good results; some wei ' reclaimed, and several 
 converted, who subsequently united with the church. Mr. How- 
 ard closed his labors C)ctober 8, 1870, and removed to Michigan, 
 and Rev. A. L Arms, a native and lite-long resident of St. Ar- 
 mand, acted as pastor the rest of the year, and in April follow- 
 ing became the pastor of the church, though, at his requ»-t, Rev. 
 E. P. Merritield of Franklin, Vt., was engaged to till every alter- 
 nate appointment. The meeting house was immediately repaired 
 and a cabinet organ purchased. In 1872 W, (x. and S. P. Sco- 
 tield were elected trustees of the church; in 1874 W, G. Scofield 
 was appointed clerk, and September 11, 1875, the church ap[»lied 
 to the Canada Baptist Missionary Convention for aid. In Octo- 
 ber, 1875. in the good providence of God, Rev. J. Tilsou of Hing- 
 ham, Mass.. and Rev, C, Hibbard, of Chester, Vt., ii grandson of 
 Rev. Jedediah Hibbard, and for fourteen years a missionary in 
 Burma, held a series of revival meetings with the church. The 
 result was the most extensive revival that had been enjoyed for 
 thirty-six years. The additions to the church as the fruit of 
 this revival greatly strengthened and encouraged it, and its work- 
 ing force was fully doubled. The baptism of these converts was 
 by Rev. J. Tilson and the pastor in Selby Lake, June 16, 187t), 
 in the presence of a very large assembly, and was an occasion of 
 great joy. In March of this year, by request of Deacon I. Janes, 
 W. G. Scofield was chosen deacon. Encouraged by the Canada 
 Baptist Missionary Society, East, the church began in (October, 
 
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 1875, holding Suu(lay-.sch()(»l niid public worship every Suiidny. 
 In 1S77 the socucty built a largo nu'i'ting house l)nru or shed, and 
 also elected Hanson H. Hihbard deacon. The next sjiring a 
 series of ''gosjiel meetings," then so popular, were held, with 
 gv)od results. In May of the same year, 1S7H, John Currie, an 
 evangelist from Montreal, held a series of meetings which re- 
 sulted in some twenty conversions, most of whom subsequently 
 united with the church, and Mr. Currie spent the summer preach- 
 ing and aiding in the gent'ral work, much to the gratitication of 
 both church and pastor. The two years immediately following 
 were perhaps the ha[)[)iest and brightest days in the history of 
 the churoh; harmony prevailed, and the life of the church was 
 characterized by great activity. In lS80 a Woman's Missionary 
 Circle was formed, and is well maintained. 
 
 In 1S81, at the time of eigh'y-second anniversary celebration, 
 there had been some decline, and perhaps not more than half of 
 those added in 1878 were residents and in active service. Many 
 of the vigorous, active younger members were removing to other 
 i)laces, and one very promising young man, Edgar S. Tracy, a 
 great grandson of the founder of the church, had died, Septem- 
 ber 17, ISSO. 
 
 CONTINUED BY A. G. BAKER. 
 
 Since the cheering exercises of the eighty-second anniversary 
 in 1881 the church has prospered as well as could reasonably be 
 expected. Our esteemed brother, Columbus Scofield, died Octo- 
 ber 10, 1881. He had been one of the most generous supporters 
 of the church for years, and left about $500 as a perpetual leg- 
 acy, the interest only to be used for the benefit of the church, 
 and known as the "Scofield Legacy." Durhig the next year two 
 more of our aged members, Samuel Chaffee and Deacon Isaac 
 Janes, were called to their reward, the latter after faithfully 
 serving for thirty-nine years as deacon of the church. 
 
 About that time the church edifice was thoroughly renovated 
 and repaired and was much improved by fresh paint, paper, new 
 carpets and a clock. In the same year a license to prea(5h was 
 
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 givon t(j Dt'acoii W. G. Scofiold, mid for several yoars he su[)|)liod. 
 ill the aliseiice of the pastor, this church, Berkshire Centre and 
 East Franklin. It bec;:ime evifU'tit that he possessed lah'iits 
 which, if exercised, \v(^uld make liim a useful minister of the 
 l^ospel, and on May 20, LS'S."). the cimreh retpirsted iiis ordina- 
 tion to the gospel ministry, and June 21th was the day appointed. 
 Delegates wrre presi'nt fnjm twelve ditl'erent churches. Br*.)ther 
 Scotic^ld related his ( ■liristinn ex])erience, call to the ministry and 
 doctriiifd belicl'. After deliberation the delegates ex])ressed en- 
 tire satisfaction witii the exaniina!;ion and unanimously voted to 
 ))roceed with the ordiinition. as follows: Invocation. Kev. G. F. 
 Pay; n ading of Scri[)tures, Ivev. J. T. Buzzell; prayer. Rev. J. 
 G. Lorimer; sermon, Rev. A. G. l.'pham; ordaining [)rayer. 
 Rev. A. L. Arms; charge to canilidate, Rev. A. C. Votey; hand 
 of fellowship, Rev. G. H. Parker; address to church. Rev. T. Tel- 
 lier. A. L. Armes was moderator and E. (). Smith clerk. 
 
 July 7, 1885, the church sustained n great loss in the death 
 of Deacon Casper B. Hibbard. He had been a deacon of the 
 church since 18 1:8, and was sorely missed as a wise counsellor, a 
 liberal giver and a most faithful attendant at the services of the 
 church. In the same month Brothers John Broe and Luther R. 
 Smith, Jr., were elected deacons to fill the places left vacant by 
 Rev. W. G. Scoiiehl and the late Deacon C. B. Hibbard. 
 
 The resignation of W. G. Scotield as church clerk was also 
 accepted and Miss Ella E. Tracy a[)point.ed his successor. Brother 
 ScoHeld was then re(| nested to act as associate [);\stor and to 
 [)reach every alternate Sabbath. Soon after this he became 
 legally quidiHed to marry an<l to make reconls of civil status. 
 Soon the Baptist church Jit Richford gave him a call to their 
 vacant pastorate. Much to the regret of Ix^th pastor and church 
 at Abbott's Corner he accepted the call, and r( nuned thither in 
 November, 188(), where he still remains. The church records 
 bear the following entry by the clerk: "Words of mine can]H)t 
 express the loss we shall fed as a church and i)eo[)le when 
 Pastor Scotield anil family leave 'Daisy Farm.'"' Brot'iier Sco- 
 field and wife took letters to the church in Richl'ord August 7. 
 1887, and in the sisnie month Pastor A. L. Arms presented a let- 
 ter from th(> church at Richi'drd. and in November following his 
 wife, Maria R. Arms, was also received bv letter. 
 
 In 1888 th(> church, with the app,r(^bation of the [)astor. on- 
 
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 supplied. 
 Mitre and 
 ;1 <nk>nts 
 •r of the 
 ■5 ordina- 
 p{)oiiitod. 
 Br*.)tlH'r 
 lish'v and 
 :'ssed en- 
 • vott'd to 
 ;ev. G. F. 
 i\ Rev. J. 
 r prayer. 
 
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 hand 
 
 V. T. Tel- 
 •k. 
 
 the death 
 )n of the 
 ;usellor, a 
 es of the 
 blither Pv. 
 :aeant bv 
 
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 was also 
 
 Brother 
 
 • and to 
 
 became 
 il status. 
 
 to their 
 d church 
 hitlier in 
 1 recorils 
 )e cannot 
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 iier Sco- 
 Uij^nst 7. 
 ted a h't- 
 )\vin;^" his 
 
 istur. en- 
 
 ira<red Student J. R. Jackson (jf MacMaster University, Toronto, 
 during his tive months vacation, to preach here every Sunday 
 morning and at East Franklin or elsewhere in tlie afternoon. At 
 the close of this period Pastor Arms went on with the work as 
 before. 
 
 In June, 1889, the church, which had for many year.s })!>en a 
 member of the Lamoille Association in Vermont, witlulrew and 
 united with the Eastern Association in Quebec. In the sununer 
 of 181)2 J. P. Mclntyre, M. D.. then a student of MacMaster, 
 served as pastor during the summer months. In 18'.);3, Pastor 
 Arms' failing health and loss of voice made it so dillicult for him 
 to preach that it was decided to engage a student pastor every 
 summer, if possible, and Rev. W. G. Scotield otfered to sii|)ply 
 in winter part of the time. A. J. Darrock. from MacMaster, was 
 next secured, and served during the summers of l8*,)-l-r), doing 
 faithful and «>arn<est work. The three years following. lS'.M)-',)7-l>S. 
 Student Y. A. King served during the summer UKjnths. Much 
 interest was shown during these seasons: several wer«' ba[)tized 
 and united with the church, and a Christian Endeavor Society 
 was orijanized. 
 
 In tlie fall of 1898 Student A. G. Baker w.-is ens^atjfed for one 
 year, and is with us today. His faithful services have been 
 much ap[)recialed, and his good al)ility as hauler of the church 
 and Young People's Society have given ample assurance of his 
 future usefulness in the Lord's vineyard. Four have been baptized 
 into the church during the year. Brother Scotield up to the tinn? 
 «)f Brother Baker's coming, had supjjlied the [)u!pit every alternate 
 Sunday in the afternoon during the winter months. The church 
 in lNlJ4 appointed him assistant pastor so that he can legally 
 [)erform burial service and make records of civil status. In May, 
 ls'.)7. Miss Ella E. Tracy, our church clerk for twelvi- years, re- 
 signed on account of her marriage, and removal to a new home. 
 Always active and zealous in the work of the church, she was 
 and is grtmtly missed, as is also her old home, whose d(jors were 
 always hos[)itably open to any servant of the Lord who might 
 chance to pass this way. Mrs. Deacon Broe was elected clerk, 
 and continues in that otfice at the prsent time. 
 
 Daring the past two years several former members of the 
 Ba[)tist Church in Berkshire have united with us, and from the 
 nundjer Brother Harvey Chaffee was in 181M5 fleeted deacon. 
 
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 These together with some recently baptized, have oonRiderablv 
 Btrengthened the church and have given cheer to those IZ hve 
 so long borne the burden and heat of the day 
 
 Several years ago Rev. A. L. Arms tendered his resignation as 
 pastor, to take ett'ect as soon as a successor could be'oUa e d 
 j4s this difficult work could not be accomplished, lie still reta ns 
 ns pastoral relations with the church, and although he has not 
 been able to preach since December, 1893, he continues to take 
 out the annual Register of Civil Status, and does such pastoitl 
 work as ho IS able to perform. Present membership 46 ^ 
 
 And today v.^ here see the fulfillment of our hopes and plans 
 
 Mc do erect the stone " Ebenezer." reverently and devoutlv 
 Baymg, " Hitherto hath the Lord helped us." «Ae%outl) , 
 
 It 
 
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siderjibly 
 who hivo 
 
 nation as 
 obtained. 
 11 retains 
 
 has not 
 8 to take 
 
 pastoral 
 
 ind plans 
 occasion 
 levoutlv. 
 
 EXTRACTS FROM CHURCH RECORDS. 
 
 April 25'", 1801, After our Cov^ Meeting, the Coin^""' appointed to 
 confer with Elder Hiblard about takiu}; the Charge of the C'''', made 
 their Report to the C'"' from the Elder in writing as follows (viz) 
 
 To the C'" of Christ in the East Parish in S*. Armand Brethren be- 
 loved in the Lord, as you did by your vote at our last Gov' Meeting 
 Give me a call to the Pastoral Care, & Charge of the C" as your 
 Elder: I feel to acknowledge the Respect you have Manifested 
 towards me with gratitude : — And having indeavoured to view & weigh 
 Every circumstance as far as I am able, as to the State of the C*"', the 
 Gethering and Increase of the C'", «& its present Order; And my 
 heart felt union to this Dear branch of Zion, which I believe to be the 
 Purchase of the blood of Christ. 
 
 As also the Dealings of God in Providence toward me in first Influ- 
 encing me first to move iuto these parts believing it my Duty, as there 
 were very few Preachers hereabout, and the hard strugle I had with 
 the old Man, or the flesh. The unspeakable satisfaction, and abun- 
 dant Joy I have had in seeing the Lord carry on his work in this 
 place, and the Privelege of Waiting on the lambs of Christ, indeav- 
 ouring to feed the Sheep and lambs of the flock, which if I have been 
 iuabled to do the Lord be praised. 
 
 And altho' I Dare not presume that I have any Spiritual Children 
 in the C"" here. Yet they feel near to my heart as Dear Children in 
 the Lord, Therefore to take the Spicial Care, and charge of this C'"' 
 feels like Duty, and priveledge united together ; and if I am so happy 
 as to do no harm I shall be glad. But if the Lord blesses me with wis- 
 dom and Grace to be faithfull in my duty So as to be of Service to 
 the C'"' my happiness will be Great. Bretlireu pray for me, the Grace 
 of our Lord, Jesus, Chri4 be with you AMEN. 
 
 I subscribe myself Your B' in Gospel bonds. 
 
 JED" HIBBARD 
 To the Baptist C"" 
 Christ in S\ Armand 
 
 The C''' having sent out letters Missive to scjveral C'""* to come and 
 set in Council and set apart Elder Jed'' Hibbard to the Spicial Care, 
 and Charge of this C"''. The Council Convened according to the de- 
 sire of the C"" on August 27*" 1801, at Roger Hibbard's. 
 
 (viz) 
 
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 Orwc'll 
 
 Fiiirfax 
 
 Sutton 
 
 Bolton 
 
 Swauton 
 West ford 
 
 Hatley & 
 StanHted 
 
 Delegates 
 Elder EInathan Felps 
 Eider Joseph Call 
 Elder William Marsh 
 D" Calkins 
 D" Lothrop 
 B' 8am' Brown 
 Elder Ezra Butler 
 D" David Atkins 
 B' Edward Fay 
 B' David Hurlbut 
 D" Joshua Calkins 
 D" David Cambel 
 Elder Tho^ Brown 
 B' Chase 
 B' Burdick 
 B' Abi.il Abbott 
 B' Nat' Jewett 
 
 Ihe solemnity opened by publiek Worship, Elder Butler preach" 
 « srmon from I Tim. 4, 0. Elder Felps Gave the Chaim^ And 
 Elder Cal gave the Right Hand of Fellowship- and El'fer Brown 
 made the ast prayer.- Elder Hibbard Gave out the Psalm rul d h it 
 the Assembly.— In behaif of the Council 
 
 Attest JOSEPH CALL. Moderator 
 
 ^, . , , SAM' BROWN, Scribe 
 
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 gislature, 
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 .. 13. 11. 
 
 CENTENNIAL DISCOURSE. 
 
 BY LEWI5 B. HIBBARD. HIGHLAND PARK. ILL 
 
 III some respects this is the most nuirvelous of all the centu- 
 ries ill the world's history. It is the i)rodiict of all that have 
 f^one before it, and the achievements of this century are the cul- 
 mination of all antecedent ^'enerations, or as the distinj^uishinl 
 Scotch preacher, William M. Taylor, D. D., phrased it '-The 
 [>rogress of the ages is made through the deposit l"ft hy each 
 successive generation of individual men. * * * Wo are the 
 heirs of all preceding generations.'" Hence the nineteenth is the 
 crown and climax of all the centuries. The biographer or Vic- 
 toria's Prime Ministers, G. Barnett Smith, says In his openino- 
 paragraph on Lord Melbourne, "The half century which began 
 with Mell)ourne and culminated in Gladstone is the most remark- 
 able in some respects in the whole annals of the Anglo-Saxon 
 race." All this is according to a deep-laid, far-reaching, divine 
 plan, and all history is the evolution of God's eternal Uiought, 
 the unfolding of his unchanging plan, and the resistless march of 
 his irrevocable purpose. It was this thought which sugg(>sted 
 tlu^ sermon, " Every Man's Life a Plan of God," by a celebrated 
 New England preacher. It was the same truth as seen by Lord 
 Tennyson which inspired those oft-repeated lines: 
 
 "I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, 
 And the tliouphts of men are widened with tlie process of the suns." 
 
 Pushing out from its ancestral home in Central Asia, the 
 Aryan race moved westward, the late brilliant Elias L. Magoon, 
 D. D., said: '-The travels of men and the trade currents of^God' 
 move spontaneously and perpetually toward the W(>st;" or as 
 Bishop Berkley's familiar exprer,.-.i()n reads: '-Westward the 
 course of Empire takes it way." In its westward march it 
 builded such nations as Greece and Roin(>. who carried their civ- 
 ilization, the highest and best the worhl had or could produce, to 
 the ends of the known world. They liad even pushed throu<di 
 the straits of Gibralter up the coasts'of Spain and France to the 
 British isles. Then the worhl waited fifteen long centuries, prac- 
 
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 ticnlly inidor Latin control. During those long woary centuries 
 of waitinjj the An<rlo- Saxon and Teutonic races were beinj; de- 
 veloped as competitors of the then dominant Latin races. At the 
 close of the tifteenth century America was discovered. Th<> six- 
 teenth century saw the beginning, while the seventeenth wit- 
 nessed the culmination and glory of the colonization era. This 
 was done in a solid, substantial and enduring manner by tiie 
 Anglo-Saxon and Teutonic colonists in New England and alon^ 
 the Atlantic seaboard. They had one immense advantage over 
 other colonies and the nations of Europe in that they did not 
 have all sorts and conditions of men in their new colonies. Will- 
 iam Sfiiughton, in an election sermon in Massachusetts in 1()8S, 
 a famous year in Anglo-Saxon history, said: "God sifted a whole 
 nation that he might send choice grain into the wilderness of 
 of New England." And another historian describes the colonists 
 and founders of New England as "the sifted wheat of the old 
 world,"' and Professor John Fiske, the brilliant historian of our 
 day, says: "In all history there has been no other instance of 
 colonization 30 exclusively effected by picked and chosen men.'' 
 The colonists from France and S[)ain, the Latin races, were far 
 less satisfactory; they had little or no genius for successful coloni- 
 zation, and hence ultimately lost all they attempted. The choice 
 colonists of New England gave her vast influence and power in 
 the counsels of the nation. Sometimes English jails and poor- 
 houses were emptied on the Southern colonies, hence the poor 
 "white trash" of the present day. 
 
 The colonization of America revealed wonderful possibilities 
 of wealth and empire to European statesmen and of such bound- 
 less limits as Alexajider and Cmsar never dreamed. None saw 
 these j)ossibilities more clearly, and measured them more accurately 
 than tlid the Roman hierarchy, and in this matter of American 
 colonization she had no rival. Far-seeing in her sagacity; wise- 
 planning in her counsels; unrelaxing aiul resourceful in her grip 
 and power, she had no equal during the sixteenth and seventeenth 
 centuries in the wisdom and scope of her plans and efforts for the 
 conquest of this continent. Through France, the favorite son of 
 the church, she colonized Canada, pushed forward a line of forts 
 and missions all the way up the river St. Lawrence, throuifh the 
 long uubr«iken chain of the (ireat Lakes to Chicago, a mere swamji 
 and sand ridge; thence over a narrow portage of some tliirty miles. 
 
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 — tlu'cugh wlilch thr greiit Chicfigo Draiiuige Canal has jnst l.tM'u 
 <;uiistnictr(l --into the Illinois river, down that into the Missis- 
 sipju find so on to tlu> (Jnlf of M* xico. Snnultaneoiis with tliis 
 WHS tlu> seizure of Fiorithi and the West Indies bv Spain, and 
 ihiis the Lfitin races formed a crescent on three sides of the Aii- 
 glo-Siixon and Dutch colonists on the Atlantic Coast. Such a 
 state of things woulil sooner or later conipid a eontiiet and death 
 grapple belv.'een tlie old I-atin races and their English and (<er- 
 uian com|)etitors for the ])(;ssessitin and cxjntrol of this va.-^t Aniev- 
 itan contini'nt. The fascinating [lages of the l)rilliant iiiid accu- 
 rate Parknian abound in eviilence on tluse points. liiMicethe 
 Indian wars from which th.e English and Dutch colonists sut- 
 I'ered. The teni[)orary defeat at l^'orr Du<juesue in ITo."). followed 
 hy the derisive eoniiict at (^)uebe(,' in 1757. which Bancroft pro- 
 nounced "one of the most momentous in the annals of mankind," 
 !;ave to the Iihiglish tongue and the institutions of the (rermanic 
 raee the unexplored and seemingly inhnite West and North, and, 
 as Piilfrey lacoiiically (^xpri-sses it, "the French l']m[)ire in Amer- 
 ica was crushed." The fate of the Latin race on this continent 
 wMs practically settled, and the supremacy of the Anglo-Saxon 
 and Teutonic eslablished The last vestige (jf Latin rule was nt)t 
 gone, but on that Se[)tt^mber day, 1707. on the Hights of Abra- 
 }'.!un. the (rod of Providence uttered his voice against Latin con- 
 trol, whieh Ki'V. Samuel Niles, a distinguished Ccdonial preaeher 
 and historian, styled ''a woiulerful work of Divine Providence." 
 C(jlemporaneous with these events was the battle oP Plassy. 
 where CMive. whoi^e genius, with that of Warren Hastings, gave 
 England her empire in India, with 1.01)0 IJrltish and 'J.OOO 
 Sepoys utterly routed t)S,000 natives. Thus during a brief [)eriod 
 of two ami a half years the Anglo-Saxon race had secured for- 
 ever the control of the North American continent and all South- 
 ern Asia, and henceforth its morning drum-beat "circles the 
 globe with one continuous strain of tlu' martial airs of iMiglaud." 
 Wat(n'lo<i's fateful day, — June IT), ISL"), — was a reiteration, on 
 their (nvn soil, to the nations of ContimMitfd Europe, of the irre- 
 vocable Divine decree issued on the Hights of Abraham, for as 
 \'ictor Hugo says, " Waterhio is not a battle; it is a change of 
 front of the Ciuverse." The sigidlicance of the late war in C.'uba, 
 Porto Kico and the Philippine Islands, lies in this: the time had 
 come when the last traces of this old dtH-ayiug, incom[>(^teat ;nid 
 
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 ()ut-(if-(lnli' Liitin control uiiist be wi[)(^(l out. in fart ns well oh in 
 historic ])ro|)lu'cv. hoMCvcr t'tir aticki sonic of our nintcrinlisti*' 
 political jdiilosophcrs may wander in tlicir intcr[)rt'tatioii of llicsi' 
 events. 
 
 This decree of Anglo-Teutonic domination had been entered 
 ore the dawn (^f the Nineteenth Centurv. and the iVmericnn Ri'V- 
 olution, siTinlngly an interiucine contlict between men of the same 
 ancestry, speech and religion, was really enacted to secure the 
 development of that suju'emacy on this continent according to 
 the new American ideals — free from all the trammels, traditions 
 and limitations, as well as the reactionary ideas and tendeut-ies of 
 the ok] world, though the English King and his [u'emier could 
 not see it. The results secured to freedom by Cromwell and his 
 Bible reading, praying and Psalm-singing ()ld Ironsides, were 
 not to be lost to the coming race, perpetuating the language of 
 Milton and Shakes})ere. Hence, King (Tcorge the Third and his 
 type of statesmanship were doomed from all eternity. 
 
 But there were some good, honest, American bin'n and bred 
 men who could not see this; they were Loyalists, luA traitors, and 
 not a few of them, rather than renounce their allegiance to their 
 King, returned to their native land, or, like the Huguenots of 
 Fran(!e, tln^y sought new homes in foreign lands. Ri'V. Jedediah 
 Hibbard, the founder of this church, was one of tlu^se Loyalists. 
 Having g(Mie from his native Canterbury, Conn., to Lebanon and 
 Cornish, N. H., where he remained for more than thirty vears 
 after the surrender of Cornwallis — performing much missionary 
 labor both in that State and Central Vermont — he pushed his 
 way up into Canada and located here in this connnnnity, giving 
 the balance of his life to this [)eople. 
 
 A hundred years aj^o! What a strange world it was. and what 
 strange possibilities were before it. The French Revolution was, 
 ns Carlyle rightly says, "n revolt of the oppressed lower classes 
 against the (Oppressing or neglt^cting u^iper classes; not a French 
 revolt oidy. No, a European one; full of stern monition to all 
 ccmntrles of Europe." This Revolution had jiist passetl; Napo- 
 leon — the mightiest intellectual force the world had known sinct* 
 C;esar--ruling with an iron hand, was at the zenith of his ])ower 
 and glory. In England, the most enlightened, most favored 
 and farthest advanced nation of Europe, the old sixteenth cen- 
 tury ideas were still dominant, and the policy of George the Third 
 
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 tcrialistic 
 II ol: llicpc 
 
 I entered 
 ie;iu Rev- 
 tbe same 
 ['cure the 
 )r(liiig to 
 trailitioiis 
 leiu-ies of 
 lier could 
 1 mid his 
 des. uta'e 
 i^unii'e of 
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 and bred 
 itoi'H, and 
 e to their 
 aenots of 
 JecU'diali 
 Lioyalists. 
 inon and 
 
 tv years 
 issionary 
 
 slied his 
 V. i>"ivin'-'' 
 
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 tion was, 
 
 r ehisses 
 I French 
 m to all 
 d; Napo- 
 \vn since 
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 held on for yet thirty yi-ars. Chatham and Hnrke Inid passed 
 away; Pitt was near the end of his career; the brilliant Canning:; 
 Was in his prime, but it was not till 1SH2 that Earl (irey, Brou<j;ham 
 and their associates carried tlii^ historic Reform Bill; nor till 184<5 
 that Sir Robert Peel -who, according to the liistorian. was the 
 "<^reat<'st parliamentary ca])tain of his time''- -made his C'onserv- 
 ative party, created by himself, carry the re[)eal of the ol)n()xious 
 and op])ressive Corn Laws, therel)y ado[)tinj; the policy which his 
 political antagoinsts, Richard Cobden, Charles Villerd, John 
 Bri<i^h' and Lord John Russell, had 8o Un\^ advocated, a feat 
 which Justin McCarthy says gave proof of his rare statesman- 
 ship. Dickens and Thackeray, aiid CoImU'U and Bright, and 
 (iladstone and others, nn n who so largely made Great Britain 
 what she has been in this century, were unborn when this churcli 
 was founded. Her gracious Majesty, Queen Vict(jria — "whom 
 God preserve'" — was not l)orn till the founder of this (diurch had 
 l)een nine years in his grave down yonder in the Parish O'ln- 
 etery. The close of the last and the beginning of this century 
 was. as Prof. H. Morse Stephens, the historian, says, '"not only a 
 period of destruction, but a j)eri(xl of construction, and a time 
 when dtmiocracy was going to have its say in English [)oliticH," 
 and I may add in world-wide politics as well. 
 
 Since the years embraced in the history of this church and 
 those of this century are the same. I propose during the hcnir 
 you have allotted me in this cejitennial service to speak of 
 
 SOME OF THE PROBLEMS AND ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE NINETEENTH 
 CENTURY AND THEIR SKINIPICANCE. 
 
 The illustrations employed will be drawn, for obvious rea- 
 8ons, largely from this continent and the coml»ined field of Amer- 
 ican and Anglo-Saxon history. What, then, were some «>f these 
 problems and how have they been solved V 
 
 First- -The peopling of the e)>tir»^ country from sea to sea. 
 When this church was founded the United States did not possess 
 all the territory east of the Mississippi river. S[)ain ceded Flor- 
 ida in ISP,). The Province of Louisiana, extending from Puget 
 Sound to the Gulf of Mexico, came from France in ISOH: Texas 
 was annexed in 1.S45; California, Nevada and I'tah. with portions 
 of Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona were ceded by Mexico in 
 l8iS; the little Gadsen Purchase, south of Arizona, war> made 
 
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 ill I'V-5(>, niid Al;l^■ka ciiiu' from Knssifj in lx()7. Trvrlturijilly. tlio 
 Mfilioii li.is cxpaiKlcd to tin* couiitrNS liuiit. oitlv tin- Doiuiiiioii of 
 Ciiiiada. Mixico and the Central Anu'i'l-jan Statrs nwait annex- 
 ation to (•oiui)!rte tlie continent What in more- — tlu' Ignited 
 Stales one liiindred years a^o liad lef-s than six uullions of peo- 
 ple. To-(hiy there fire nearly stiventy-tive millions; that is, the 
 pojiulatiou istwelvetimes as lar<^e as when thisc'iureh was founded 
 Our old An;4lo-Saxon home-land has j^rown fritui nine to forty 
 millions, while our little neii>;!il)()riii<r Stat*^ of Vermont, wdiieh in 
 the nine years from I7t>l to ISOI) o-rew from SH.-t-DU to 1.") l-,4()"). 
 now re[)()rts H:rJ.422. No one dreamed then that the st>at of 
 American power would nltimatt'ly be found in tlie Mississip))i 
 \'alh>y: that out on those then unlnoken, unpeo[)!ed and unex- 
 l)lored prairies l']m|)ire States were to bo builded. To-day those 
 o-real C'eidral States, whose unmeasured possil)ilities are in the 
 early stages of their develo|)ment. hold in their hands the destiny 
 iKjt only of the great American Kei)ublic. but of the North Aaner- 
 ican continent; aye. the t^ntire New World [)erha})S the world 
 itself. 
 
 When this church was founded, in 17'''.), this Mississl[)pi Val- 
 ley had only a vovy limiteil and widely scattered [)o[)ulation. To- 
 day it has thirty millions of j)oo[)le. atid at the rate of national 
 increase during the c(Mitury. when you gathi'r Inn'e in lU',)',) to 
 celeitrave tin- second ciMitenniid of this church tha^, valley will 
 ha\i' a population of well nigh three hundred and fifty millions, 
 and will then outstrip in wealth, [)oj)ulation and power any civil- 
 ized nation now on the face of llu^ glob(\ The city of (Chicago 
 had no existenc.-e when this church was founded. In 1812 it was 
 a little frontier stockade tort, with a few soldiers; in lS;jO, it 
 liad seventy inha!)itauts, about the size of your own Abbott's 
 Corner vilhige; in ISiM. the year of my birth, it had three hun- 
 dred inhabilants, about the siz(? of Frelighsburg. now, as always, 
 the "shir*'" t>f our East Parish of St. Armand. Tcuhiv Chica<i:o 
 boasts a )>o[)ulation of two million, or fr(jm one-third to one-half 
 the entire ])o[)ulalion t)f the Dominion of Canntla, or more than 
 s'x times the [>opu!ation of tlie State of Vermont. These are 
 san)})li'S of the way the century has been peo[)!ing this continent. 
 The next prol)lem of the century was this: 
 
 Second T'he building of centers or focal points of tlu^ social, 
 intelleclual and religious life and power of the nation. A hun- 
 
2U- 
 
 tDriiiUy. the 
 )()iniMioii of 
 fiiii aiiiH'X- 
 tlu' l^iiitctl 
 
 lllS of [M'O- 
 
 tliat is, till" 
 ■Mri foinidcd 
 111' to forty 
 t. whic'li ill 
 to lo ^j^r*.'), 
 
 ho S(>!»t of 
 
 Mi.ssissi[ii)i 
 and uiH'X- 
 xhiv those 
 are in the 
 thi' (U'rttiny 
 ortli Amer- 
 i tlic! worhl 
 
 :ssi[)j)i Val- 
 ition. To- 
 f iiaticMial 
 in llHM) to 
 Viilley will 
 y millions. 
 
 my eivil- 
 )f (Uiicago 
 Hi'l it was 
 n is;j(). it 
 I Abbott's 
 hree bun- 
 as always. 
 V Chiea<>'o 
 
 ) one-half 
 nore than 
 These are 
 continent. 
 
 th(^ sociab 
 A hun- 
 
 dred years ago there wore no eilies, in our inoch'rn sense of that 
 term, and such as tlu>re were, were small and scattered; the over- 
 whelming majority of th(> {K'o[)le lived in the country, oii farms 
 or manors, r.s in Virginia, after the old Kuropeau custdm. ITence 
 the country man, the country church, country people^ and polit- 
 ical lenders were the prominent oms. The doininant factors of 
 the life of that day were (jf tlu> country. Today [n)[)ulation is 
 niiissing in tiie cities, (jver one-third of the entire p.o[)ulation 
 of the nation b(>ing there now, and in a few years, experts say. 
 more than ludf will be in cities. Hence, tlu' right and successful 
 government of (uties is the most serious and [vrjilexing problem 
 of the age, but its solution [)asses over to the twentieth century. 
 Thirty years ago I settled in a Vermont iown of about oik- thou- 
 sand inhabitants. In LSUO its population was reduced to bil, a 
 loss of 2S;}. or over twenty-tlve per cent, in t\v(j and twenty 
 vears, and the last United States census revealed over te'ii tluni- 
 sand other country to\\ns in a similar decline, though the po[)ula- 
 tion of the nation is rapidly increasing. 
 
 During the last one hundred years the po[)ulatioii of the coun- 
 try has multi[)lied twelve times; that of the cities has niulti[)lied 
 over t'ighty-six times. Still further, our population is being 
 •• foreignized"' with strange rapidity. When this century opened 
 the population of New Eiighmd per hundred consisted of ninety- 
 eight Americans nnd two foreignei's. Today out of ev«n'y hun- 
 dred inhabitants Now Orleans has 51 foreigners and 4',) Amer- 
 icans; Boston, i>il foreigners and 87 Americans; Butfalo, 71 for- 
 eigners and 29 Americans; St. Louis, 7S foreigners and 22 Amer- 
 icans; Milwaukee, 84 foreigners and l(j Americans; Chicago, W) 
 foreigners and 10 Amroicans. Experts in criminology say these 
 foreigners are two and a half times as prone to crime and throe 
 times as [)rt)ne to pauperism as oar native-born Americans. Is it 
 any wonder that poverty and [)auperism, and mobs and crimes of 
 all kinds abound in (jur cities? Nearly half a century ago as 
 keen an observer as Do Toquevillo said: "I look upon the size 
 <jf certain American cities, and especially u[)on the nature of their 
 population, as n real danger whicli threatens the security of the 
 republic of the New World." Again, a[)parently the power of 
 Protestantism has been declining in these largo cities. A hun- 
 dred years ago in Boston, for examf)!©, there was a Protestant 
 church for every 1,2(J0 of its population; today there is one for 
 
_22- 
 
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 ovi-ry 2.0OO of its iMiuibilaiits. Sixty yrnrs )i<j;'n Chicago had n 
 Cliristiaii cimrch for al)oat «'V('ry ^Od of its pcojilc: today it has 
 one for every l-'. -")<)() to ;{.(M)0 of licr inhabitants. Tiiat is the 
 forces wiiich make for sin and poverty, an<l crime and anarchy, 
 and ruin are several times as strong t(jday as they were when this 
 <'hurcli was founded. We du not wonder sometimes, then, that 
 »lumi'S Kiissell Lov.ell should write, '"'IVuth forever on tin' scaf- 
 fold, wron*.,' forever on the thron*'." lint those whose BihK'S have 
 not l)een ''expur^i^ated'" of ins[)ii*ed and inspiring historie facts 
 and cr.rdinal truths bv the '*liiiifher critics." so-called, will not 
 for<;et that in the hour of Israel's extrenn* [)eril the death an<4('l 
 of her covenant-keejiiiif^ (lod ])asstHl oviT the beHie<(in,i'; cam[) of 
 the enemy and Tsn.tXM) of the Assyrian soldiers sle[)t the sU'cjj 
 that knows ncj waking in a single night. 
 
 Third -The economic and industrial prol>Iem. or the dev»'lop- 
 ment of the earth's resources and the utilization of naliin'S 
 unmeasured forces. A hundred y«\'n's ago it required six days I0 
 make the wearvin*;. comfortless lournev from IJoston to New 
 York, a distance of 217 mih's; it is now made, with all the lux- 
 urious coud\)rts of an elei^ant hon.ie. in as manv hours. The 
 bioijraphv of the lato .losiah Uuincv of Boston contains an amus- 
 ing account of liis tri|) in ITU") in an old stagt^ coach occuj)ying 
 the entire wetdv. When this church was founded a U!o(h'ni rail- 
 road was uiidreamed of. The first loconjotive for hauling trains 
 was used in Enghuid in 1S()4, moving ten tons of freight t\\r 
 miles an hour, a wonderful achievement tlien. In iS'Jo [)assen- 
 ger trains were hauled over the Stockton cV: Darlington road in 
 England. Imt not till the opening of tli(> Liverpool it Manchester 
 railroad in iNiJO was a pa.ssenger tratiic established with modern 
 traction engiia^s. and when George Ste[)liensofi told the connnittee 
 of Piirliamejit he hojxnl iji time to reach a speed of twelve miles 
 j)er hour they were shocked and tilled with fright at th.e [)eril 
 involved. The first successful sleandioat was Robert Fulton's 
 ••C'i(U*nnjnt"* on the Hudson in 1807, two years before Jedediah 
 Hibbard, the found(>r of this cliundi, died. Dr. Lardfier, the 
 eminent Lontlon scientist, went down to Liver[)ool iji Dect.'nd)er, 
 iNiJo, and delivered a course of If.K'tures. in one »jf which he 
 demonstrated, with scientific accuracy, the al)8olnte im[)ossibility 
 of a steamship crossing the Atlantic. A[)ril 5th. iSiiH, ■•Sirius" 
 steamed out of Cork, and April 2;? she was sighted down the bay 
 
— 2M- 
 
 todiiy it liiiH 
 
 TImt is th(' 
 
 nil! (uiareliy. 
 
 rr when this 
 
 'S. then, tliitt 
 
 oil tlio scnf- 
 
 Bihlt'S have 
 
 iiHtoric factjj 
 
 led. will not 
 
 (If'.'itli all;^•(>l 
 
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 I six (lays \u 
 
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 nil tlu' lux- 
 
 lours. The 
 
 lis an aiiius- 
 
 occnpyiii^r 
 
 odcni rail- 
 
 Hii^;' < rains 
 
 ■vcio-ht fivf 
 
 '2'") [jasscn- 
 
 (^n road in 
 
 MaiK'liestcr 
 
 ith modorii 
 
 (•oniiniltoo 
 
 rt't'lv*' UlilcH 
 
 t the [H>ril 
 t Fnlton's 
 V Jodcdiali 
 rdficr. the 
 D(H'».'inl )(')•. 
 wliicli he 
 i[K!Ssibility 
 ^, -.Sirius" 
 All tilt' bay 
 
 at Nl'W York, and f oner jiciird Wcndt-Il I'liillips smv to a liuston 
 aiidiciifc that in the (•ar<jjo of tlif ••Sirius"' was a oonsii^'inncnt of 
 vohiincs containliiif Dr. liardiu-r's famous IrctuiH". The •"Siriiis" 
 was a shijt «>f U'J tons luirdin. and she made the transatlantii- 
 voyai;i' in In days. The C'anipania. of the (.'unard line is a 
 vcssi'l of 1:>.(H)(I tons and has inatU' tlu> vovnire in •") da\s. 7 hours 
 and 2o minntis. Tlu- Saxonia, just laundu'd, is of lN,tK)l) fon^ 
 capacity, or l-'J tiuu'S as larj^'c as the Sirius. 
 
 Then cjiint' tclej^raphs. The first siu'c<>ssful coinincrcial linr 
 was opened Ixtween Washin^ijton and l>allini(»re May 'Jttli — 
 (^ueen Victoria's hirtli day Isfl-; just three yenrs after this 
 identical l)ricU nu-eting house in which we are now assembled 
 was l)uilded. and toilay almost no country is too wild, and no 
 place too distant to tV'cl the tlirohhiu*^ heart beats of tlu' threat 
 world's life over tele«>'ra[)h lines. As we gatlu-r here in this (V-n- 
 lennial. l']n;j;lish lueii and English capital are constructin:^' a liiu' 
 from (*ape Town to Cairo, over •».()()() miles in leiijjfth, throuj^h 
 the »^'reat continent of Africa. Tlu' first successful submarine 
 line was laid in IS(»(). Tsxlay ocean beds are almost a net work 
 of cal)les. In 1S;J4- the Late Cyrus McCormick (ujiistructed his 
 first eil'ective reaper. Today Ids machines. hi«jjldy |K'rfected, 
 ''at her the harvi'sts of I'very y'rain-^frowiny^ c(niiitrv of the world. 
 Sonu' of us old men remember the slow, tedious, ])acknchiiii; 
 proce.'^s of rea[)inii; and then cradliu^jf i^rain; of thrashin*^ it with 
 a tlail; of ufatherini^ the hay crop with a hand scythe and rake, 
 and of tillinjjf the tiehl with tlie old wood and cast iron [)lows. 
 Todav it is all done by horse and steam i)ower. And it is sv) in 
 
 & • 1 
 
 every de[)nrtment of economic and industrial life; machiiu'ry does 
 the work formerly done by man, so that according to a conserva- 
 tive estimate the machinery in operation in tlu; siuLjle stall' of 
 Massachusetts, all of it invented and [)ut into service since this 
 church was founded, re[)resents tlu' workiii'.j ca[)acity of one hun- 
 dred million men. A further |)roblem was. 
 
 Fourth. — -The world's evan<;eli/ation. About seven years Ix^fore 
 this church came into existence, (October 2. t7'.>2. William Carey 
 (le!i\ered his famous sermon in Ketterin*^. iMii^land ivhicli startled 
 the r(di«^"ious life of Great F>ritain and America, ami h-d to the 
 uiuhu'taking of the grandest enterprise on earth. Of the (iroat 
 missionarv his latest and best bioijraplu'r, Geor«je Smith, savs: 
 '• William Carey's cartn-r of fifty years, h'om his ba[)tisni in 17'S;{ 
 
 t 
 
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 c. I 
 
21 — 
 
 111 
 
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 niid the composition of his Inquiry to his denth iii 1834, covered 
 and influenced more than any other one man's the wliole time." 
 That is indeed high praise, when we remember it was the period 
 such men as Chatham, and Burke, and Fox and Pitt ami Can- 
 ning, and Wellington, and Napoleon, were living tigures in 
 European history — that the humble, obscure, but godly eobl)ler 
 of England outstripped them all, albeit the total visible timmcial 
 capital oi his enterprise was only £13 2s. Cxi. — or alxjut v^To. 
 Little wonder that the wit ot the English church and the Whig 
 party, with the leading reviewers, sneered at the idea of evange- 
 lizing India's millions on such a financial basis as that. But 
 they eliminated the grand factor in the enteri)rise. William 
 Carey, humble and ;<bscure though he was, believed in God, and 
 when he died he left 20 vigorous Christian churches, with a 
 large, active and aggressive membership, while he and his two 
 associates had given out of their own earnings over $4(H),()00 in 
 cash, besides years of toil and life itself, to the cause of the mis- 
 sions of India; and today that little £Vd 2s. Gd., which provoked 
 the godless wit of Smith, has become a mighty stream of over 
 ten millions of dollars annually. The aud)ition of Sidney 
 Smith's life was to be a bishop (jf the English church, and he 
 failed. The ambition of William Carey was to lay the founda- 
 tion for the evangelization of India and win some souls to (iod. 
 Did he succeed? 
 
 When young Judson proposed going to India as a mission- 
 ary some of his friends urged liim to desist and become pastc.u" 
 of the large, popular, wealthy, influential and cultured Park 
 Street church in Boston. He went to Burma, and when he died 
 in 1850 his son and biographer says he left as the result of his 
 forty years work in that land iVd Christian churches, into wdiose 
 membership over 7,000 converts from heathenism had been bap- 
 tised, and the entire w'ord of God translated into the Burmese 
 language, the standard and classic in that tongue for all time. 
 As Adoniram Judson looks over the battlements of Paradise and 
 gazes on the Park Street church on one hand and redeemed 
 Burma on the other, with Christian churches, schools literature, 
 homes and a Christian civilization everywhere, think you he re- 
 grets the consecration of his young life in 1810 to foreign mis- 
 sions!* When some one, in 18()8, proposed a monument to the 
 memory of B. O. Thomas, of the Henzada mission, the stentor- 
 
25 
 
 S.94. covered 
 kvhole time." 
 IS the period 
 itt and Caii- 
 ,' figures in 
 riiUy cobbler 
 l)le tiiinncial 
 
 ab(jnt ^lo. 
 id the WhiiT 
 I ot' evaiij^e- 
 
 that. But 
 e. William 
 in God, and 
 dies, with a 
 find his two 
 ^4(H),()00 in 
 of the mis- 
 ^h provoked 
 am of over 
 I of Sidney 
 ch, and he 
 
 le foiinda- 
 
 Is to God. 
 
 a mission - 
 ome pa8t(.>r 
 ured Park 
 Ml he died 
 suit of his 
 into whose 
 been bap- 
 Burmese 
 r all time, 
 adise and 
 redeemed 
 literature, 
 ou he re- 
 eitj^n mis- 
 nt to the 
 } stentor- 
 
 ian voice of Secretary Dr. Jonah G. Warren rung out, *'Shall we 
 build n monument to his memory? Sixty churches, sixty native 
 [)astors and two thousand members are his monument already 
 erected." Does Benjamin C. Thomas need a marble pile to per- 
 [)etunte his memory? Rev. Jedediah Hibljard had been dead 
 nearly five years when American Baptists, in the old First Bap- 
 tist church in Philadelphia, organized their missionary society 
 Mfiy, 1814, and today they have 850 churches, with 1,300 [)reach- 
 ers of the gos[)el, and over 100,000 church members now living, 
 besides the tens of thousands who have died. 
 
 But the real, vital point is not statistics, however interesting 
 fiud valuable they may be. Opposers tell us there are more 
 heathen in China and India today than one hundred years ago. 
 Granted, if you will. Populations have increased very fast 
 during this century — from five to seventy-five millions with us. 
 But the crux of the whole matter is the effect of Christian mis- 
 sions on the great fabric of heathenism. Is Christianity chang- 
 ing, reconstructing the framework, the fundamental structure of 
 heathenism in respect of its personal, social, intellectual, political 
 and religious life? 
 
 If it is, missions are a success; if it is not, they are a failure. 
 It is the testimony of missionaries of the longest service; of the 
 largest experience; broadest culture; most far-reaching sagacity 
 and comprehensive grasp, that missions are doing just this work; 
 and this view is confirmed by the observations of the most com- 
 [)etent, fair-minded and careful travelers from all lands, and, 
 above all. by that large, thoroughly educated and competent body 
 of civil and military servants of Great Britain and other lands. 
 Their united testimony is to the effect that these missions have 
 practically honeycombed those ancient and stately paganisms 
 through and through, so that, ou almost any special occasion, 
 they are ready to crumble to the ground, leaving the heathen 
 world free for occupation and control by our triumphant Chris- 
 tianity. 
 
 Since the delivery of this discourse I have read the fascinat- 
 ing life of the late Prof. Henry Drummond, and I insert his esti- 
 mate of the worth of missionary work given after his last world 
 tour, in 181(0, embracing Australia, the New Hebrides,China, Japan 
 and North America: "Most of us have seen a man or two, or 
 a hundred or two — ministers, missionaries, Christian laymen — at 
 
 
— 2(5 — 
 
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 work upon the higher evolution of the world; but it is when one 
 sees them by the thousand in every land, and in every tongue, 
 and the mountain honeycombed and slowly crumbling on each of 
 its frowning sides, that the majesty of the missionary work tills 
 and inspires the mind." 
 
 Fifth,— The Kecognition of the Brotherhood of Man. The 
 unity of the human race is as old as creation itself, for God put 
 into the warp and weft of humanity as its golden stripes this 
 brotherhood of man and the comity of nations, and Paul enun- 
 ciates the law in clearest terms in that matchless tliscourse on 
 Mar's Hill, "For God hath made of one blood all nations of men 
 for to dwell on the face of the earth." This law had been in ex- 
 istence from the beginning, but it had not been rigidly enforced; 
 the world was not ripe for that, but with the coming of the nine- 
 teenth century came the fulness of God's time for its reassertion 
 and enforcement. But alas, the world could not see it. A hun- 
 dred years ago the old world was all cut up into little Ishmael- 
 itish states, kingdoms and dukedoms, the hand of each one 
 against his fellow nations, save the experiment of the ages on 
 this continent, where, as the great Lincoln said, we were trying to 
 establish a government of the people, by the people and for the 
 people. These nations were separated from each other by moun- 
 tain ranges, seas or oceans, rivers, or, in some cases, only imag- 
 inary lines, with forts and soldiers on every froidier. The 
 world's rulers, statesmen and diplomatists knew no other way, 
 and generally wanted no other way. The French Revolution had 
 practically annihilated the old feudal customs of Europe, es- 
 pecially in France, where they lingered longest, and kindled 
 aspirations for freedom and liberty and rights among the masses, 
 and with those new, widespread aspirations came changes for, 
 as Carlyle says on Chartism, ''New eras do come; there is no fact 
 surer than that they have to come." But what did the world's 
 leaders do? After the battle of Waterloo, in 1815, wIk'u tlie 
 power of Napoleon, who had been the scourge and terror of Eu- 
 rope for well nigh a score of years, was broken and France in the 
 dust, the Allies marched into Paris and restored the Bourbons! 
 No new era in that; no helping the French people and the groan- 
 ing millions of Europe to a better day and order of things. And 
 to the Congress of Vienna, the most noted diplomatic assemblage 
 the world had ever seen, Englantl sent Castlereagh, as reaction- 
 
ii 
 
 i 
 
 I 
 
 — 27 — 
 
 s when one 
 :^rv tongue, 
 • on each of 
 y work fills 
 
 Mftn. The 
 or Grod put 
 5tri[)es this 
 Paul enun- 
 iscourse on 
 ons of men 
 been in ex- 
 y enforced; 
 )f the nine- 
 reassert ion 
 i. A hun- 
 e Ishmael- 
 f each one 
 he ages on 
 pe trying to 
 uid for the 
 r by moun- 
 only imag- 
 tier. The 
 other way, 
 ^lution had 
 Curope, es- 
 [id kindled 
 the masses, 
 uinges for, 
 is no fact 
 le world's 
 when tlie 
 ror of Eu- 
 nice in the 
 Bourbons! 
 the groan- 
 ^8. And 
 sseniblnge 
 reaction- 
 
 ary as any prince of the house of Hanover; France sent the pol- 
 ished, adroit, cunning and unscrupulous Talleyrand; Austria had 
 Metternich, whom to name is enough, while Grermany and Rus- 
 sia's re[)resentatives — Hardenberg and Neselrode — were men of 
 kin(lre(l aims and sympathies — every last man of them worthy of 
 (jf the spirit of the seventeenth century, and their reactionary 
 compact filled Europe with revolutions and bloodshed for half a 
 ct'uturv. But there was God's Ihw of human brotherhood and 
 national comity which must be enforced. By miracle? No; by 
 natural means, su[)ernaturally moved and guided, for God makes 
 even the wrath of man to serve Him in executing his sovereign 
 [)ur poses in the world. 
 
 I have already spoken of the old, slow, tedious processes of 
 earlier days. When the great Lisbon earthquake occurred, Nov. 
 1, 1755, in which ()0,000 people, whole streets, blocks of build- 
 ings and wharves were swallowed up and perished forever, all in 
 eight minutes of time. Captain Joseph Hibbard — a distant kins- 
 man of the founder of this church — saw it all from his brigan- 
 tine "'Hannah" as she lay anchored well out in the harbor. He 
 immediately sailed for New York, and the day after his arrival a 
 full account of the awful calamity was published in the New York 
 Mercury. That is, it took from Nov. 1 to Dec. 27 for the news 
 to come from Portugal to America nearly eight weeks, and it 
 came very quick for those days. Th«^re could be no world-wide 
 brotherhood of man at that rate. The world — the whole world 
 — must be able to read in its morning paper an account of every 
 important event the world over of the day and night before — 
 that will put every one of us in touch with the antipodes. Hence 
 for this new era of universal brotherhood there must be these 
 three things: (1) Distance must be annihilated; (2) time must 
 be wiped out, and (ii) the treasures of the earth, the sea and the 
 air and all of nature's resources must be utilized for the service of 
 mankind, the entire race. And that is what these railroads, 
 steamships, telegraphs, telephones, steam-plows, mowers, harvest- 
 ers, electric motors and lights, and the countless other inventions, 
 together with the economical, social, industrial and educational 
 changes of this nineteenth century signify. You remember after 
 tlu'se things began to come in their fulness, Mr. Gladstone spoke 
 of us Americans as "Our Kin beyond the Sea," the first out- 
 <*roppingB of the real enduring Anglo-American Alliance. 
 
I I 
 
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 ■28 — 
 
 Is there a great fire ii>. Chicago, consuming b ildings by the 
 thousands and property by the millions? Aye, and all the 
 world knows of it in a few hours, and before noon of the next 
 day there are thousands of pounds of good solid British gi)ld 
 placed in the banks of London, and Liverpool, and Mancliester, 
 and Ijirmingham, and Glasgow, aid Edinburgh to the ord(^r of 
 the Mayor of Chicago for the relief of the sull'ering people of 
 that stricken city. That was "kin beyond sea;" th(> brotherhoixl 
 of man; the fellowship of nations; a vital Anglo-American Al- 
 liance on God's lines. 
 
 Is an American President fatally wounded by an assasin's 
 bullet in broad daylight in the nation's capital? The shocking 
 intelligence encircles the globe ere nightfall, and Mrs. Gariii^ld 
 
 receives messages from all the crowned heads of the world ere 
 the breakfast tray is borne to her chamber the next moiiiing. It 
 is "kin beyond sea," because all the nations and races are of one 
 blood, and God, the Sovereign of Worlds, is emphasizing the 
 stupendous fact. 
 
 Or does gaunt, deadly famine begin to threaten the millions 
 of the Carnatic or the Punjaub? The sad intelligence is dis- 
 patched over tremulous wires and under seas from sunburned 
 India to the farmers of Kansas, Nebraska, the Dakotas and Man- 
 itoba, and ere the sun goes down, as it were, train loads of their 
 surplus corn and wheat are on the way to the seaboard that the 
 millions of India perish not for lack of bread. It is "kin be- 
 yond sea," the Anglo-American and the Anglo-Saxon have not 
 only learned that thev are brothers, but that the hungry bronzed 
 Hindus or Moslems of India are their brethren also; and the tel- 
 egraph and the railroad and steamship have made possible this 
 godlike relief. That is what they are for in the larger economy of 
 God — their commercial uses are only secondary with Him. 
 
 Sixth— The Significance of the Wonderful Developments of 
 the Nineteenth Century. As has already been suggested, the 
 world had been getting ready during all the preceding centuries 
 for the nineteenth, the most wonderful of them all, and probably 
 more has been accomplished for the race during this one than in 
 all the centuries of the past. The significance of this century, 
 then, lies in its relations to that which is to follow. The prob- 
 lem before the world a century ago was to complete the ex})lora- 
 tion, the settlement, peopling, bringing under the control of 
 
20 — 
 
 l(lin<^s by the 
 and all the 
 1 of the next 
 British gokl 
 I Mauchiester, 
 the order of 
 iiig [)eopIe of 
 brotherhood 
 A.meriean Al- 
 an assasin's 
 rhe sliocking 
 Mrs. Garfield 
 die workl ere 
 moiiiiiifT^. It 
 :h are of one 
 ih a sizing the 
 
 the millions 
 ence is dis- 
 1 sunburned 
 as and Man- 
 lads of their 
 ird that the 
 is '-kin be- 
 n have not 
 ^ry bronzed 
 and the te\- 
 Kjssible this 
 economy of 
 
 im. 
 o[)ments of 
 gested, the 
 g centuries 
 d probably 
 ne than in 
 is century, 
 The prob- 
 ]e ex[)Iora- 
 control of 
 
 eivilizing agencies, the development of the resources, and the 
 v\fiii«>e(iza.ti()n of all continents, nati'.jn.n and races of nianlsind. 
 TliJit. in general terms, has been and is being done, though not 
 complete in all its details. There are no more worlds to li" dis- 
 covered; no more continents to be explored. Darkest Africa was 
 the last, and there the work is well in iiand, so that the end is 
 easily visi])le. Japan has bei^n transformed into a modern na- 
 tion; China is being divided into spheres of inthu nee or slices 
 of territory for the leadinjj natiojis of the earth; only the hiijh 
 tabh^ lands ot Thilx't yet remain to be reached and transformed, 
 and we can now see how that will come to pass. In like nuinner, 
 Christian evaiii^elization has been carried to all nations and nearly 
 to all tribes, hamlets antl honses; the word of Cud is trJinslated 
 into practically all tongui'S. In a word, the Nineteenth Century 
 has done its work; v;e stand on the threshhohl of the Tvrentieth 
 — what ni^xt? What does the Nineteenth mean in respect of the 
 Twentieth? 
 
 The word of God ])lainly tells lis that when certain things 
 jire aecc)n)[)lished — things which the Nineteenth Century has 
 done — '"then shall the end come." There is no equivocation 
 about it, for the mouth of the Lord hatli spoken it. The few 
 unfinished details will be com})leted long ere the next century 
 terminates, and then shall come the final crowning climax of all 
 the world's history. The Aryan race, which God raised up for 
 the discovery, exploration, civilization and evangtdization of the 
 entire world, starting ont from its eastern home long centuries 
 ago on its westward triumphal march, has, in our day, complete- 
 ly encircled the glolK\ moving steadily forward, generation .after 
 generation, and century after century, westward, it has, in this 
 closing decade of the Nineteenth Century, reached th(^ point 
 whence it started, and nov/ awaits the final act in th(> world's 
 great drama. While capitalists, syndicates and statesmen, look- 
 ing only at and for earthly things, are cr)ntending for con- 
 cessions, 8[)heres of influence, open doors, for trade find similar 
 things, the Church of God. with its vision on things divine, 
 eti-rnal and far-reaching, awaits the grand demjuement. 
 
 It is n significant event that the nations of greatest and ever 
 increasing prosperity and powt-r are Protestant nations, while the 
 waning, declining, ever- weakening nations are tlKJse whom Ko- 
 manism dominates. The Papal church, by a strange fatality 
 
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 linked its I'ortimos and destiny with the Latin races and na- 
 tions, and must accept their doom. During all these centuries, 
 however wild or great the a[)parent ccjut'asioM, God's one, eternal, 
 unchanging [)ur[)oBe has been moving (Mi steadily, grandly, tri- 
 umphantly lo its glori<jus culmination, when Wm earth '"shall he 
 filled with t!ie knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the 
 sea," and when Christ's "'dominion slndl he tntm sea to sea and 
 from the ilver even unto tln^ ends of the earth:'' when the '"Lijrd's 
 house shall be establishfd in the to[) of the muun tains, and shall 
 l)e exalted above the hill^. and all nations shall fh)w unto it."' 
 
 And, therefore, we shovdd ever bear in mind, as says Dr. 
 Richard Salter Storrs, the [)eerl(»ss American pulpit orator, "'Di- 
 vine Providen(.'e is v»'orking in hist<jry toward one result, steadily 
 steering toward one haven and [)ort, the tiavth renewed in right- 
 eousness and beautiful before God; and then this dispensation of 
 the Spirit, in which we have our time aft;'r the resurriwtion." 
 That is what all the centuries from B.uhlehem and Calvary 
 meant, and that is what the stupendous problems and transcend- 
 ent achievements of our own century mean. Like Moses on '"Ne- 
 ])o*s lonely mountain,'' we may see it in visi<jn beyond our Jor- 
 dan, but the promised land shall yet be p jssessefl. according to 
 the word of the Lord, for, as Dr. Sttjrrs said again in that mas- 
 terly addr;^ss before the recent International Congregational 
 Council in Boston, "There is One that sitteth above the circle of 
 the earth, and the inhai)itants thereof are as grasshopp.n's: and 
 His plans go forth soundless and silent, except as they come into 
 operati<jn. But they never are bnjken: |hey never are drawn 
 back, and the world has to learn more and more clearly every 
 century that the banners of God are those that never go down 
 in any struggle; and that whosoever v,*alks and works v»'ith God 
 is sure of the triumph,'' 
 
 But some one says- "Br jth«?r Hi])bard. have you not a vvord 
 of admoiution and encouragenuuit on this occasion for this little 
 Abbott's Corner church as it starts «;ut on its seccjud century of 
 life aiul struggles?"' '"Yes, brethren, I have, and I have jour- 
 neved one thousand miles to tleliver it. 
 
 First — You have surviveil the one hundred years. Manv 
 
 •ir r; les established a hundred years ago are dt^ad. Most of them 
 
 %\ iv^ I )unded from good moliv«'s, but God did not call for them. 
 
 ■i 
 
in — 
 
 ues and na- 
 
 se (!<Mituries, 
 
 ono, oterua], 
 
 •ijraiullv, tri- 
 
 th "shall be 
 
 rs cover the 
 
 'a to sen and 
 
 the '-Lcjrd's 
 
 us, and shall 
 
 unto it.*' 
 
 as says Dr. 
 
 ; orator, *'Di- 
 
 snlt, steadily 
 
 ,'ed in right- 
 
 pensation of 
 
 'snrroction." 
 
 viul Calvary 
 
 il transeend- 
 
 )ses on "Ne- 
 
 )n<l our Jor- 
 
 iceording to 
 
 u that mas- 
 
 ^regational 
 
 ho circle of 
 
 ppn's: and 
 
 V come into 
 
 are drawn 
 
 (S'lrly every 
 
 't>r go down 
 
 with God 
 
 not a vvord 
 
 )r this little 
 
 century of 
 
 have jour- 
 
 irs. Many 
 ost of them 
 I for them. 
 
 I 
 
 Some clnirclu's W(re planted in rank sectarianism, and they dit-d: 
 thev de.served to die. Others originated in a mistaken, 
 mi.-:;guided zeal, and they are also dead. The New Testa- 
 ment says: "Every plant which my heavenly Father hath not 
 phuited shall be rooted up." You have not been rooted up; yon 
 were of (rod's own [>lanting. One of the saddest maps I ever 
 saw was one showing the hjcation, names and number of deid 
 Ba[)tist churches in the State of Vermont, but the Abbott's Cor- 
 ner was not on that map, and so God has engraven over your 
 doorway, ''Fear not, little flock, it is your Father's pleasure to 
 give you the kingdom." God has and does perpetuate ycjur 
 church life because it means souuthing to Hini. The fig tree 
 that stands not for fruitage is cut down. There must be fruit or 
 the tree will [lerish; — you have not perished. 
 
 Second — You have done somethint; worthy of yourself and 
 your o[)[)ortunities. God knows your gifts, your ability, and the 
 [»r(jductivenes3 of your field. You have had, all told, about 500 
 meud)ers during the hundred years, at the average rate of five 
 additions a year. I recently read of a Inrge, wealthy, influential 
 city church, with a large salaried pastor, a paid choir and all the 
 accompaniments of such a church, which reported but one 
 added to its membership by conversion last year, and the ndigious 
 [ia[iers are asking, does it pay?" During these hundr<?d years 
 this little Abbott's Corner church has added, we trust, five hun- 
 dred names to the Lamb's Book of Life; five hundred stars to the 
 crown of Jesus' rejoicing, and five hundred divinely attuned 
 voices to the heavenly choir. You have sent ten men into the 
 gos[)el ministry, one out of every fifty, and that is a large pro- 
 [)ortion, one which most churches do not equal. None of 
 theae men, so far as I ever knew, claimed to be great men, but 
 they have done sonu'thing. Some thirty years ago I baptized 
 one Sunday two ordinary young men; both became ministers, and 
 are in the ministry today, and one told me a f«'W weeks ago 
 he had baj)tised over eleven hundred converts. I taught school 
 out on "Coniac slreet" in 1852-03, and my uncle Charles Hib- 
 bard wrote me from Burma to do my best, as I did not know 
 what my pu[)ils might become. Pastor W. G. Scofield of Rich- 
 ford was one of those pupils, as full of life and mischief then as 
 he is of grace and good works now; the life and mischeif of his 
 boyhood was the promise and prophecy of the Christian life and 
 
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 Hervite oi his liiieTied manhood, and he grows better every year. 
 
 Then this chureh has given B[)irilnal l)irth and training to 
 some noble men. who have served here and elsevrhere as God's 
 laymen- -[)i!larrt in the churches wh.ere they live. Their nanu'S 
 are not on your list today, though (t(kI knows them well, but they 
 were c(jnvi'rted here, and when God '•mnk^^th up his jewels'" he 
 will say of this and that one, "He was l)eg(j(ten in Christ unto 
 God in Abbott's Corner church." Thev stand li) voiir credit: no 
 one can measure tlie good they have done as your children. Be- 
 sides, there have been nobh? women not a Hvw. They have not 
 been i)ul)lic speakers, mn- wrib'rs for tlu' }>ress, nor yet leaders of 
 1em[H>rance, or sidfrage or other crusades, but they were women 
 of sterling moral worth, of gr»'at, g<jod common sense, and sanc- 
 tiiitnl Christian lives. This has been a clean, pure church. I 
 have read ciirefully every writleii w<jrd of ils records, and scan- 
 dals and quarrels are not there. I re[>eat, it has ])e(m a clean, 
 untaintetl church, which God has guarded as the a[)ple of his 
 eve. 
 
 But beyond all this, the church has stood here a hundred 
 years, and let its light shine out in all directions for nnles 
 around, lifting u[) th(» public tone of this community, enobling 
 men's lives, securing better homes, inspiring higlnu' social and 
 political ideals. The stantlard of lif(> and character of this 
 church was high — it was decidedly Puritanic, as the records show 
 This church has htdped to give Abbott's Corner and vicinity its 
 high type of Christian civilization, 
 
 1 am sometimes told there are lots of g<jod men outside tlu; 
 churches. Of course there are — a ju'oof of the vital power of 
 the church its(df. You can't have results without causes. If 
 tyi)h(iid fever breaks out. your skilled physician knows there is a 
 [)olluted, poisoned well s<imewhere. Good men are nuide such 
 bv ii'ood ciiuses. and a Christian civilization is createtl and sus- 
 tained by Chrisiiau forces. I do not remember to have ever 
 heard any profanity or seen an intoxicated person at Abb(jtt's 
 Corner. You don't have saloons, Sunday horse races. Sunday 
 bnseball games and kindred vices, because these Christi.m 
 churches duriiig tlie last hundred years have created a })ublic 
 moral tone and sentiment which wdll not allow them. I remem- 
 ber the experinu'ut was tried once in or near Frelighsburg, when 
 George Ayer. Horace and Harlow Clnuidler, Rodman Whitman, 
 
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 er ovin-y year. 
 11(1 trauiHig lo 
 hero (IS God's 
 
 Their iiaineK 
 well, but they 
 lis jewels" he 
 a Christ unto 
 Diir credit; no 
 hihlreu. Be- 
 'hey have not 
 yet leacU^rs (jf 
 ,' were women 
 use. and sanc- 
 •<; church, I 
 ■ds, and scan- 
 been a clean, 
 
 apple of his 
 
 re n hundred 
 US for miles 
 iiV- enoblinir 
 u" social and 
 cter of this 
 ecords show 
 |tl vicinity its 
 
 outside tlu) 
 
 ral [);)\ver of 
 
 eaus(,^s. If 
 
 [vs there is a 
 
 nuide such 
 
 \n[ and sus- 
 
 have ever 
 
 |at Abbott's 
 
 ;es. Sunday 
 
 Christian 
 
 led a pul)lic 
 
 1 re mem - 
 
 Iburg, when 
 
 I Whitman, 
 
 Chauncey Abbott, Johnson Hibbard, Casper Miner, Dea Janes, 
 and I know not how many others, joined with my father in sol- 
 emn protest against it, and it was abandoned. The word of God 
 says it is the "holy seed," not your rich men, or your successful 
 business men, or your smart politicians that create and preserve 
 the moral tone of the community, Nay, but the "holy seed 
 shall be the substance thereof." What keeps the pork in your 
 barrel month after month ? The breed of the pig, because he 
 was a White Suffolk, or Berkshire, or Poland China? — or be- 
 cause the barrel is made of ash or oak or hickory ? Nay, nay, 
 but the salt. If that be good, and enough of it, the pork will 
 keep irrespective of the breed or barrel timber. Hence Christ 
 said of Christian people, "Ye are the salt of the earth." These 
 Christian churches have been the moral salt of this community 
 for a hundred years; may they abide a century more. 
 
 Third, — Your Duty to Live. Eighteen years ago I s[x>ke to 
 you of the value of country towns and country churches to the 
 world, and showed you how the men who make the history of 
 each generation come from country homes as a rule; that these 
 country homes, country towns and country churches are the 
 birth-places and nurseries, in the great majority of cases, of the 
 world's great men. I have given the matter much attention since 
 that former celebration in 1881, and the importance and truth- 
 fulness of the position then taken has become more clear and 
 cogent every year. I have called your attention briefly today to 
 the decline of the country towns, the country churches and the 
 country homes, and the massing of the people in cities. Mar- 
 shall Field and Philip D. Armour, millionaires in Chicago; John 
 D. Rockefeller, America's (perhaps the world's) richest man: 
 Joseph Cook, the great lecturer; Thomas Baldwin and Adoniram 
 J. Gordon, the peerless Baptist preachers of Boston — were all 
 born and bred in country homes, in country towns, and had their 
 early moral training and religious life in country churches. I 
 might mention scores and hundreds of others like them in these 
 respects. Now, if the country homes and towns and churches 
 perish from off the earth, where will the great, strong, successful 
 and wise leaders come from ? Pessimists tell us there are no such 
 men in our public life today as were Webster, and Clay, and 
 Calhoun, and Seward, and Sumner, and Chase and Lincoln. Are 
 the fountains drying up? The same is true of the British Par- 
 
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 linment. These men were those who, as the brillinnt historinii, 
 John Lothrop Motley, said, "discovered that the great intellec- 
 tual law prescribed by the Creator is the science of history. To 
 induce mankind to conform to that law is the science of polities." 
 No distribution of offices as party s[)oiIs and consequent corrup- 
 tion of the public conscience in that. Oliver Goldsmith wrote 
 some things the world will not let die. Here are half a dozen 
 lines: 
 
 "III fares the land to hastening ills a prey, 
 Where wealth accumulates and men decay. 
 Princes and lords may l!(iurisli, or fade, 
 A breath can make them, as a breath hath made; 
 Hut a bold peasantry, their country's pride. 
 When once destroyed can never be supplied." 
 
 The massing of populations in large cities removes the "bold 
 peasantry" from the country farms, towns and churches — those 
 birth and training places of the young men and women whom 
 the world must have. As these country farms supply bread and 
 food for the cities, so they furnish the young men to build and 
 perpetuate the business and the church life of these cities. 
 When God wants men for great deeds, for bold, heroic services, 
 where does he go for them? When the time came to begin in 
 earnest the systematic work of exploration, evangelization and 
 redemption of South Africa; did he go to great cities of B^din- 
 burg, or Glasgow or to the Universities ? Nay, he went to a busy 
 woolen mill where, in its heated, stifling atmosphere was a poor 
 country lad who entered that mill when only ten years old, work- 
 ing for a few shillings a week, and laying his hand on him said: 
 "David Livingstone, to Africa." 
 
 Ah, my brethren, if the little Bethlehems and Nazareths 
 perish from off the earth, where will the world look for its 
 Christs and Redeemers ? Abbot's Corner is one of these little 
 Bethlehems and Nazareths; it must not perish ! Hence, your 
 duty to live — "Quit you like men." This, brethren, is my mes- 
 sage to you to-day. Farewell. May the God who inspired, 
 guided and kept the fathers, be your God for the next hundred 
 years. 
 
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 nnt historinii, 
 ^reat intt'llec- 
 
 history. To 
 e of |)f)litic8." 
 quent corrup- 
 Idsmith v.rotf 
 
 half a dozen 
 
 >ve8 the "bold 
 
 urches — those 
 
 women whom 
 
 ply bread and 
 
 I to build and 
 
 these cities. 
 
 eroic services, 
 
 e to begin in 
 
 felization and 
 
 ties of Edin- 
 
 A'ent to a busy 
 
 e was a poor 
 
 ars old, work- 
 
 on him said: 
 
 id Nazareths 
 look for its 
 )f these little 
 Hence, your 
 , is my mes- 
 
 I'ho inspired, 
 lext hundred 
 
 ORDER OF SERVICES. 
 
 The day dawn«Hl all that couhl be desired for an early autumn 
 day. and at 10:(IO o'clock A. M., the large assembly was called to 
 order by the venerable pastor. Rev. Arnold, L. Arms, and Rev. 
 W, (t. Scotield. of Richford, Vt., made chairman of the day. 
 "Praise God From Whom All Blessings Flow" was sung with 
 vigor and deep tVeling by a well-trained choir, led by Student 
 Pastor Baker, who also presided at the organ. My old Fairfax 
 (•lassmate. ISdl, Rev. Joseph (jr. L(jrimer of G»^rgia, Vt., offered 
 an excellent prayer. Student Pastor A. G. Baker delivered a 
 timely 
 
 Address of Welcome. 
 
 You need no formal address to make you feel at home here 
 today. Man}' come back to the home of your childhocjd, where 
 you will see many a familiar face and greet many a familiar 
 friend of earlier years. This old church is not a stranger to you; 
 it may bear the marks of time, but it has done its work, though 
 many of its sons and daughters have wandered the wide world 
 (>v»'r. Its doors are thrown wide open, and we bid you enter. Sit 
 again in the old family pew and live over again in your hearts the 
 happy scenes of the past. We welcome you, therefore, to your 
 old church home and the church home of your fathers. 
 
 You have come from Freleighsburg, and Franklin, and Berk- 
 shire, and Bakersfield, and St. Albans, and Georgia, and from all 
 this community round about us, as well as from Montreal, and 
 Bo.ston, and New York, and Chicago, and Minneapolis. We wel- 
 come you also to our homes, and best of all, to our hearts. We 
 are all one, and belong to the same great family of God, and all 
 rejoice with this old church celebrating its hundredth birthday. 
 
 We must today also do honor to the memory of the men and 
 the women who wer^i loyal to God, through prosperity and adver- 
 sity alike. We all admire their sturdy Christian characters and 
 lives, and will scik to imitate their noble conduct that we, too, 
 may be worthy of imitation by those who shall follow us, for what 
 better legacy can we leave our successors ? In our reunion today 
 we see another evidence of God's preserving care. A hundred 
 years ago God planted a little church in this community; it had 
 
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 at the outset only seven members. The little grain of mustard 
 seed began to grow and throw out branches and, notwithstanding 
 losses by death, removal, etc., it is alive and vigorous today, and 
 is growing yet. God does ^)re8e^^'e his church, and he does work 
 through it. The greater the difficulty encountered the greater 
 the blessing received, and today this church is a living monu- 
 ment of the power and preserving care of our covenant keeping 
 God. 
 
 Today our prayer is, that your meeting with us may stimilate 
 to greater devotion and zeal as we enter upon the second century 
 of this church's history; that the second may be better than the 
 first century, and far more abundant in fruitfulness. Again, on 
 behalf of this church and community, I extend to you all our 
 honest, hearty. Christian greeting and welcome. 
 
 Rev. W. G. Scofield made a brief response; rejoiced in the 
 "student pastor," and the prosperity of the church. This day has 
 been talked of, planned for and prayed over these many months. 
 Eigteen years ago our motto was "Hitherto the Lord hath helped 
 us," and it is our motto still. 
 
 The choir sang with expression "I Love Thy Kingdom, Lord," 
 and Rev. W. G. Scofield read Pastor Arms' historical discourse, 
 after which Student Pastor A. G. Baker read the supplementary 
 history from 1881 to date. Lewis B. Hibbard of Highland Park, 
 Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, then delivered the Centennial 
 Discourse, and, notwithstanding its length, the large audience, to 
 their honor be it said, listened attentively to the end, though 
 many were standing in the aisles and vestibule. The choir sang 
 "How Firm a Foundation;" Rev. Whitman Hibbard Stanley 
 pronounced the benediction, and the people adjourned for dinner. 
 
 Afternoon. 
 
 The congregation re-assembled at 2 o'clock P. M., larger if 
 possible than in the forenoon, opening with an admirable, delight- 
 ful Praise Service, led by Rev, J. W. Humphrey, pastor of the 
 Methodist churches in Frelighsburg and Abbotts Corner. Ex- 
 
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 1 of niUBtnnl 
 witliBtniiding 
 lis today, nnd 
 he docs work 
 d the greater 
 living uionu- 
 nant keeping 
 
 tuny stimilnte 
 cond century 
 tter than the 
 1. Again, on 
 you all our 
 
 joiced in the 
 This day has 
 aany months. 
 I hath helped 
 
 ^dom, Lord," 
 
 al discourse, 
 
 pplementary 
 
 ghland Park, 
 
 Centennial 
 
 audience, to 
 
 end, though 
 
 e choir sang 
 
 jard Stanley 
 
 d for dinner. 
 
 Vf., larger if 
 ble, delight - 
 astor of the 
 Ex- 
 
 
 'orner. 
 
 tracts from letters of former [wistors and members were read. 
 [Kjrtions of which are herewith given: 
 
 Ithaca, N. Y., August 27th, IHW). 
 Friends at Abbotts Corner : 
 
 I pen a few thoughts suggested by the Centemiial, regretting 
 that University duties preclude my presence. Ninety -eight years 
 ago my father's grandfather, Jedediah Hibbard, was installed as 
 pastor of the Abbotts Corner Baptist Church. It was there that 
 my father, Charles Hibbard, began his Christian life of useful- 
 ness as missionary in India and pastor in Vermont. At yonder 
 green place of peace, guarded by the lofty Pinnacle pile, reposes 
 his earthly temple until the day of rising, where also do other 
 loved ones. Memories are dear when you and I revisit the con- 
 secrated spot. Is it any wonder then, that Abbotts Cf)rner sees, 
 gathered from far and near, the many whose past can tell like, yet 
 ditferent tales, and that its surroundings and scenes and church 
 are the mecca of many a remembrance as the years roll on ? 
 
 Another thought comes to the country-bred, who have settled 
 in the larger centers of ix)pulation; the thought of country influ- 
 ence in molding and directing national affairs. The sober student 
 of society; reflecting upon the moving powers in business and 
 professional life, is forced to concede to the villages a power out 
 of all proportion to their size. 
 
 One has but to look about the circle of his city acquaintances, 
 and to read not carelessly the names in the daily and periodical 
 literature in order to recognize the influence of men who once 
 were boys of the farm and village. Parents who are rearing their 
 children amidst city difliculties realize with anxious care that their 
 surroundings are not conducive to a vigorous, sturdy independ- 
 ent, innocent childhood and youth. As I remember my father's 
 belief that missionaries in India must send their children home 
 to be brought up, so the city father wishes that, for his children's 
 sake, he were living in the country. Happy is the boy and girl 
 whose life is made up of brooks and trees, meadow and garden, 
 farm and household duties, with mates who, like himself are liv- 
 ing and growing as God meant for youth. 
 
 After the foundation, comes the structure; after the prepara- 
 tion, the achievements. It is often said that the city takes the 
 best from the country; at least is it true that the city offers the 
 larger opportunity for wide success. But the opportunity is solely 
 
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 f(jr tilt' nmu who is most completely j)rH[)are(l by nature and by 
 self. The intense ooni[)etition of city life will make the man of 
 little above average ability — a failure. There are vastly more 
 laborers than contractors; more clerks than merchants: more 
 pettifoggers than statesmcni. If there are boys to hear this word, 
 who have it in mind to go to the city, let me urge you not to do 
 so unless you feel within you an uncotHjuevable persistence, a 
 fadeless enthusiasm, a boundless energy, that can com[)el success 
 out of delayed advancv'ment; that can beat down unfair op^xjsi- 
 tion. that can wring recognition frojn envious com[)etitors. An 1 
 to thene (juidities, if you are perfectly sure that you have them, 
 add the best education whieh you can get. Of village scho )1 V 
 Oh, no — nion* than that. Have yon the money with which to get 
 an educati<->n '? Many and ni;ni\ a young man has gone to school 
 on his own resour/es; my o.vn father, f om tie Pi ni-le farm, 
 among them. And yot, a boy coui[) • 1 'd to work during his 
 school coarse too hard, t(i sui)port himself, loses much. Par nts, 
 have you a b yy or girl who longs for an education with an int- ne 
 ity wlii'.rh shtr.ild iqipeal to you j* Let him not go unheeded. D s 
 not value your adding laiuls and growing bank account beyond 
 your Son's future success in his [lursuit. Make sacrilices and 
 emlure [)rivations even to give him the start. I say. tli<'n, let 
 country youth be joined with fullest preparation, and the world 
 offers its highest rewards. 
 
 It is not alone through the boys it has sent to the city that 
 the country iutiuonces national affairs. Todav the ijreat force of 
 conservatism rests in tiie farming couiuiunitii>s. Occasionally 
 they are h>d astray by shallow and transient crazes, perhaps more 
 in the West; but, on the w'hole, the nation is safer because of the 
 common sense. intelligen<*e and unswerving uprightness which 
 are conspicuously attributes of country life. 
 
 Let it be one feeling, then, of those who are assembled at the 
 Centennial of a ci>untry c-hurch; that hearts be thankful for a jiure 
 cliildhv)od; grateful for physical, mentid and moral preparation 
 for life work; and. while rem.Mub.'ring that tlu' cities* and 
 nation's greU'>st in-.ui were oftenest c>)nntry bred, let us be 
 a[)[)reciative yet tjf the b:dan.*i'-wheel influence still emanating 
 from thos-,' wlios > lives are always to be •.-ountrv. the controlling 
 
 V ft rr* 
 
 or regulating [lower which, through (rod's help, keeps the land in 
 peace. il. Wade Hibuard. 
 
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 lature and by 
 ke the man of 
 
 vastly more 
 bants: more 
 jar this word, 
 'ou not to do 
 persistence, a 
 )m[»el suecess 
 tnfair o[)[)(5si- 
 I'titors. An 1 
 11 have Ihem. 
 \h\^e scho )l Y 
 
 which to iret 
 one t(j school 
 
 n i'de farm, 
 : during his 
 :h. Par nts, 
 ith an int- ne 
 heeded. D -• 
 ount beyond 
 iicriiices and 
 
 av. tht'n. h^t 
 
 I the W(3rUl 
 
 he city that 
 
 r-.'at force of 
 
 )ccasionallv 
 
 'rhaps more 
 
 a line of the 
 
 ness which 
 
 ibled at the 
 id for a })ure 
 preparation 
 cities' and 
 let us be 
 emanating 
 controlling 
 the land in 
 
 IBHARI). 
 
 Fleshgrtox. Aug. :}Oth. lsl»0. 
 Dear BREniiJEX and Sisters : 
 
 It is with joy that I congratulate you o>i this, your ha;i Ir >dth 
 anniversary. I congratulate myself also thit I have had the 
 honor of serving a church so venerable. Pleasant memories 
 crowd my heart as I recall the two happy summers spent in your 
 midst. The kiml rece[)tion and entertainment received in y<nir 
 respective homes, and your patient and respectful hearing on 
 Lord's Day are yet fragrant in my mind. I am sure I wish you, 
 as a church, for days to come, peace and prosperity and the bless- 
 ing of the Lord. As thy days so may thy strength be. May 
 vou renew your vouth as the eagles, and at a hundred years be 
 like a young man ready to run a race. May the lij'ht at Abbotts 
 Corner n.'ver g(j out till the Light of Heaven himself comes. It 
 is a gracious privilegt? to be the salt of a neighborln^od for a hun- 
 dred years, to sweeten its life, to preserve it from corruption and 
 make it a healthful and pleasing place in which to live. May the 
 salt of this church nev(r lose its Saviour. 
 
 Dear brethren, remember that our Savior said: '"As my 
 Father hath sent me into the world, even so send I yc^u into the 
 W(_)rld." You are charged with the same mission as Christ. "I 
 am the light of the world."' "I am not of this world." ''Ye are 
 not of this world." "He that receiveth you receiveth me, and he 
 that receiveth me, receiveth Him that sent me." God is light, 
 and God is love; ye being made partakers of the Divine nature 
 are light and live in the Lord. Yours, A. J. Darrock. 
 
 Kenmore, Ont., Aug. 8th, IHW. 
 Dear Brethren: 
 
 It is with peculiar interest, and feelings of mingled gladness 
 and sadness that I remember the Abbotts Corner Ba[)tist Church, 
 and the few months I spent in its fellowshij) and service, eleven 
 yejirs ago, summer of INSS. I feel glad of the acquaintance and 
 connection I have had with a church having so a)icient and hon- 
 orable a history. I thank my God upon everv remeud)rance of 
 its worthy Pastor Arms, and many of its mendiers I ficl sad 
 when I think of the dear old ciiurch being enfeebled by the 
 removal of so many of its members — some to other earthly scenes, 
 and some to the eternal world. I [)ray that the golden candle- 
 stick may not be removed, but that it may remain as a light that 
 
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 fihineth in a dark place niitil the day dawns, until the Savior 
 shall appear. I pray also that the Centennial celebration may be 
 a blessed occasion; and that it may mark the beginning of a new 
 period of holy usefulness. Yours sincerely, 
 
 J. R. Jackson. 
 
 Ceompton, R. I., Aug. yth, 1809. 
 M¥ Dear Brethren: 
 
 So your anniversary- at Abbotts Corner is going to be cele- 
 brated in reality ! How I should enjoy being with you. For 
 perhaps no other as well as myself could say Amen to all the good 
 things which are said about the folks of Abbott's Corner and a 
 radius including the Berkshires and East Franklin; and I'm sure 
 no one ever appreciated quite as heartily as I did their hos- 
 pitality, their liberal gifts, their words of cheer and their sym- 
 pathetic prayers. 
 
 I shall ever remember my three summers at the Corner as 
 endless days. When, without any friction whatever, Baptists, 
 Methodists, Episcopalians, Unitarians and Atheists united in 
 worship of Almighty God. 
 
 Had I time to go to the celebration of the dear old church's 
 struggles and victories and shake hands with you all and look in 
 the eyes of those I love; could I let my heart speak to your 
 hearts in prayer and testimonial meetings; could we once more 
 gather around the baptismal waters; could we kneel together 
 a little while in prayer and let our souls speak with God, and 
 mingle in each other's joys and sorrows. 
 
 My experience at Abbotts Corner, though brief, was unique. 
 It gave me, as nothing else ever could, glimpses of Heavan 
 through gr'^en graves. May the dear Lord bless you all, 
 
 York. A. King. 
 
 R<iV. W. G. Sct^field, father of the author, read tlie following 
 
 ^ CENTENNIAL POEM ^ 
 
 BY MRS. BERTHA SCOFIELD-MASSE. 
 
 Men of this Ki^nenition ! 
 Dwellers in this fair land ! 
 Know that yonr fathers have l)nil(led 
 A structure not made l}y hands. 
 
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 until the Savior 
 -'lebratioii may be 
 ginning of a new 
 
 . R. Jackson. 
 
 ig. yth, 1891). 
 
 oing to be celo- 
 with yon. For 
 EN to all the good 
 tt's Corner and a 
 in ; and I'm sure 
 [ did their hos- 
 and their sym- 
 
 it the Corner as 
 itever, Baptists, 
 leists united in 
 
 -^ar old church's 
 all and look in 
 
 t speak to your 
 we once more 
 
 kneel together 
 
 i with God, and 
 
 ef, was unique. 
 ses of Heavan 
 yon all, 
 K. A. Kino. 
 
 d the following 
 
 at 
 
 [tiRAND LlU.NE. Ql 
 Al'G, 20. 1800. 
 
 This 
 
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 iMrnin/ckwo.H it.s fotinrJation, 
 'Notyit'kliiitrsaiidv j,!:,!,, 
 
 ;Tim-Hocu!.sa,ui..vi,ul,sc-o'ns,;ia.,Itc, 
 O t-rtlin-M- it 'luasin vain. 
 
 Its form hath rit^tii luitv 
 And fU-.Md f(,r a hundred vc-ar-i ' 
 |eari„f,thevv„r!d-.ste,.„>tatH.ns, 
 iH'aniiR- i!s in.-iny fears. 
 
 Itsn,on-butnsn.all.w<akI^-u,dfnl. 
 Hilt brav<.„fi,earttlH.iijrh few 
 
 Have stu.Hl lor the -rand ..I.UruspH 
 And patient liuv<.- bc-en, aiul true. 
 
 And wlien has fallen a leader, 
 A Moses from ,,ut the liaiid 
 
 I iH.-n.onrnins in deep dejection, 
 »i-'t LP. and possess the lan.l '•• 
 lias ever l>een the watch word: 
 
 <>'". Thou«:h the xvayb;. dark; 
 i instill the L<,rd Jehovah 
 
 And press toward the mark. 
 
 AfewwiththeLordaren.i-htv. 
 "ithoiJtlJiMiahostisweak " 
 I|cstronn:a,idofgo..dcoura.ret 
 His f,MiidinH: presence see': 
 
 <Jl'serve to keep ills counsels 
 
 ^tndvthronKh all thy, lavs 
 
 Jjou-toseeklirstHisriKhteousness 
 HowtosJiosv forth His praise. 
 
 Hispro/iiise is unfailinj.:, 
 'f ye your part fuUill 
 
 Jn the pa.st He hath sustained you 
 <'Oon to do His will. 
 
 TlK'n, shall your way be prosperous. 
 «. church of an hundred vears ' 
 > our (iod.s great and niiuhty; 
 l"ress on. yield not to fears. 
 And wh.en another cent i^y 
 >Shall have rolled its train of ve.-.rs 
 
 ^re,«hte<l with human lives and loves 
 Hc-yond earth's smdes and tears; 
 
 «till shall the light be shiniuR 
 steady and pure and true, 
 Hecause you did your duty 
 Vnu. ofthefaitlifid few. 
 
 And wlu-n round U,s throne siudl gather 
 <'(•<!•« faithful under the sun 
 
 i;;;;;';';"^^'"^;'^'"^'""'! at His right hand 
 
 *vithlifecverla.sting won. 
 
 was followed by brief speeches by 
 
 the full. 
 
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 jfcrsoiis ill tlK' order givt'ii, each Bpcakin' h^-iiig calk'd out lu a 
 wry fVlicitor.H maimer by Rev. W. (t. Srofield, the [>ri'sideiit of 
 the (hiy. 
 
 Rev. Edwin Prciity. of East Franklin. Vermont, facetiously 
 expressed his (ielight in l)eing !imon<.^ so many good "' hard-shell*' 
 IJaptists, He sj)oke of that revival in the old storio schocjl-housi' 
 on Whitney hill, niv hovhooil home, amoii'; tin? converts of 
 v.'hich wert' Eleanor and Jane Carty, (reorge O. Pratt, L.nvis B, 
 and Salmon P. Hibbard and some others. He saiil he never 
 sn{)[)osed Lewis B would turn out such a *" boy"" as he found him 
 today. He spoke of the fathers, wlioin he nuiiembered, and 
 bade tlie church go on and l)e encouraged. 
 
 Rev. .lose[)h (t. Lorimer, of Georgia, Vermont, said his ex- 
 cellent dinner in the '"Tent ElKuiezer," oppressed him too much 
 for a s[)eech. H.e said in former times Rev. T. M. Merriman 
 and other theological stutleuts used to make Abbott's Corner a 
 sort of half-wav house on their wav to and from their homes in 
 ].)i'rl)y. Staiiste;ul and other fa.r eastern t(nvnshi[)S an! the Bajitist 
 (*olli'ge in ^Montreal. He mentioned Rev. Charles Hibbaril and 
 his vsork a.t home and in India and his <>'rave here. The vouiiii: 
 people of our day have a w«)nderful future, a great trust is re- 
 posed in tluin bv God. Mav the next century show nobl" 
 records for this church. 
 
 Rev. Whitman P. Stanley, pastor of the Methodist church in 
 West Berkshire, Xi.. said he began to feel proud of his Hibbard 
 auci'stry, th.ough he was a Methodist. He congratulated the 
 cliurch oil its history, and said he and his brethren were hand in 
 hand with us coinpiering sin. The fathers look (hjwn ttjday on this 
 scene and are haj)py. Let us go on lio[)efui and victorious. 
 
 Deacon C C. Manuel, a Cijugregationalist of Richford, Vt.. 
 said s(»nK'tinu's lu> could hardly tell whether he was a ]ja[)tist, 
 ?vlethodist or Congregationalist; he had good times with them 
 all. I had su[)[)osed you sent all your good material once to 
 Richford u'lien you sent pastor Scotield and his family, but I see 
 you have [)le!ity left. May (rotl bless and [)rosper yon. 
 
 Deacon Sa'mon P. Hibbaril said: I am glad to be with you 
 todav; it i-i rii»iit and iust that we i)ay honor to the founder of 
 tlii.-- churcii. Tile nation, the community or the church that does 
 not pay honor and res[)eet to its founders is not worthy of a 
 [ilacc in history; the iiion who "blazed" their way dirough the 
 
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 •allt'd out ill a 
 10 presuleiit of 
 
 unit. fact>ti()iisly 
 ad " hiird-shoU" 
 )iiO scluKtl-hoiiso 
 li{» converts of 
 Pratt, L-.nvls B. 
 saul lu; lu'vt'r 
 as he fouii'l liini 
 ■uiembered, and 
 
 lit. said his ex- 
 1 lum too much 
 l\ M. Merrimau 
 .bbott's Corner u 
 their liouies in 
 »s an^'. the Baptist 
 les Hibbanl and 
 re. The young 
 reat trust is re- 
 urv show noble 
 
 [hodist church in 
 of his Hibbard 
 lUgratuhitiHl the 
 leu were hand in 
 )Wii today on this 
 victorious. 
 If Richford, Vt., 
 
 was a Baptist, 
 ines with them 
 iiaterial once to 
 Ifannlv, but, I see 
 >er you. 
 
 to be with you 
 
 the founder of 
 Ichurch that does 
 lot worthy of a 
 
 ay dirough the 
 
 fonsts to the pioneer setlK'tneiits of till.-; country ai'.d found, ti 
 these hill-top anil valley churches, are worthy of all respect aiMi 
 iioiiov. For loo years this churcji has stood as a bt^acoi) light 
 helplui; on those early settlers to a sturdv. virtuous and u|)ri<.!;lit 
 life. It never will be knov.'ii this side of eternily the good this 
 church has done this community alone, neither ^\ill ever l)e 
 known the hardshi[)S endured by t!u> flr.st [)astor. the s;irriiic»'s 
 madi'. ••?Ie budded better than lie knew." Tlie founila.l ions of 
 this church were laid broad and dee[) in tlie everlasting [)r()niIsi'S 
 i;f (t(x1. and for lOO years. I am <Ai\d that it e.-m be said to the 
 credit of this church, no uncertain sound has come from it-"* 
 ])ulpit. its doors have never been clost^d, A receiii arlii-le in one 
 of the leadinj; mai'azines in New KuLrland told of the sad condi- 
 tion of uuiuv of our country towns. The sabiect of the article 
 was •"Inipending Paganism in New England," itvul tlu' author 
 Wi'ut on to state that in the r(jund of his own knowhMlge and 
 recijllection, there were towns that twenty-live to tifty and 
 seventy-iivi' years ago had two or thr<'e Evangelical churches, 
 and some four, while now the doors wer-' all closi-d and in their 
 
 [)Iace. [»erha[is a Catholic churcdi or no worshi[) at al 
 
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 certainlv is a sr.d state of atfj 
 
 ur.- 
 
 and should be r 
 
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 lied. Our 
 We sur- 
 
 best men from the cities oome from country churches 
 mise the founder of this church would r>'joice could he look 
 down through this century. Ministers and missionaries not a 
 few have gonf> out from its v.'alls and done noble servic(\ It has 
 becui my [)rivilege since I went to Boston to be associated in 
 cliurah work with one of the grandest [)astors that ever lived; a 
 man known far and wide for his fidelity to truth and his Evan- 
 gelical [)rinoiples; for his missiojiary //,» d; ardvMit for thes[)reid- 
 ing of the gospel; his nanu' and (diurch have become known the 
 World over; "He budded better than he knew." He entered 
 into his rest some live years ago. but truly his labors follow him; 
 the church goes on in all the departments of the work. lie 
 fountlod the Grordon Missionary Training S-;ho:j!. fur tin' training 
 of young nitni and women for [)astors. pastor's assistants and 
 missionaries; the church is knijwn far and near for its missionary 
 zeal, liayiui; missionaries and Evan<'e!ists on almost every Held 
 in the known world; I refer to the Rev. A. J. (fordan. D, D., 
 pastor of the Clarendon Street Church, Boston. He was a 
 country lad. born and bred amonj; the hills of New Ham])shire, 
 
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 of goodly parents nnd pariianical principle. In his boyhood 
 was laid the foundation for a broad education, deep spiritual life, 
 and a consecrated service. 
 
 Maintain y(jnr country churches and mav the record of this 
 church be the record of all country churches, fidelity to truth, 
 fidelity to the Evangelical truths of the Bible, and always its 
 jral[)it ev(^ry Sabbath in the year proclaim the gospel of the 
 Lord Jesus Clirist. I have said the founders of these country 
 churches, particularly this one, builded bett(>r than they knew, c(j- 
 teinporaueoj.s vrith the whoop of tlie Indian or the hovrl 
 of the wiUl beast was heard the admonishing words of the 
 niinisUr; ''Peace on Earth; Good Will to Men," and as 
 the snujke from the many stone chimneys of the log cabins of 
 the early ' icius ascended heavenward, so went upward as a 
 a swe(4 im cuH' i; nrayers from many a family altar, and today 
 chiklreu's cl;i! Ireu nve reaping the benefits if tliose early prayers, 
 and g^'ueration after generation will rise up and call the founders 
 of these ch\u ' /s "blesprd." This community has always been 
 noted for its high mf^rn! ' idard, largely due to a fidelity of 
 these early pastors. Let sis cherish their names, and wish that 
 their followers may build as broad, as deep and as well as they 
 builded. I an» glad to be with you today, to renew old friend- 
 ships and wish you God speed for the next hundred years, the 
 second cimtennifd. when I hope to be with you. 
 
 Deacon xVlbert A. Ayer. of Montreal, said yesterday he vis- 
 ited the old school-house site between the Horace and Harlow 
 Chandler homes, where he attended school fifty years ago, taught 
 by a noble ''old maid," whose influence on his life he felt still, 
 So of us, it is our influence that tells, and wlu^n thirty years old 
 charact(^rs are formed. What kind of lives are we living, and 
 what is and shall be our influence on others. What has this 
 churcli done for me. If I am not better in all respects from its 
 influence there is failure somewhere. 
 
 One of the guiding, molding influences of my early life was 
 the reading of the Bible. My mother never failed to read the 
 Bible, and I read it because she did and wished me to read it, 
 and its influence on my life and character was very great. We 
 had but few books, and before I was ten years old I had read the 
 Bible through. 
 
 Our success in life is seizing opportunities. Our natural in- 
 
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 ll his boyhood 
 p spiritual life, 
 
 record of this 
 
 delity to truth, 
 
 and always its 
 
 gospel of the 
 
 these country 
 
 [1 they knew,co- 
 
 or the howl 
 
 i> words of the 
 
 Men," an<l as 
 
 log cabins of 
 
 it upward as a 
 
 iltar, and today 
 
 se early prayers. 
 
 ^aW the founders 
 
 as always been 
 
 to a fidelity of 
 
 and wish that 
 
 s well as they 
 
 lew old friend- 
 
 Idred years, the 
 
 sterday he vis- 
 ce and Harlow 
 ■ars ixgo, taught 
 Ife he felt still, 
 thirty years old 
 jwe living, and 
 What has this 
 [spects from its 
 
 early life was 
 }d to read the 
 ne to read it, 
 |»ry great. We 
 
 I had read the 
 
 t)ur natural in- 
 
 clination is to seize things that are easy, but we only get the 
 best of things bv struij>jjles. and I want those who negh'ct the 
 churcli. and its ]^rivileges and blessings, to turn from that 
 course, even though it may cost an eit'ort. Many young men go 
 to the cities to get into business, but my early home was in the 
 country, and I love it still, and this church. Mr. Ayer's was an 
 excellent speech, and I wish I had it in full, instead of tlie few 
 notes I was able to take as he spoke. 
 
 Kev. John Currie, the Scotch Evangelist of Montreal, de- 
 livered one of the most unique, interesting and scriptural 
 speeches to which I have listened. It was founded on Psalm, 
 ll'.):ll. "Thy words have I hid in my heart that I might not 
 sin against thee," which he ap[)lied as "a good thing, in a good 
 place, and for a good pur[)os(.\" There are many sacred books in 
 the world, but none like the Bible. Dr. Gordon was like a ri[)e 
 peach, he was so full of the Bible. Liberal churches die, be- 
 cause they lay aside the Bible. I was deligiited with Brother 
 Ayer's speecii, because he so emjihasized the Bible. This is no 
 a({e(juate re[)ort of a rare speech; I found when I came to write 
 it out that I had no notes of it. 
 
 Rev. W. G. Scotield, of Richford, said: This centennial 
 celebration helps me to realize more than ever how great is my 
 obligation to this church. Unlike our visiting brethren here to- 
 day, whose early homes were in this vicinity, and who were 
 ba[)tized into the membership of this church, and then early in 
 life removed to other places, — my early life and on till I had 
 reached the age of forty-seven years were spent here. The 
 (piestion has often been in mind, as I have thought of this occa- 
 sion, what w'ould my life have been but for the constraining and 
 hallowed influences of this church. Although my conversion 
 was at Fairfax, and that church will always have a warm place 
 in my heart, — this has been my training ground: here I was 
 baptized and given a place and standing with God's people; here 
 the responsibilities of Christian service were laid on my shoul- 
 ders; here was accorded me the privilege of doing something to 
 help in the great work for which we were organized; here my 
 children were early taught the way of life, and two of them 
 giving their hearts to the Lord were baptized into the member- 
 ship of this church; one at thirteen, and the other at twelve years 
 <jf age, and now one of them lives to tell the story of Jesus and 
 
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 His love to the young students of Grande Ligne Mission, nnd 
 the other, including the youngest,' who came into the church at 
 Richford, are swelling the glad anthems of victory in the church 
 triumphant. God bless the children who are sheltered in this 
 fold today. Bear with me in this personal talk while I tell you 
 a little more of my experience. For many years I was leader of 
 the choir, and because of the exacting responsibility of this po- 
 sition, I was the more careful to be present at all the regular and 
 special services, many of wiiich I otherwise would have missed. 
 This demand on mv time and the sacrifice it often cost uu% I 
 used to sometimes think was a loss, but now I can see that it was 
 a gain. Once when there was to be held a two days' meeting, my 
 uncle, Columbus Scofield, came to see if I would attend, and I 
 told him I would some of the time, but my farm work pressed so 
 I could not spare two days that week. He told me to attend all 
 the time and help the church, and he would send a man to work 
 on my place, which he did, I did not understand then as now 
 what a blessing it is to a church to have some one who is ready 
 to make sacrifices for its good. 
 
 As superintt.'ident of the Sunday school for many years, I 
 was compelled to stand before the school and say a fe^v words 
 and offer prayer, which at first was a heavy cross, but wliich was 
 the means God used in leading mo into a more active Christian 
 life and eventually into the ministry. I am confident of this, 
 had I never been a Sunday school superintendent for years, I 
 had never been a minister. Then the work of general collector 
 * and financial agent of the church and filling the offices of clerk 
 and deacon, all were instrumental in developing my untrained 
 powers of mind and fitting me for the work the Lord has given 
 me to do, these last seventeen years. This church has been my 
 Alma Mater, and I may say with equal truthfulness that Rev. A. 
 L. Arms has been my Gamaliel, at whose feet I have been 
 brought up and whose faithful ministrations have gone far to 
 make me what I am. Well do I remember that special meeting 
 in 1875, when Rev. Jonathan Tilson and Rev. Charles Hibbard 
 came to us, sent of God, as it seemed to me, for the church did 
 not call them. (Charles Hibbard once told me the plan origin- 
 ated with him, and Albert A. Ayer, of Montreal, became re- 
 sponsible for the expenses, — L. B. H.) It was a joyously thrill- 
 ing experience to see those we had so long prayed for coming 
 
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 Misslon, find 
 
 tlio cliurcli at 
 y iu tlu-cliurch 
 ?ltered in this 
 lilo I tell you 
 [ wns leatU^r of 
 ity of this po- 
 he regular and 
 1 have missed. 
 ten cost me, I 
 
 see that it was 
 s' nieetirii', my 
 attend, and I 
 'ork pressed so 
 e to attend all 
 I man to work 
 I then as now 
 
 who is readv 
 
 iiany years, I 
 y a few words 
 jut wliicli was 
 ive Christian 
 dent of this, 
 or years. I 
 leral collector 
 ices of clerk 
 my untrained 
 d has given 
 has been my 
 that Rev. A. 
 I have been 
 gone far to 
 »ecial meeting 
 rles Hibbard 
 le church did 
 plan origin- 
 became re- 
 yously thrill- 
 for coming 
 
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 out on the Lord's side. Then in 18TS Rev. John Currie came, to 
 our great j(jy, and many more of our ytjung peo[)le were added 
 unto the Lord. 
 
 It was a ditiicult thing ior my good wife and children and 
 mvsi.'lf to do to sever the relationship existing between us and 
 liu" church and gt) to another place for our tiekl of labor. 
 Neighbors and friends, the pnstor and the church, all op})osed it, 
 juul yet I felt I must do it or nu\ke but very little progress in the 
 work that was actually demanding all mv time. Do not accuse 
 nie of ingratitude, rather believe with me that it was God's will, 
 and let the record of his ap[)roving smile upon my work in 
 Eieliford these thirteen years strengthen that belief. Country 
 churches all over the land, and this church in particular, suffer 
 from nmiovals. S(jme of them have been left desolate by such 
 losses, and eventually ceased to exist. At one time it looked 
 probable that such a fate was in store for this church, but by the 
 grace of God, and faithful, persistent efforts of a few, the work 
 lifis been carried on; new ones have been brought in, and at this 
 c()ni[)letion of 100 years tln.'re is good promise of life and en- 
 t'ouraging prospects ahead. It is said a Ba[)tist church never 
 dies; it sometimes goes down like a nieadow-raole into the 
 ground, but like it, comes up again perhaps somewhere else; it 
 does not die. The fact that this church has lived 100 years has 
 changed the world into a ditferent world than it otherwise would 
 have been. Far off India has felt the force of a personality 
 fnjui this church that has changed the people there, and widened 
 and increased the light that is now shining upon that darkened 
 land. We miss today our brother — the late Rev. Charles Hib- 
 bard; but while we mourn his death, we rejoice in the grand 
 Work he accomplished and the victory he has gained. 
 
 The United States and Canada, this great American conti- 
 nent stands aifected today in no small degree, because this church 
 has braved a 100 years of Christian service. Yes, I can go 
 farther than that and say that all heaven is inspired with sweeter 
 music Ix'cause of many that have gone up, and are continually 
 going up to join the grand chorus of the redeemed through the 
 iutiuence, directly or indirectly of this (diurch. If the good 
 deed of an individual done for and in the name of Jesus, goes 
 on and on in its influence in ever widening circles till the end of 
 time — how much more the influence of a Christian church sus- 
 
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 ''pi 
 
 tnining tho pronchint^ of the G()S[h'1 for a 100 yenrs will go on 
 in its infliionce, broadoiiing, (IceiM'iiing, wiclcniiig, aiul reat'liiug 
 out here and there over tlie face of the earth, wherever its uiein- 
 l)ers and their influence shall be known and felt. 
 
 It is indeed a glorious occasion, this coming together a family, 
 a people to celebrate this centennial day. Although our work is 
 so great and far reaching, we are not a large family. Probfd)ly 
 500 names would cover the entire number of its membership 
 from its organization to the [U'esent time. (Those who art> or 
 had been members of the church stood up at Bro. Scofield's re- 
 quest. — L. B. H.) Could all those once members here who have 
 passed on to higher life, be counted with us today and all who 
 have been brought into the Christian life in other i)laces through 
 the direct and indirect influences of all the present and past 
 members, what a mighty army we should see. Does it pay to 
 support churches that preach Him crucified; that demand 
 of their members a r<'formed life, the result of regeneration; 
 does it pay to be true and faithful in all our relations with the 
 church, with the world and with our God? Let the history of 
 the church of God, in her onward progress during the [)ast 
 century be our answer. Let the influence of the gospel in all its 
 civilizing and enlightening power over the world, as seen in re- 
 formed manhood's consecrated lives and Christlike characters, be 
 our assurance today, that nothing in this world pays so well. And 
 yet we all believe that the revelations of the eternal future can 
 alone tell us how richly it pays to serve the true and living God 
 in all his divinely appointed days. 
 
 May the influence of this centennial day be a mighty inspira- 
 tion to this church and this congrgation, leading every one to 
 realize better than ever before how glorious is the cause in which 
 he is enlisted, and how blessed are the fruits of persistent, faith- 
 ful, consecrated service. 
 
 The venerable senior pastor, Rev. A. L. Arms, whose voice 
 has failed him, stood up, and whispered a few words, of thanks- 
 giving for this day, the gracious dealings of God in the past, 
 and an inspiring hope for the future. The large congregation 
 then stood, and all sang. "God be with you till we meet again," 
 and after the benediction, we adjourned at 4:15 o'clock p. m., 
 till September Gth, A. D. 1999, and 10 o'clock a. m. 
 
 The audience lingered long in the meeting house and out on 
 
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 s will fjo on 
 and rt>ju'liiii«x 
 I'ver its niem- 
 
 'tlicr n fnniilv, 
 h onr work is 
 ly. Probably 
 
 membership 
 who are or 
 Scofield's re- 
 loro who have 
 and all who 
 ilaces throng)] 
 ent and past 
 oes it pay to 
 that demand 
 regeneration; 
 ons with the 
 he history of 
 ng the past 
 spel in all its 
 i seen in re- 
 -•haracters, be 
 so well. And 
 I future can 
 
 living God 
 
 ghty inspira- 
 
 Bvery one to 
 
 use in which 
 
 istent, faith- 
 
 whose voice 
 of thanks- 
 Ln the past, 
 jongregation 
 meet again," 
 
 'clock p. m., 
 
 and out on 
 
 the lawn, ])hot<)grai)hs of th(> assembly grounds taken, ohl friends, 
 after years of se[)arati()ii, gathen-d in groups for reininlseences, 
 many knowing they would never meet again ••lhis side the ridge." 
 Not a few partook of supper, which the good [H'oph' of all s«'cts 
 and denonnnations at and about Abbott's Corner liad so gen(>r- 
 ously provi(h'd, ere they drijve to their h(nnes, some many miles 
 away. There were +f'f;rs in scores of eyes that day that had not 
 been similarly moistened for a long, long time, and many a warm 
 hand-siiake, the warmth a/ul vigor of whose grip will long be 
 remembered, 
 
 I cannot close this account without thanking the [)eo[)le of 
 Abl)ott's Corner and viciiiity for Ihe generous and magnilicent 
 manner in which they cared for us all, and instead of a few liours 
 1 want to go and spend tlays, or weeks among lliem nml the 
 scenes almost sacred to me. Two large tents, t)ne for a kitchen 
 and one for the "Ebenezer Dining Roou)," were set up on the 
 <luu\'h lot, where patient and faithful men and women worked 
 j'.nd served their guests all day till long after daylight. Such 
 kindness cannot be forgotten, and xVbbotts Ccnwier has a warmer 
 place in my heart than ever before. 
 
 HISTORICAL MEMORANDA. 
 
 RoVn-rt, the First, was the founder of the Hibbard 
 family in America. He was born in Salisbury, England, in 
 MWI, when Oliver Cromwell was a lad of 18 years, and James 
 1st was King, He married Joanna Waiilen. and cam(> 1o America 
 in ](5H(') or '88 with, and at the request of Gov. John Winthro}), 
 of Massachusetts, as a salt-maker for the young colony. He 
 proved a valuable and important cilizen; [!ros[>ered in business 
 jl and held offices of public trust, as the early records of Beverly, 
 now being published, show. He settled in S vlem. whicli then in- 
 cluded what is now Beverly. George E. Hil)l)artl. of Chicago, 
 visited his old home in 181)U, and dug up from his old salt-works 
 some of the brick Robert put in there 2()(> years ag(j. when he 
 first built his works. They were members of Pastor Higinson's 
 Congregational church. They had ten children. He died May 
 7, 1084, and his wife about twelve years later. 
 
 Robert Second was their sixth child, born in Salem, May 7, 
 1048; married Mary Walden, of Wenham, ■ Mass They had 
 
50 — 
 
 v'U'Vf'ii cliildivii, niul he (lied in Wiiullmm. (\)iin., April 2*.>, 1710. 
 wlu'i'c Ihh older sons sottK'd in 1(508, wliilc he and tlic hMlant'i' of 
 his ffiniilv went there in 1700. The h'tter (jf diHUiission whieh 
 he took from Wenliaui in 1700 to the church in Windlwun, wr.s 
 nmonj; the prized treasures of the hitter church in ISSO, and W, ■ 
 original farm on which the ffimily si'ttled in Windham in 10*' 
 reiiinined in the successive Hibhard generations till iSSl, 
 l)eriod of 1S2 years. 
 
 Robert Third was born at Wenham, Mass., July 8, 1674; 
 married Mary R"ed, Dec. H, 1702. They had Uni children. He 
 was one of the Hrst Hibbards in Connecticut, and died Junt' 20. 
 1742, and his wife died March 7, 1763, about twelve years before 
 the Declaration of Independence. , 
 
 John was their oldest child, born at Windham, Conn.. Oct. 3, 
 1704; uuirried Sarah Durkee, Sept. 22, 172o. and settled near or 
 on "Little River," Canterbury, Conn. They had thirteen child- 
 ren. He was a farmer, and died in 17()2. 
 
 Jedediah, the founder of this, Abbott's Corner church, was 
 their eighth child, born in Canterbury, Oct. 4, 1740; died at S' 
 Armand East, Province of Quebec. Canada, Oct. 4, 1800. 
 married Mary Porter, in 1762, a daughter oi Col. Porter, 
 Canterbury. Her family were wealthy, of high social position 
 and were staunch Congregationalists, and she remained such till 
 her death in 1813. Soon after their marriagi' it seems thai 
 Jedediah, his wife's father and brothers [U'ospicted uul located 
 linds in Lebanon, N, H., for Jedediah's name appears on deed-f 
 1763-()4, though they did not take their families into that new 
 country till 1765, as their oldest sou, Roger, was bom in Can- 
 terbury in 1764. In 1760, Jedediah was elected "tything man;" 
 he was also public surveyor of lands. The New Hnmpshin^ Sec- 
 retary of State informs me that their state official records show 
 that Jedediah enlisted for service on the '• Alarm," about Ticon- 
 deroga, N. Y., June 27th to July 3, 1777, in Col. Chase's regi- 
 ment, and also went as Seargent Major, Sept. 22 to Oct. 23, 1777. 
 under General Gates at the battle of Saratoga, N. Y., where 
 Gen. Burgjyne capitulated, Oct. 17, 1777, with nearly (),0(IO 
 British soldiers. 
 
 The historian of Lebanon, Rev. A. C. Downs, says Jedediah 
 was an " enthusiastic Ba[)tist;" he hel[)ed organize churches in 
 that and other towns about, besides his farming, surveying and 
 
— .51 
 
 Ainil 21). 17 U). 
 
 I till' bfilmici' of 
 isinissiou whit'h 
 
 WiiuUiMUK wc.s 
 in 1SN(5. mill \\, ' 
 idliani ill lt'»V 
 ms till ISSI, 
 
 July 8, 1(574; 
 
 II ehililri'U. Hi' 
 tl (lied Juiii' 2*). 
 ,'lvc' yi'ars bet'uri' 
 
 11, Conn.. Oct. 'il, 
 (I si'tt It'll nonv DV 
 [ tliirti't'ii c'.liilil- 
 
 icr I'hurcli, was 
 7 M); tlieil at S' 
 pt. 4, 1801). ^ 
 Col. Porter, 
 
 social position 
 inaiued such till 
 ■ it seems that 
 tetl mil located 
 ipears on deed-^ 
 
 into that new 
 
 s born in Caii- 
 
 "tythiiig man:" 
 
 Hampshire Sec- 
 
 al records show 
 
 ' about Tic(jn- 
 )1. Chase's regi- 
 to Oct. 23, 1777, 
 a, N. Y., where 
 th nearly (),0()0 
 
 , says Jedediah 
 dze churches in 
 , surveying and 
 
 othtT duties. Backus, the Baptist historian of ^liddleboro, 
 Mass.. signed a certilicate of felhjwshipand recognitifjii June 1 1, 
 1771. for one of those churches, and says Jedediah was ordained 
 in Lebanon, in 17S4. 
 
 H" came to Abbott's Corner in 171)7, and settled in a home 
 on the James Lee place. His original farm extended from 
 the Frelighsliurg and Corner. '"Joy Hill" road south to the 
 '•line" between Vermont and Canada, and from the west lino of 
 the old Chandler farms to the east line of the Rodman & Simeon 
 Whitman farm. They had nine children, and my grandfather, 
 Xathaniel. the youngest, was twelve year old when they came 
 here. 
 
 It was his habit for many years during his residence in New 
 Hani[)Hhire. to go olf on horseback on long missionary tours up 
 through central and northern Vermont, even into Canada. These 
 trips (K'cupied from one to three uKjiiths each. Sometimes lie 
 went alone, but more frequently Elisha Ransom, of Woodstock, 
 John Hibbard, of Royalton, Roswell Mears, of Fairfax, Jo.=ieph 
 Call, of Cambridge, Gov. Ezra Butler, of Waterbury, or others 
 accomi)anii'd him. They accepted what the pei)i)le gave them, 
 which wtis not much, for the jieople were ptjor, but those men of 
 God did not sutfer or com[)lain. He told Isaac Backus that h<3 
 had made several of these extended journeys and founded a 
 ciuirch at ••Caldwell's Manor," and Judge J. D. Farnsworth. of 
 Fairfax, said he was the s[)iritaal father of very many in all 
 northern Vermont. From 75,()0() to 1)0.000 people settleil in the 
 northern half of that state during the dozen years following 
 171)0, and the demand for missionary work was very urgent. The 
 New Hampshire records show that he was an ardent patriot, and 
 not a " loyalist," ns I stated in the Centennial Discourse, He 
 and his wife were buried near the center of the old parish ceme- 
 tery, in Frelighsburg, and the stones marking the 8[)ot are in a 
 good state of preservation. 
 
 JEDEDIAH HIBBARD'S CHILDREN. 
 
 Deacon Roger Hibbard was born in Canterbury, Conn., in 
 17()4, and died in East Franklin, Vt., at the home of John K. 
 Whitney, Nov. 3, 1848, He married Sarah Stickney, of Rowley, 
 Mass., an aunt, I think, of Jonathan Stickney, so long a leading 
 
 member of this church. 
 
 Roger had the 
 
 Harlow and Horace 
 
— 52— 
 
 i«ii>.)3 
 
 « I 
 
 r<«i 
 
 I* 
 I' 
 
 :i 
 
 4 
 
 Chaiidli'V farms, as vvt^ll as the Whituian pint'.", upon the hill, and 
 where his sou Roswi-ll lived for a time. Roger's home was the 
 Harlow Chandler [)lace, and I sn])p(jse he huilt that house, now 
 the home of Edmuud In<^ails. It was in liof^er's liome that his 
 father, Jedediah, was installed as pastor of this ehurch, August 
 27. 1801. and Roger was elected deacon in ISOO. and continued 
 to serve t\)rty-(wo years till his death. I renu>nd)er him, as one 
 of the finest tyjus of a genial, dignified, earnest Cliristian unin- 
 hood 1 ever knew. H<» wtnild walk (jver from '• John K's" to our 
 home, some two miles, (jf a Saturday forenoon, take dinner with 
 us, and then go with my father to the (.\)rner to covenant meet- 
 ing. They had tv.-eive children, and s[)ent their last years with 
 their sou-in-hiw, John K. Whitney, who nnirried their daughter 
 Philura. 
 
 Martha, a woman of great force and energy of character, was 
 Jedediah"s second child; she was born in Lebanon, N. H., as were 
 all the rest of his children, and married Samuel Cleveland, of Roy- 
 niton, Vt., a markedly able and successful business man. "Aunt 
 Cleveland" was horn to rule, and did it. 
 
 L(jis was histliird, born in 17t)8; married Zadock Rol)inson, and 
 they lived for some time on the south end of her father's biff 
 farm, now the Armstrong place. Her descendants are * 
 west" somewhere, 
 
 Samuel Porter, born in 1770; had the farm north of 
 Armstrong road, later owned by ''Elder" Homer Smith, 
 and his family wetit to Ohio, and thence to central Illinois where 
 many of his children and wife died, and he finally went to Ore- 
 gon, wher(» he died and is buried in Lafayette, near Portland. 
 
 Eunice, born in 1777; married Ebenezer White, of Roynlton, 
 Vt., and I know no more of them. 
 
 Jedediah L., their sixth child, was born in 1775; married 
 Ann Hotchkiss, who died February 5th, 1828, and is buried in 
 the family lot in Frelighsburg. " Uncle Jed'' lived with his 
 father; was a commissioned officer in the local militia; was 
 wt)unded in the battle of Plattsburg; sold his comuussion to 
 Orren Kemp, of Frelighsburg; went .to Lockport, N. Y., and 
 spent his last years with his son, Ahira, and was buried there. 
 
 Sarah, born in 1778; unirried Dr. Gilbert Jenne, the local 
 physician. When I knew her fifty years ago she lived with her 
 Bon, Siuipson, a couple of miles north of the Corner. For many 
 
 out 
 
 the 
 He 
 
— 53 — 
 
 he hill, aiul 
 ne was tlie 
 house, now 
 uic that his 
 ch, August 
 continued 
 lim, as one 
 istian man- 
 K's" to our 
 (iimier with 
 
 L'Tiaiit nUH't- 
 
 years with 
 ir daughter 
 
 firacter, was 
 
 H., as were 
 
 md, of Roy- 
 
 an, "Aunt 
 
 hinson. and 
 big 
 out 
 
 ather's big 
 
 are 
 
 irth of the 
 mith. He 
 inois where 
 nt to Ore- 
 ortland. 
 Royalton, 
 
 5; married 
 buried in 
 1 with his 
 lilitia; was 
 imission to 
 N. Y., and 
 ried there, 
 the local 
 I with her 
 For ninnv 
 
 '■'4 
 
 Vt'ars tliev were active members of the churcl). l)ut became Uni- 
 verbalists. fShe was a most earnest tMiristian woman till her 
 death, and she kept me reading "Edwards on the Affections" to 
 lier all the evenings I s|Hnt there while teaching in the J. M. 
 ycotield stone school-house. Norman Jenne, of Frelighsburg, is 
 her grandson. 
 
 Mary, or Susannah, was born in 1781; married John Miller, 
 of Nova Scotia, an older brother of Daniel, who married Deacon 
 K(jgers" daughter, Sarah. What became vi, John and family I 
 lu'ver learned. 
 
 Nathaniel, my grandfather, was born in ITST). nnd died at 
 Branchport, N. Y., Nov. 21, 1854; married Eleanor Johnson, of 
 Ijerkshire, Vt.. in 1S()5. and she also died in 1^54. He owned 
 and lived for many years on the iirst farm south of his father's, 
 where Hazard Thomas once lived, now owned by a Mr. (rrice. 
 He had a large saw mill below the road, on the brook south of 
 the house. Tlu» last years of his life he spent with his son, B. 
 Johnson Hibbard. on the farm at the foot of the •' Pinnacle" 
 mountain. Hi^ was a captain in the militia and S(Je *' commis- 
 sioiKU'"' tor many years of the Conmiissioner's Court, a local 
 tribunal <jf great excellence and efficiency and small c(jst. He 
 was warmly attached to the church, of which he was for two ex- 
 tended periods the efficient clerk. His memory is precious to 
 me as to all his grandchildren. 
 
 I have thus givt)n a brief account <jf the founder of this 
 church and his children, for the sake of their many descendants 
 and the future historian of the chui'ch. But before I pass to 
 •jther topics I wish to mention one of his grand-children. 
 
 Mrs. Martha Hibbard Wier, daughter of Jedediah L.. Rev. 
 fledediah's son, "Uncle Jed," as I just rt'member him. Slu; 
 was born Octoiier 1*J, 181(1. at the old original home, the Lee 
 [)lace, and died in 1889, wanting a few wt'eks only of being \H) 
 vears old. Soon after her mother died, in 1S2S. slu' went to live 
 with lu'r "Aunt CMevidand," in Royalton" Not satisfied there, 
 she Wi'ut to Lowell, Mass., in midwinter on a stage-coach; wt>rked 
 in the cotton mills, where nearly all the girls wen' native Ameri- 
 cans; in two or three years she marrit'd James Wier. and went 
 to western Peiuisylvania. and never saw one of her kindred from 
 \ho day slu' left "Aunt Cleveland's" till she came, with her 
 daughter, Mrs. Wilson, to my home in 1888, n pt'riod of sixty 
 
H 
 
 — 54— 
 
 years. She sat looking at me nearly an hour without saying n 
 word, then began to tell uie of uiy father and mother as she 
 knew them before their marriage, and tlu^n of other relatives and 
 the old residents in and about Abbott's Corner. And thus we 
 visited for several days, and from her I learned more of the old 
 times, the old people of all the region Uian I ever knew beside. 
 She made the iirrit ])lan of the old meeting hons<\ deseribed the 
 singers, the preachers, the customs, etc. She had the most re- 
 markable memory; fall, clear, vivid and accurati' of any person 
 I ever knew. After the death of her husband, and the marriage 
 or (h'atli of her children, she lived with her daughter, Mrs. 
 Martha Wier Wilson, of Minneapolis. 
 
 PERSONAL SKETCHES. 
 
 « 
 
 ^ 
 
 Dr. Jonas Abbott was one of the early settlers, and a great 
 frii'nd and helfH^r of this church, though not a member of it. 
 He was either the originator or one of tlnMii. of the first Sunday 
 scIkjoI in connection v.'ith the church; btjught its sup{)lies. — 
 larijelv verse cards for the children in learning their verses, He 
 lived in the large house, known in my day, as the Injuie of 
 Chauncey C. Abbott, his grand-son. whose father, Lieut. C(il. 
 Jonas Abbott, built the house for his father, the doctor. Th(? 
 Colonel lived up on the hill near the old meeting house, where 
 Mason Abbott lived many years, and is now the home of George 
 Salisbury, and was an active Sunday-school man. Col. Abbott 
 was a member of the church, and very intimate with Rev Jede- 
 diali Hibbard's family, as Mrs. Wier told me. He died A})ril 28, 
 18;J4, and his grave is near the center of the parish cemetery at 
 Frellghsburg. 
 
 Dr. Allen Miner; born in New Hampshire in 1760, was the 
 father of Casper and Maro, and grandfather of Allen Miner, 
 Abbott's Coiner's present merchant and postmaster. He was an 
 early settler, and long a prominent member of the church; 
 married Sarah Flint and had seven children. For years he was 
 one of the most influential and highly esteemed citizens of that 
 region. Several of his children and grand-children, as the list 
 ehowB, were members of the church. He died Mav 29, 184)3, 
 
oo 
 
 rhtor. Mrs, 
 
 nirt'il 7<) years. His wife, Sarah Flint Miiu-r. ilicil July 17. 
 iNlo. Mfjed 4'') yt'art'. 
 
 Elias Truax. born in Albany. N. Y., July 1, 1772; died in 
 Franklin. Vt., February 4. IS7-"). aged 102 yt>ars. 7 months; 
 married Anna Whitman, who died in iSiJS, a<^ed (it) years. It 
 Mas in his home, a mile north of Cook's Corner, or St. Armaiul 
 Center, that Key. Jedt-diah and his family spent their tirst ni<^ht 
 in movin;"^ from Leiianon to St. Armand. As I remember him 
 iie was a lovely Christiaji man aiid of remarkable vitality. 
 
 Rev. William (lalnsha. born July "2, 1775: dieil about ISoO. 
 Probably one of the constituent meud)ers. was licensed to preach 
 :»Iay 24. ISOb; called to the church as second pastor, July, IS 10, 
 and iilled the office for iifte<>n years. He lived on Deacon 
 Roller Hibbard's •'u[)[)er place," tlu' Simeon Whiiman farm, 
 durin<( most of his [wistorate. or till Roswell. Ro;j^er's son. 
 married and wanted it about 1S20. He lived also in Franklin, 
 nnd attended more funerals, probalsly. tlian any other man in 
 northern Vermont. He was strongly opposed to the Miller tyiK* 
 of Secoiid Adventism. which iixed upon A[iril 14, 1S4;}, as tlie 
 tiuu' "when the world would come to an end."' as they styled it. 
 Ca[>t. A. Leland Clalusha, of East Franklin, told me the snow 
 was four feet (kH^[) that day. and he was comforted because the 
 .^now would j»ut out the tire. I was ho[)eful th<> "Bowker." or 
 I'ike river, would (]Uench the llamcii. child tliiit 1 was. My 
 brother, S. P. and I failed to till th(> wood-box and cut the 
 turnips for the calves, as the coniin*^ end of the world made it 
 \uinecessary. Ehh'r Galusha had two wives, with thirteen child- 
 ren by the tirst and six hv the second wife. His tirst wife, 
 {'Esther Lawtt)n. died March It. LS2;). aj^inl 4(5 yt'ars. 
 
 Wesley (Talusha. his S'.'coiid chiM, \vh I) »r!i Jaly l<». 170S; 
 died in Sutton. April 21. l'->7'.>: married ]3a[>Iiiie Tolman, who 
 <lied February 22, 1S4S. All mv b(t\l!ood he was the boot and 
 shoe man of l•'reli^^hsV)ur^^ A be;iuti!'d siii^t r. :^iiti(l in [»rayer 
 and rennirk, a frecjuent visitor at my fatluTS. He ori^anized 
 and was the tirst su[)erintendent of a Sunday school in East 
 Franklin, in the old school house, up where the road turns uj) to 
 the Leonard Ford, now John Wilson, farm. He was a frerjuent 
 exhorter in early christian life, and leader of the old chiuvdi 
 choir for years. 
 
 The Seotiehls wer«' numerous; came fr«im Canaan with or 
 
— so- 
 
 soon after Rev. Jedediah, who was the founder and j)nstor of the 
 Canaan church before coniin*^ to Abbott's Corner. The original.^ 
 were Capt. John, who died Jan. 2, IS42, aged 8() years, and 
 Lydia Chirk Scofiekl, who died April 1<S. ism. The'ir chihhvn 
 were as follows, according to my motlier's family record. Sarah, 
 born in 1779: Miriam in llHO, John Bunyan in I7sl, Lucinda 
 in 17S4, James in 1780, Jessie in 17S1), Lydia in 17U1, Lewis in 
 171J1-, and Betsey in 1797. Of most of these I know little or 
 nothing. John B. married Welthyana Basford and had children 
 Lorenzo D., Julia and Olive, and lived on the Lorenzo farm. 
 He died Se[)tember 21, 181-1-, aged 3l-3 years. His wife marrietl 
 Nathan Stevens and had two more children, Hiram and Paulina. 
 She died December 24, 1804, aged 82. Lucinda married ]\[r. 
 Tyler, and among their children were Major, a long time West 
 Berkshire merchant, and two daughl(>rs, Harriet. Mrs. Collier, vt 
 Whitehall, N. Y., and Esther, Mrs. Phelps, of Stanbridge. mem- 
 bers of the old choir. James married Olive Basford, sister of 
 J. B's wife, and lived on the Columbus Scojield farm. Their 
 children were Columbus, who g.'ive in 18 10 the land for this brick 
 meeting house, and in 1858 ten acres (jf valuable huul for the 
 parsonage lot, and united with the church June 17, 187(), died 
 October 10, 1881, aged 75. I remember him as a man of rare in- 
 tellectual ability and strength of character, an unhewn boulder 
 from God's quarry of good, strong men. His widow. Mrs. Ellis 
 Deming Scofiekl. was with us at the Centennial. James' other 
 children were Marvin G., father of our associate pastor. Rev. 
 Wellington G. Scotield, of Richford, Vt. He died August <>. 
 1841; aged 89. Also Welthy, Lydia, J. Mason, near whose 
 home in Dunham I taught my first school in 1852-58, John B. 
 and Emeline. Jesse, for some years a deacon of this church, 
 married Eliza Martin, wlio nf+er his do.ith maxiied Robert No'hle. 
 of East Franklin, Vt., and died September 24, 18(5('). aged 72. 
 Lydia, my maternal grandmother, married first Solomon Baker, 
 who died A[)ril 1828, leaving her, my mother and two sons, Henry 
 drowned in 1850, and Solomon R., who wnn with us at the 1881 
 celebration, and died Jan. 12, 18U1, She then married David F. 
 Car[)enter, and they lived for years in the brick Innise ilow the 
 home of Arnold E. Bridge and family. She died July 2, 18r)0. 
 and he Decemb«>r 27, ISIiO. His chiUlren by a"* former wife, were 
 one son, Edwin, father of Mrs. Deacon Hanson H. Hibbard, of 
 
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 stor (»f the 
 e originals 
 'ears, niul 
 r children 
 [1. Sarah, 
 , Luciiuhi 
 , Lewis in 
 ,v little or 
 (1 children 
 ■nzo farn). 
 Pe married 
 d Paulina, 
 irried ]\[r. 
 inie West 
 Collier, (jf 
 nieni- 
 
 sister of 
 
 in. Thi'ir 
 
 I- this brick 
 
 md for the 
 
 187(), died 
 
 of rare in- 
 
 n boulder 
 
 Mrs. Ellis 
 
 nies' other 
 
 stor, Rev. 
 
 August (*>. 
 
 ear whose 
 
 John B. 
 IS church. 
 3ert Noi)ie. 
 
 aged 72. 
 Ml Baki'r, 
 ms, Henrv 
 [ the 18.S1 
 I David F. 
 e now the 
 y 2, 1S(U). 
 wife, wt're 
 [ibbard, of 
 
 this churcli. now of Dunham, also, ^Irs. Harvey D. Smith, ^[rs. 
 L'.ii'enzo D. ScoHcId and Mrs. Chauncey C. Abbott, all of whom, 
 save 31rs. Smith of this church, were v.orthy nieudjers. and with 
 iheir families, pillars for years of the Abbott's Corner Methodist 
 (••iiircli. Lewis Scotleld eungrated to '"UpixT Canada" in early 
 lit"', and Betsey married Joiin Ingalls, and died Octt^ber L'}, 
 is.")!. Nearly all these ScoHelds were UKMubers of this church. 
 Tae Ayers were a prominent family in the church, though 
 less known to me. I am indebted t(^ Deacon A. A. Ayer. of 
 Montreal, for the facts. The family originated in James, born 
 in Enghuid and died in America. His son, William was l)orn in 
 Haverhill, Mass.. and died in Plaisfow. N. H. His son William, 
 Jr.. was born in Plaistow. Mav. 174:3, three years after the birth 
 of Rev. Jrdediah. and died in St. Armand. Que., ^ilay 2;}rd, 
 IS'JO. His children, all b(jrn hert". were Mary, in 177*). and 
 married Danicd Chandler, the fatln'r of Horace M. and Harlow 
 Chandler. Jiunes. older than Mary. I think born in 1.7(j^. was 
 the father of our Abbott's C(jrner James, children Henry, my 
 old schoohnate oiie seasoii, now of Columbus, Ohio, and Abigail. 
 Then there was Bela. v>-;io lived in a s(|uare house, a little e;!st of 
 the Geo. W. Ayer place, on tlu' Frelighsburg road; born in 17<S;3, 
 find father (jf Mrs. Geo. W.. and grandfather of Albert A., of 
 I\l()ntre;d. Al)igail, bcjrn in 17SS; married Henry Baker, who 
 used to live west of Frelij^hsburg in that big half brick and 
 half stone house, a most hos[)itable home. Then there was a 
 John. '* Uncle John," as he was known, of Stanbridge. Also 
 Daniel, born about 177t'). whose children were Zoa, born in lS()2, 
 and married Deacon Isaac Jan(>s: John, who went to Texas, a 
 daughter. Mrs. Boondiower. whose descendants live in Platts- 
 burj;, N. Y.: another, Mv^. C. Tree, ;;f Striubiidge, ilu-n George 
 \V.. Albert A's father, and Daniel, who went to Massachusetts 
 and l)uilt " Ayer City," near Lijwell, and one or two otiiers who 
 died voun-'. Bela Aver, al)t)ve menticnied. married Susan 
 Rogers, a lineal descendant of John Rogers, burned at the stake 
 in England for his faith, and allied to the Roger Williams fam- 
 ily, the founder of Providence, R. I. J^(jth were lifelong mem- 
 hers of this church, and nil their children became ]3a[)tists. 
 They were Mary, Mrs. Geo. W., and an octogenarian and with 
 us at the Centennial, living now with her son, Deacon Albert A., 
 in ^Montreal: William, of Berkshire, whose two sons are now in 
 
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 •58- 
 
 Richford; Roger, who went to Minnesotn, niul Horace, of Loili, 
 Wisconsin. 
 
 Deacon Isaac Janes, so many years a pillar in tliis church, 
 all of whose nine children followed their parents into the church. 
 He was born in Berkshire, Vt., October It), 1804; married Zoa 
 Ayer, December, 1820, and both united with this church soon 
 after. He died September '2, 1882, one of tlie most quiet ex- 
 emplary and faithful Christian men I ever knew. Of his child- 
 ren, Horace, my school '• chum" at Fairfax, a very bri<^ht and 
 l)romising young man, died in Beloit. Wis.. March 22, 18()(). 
 Newton lives in Richford; Addison in Berkley, California, while 
 AdehvVtle died February 4, 1887, leaving several chililnii in Berk- 
 shire, and Pruella, now Mrs. C, T. Maynard, of Bakersfield, Vt. 
 Deacon James' was a fine family, but afflicted with fatal tubercu- 
 losis, and several of his children died of it. 
 
 Rev. Arnold L. Arms, for so many years the faithful, patient 
 pastor and historian of the church, was born in St. Armand, 
 Que., Nov. 11, 1822; son of Wdliam, a Vemionter, and Abigail 
 Woodworth Arms, of New Hampshire. He was converted in 
 1838, baptized into the Richford church by Rev. William 
 Rogers, its pastor, August 11. 1831); licensed to [)reach De- 
 cember, 1850; was educated in the public schools, and Enosburg, 
 Bakerstield and Derby academies. In my boyhood he was 
 widely known as one of the very best teachers in all that region. 
 He married Maria Ruey Hurlbut, Nov. 8, 1848. Th'^y had two 
 children — a son and daughter; the latter died, aged It) years. 
 He was ordained in Richford, February 17, 1853. He has as- 
 sisted in !)rdaining some fifteeti other pastors, k rare record, and 
 helped settle not a few church troubles and other public work, 
 and has preached in all the towns about, acting as pastor in 
 Richford, Montgomery tmd Berkshire, Vt., Potton, Sutton Flats, 
 and this church in Canada. His pastorate here covers about 
 thirty years, and has been fruitful of very mucli good. He has 
 spent nearly his entire life near the place of his birth in the 
 southeast corner of St. Armand East near the Richford line. His 
 Canadian records are as follows: Marriages 231; ba[)tisms 185; 
 funerals 20t); birth records 203. And all these years he lived on 
 and managed his farm. Venerable in years and service; loved 
 and honored by all, he was with us at the Centennial, a "shock 
 of corn," ripe for the garner of his Lord. 
 
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 Rev. Wellington G. Seofield, nssoeinte pastor of the church, 
 was Vjorn in Sutton. Que., March 12, 1S89, and liis father, 
 Marvin, died when he was a year and n half old. His mother, 
 Laura Parker, two years later married Seth Westover. with whom 
 W. G, spent his minijritv. He was converted while attendiiiir 
 the New Hampton Institution at Fairfax. Vt., I)a[)tized into this 
 church by jiastor Rev. Abrain Bedell, March 17, iS^Wi, and tor 
 twenty years he served it as Sunday-school superintendent, clerk, 
 c(jllector. treasurer, chorister and deacon, a service of inestimable 
 vjilue to the church, and of great value in training him for future 
 influ(Mice. He was licensed to preach in 18S3, and ordained to 
 the ministry June 24, iSSo; accepted a call to the [)astorate of 
 the Bfiptist church in Richford, Vt., began his work there Sept. 
 1st, I'SHC), and has during those nearly fifteen years, proved him- 
 self a workman that needeth not to be ashamed. He married 
 Miss Mary Margaret Ingalls, and of their children, only one, 
 Bertha, wife of Prof. A. E. Masse, of the Grand Ligne Mission, 
 survives. Her beautiful Centennial poem appears elsewhere in 
 these pages. His daughter Mary, who died several years ago, 
 was the wife of Prof. H. Wade Hibbard, second son of Rev. 
 Charles Hibbard. and now Principal of the new Post-Graduate 
 school of Railroad ^Engineering of CornellUniversity, Ithaca, N.Y. 
 
 Rev. Charles Hibbard. youngest son of Nathaniel, and grand- 
 son of Rev. Jedediah, was born near Abbott's Corner, Dec. 21, 
 1828; entered Worcester Academy, Mass., in 1843; in three 
 years fitted for college. Entered Brown University; had 14, Hojjc 
 College, a room subsequently occupied by his two sons, Dr. Na- 
 tlinnic!, of Provideiue, ami Prof. H. Wade, of Corned. Gradu- 
 ated in 1850; at Rochester Theological Seminary same year; 
 graduated Juiu\ 1852; married Susan A. Rol)inson, of Provi- 
 dence, July 27: ordained Sept. 14, and sailed for Burma, as a 
 missionary, Sept. 18, 1852 in ship "Edward;" returned from 
 Burma, June 8, 18r)(). Was several years a successful pastor in 
 Chester, Vt.. then in Vergennes and Middlebury, building up 
 two new and weak churches. His failing health compelled him 
 to retire. He died in Providence, R. I., Sept. 80, 1887, and his 
 remains lie in the Abbott's Corner cemetery, by his own re(|uest. 
 He was not a great man. as the busy world measures greatness; 
 but he was a zealous, faithful Christian and pastor, and one of 
 the best and truest men I ever knew: All loved him. 
 
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 I want to sny a word of my father. Deacon Caspir 13., an 
 elder brother of Charles; J)orn Dee. 2*.), ISOS; converted in Nov., 
 1S30; elected Deaccni in 1S4;5, and served till his death. He 
 married Eleanor M. Baker, April -1, ls;]'i. and they had lliree 
 children, L(>wis B., Salmon P., and Mrs. Lydia II. Pomeroy, who 
 died in Franklin, Vt., Jan. 2'.>, 1ST8, Of his attachment de- 
 votion and service to this church, it is not mine to write. ]My 
 mother died Nov. 7, ISC)?, and inv father Julv 7, \SX~). and their 
 j]fraves are in the beautiful cemetery at East Franklin, Vt. Our 
 lifelong lujuie was on " Whitney Hill." two miles south of 
 Frelighsburg, now owned by T. (x, Campbidl. 
 
 NOTES OF SPEAKERS AND OTHERS. 
 
 Rev. Jose[)h Gr. Lorimer, of Georgia, Vt., my classmate at 
 Fairfax, ^^as born at Beebe Plain, Que., Feb. -k IS;};-). His 
 parents were natives of Scotland, and deeply religions: converted 
 while at the Derby Academy in 1S4.S; baptized May P.*. ls!'.»: 
 licensed to jyreach in IS.j-I; entered the New Hampton Institu- 
 tion at Fairfax in lsr>.5; graduated from the theological de[>art- 
 ment July, 1S()1, and was ordained pastor of the Din-by. Vt,, 
 Baptist church, October of the same year; married Almira A. 
 Hale, Se[)t. H. ISO'J, and became pa.stor of the Georgia IMrdn 
 Baptist church, Jan. 1, 1S77. Let me add that Bro. Lorimer 
 was the model Christian student in all his schooldays, as tlie 
 faithful pastor since. 
 
 Rev. Edwin Pre)uty, of Franklin, Vt., is very dear to my 
 heart, as I was converted under his preaching. He was born in 
 that town, Dec. llth, 1^20; converied Nuv, 13, ISI-JS, at ^:Hi) p. 
 m. in a revival meeting in the old Olmstead schoolhouse which 
 stood very near the present brick one at East Franklin; was 
 ba[)tized by inmiersion. May 12, iSHlt. and united with the church 
 in 1S4(), [)romising God he would always speak for t^hrist when 
 op{)ortunity otVered. Married Mary A. Stimson, graml-daughter 
 of Deacon Roger Hibbard, May 11, Isil, and they set up the 
 family altar of prayer the day of their marriage, and it was 
 never taken dowji, and onutted but twice during all their married 
 lives, when he was at hom(\ She died May 10, 181M). He was 
 licensed to preach Nov. 2."), ISol, and served as a lay loca 1 
 
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 proaclu'V till ^ray '_!•"). IS.")*), whcir lie wns oiw.'iun !.'.•(,.. a, 
 Saratot^'a. N. Y.. and thi'ii ordained Elder at Moiit|udi('r, April 
 22, ISJit). One year lie tilled tlie nj)|)oinlineiit at (ieory^ia and 
 North Fairfax, inakin*^ tlie round trip of 70 miles from his 
 Fra.nklin farm and nev(>r missed a Sunday. He has held mei't- 
 int^s with cojiversions in prol)a])ly every town within a radius of 
 fifty mi!(s of his honje. mostly <:fratuitons work. That tirst 
 school-house revisal, on Whifm^y Hill, in ISo'i. in whieh T was 
 converted, was a tyju' of all his work -his converts held t)at. and 
 lu'aven only knows how many hundri'ds of convt-rsions have re- 
 sulted from his labors. His life and work should i'e written to 
 sliow what a <r()(llv consecrated farmer can do. 'J'here is no worldlv 
 wise. s[)irituality enervfitiuf^ new theolojL^y or hi>^lier criticism in 
 his |;reachii;<.,'. hut tlie word of God just as he found it in the 
 Bible, and the Cicjd of tlie bible honored li's faitli and labors in 
 salvation of men. 
 
 Deacon All.'ert A. Ayer. of ]\iontreal. wa.s born at the (leo, 
 W. Aver houiesie? d: married C'arrie R., daui'hter of .lolmson 
 and jSlary Ann Hibbard. Sei)t. '.>. ]8()7. tliev lia.ve livid all these 
 Years in I\Iontrea.l. Both v.ere nu-mbers (jf this church, as will 
 be seen from the list. They tirst joined tlu^ old First Baptist 
 (dmrch: was elected a deacon v.h.en oidy 2H years old They 
 went with the eiirhtv who swarmed from tlie old First and fornu'd 
 the "Olivet," of which he has been a deacoii from the first. He 
 has been secretary, treasur(>r and pnsident of tlie Missionary 
 Convention, over twentv vears one of the (Iranil Lii^ne iTission 
 Directors, S(jme yi> irs ju'esident of its bostrd and now Chairnnui 
 of its PlxiM'utive Committt'i>. In business mailers he has biM-n 
 (lurini^ all his Montreal life in the butter and clu-.'se trade. Ea.rly 
 became an exporter, and his firm. I suppoH<\ is now the lari^'esl 
 of the kind in tin' Dominion. He is [;resident of tiie lai'i^e 
 Merchants' Cotton (N>., the Laurie Engine Co.. the Lajirairie 
 Brick Co.. the Whilham Shoe Co. 
 
 Deacon Salmon P. Hibbard. mv oidv brother, passed Ids 
 youth on our home farm: was converted with me und<'r Jvlwin 
 Prouty's [ireaching; united with this church; went to Bostoji. in 
 iSC).'}. United tirst with the L'remont Tem[tle cluirch. with Justin 
 D. Fult(jn, pastor; in ISO'.I went to the Chireiuhjn Street Church, 
 the late A. J. (Jt)rdon, pastor; has been for snany veai's one of 
 its deacons; was itrominent in Y. A[. C. A. work for manv ^ears; 
 
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 on the board of niaufs^^tTS oi tlu' Ni'wtou TlieoloLfical Insfitutioii; 
 Ode or two tcruis l^ri-.sidrnt Bost(Ui Baptist S>)cial Union: in the 
 city council; one of Di . (ior(h)n"s ri«jfht hand n>en in liis varied 
 evangelical enter|)ri8eH. Has l)een in the butter, cheese and bean 
 trade all his Boston life; Secretary and Treasurer of iheCliicaj'o, 
 Ntnv York & Boston Refrigerator Co., ovvnin<^, buildinif and 
 operating lines of refrigerator cars, and I know not what other 
 similar enterprises. He married Harriet iSturtevant in IHIJS, 
 and they have always lived in Boston. 
 
 Rev. Whitney P. Stanley, [)astor of the Mr'thodist church in 
 West Berkshire, Vt., is a great-great grandson of Rev. Jedediah. 
 His mother, Mary J. Hibbard Stanley, was a daughter of Jesse, 
 and grand-daughter of Deacon Roger. Rev. Mr. Stanley was 
 born in Franklin, Vt., March 12, IHIJI. Educated at the Mont- 
 j)elier Seminary, and Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn.; 
 married Carrie M. Allen, of Enosburg, Si'[)t. 2(>, 181)4, and has 
 been n successful pastor at Johnson, Swanton and West Berk- 
 shire. He is a young man of ability and promise, a worthy de- 
 scendant of the founder of this church, though never connected 
 with the church. 
 
 Omri Ford Hibbard, Esq., of New York, was not called upon 
 to speak, but he was at the Centennial. He is the oldest son of 
 the late Capt. Edward L., who was a son of Jesse, and grand-son 
 of Roger. Omri F., was born in East Franklin, Vt., July 11. 
 18G1; fitted for college at Goddard and Williston; graduated at 
 Harvard University in 1884, and the Law school in 188(5, and 
 established himself in New York city, where he has a large and 
 successful practice. He is a vestryman in an Episcopal church 
 in the city of his residence, Brooklyn, N. Y. Though never a 
 member of this church, he was and is apparently as interested in 
 its history and its success as any of its children, and none en- 
 tered moye heartily into the spirit of the Centeimial than he, 
 though only a silent listener that day. 
 
 Mrs. Eleanor M. Hibbard Truax, of Franklin, one of my 
 father's sisters and Rev. Jedediah 's only grandchild present, was 
 born in St. Armand, Feb. 18, 1819; baptized into this church 
 Nov., 1839; married Elias Truax, Jr., April 4, 1852, and has 
 since lived in Franklin. She remembers the old church, and told 
 me where her father, Nathaniel's two pews were. She was a 
 successful school-teacher for some years before her marriage. I 
 was a pupil in her first and last school. 
 
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 Mrs. Mnrv Aim. and Mrs. Susnu A. R. Hiblmrd, widow.s of 
 two of Rev. Jt'dcdinh's j^rand-sous, viz: B. Joliiisoii, of Ab- 
 bott's CoriuT, and Rev. Charles of Providence, R. I., sons of 
 Nathaniel, were pn^sent also »it the C«Mjtennial. "Annt Mary 
 Ann" unitetl with the eluneh by baptism tiie same day as njy 
 father, Nov., 1<S;J1). "Annt Snsan" was never a meud)er of this 
 chnrch, thonjijh ''Uncle Charles" was converted here; Imptized 
 into tliis church and is buried in your beautiful cemetery. 
 
 B. Johnson Hibbard, a youn<^<'r brother of my father, died 
 June 13, 1871; his widow was with ns at the Centennial, and his 
 oldest son, Hanson H.. has been for many years a deacon of this 
 church. He "never wanted any office in church or state, only to 
 know and do his duty towaril God and his fellow men. He was 
 one of the meek of the earth who bear its burcU-ns without com- 
 plaint. Wouhl to God there wi-re mori' such. 
 
 There are many older meudjers and friends of this church of 
 whom I wanted to make luAv, but I know n(jthin<^ about, especi- 
 ally such men as Rev. Homer and Johnson Snuth, Jonathan 
 Stickney, Casper Miner and many others. I just remember the 
 elder, Simeon Whitman, who had the square [)ew in this house, 
 now the choir iilatform, built esi)ecially for his use, after the style 
 
 brought over from England by the Puritans, nnd found in Jiearly 
 all the old meeting houses in New Englanil. Then outsiders, as 
 Harvey D., son of pastor Homer Suulh; David Sunth, that 
 "sweet singer," and the leader of the choir, wi^h Reuben, his 
 brother: the Chandler "vouuir folks;" Emma ami Martha; 
 daughters of Jesse Hibbard, and others whom I do not re- 
 member of that choir of my boyhood fifty years ago. I would 
 like to write of them all, and more besides. 
 
 REV. JEDEDIAH^ S DE SCENDANTS, 
 
 The following is a list, so far as I could remember or get 
 them, of his deseendnnts who were [)resent at the Centennial, 
 Sept. (), 1891). I give the descendants of each of his children in 
 their order, beginning with his oldest. 
 
 ROGER. 
 
 Mary, Roger's oldest child, was the mother of Mrs. Rev. 
 Edwin Prouty, whoso (biughter, Florinda, Mrs. Asa Wilson, and 
 perhaps one of hn' ' vn, I think, were there from East 
 
 Franklin, Vt. 
 
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 (liin<;Iit('r. Mr:^. Knmi.i H. Siuilli, HiT.Ult'ixii-o. \'t., Imt s'-Ucr. .Mrs. 
 ]\rarll:;'. IT, Ilnz'/iud. Si, Ailxuis. \'l.. luid licr (Iniiiflilcr. Mrs. 
 !Miirtha Brill mikI liiisluiiul. Friinkliu: C'jspl. I'Mlwdul 1^. TliM-rird's 
 widow. ]\r.rs. Cii.'irlottf F.. Fraiddiii. Vt.. niid t'.H-ir sen. Omri F., 
 of X«'\v York city, nnd liis dauLfhtcr. Justina. Tlicti .Mrs. .^^ary 
 Jane Sifiiily and liiisl;aiid. Pliilo H. Fraiddiii. Ilicir sou ] •' ii l.i.rtl 
 Sfnidy, wife find foii Holiart: also son Kcv. Wliidiiaii T'. Slaidv, 
 v.ifc and dauijlitiT Marjorii' West TJorksljir*': also .Mrs, Lydia P., 
 Wliitniaii Iiil)l)ar<r.s widow, 
 
 Philuni Ro<,^('r"s ik'xI child married John K, Whilni-y. of 
 Frankiii). Her (hu!ii;liter. Mrs, Helen Holden. St. Arniand Center, 
 and her two sons. Homer and Ed^ar. Then John L, Whitney 
 and wife, of Rtcld'ord. Also Ca[)t. Orloil" H. ^Vhitney's (wlio 
 died June 2. 1S(');5. in the Union arniv). only dan.%diter H"len. 
 A[rs. Col. Olin Merrill. Enoslniro- Falls, Also Heheeca Whitney 
 Ford's i^rand-dau<;'hter, Marion Ct., Richford. Vt. 
 
 Olive Porter, Roj^er's youn;,rest dan^hter. wife of Harlow 
 Chandler: her son. Malcolm L. Chandler. St. Albans, and Wini- 
 fred C, danirhti'r of Mary Chandler Inindls. Enosbnr-r Falls. Vt. 
 
 Jli;DEI)I.\H L. 
 
 Was Rey, Jedediali's sixth child, and Ids G^reat <^randson. Eliel 
 Wilson, of Minneapolis, a student in the I\I.innesota State Fni- 
 vTTsity went with me to the Centennial, a journey of 1,100 nules 
 for that day; a grand-sou of Mrs. Wier. 
 
 SARAH H, .lEXNE, 
 
 wife of Dr. Gilbert Jenne, was re[)resented by lu^r grandson, 
 Norman Jenne, of Freliglisburg, and also Sim[)son Jenne, of 
 Berkshire, Vt. 
 
 NATHANIEL 
 
 was Rey. Jedediali's youngest child and my grandfather. Of 
 his children, Eleanor H. Tructx, Fraidilin. was the oidy grand- 
 child pres(uit. Mary Ann, widow f)f his son, Johnson, and 
 Susan, widow of his son Rey. Charles, were there. 
 
 Nathaniel's son, Casper B.. had two sons, Lewis B..FIighlan(l 
 Park, 111., and Salmon P., Boston, Mass., and the two children of 
 his daugther, Lydia H. Pomeroy, Franklin, Vt., Luna and Hib- 
 bard, with their father. George E. Pomeroy. 
 
 Nathaniel's son, Johnson, had his widow, Mary Ann; his 
 
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 oldest Hoii, D'ncou Hanson TI.. wife and daui^htor Grnco. of 
 Duiilinm, Que: }>Iyh. Hattic TI. Campbell, witli her son William, 
 St., Armatid. Then his voiuiijer (lan«;liter. ^Ers. Carrie H. Aver. 
 and her husband. Deacon All»ert A., with their daughter (Irace, 
 of Montreal, Que. Also Johnson's youngest son William P. 
 Hibbard and wif«', Abbott's Corner. 
 
 Nathaniel's daughter. Arabella H. Traey, had her only 
 daughter, Mrs. Ella T. Wood, of East St. Johnsbury. Vt.; also 
 one son, Harvey Traey and wife, Abbott's Cornier. 
 
 This list is im[)erfeet, but it is the best I could do a thousand 
 miles awny. I wish any one who tinds ern^rs would send me 
 corrections at once. 
 
 CONCLUDING NOTES. 
 
 I am sorry to find, as I look over the sixty and more [)i:gi'S 
 already printed, some errors too late for correction. The names 
 were sot and stereotyi)ed in Chicago, hence some errors there. 
 
 I am sorry, also, that some to whom I wrote for information, 
 did not rejily. For exam[)le, I wrote to the rector of the [jarish 
 church in Frelighsburg, enclosing a stauiped envelop for re[)ly, 
 but not a line came. I»lrs. Wier thought her father, Jedediah 
 L., united with the parish church; I asktd the rcct(^r to tell me, 
 
 Mrs. Wier told me many things of the old -times people, 
 customs, etc. One that Rev. Jedediah took up large tracts of 
 land on "Dunn's Patten," which sold at a good j)rofit, and so 
 gave each of his children a farm, or a good "setting out." Ho 
 wrote a very clear, round hand, and was a great student. Tho 
 family was very strict observers of Sunday; no cooking or even 
 washing dishes, so her "Aunt Patty" Cleveland told lier. He 
 ^ i a journal, in which the passing events were recordeil; he 
 led it his "Register." and Mrs. Cleveland took it. The Sco- 
 lds, she also said, were high up socially; they, the Abbotts 
 (d Rev. Jedediah's children were very intimate, and most of the 
 men were Free Masons. She remembered her mother going uj) 
 with her to the Sunday school in the old school-house at 3 
 o'clock p. ni. all summer in 1818. Said everybody loved Deacon 
 Roger; h' as so good a man. Jedediah's oldest child, Mary, 
 
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 lunrrled Nat Clintrt'e, who kt-pt n hotfl jnst across tlio ''Lino/' 
 south of the Loronzo D. Scoficld plnot*. After his death she 
 marrit'd Mr. Stinison. and their (hm<fhler was the wife of Rev. 
 Edwin Prouty. ller son Charh's Stiuison. hnnted nu' u[) and 
 niacK' himself known, when I was General Manaj^rr of the Mln- 
 neaptjlis Kx[)osition in ISSJ). Ah a pieee of j)ersonal vanity, for 
 the entertainnu'ut of my friends, let me say that Exijosition was 
 o[>en six weeks; our gate reeei[)ts were nearly §S'.M)()U — and we 
 elosed with a net [)rofi(, after paying every cent of ex[)ense, of 
 over 821,000. Of this money, I made over S2,N00 one .Saturday 
 evening with a double "Exposition Wedding." with ahout]'20.000 
 guests, and my exhibitors gave m«' a tine gold wateh and chain 
 costing S250. 
 
 The early ministers wore a surplie<' as Mr. Wier remembered 
 them, very like the Episcopal clergy. 
 
 When the choir sang one verse, the udnister "lined olf," 
 that is. read the tirst line of the next verse, ami so on through 
 the hymn. There were two hymns before the sermon, and one 
 after it. 
 
 Rev. Charles Hibbard had, at the time of his death, the 
 Bible used for many years l)y Rev. Jedediah. and it traveled 
 hundreds of miles in his knapsack on his missio .ary tours 
 through central and northern Vermont and Canada, as well as 
 New Hampshire. 
 
 George Salisbury, who now owns tiie Mason Abbott farm 
 where the old meeting-house stood, plowed up soui" of the brick 
 from its chimney and gave me n })iece. the day after tin' Cen- 
 tennial, 
 
 Finally, brethren and friends, farewell. "God be with you 
 
 till we meet airain. 
 
 LEWIS 13. HIBBARD. 
 
 HuiULANu Park. 111., June 11, lUOO. 
 
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 LIST OF MEMBERS. 
 
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 In litter yi'Mi-s 1) mc.-nis hjiptisni. d died. rtc. [ wislifd I 
 jpvo tlu- lini',^ of flic drnth could I sivurt' tii.' cxru-t dates, hut to 
 iV.uiidsotVw that the nlteuij)! was alwudoiied. save f(.r .som(> of 
 the earlier asid nion* proniiiieut nii'nd)ers. as well as thos(> (jf 
 later years, so far as I know the time (jf death, the year only 
 heini,' .riven, thus. '-Haima Harris. IS^T. »).")," means" that she 
 died durino- that year and was Tio years old. 
 
 I am prej-arini,' a manuseript vcjliune of the eidire •• List of 
 Mem))ers;" with the exact dat.' of I)ap(ism. marrinijo, death and 
 other historical data, so far as I can secure it. for the use of the 
 H Htorian and JCditor at the Second (V'liti'nnial in IKU'J, 
 
 THi;: •• OHIUINAL SliVEN." 
 
 1 have speii! jnucli time and s(»me corres[>ondence tryin<' to 
 learn who weiv (he (.ri,i,'inal seven c(.nstiluent mend)er.s' of^thi' 
 church. Pastor Hil)l)ard had hern on \ho field about two years 
 before the clM-reh was or^'aidzed. and there were, of ccMirse. 
 many more than se\en Haptists in all this communitv at that 
 tinu>. thou--h only seviMi happened to be present on t!ie day of 
 ()r<rani>:ation. As ne.ir as I can learn and -^riu'ss." the ori-^inal 
 seven were: " 
 
 Uev. .iL'tlfdi.ili lliiiliiinl. Ai tinul'a.-tnr. 
 
 I»('a. W«>„'.T llil.lini-.l. 
 
 U"v. Wiiliiiin lJ(»;,'i'r.s. 
 
 i'liiis Triiiix. 
 
 I>r. .Mil n .Miner. 
 
 iv'i'V. WilPllil (JiiiiisliH. 
 
 Williinii .}. Aver. 
 
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 .Iiiincs Ayer. Sr., l^.".(i, S7. 
 'riiiiiiiii>( .\riiis. 
 Mrs. Mil ri 111) Arms. 
 V.'llliaiii .\riiis. 
 WiMi;M;i .J. Ay.T. lSi;t. 
 .Mr.s, S;tr:ili CIiikIw;,!; .VvtT. ISIli 
 Mol-i AytT. 1.SIL'. 
 Mis. Siisiituiiili .Vycr, IKi'.i;, 
 Johii .\vt'r. 
 Mrs. Mcrtlihi Ay. r. 
 Airiitsii .\iistlli. 
 Mrs. Iliun'illi .Viistlli. 
 
 <"!. .I;'!i;!s Al.lmit. IH.'fJ, «H. 'f->-^-)^*'f^Tj 
 
 Mrs. .Mary Alx.tt. 1S«4. -LIa^- ^ ■'^■^'^ 
 
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 Mrs. Cliirihsu liritiilii. 
 
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 Mr.s. M:iry UvU]^r. I.s;;:; ,;:!, 
 
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 Kcsi'iia !;:irl.>T. 
 
 Mary l{iir!),M'. 
 
 Aiiiiis linrbcr. 
 
 •JllStliS I'.illiliL'S. 
 
 Jt»i'! Ilradford. 
 
 Mr.s. Try|.;.,.!.a I!r)i.lf.)r(I. 
 
 Ilnsi'a Mradinrd. 
 
 A.-ia liraiifdid. 
 
 Tryi)liciia Uu/m-U. 
 
 Salira nisliop 
 
 iJciir).'.' I'.Ldiu|i. 
 
 •Mis ."^ 'sni.f.ali l!:sli(ii(, 
 
 .'•dm r.akcr. 
 
 i;i.v niiKley. 
 
4 I 
 
 -68 — 
 
 k 
 
 I 
 
 t 
 
 V 
 
 % 
 
 jlA^. 
 
 ^?:^' 
 \^.. 
 
 John Blake. 
 
 Mrs. Kxperience Blake. 
 
 Otis W. Buab. 
 
 John Brigham. 
 
 Jesse Bruwn. 
 
 James Bates. 
 
 Seba Buttolph. 
 
 Mrs. Thankful Buttolph. 1820, 61. 
 
 Kbenezer Clark. 
 
 Mrs. Jemima Clark. 
 
 Daniel Clark, 1868, 83. 
 
 B,?t8ey Wright Clark, 1865, 74. 
 
 Calvin Clark. 
 
 Bartlett B. Clnrk. 
 
 Bnrtholomow Clark. 
 
 Mrs. Laura Clark. 
 
 Itlchard Clark. 
 
 Mrs. Lucy Clark. 
 
 Mrs. Olive Ilibbard Chandler. 
 
 Mrs. Anne Hlbbard Clark. 
 
 Wesly Clark. 
 
 lOlizabeth Chambers. 
 
 Debora Churchill. 
 
 Mrs. Lucy Joy Carpenter. 1830. 42. 
 
 Mrs, Lydia Scotield Baker Carpenter, 
 
 1860, 08. 
 llufus Carpenter. 
 Mrs. Itufus Carpenter. 
 Asa Carpenter. 
 Mrs. lOliznbeth Carpenter. 
 Amos Carloton. 
 Mrs. Mary Carleton. 
 Samuel Campbell. 
 Mrs. (Jrace Campbell. 
 Harriet Tyler Collier. 
 John Capron. 
 Lncy Chaflfee. 
 
 Aaron Chaffee. ■ • ' 
 
 Mrs. Tolly Chaffee. 
 Smteley Caesar, 1866. 
 Kbenezer Dust In. , 
 
 Jonathan Davis. 
 Mrs. Mary Davis. 
 Abram Davis. 
 Mrs. Mary Davis. 
 VVIlliam Davis. 
 Mrs. Sarah Davis. 
 Kllsha Davis. 
 Mrs. Anne Davis. 
 Allen Davis. 
 Mrs. Elizabeth Davis. 
 Salome Demlng. * 
 
 Mrs. Amy Dunning. 
 Noah Dewey. • ' 
 
 Mary Drew. 
 Daniel Dean. 
 Sarah Kldrldge. 
 Martha Kldrldge. 
 Jonathan Fuller. 
 Mrs. Rhoda Fuller. 
 Josiah I. Fay. 
 
 Apolios Finney. ' 
 
 Abigail Flint. 
 I'oiiy Flint. 
 Betsey Folsom. 
 Polly Richards Fobs. 
 Rev. William Oaiushn. 
 William Calusha, Jr. 
 Weslev Oalusha, 1870. 
 Mrs. Daphne Tolman Oalusba, 1848. 
 
 Joshua Glbbs. ' . . * 
 
 Anne Gibbs. ' j' " 
 
 Harris Uibbs. /. » 
 
 David Croat. 
 
 Henry Oroat. . : 
 
 John Oroat. 
 Abial Groat. 
 Henry Groat, Jr. 
 Anna Groat. 
 Lewis Grlnnell. 
 Matilda Garland. 
 M. Giddlngs. 
 "Dorcas Glover. 
 Rev. Jedediati Hihbard. 
 Dea. Roger Hibbard. 1848. 84. 
 Sarah Stickney Hi bbard, 1850, 03. 
 Dea. Asabel Hulburt. 
 Mrs. Sarah Hulburt. 
 Amy Huliiurt. 
 Electa Hulburt. 
 Luther Hilliard. 
 Hannah Harris, 184"'. 
 Marian Harris. 
 Israel Harris. 
 Nathaniel Hibbard, 13.%4. 
 Mrs. Eleanor Johnson Hibbard, 1854. 
 Samuel Porter Hibbard. 
 Miss Sarah Hii)bard, 1816. 24. 
 Mrs. Harriet Hibbard Higgins. 
 Jesse Hibbard, 1848. 
 Mrs. Martha Whitman Hibbard. 1861, 51. 
 Silas N. Hemin. 
 Mrs. Mary Hedlin. 
 Clnrissa Hunter. 
 Elizabeth Hill. 
 Eliza Hodges. 
 Solomon Hinds. 
 Mrs. Lucy Hinds. 
 Jacob House. 
 Ezeklai Howe. 
 Mrs. Mary Howe. 
 Andrew ilawley. 
 Mrs. I'ranla Hawley. 186.%, 
 Mrs. Betsey Scofield Ingalls, 18.58. 61. 
 Daniel Iiigalls. 
 Mrs. Polly Ingalls. 
 Paulina Ingalls. 
 Hasen Ingalls. 
 Moses Tngails. Jr. 
 Jnmes Ingalls, \STtl. 
 Peleg Johnson. 
 Mrs. Abiiigaii Johnson. 
 ICsek Johnson. •' 
 
 Mrs. Sally Varney Johnson. 
 Dr. Gilbert Jenne. 
 Mrs. .Sarah Hibbard Jenne. 
 Mary Jenne. 
 
 Mary Jacobs. , 
 
 Miriam Jones. 
 Harriet Jefforda 
 Elizabeth Knox. 
 Ephralm Knights. 
 
 Mrs. Betsey Knights. f 
 
 Louis Kimball. 
 Mrs. .Susannah Kimball. 
 Obadlah Kimball. 
 Mrs. Sabrtna Kimball. 
 Mary Leonard. 
 Polly Larrlbee. 
 Amy Larrlbee. 
 
09 
 
 51. 
 
 Kllznbeth Lewis. 
 
 Dr. Allen Miner. 
 
 Tlionias Miner. 
 
 Mr.s. Saraii Miner. 
 
 Sarali Miner. 
 
 i'iiarlotte Mott. 
 
 Jnnas Morse. 
 
 Mrs. I^ucy Morse. 
 
 Kllzobetli Munson. 
 
 .lames Martlndale. 
 
 Mrs. Anne Martlndale. 
 
 Aaron Martlndale. 
 
 Mrs. Until Martlndale. 
 
 Kunlce Morrill. 
 
 David Nutting. 
 
 Mrs. Paulina Nutting. 
 
 David Nutting, Jr. 
 
 i:!y Nolile. 
 
 Mrs. iOiinlce Noble. 
 
 i:!»'ni>zor Olmstead. 
 
 (•fis I'ldge. . 
 
 Mrs. Jemima IMdge. 
 
 Amos I'lielps. ^ ; 
 
 Mrs. Dindama Phelps. 
 
 Mrs. K.sther Tyler Phelps. 
 
 riarls lleyuolds. 
 
 Mrs. Ilnnnnh Iteynolds. 
 
 John IN'ynoIds. 
 
 .MrAi:ilz!il)eth Reynolds. 
 
 Itev~Wllliiim Kogers. 
 
 Susannah HoKers. 
 
 Den. Joshua Smith. 
 
 Homer Smith. Oct. 12. 1."s;i7, .".'. 
 
 M,-s. ('lUDline Itush Smith. 1.s;{'J. 4!>. 
 
 Mrs. AhlKJill Ayor Smith, 1S48, 412. 
 
 I'rn Smith. 
 
 \YilIlara Johnson Smith. 
 
 Mrs. Diana Smith. 
 
 Mrs. Olu'dience Smith. 
 
 Miss Irene Smith. 
 
 Miss Chloe Smith. 
 
 Miss Jane Smith. 
 
 Miss Obedlenee Smith. 
 
 Miss ("hnrlofte Smith. 
 
 I.i'.ther Smith. 
 
 Jnl)'.>z SiifTorfi. 
 
 Mrs. A/iil)a SnfTord. 
 
 Wiliinm SiiHiUon. 
 
 Mrti. Itorcns Srninton. 
 
 Kliziiheth Scrnnton. 
 
 Ji>shiin Scranton. 
 
 'ri-niitrrnnce Scriintoti. 
 
 Mis. I.yrtia Sli>ne, Jr. 
 
 Mrs. .Nin-.cy HII)tMird Storrs. 
 
 Jninc's Scolli>l(i, lH4!t. t'.'J. 
 
 Mrs. f»ilve Itnsford Scotleld. IStU. 77 
 
 Dea. Jesse Scotleld. 1824. 
 
 Mrs. I'.li/.a Martin Scolieid (Noble), iwm, 
 
 72. 
 Lewis Scotleld. 
 Mra. Kllza Scofleld. 
 J'lhn Hunyan Scolieid. 
 Weltliynrea linsford 
 
 l.Sfrl. 82. 
 
 Viiihnn Stevens. 
 BL-nnintj W. Scliiield. 
 .Nathan Scotleld. 
 Kleaser S»'ollel«l. 
 Mrs Temperonce Scofleld. 
 Martha Stickney. 
 
 1814, .'ifi 
 
 Scolieid Stevens. 
 
 riannah Stone. •♦ 
 
 Cooley Sumner. 
 
 Kiecta Stevens, 180.3. 
 
 Ellphalet Spafford. 
 
 David Sweet. 
 
 Mrs. Klizabeth Sweet. 
 
 Zeeiiah Southworth. 
 
 Caleb Tree. 
 
 Mrs. Dorcas Tree. 
 
 Klias Trua-T, IHl't, 102. 
 
 Mrs. Anna Whitman Truax, 1838, 00. 
 
 Sarah Tolman. 
 
 lOrastus Temple. 
 
 Mrs. Olivia Shaw Temple. 
 
 TA)da Aim Ira Varuey. 
 
 Knssell Welch. 
 
 Simeon M. Welch. 
 
 Martin Welch. 
 
 Mrs. Sarah Welch. 
 
 Mrs. Philura Hibl)ard Wliitney, 1880, 76. 
 
 John Whitney, 1S04. 
 
 Mrs. Lucy Leonard Whitney, 1803. 
 
 Ira Waters. 
 
 John Wallace. 
 
 William Whitman. 
 
 Mrs. Ciarisaa Whitman. 
 
 Polly Walker. 
 
 Samuel Wood. 
 
 Mrs. Hetsoy Wood. 
 
 ({ideon Wood. 
 
 Mrs. Mary Wood. ^ 
 
 Asoula Wheeler. 
 
 I.ynMui White. . > 
 
 .\l>ii;all Woodworth. ., 
 
 Sarah Woodworth. 
 
 Abl Watrous. 
 
 1820-183.';. 
 
 Horace M. Ayer. " 
 
 Henry Ayer. 
 
 Mrs. Achsah Smith .\yer, \Ki7. 
 
 Hiixana liarber. 
 
 Ueeman Barrett. 
 Mrs, Witty Harrett. 
 
 .Mrs. Sally Parnes. 
 
 .Iiihn W. Corey. 
 
 Ilenjaniin It. bunnlng, 1807. 
 
 -Mrs. .Mary DuiuiIuk. 
 
 .Mrs. Anna (Hnisteud Kay, 187.'>, 80. 
 
 Mrs. .\niia Kay Koi;er8. 
 
 .Mrs Hill. 
 
 Dea. Isaac N. Janes. 18,H2, 82. 
 
 .Mrs. /oa Ayer Janes. 
 
 cilve Janes. 
 
 Miro .Miner. 
 
 Mis. Desire .Miner. 
 
 Casper .Miiii'r. 
 
 .Mrs. Soplidtila Miner. 1H73. 00. 
 
 Kol.crt .\iil)le, Sr., 1S40. 
 
 Harriet .\. Stow. 
 
 .Miiiira Smith. 
 
 Pnrton Shaw. 
 
 Mrs. Irene Shaw. 18.'1. 
 
 K Miriam Scotleld. 
 
 Ci'orRe .VrnislronK. 
 
 Samuel Prid^'e. Jr. 
 
 Aliiyail Harber Krldge. 
 
 Charles llibbfird. Sept. 30, 1887, 04. 
 
 Wm. Phllo Hibltard. 1872. 00. 
 
 -Mrs. Arnli.'lla lilbbard Traiy, 181)5. 
 
 Mrs. Kleanor lilbbard Trnax. 
 
— 70— 
 
 
 I 
 
 
 B. Jubnsoii Ilibbard, 1871. 
 
 Mrs. Mary Ann lllbbnrd, November. 
 
 Dea. Casper IS. Ilibbard, November, 
 
 188.-). i«. 
 Mrs. I'ileanor Haker Ilibbard, 18(57, 54. 
 Hiram Stevens 
 Miss I'erlina Stevens. 
 Mrs. (,'aroline Smith Stow. 
 Mrs. Sarah Smith Ciark. 
 Mrs. Ksther Smith Lee. 
 
 1840-18r>(>. 
 Samuel L. <'halTee. 
 John 1). Krelelyh. 
 Uebecca Wliltiiey lOllesworth. 
 Lucy Ann Whitney Slaight, 184'.». 
 Jesse Mitbon Scolield. November. 1842. 
 Laura \\ . S(()iipld. .Nov. ;!(». 1841. 
 Itanlei Stearns. September, 1842. 
 Any Hrown Johnson. Nov. JJO. 1811. 
 Sitrnh M. Smilli. I'\>bruary, 184L 
 Lueina Janes. 18tJ4, 3.->. 
 i'riiella Jnnea Mayjiard, February, 184.'<. 
 Lorinda Miner, February. 184.1. 
 Uochei Miner Sea I on. Fi'l)ruary. 1N48. 
 Norris M. Ayer. April, 184;{. 
 Sarah Whitnev Chadbourne, April. 184:?. 
 Solomon K. Itaker. April. 184:<, d. 18!»1. 
 Martha IIibt)aril Hazssard. April, 184.1. 
 Kmrna Ilibbard Smith. April. 184.1. 
 Jeannette Wiley. April, 1843. 
 
 18.'(t-18()0. 
 Lewis U. Hibbard. May. 18.52. 
 Salmon 1'. Ilibbard, May 18.->2. 
 FnA.NCi.s N. Jkksky, June, LS.");?. 
 Mrs. Kuth Jersey, June. LS.'i.l. 
 .Mary Jersey Brdard. June. 18.->.1. 
 Miss Kveline Ilibbard. d. 1878. 
 Iloraee N. Janes, 181)0. 25. 
 Fuller K. Janes, b. .Fune, 18,-)4. 
 (lariijsa Janes, b. June, 1854. 
 AnR.\.M liKUKi.t.. b. February, 1858. 
 Mrs. Mary Hedell, d. February, 1858. 
 Mary F. Hedell. February. 1858, d. 
 
 April 8. 1.Sfi4. 
 Alexander (Jllleland, Februarv, 1858. 
 Charlotte InjraMH, b. April 1858. 
 Sherman I'. Seolield, b. April, 1858. 
 Kmily J. Scotlild. b. April, 1858. 
 Charlotte ShuttU, b. April, 1858. 
 Lydia Ilibbard I'omeroy, b. April. 1858, 
 
 d. Jan. 2!». 187s 
 Harmon Davis, b. April, 1858. 
 lOmeline Srolieid I (avis, April, 1858. 
 Mary Powers, b. AuRUSt. 1858. d. 1878. 
 William II. Davis, b. November, 185!). 
 
 18(!1— Aug. 25. 
 .\ddi8ou M. Janes. 
 Miss .\delaide M. Janes. 
 MIhs Margaret Ciileland. 
 Miss rran!;; Leonard. 
 
 18(5.1— May 17. 
 D aeon AII)ert A. Ayer.i 
 .\lrs. Mary J. Ayer Tree. 
 WelliiiKlon <;. Scolleld. 
 Ilnttie IIibl)ard Campbell. 
 
 18(14- June 24. 
 Fdward ItridRe. 
 MIhs Mary Jane BrUlKe. 
 
 1805. 
 KHua Ann Carpenter Smith. 
 
 Carrie Ilibbard Ayer. ' J 
 
 Margaret M. Srolieid. j 
 
 Melinda Johnson. ; 
 
 18(50. 
 Frances McLaughlin. 
 Sarah I'ooke. ; 
 
 18«J>. 
 Mrs. Cook, May 2"J. ; 
 
 Hev. Morriil Howard. May 2!). 
 Mrs. Lucretia Howard, May 2U. 
 Ji'mes Tracy, June 13. 
 Sarah J. Hangs, June 13. 
 
 1872. 
 Arnold 1^. Bridge. May 27. 
 Cynthia 1>. Janes. .May 27. 
 Lydia 1"racy, May 27. 
 Newton 1. Janes. May 27. 
 Amanda Ives. b. Nov. 17. 
 
 1873. 
 Marv Chandler Ingalls. b. June 21, d. 
 
 "Oct. 7. 1878. 
 Mrs. Warren H. (irice. b. June 2. 
 I'hoebe Sargent, b. Nov. 8. 
 Kodney Uovce. b. Noveml)er. 1874. 
 
 187(5— June 17. 
 Dea. John Broe. 
 .Mr.s. Jane Hope Broe. 
 (•oluml)U8 C. Scotield. 1881. 7.5. 
 Warren B. (Irice. 
 Deacon Hanson H. Hibbard. 
 Lucy Carpenter Hibbard. 
 Btriha Scolleld .Masse, 
 diandler C. Abl)ott. < 
 
 rii.ra Whitman Ablxitt. 
 Anna .M. \\iiitmaa. 
 Mrs. (;eorge W. Ayer. 
 Cisviia Chaffee. 
 Ada Hil)l.ard Crewe. 
 K!la K. Tracv Wood. b. Nov. 4. 
 
 1877. 
 Kdnuind H. Ingalls. exp. Jan. 27. 
 Sarah Smith. Julv 28. 
 Ada Sniltli, Aug. 2(5. 
 Mrs. Dora Cook. exp. Aug. 2(5. 
 I'atience Johnson, exp. Aug. 2(5, d. 1878. 
 
 1878 — June 8. 
 Henry L. Ilibbard. 
 Nettle C. Hibbard. 
 William P. Hibl)ard. 
 Kmily Deining. 
 KIwin (Jriee. 
 Kstella lanes. 
 .Vgnes !•;. (irioe. 
 
 (Jeorge Kogers. * 
 
 Jami'S Young. J 
 
 Oscar Broe. ' 
 
 Kdgar S. 1"racy. d. 1880. 
 lamest J. Bowers. 
 
 William Fcott. 1 
 
 -Mbert Jenne. * 
 
 Loren/.o 'rhomni! 
 Kdnn Thomas. 
 • hnrlotte Wlllard. 
 John S. Morse. J 
 
 June 2!>. 
 William Powers. 
 Luther H. Smith. 
 Mary P. Scotield. 
 (Jeoige Chadbourne. 
 
 1870. 
 
 c 
 
 • 
 
71- 
 
 Mrs. AihiMt JciiTip, June 28. 
 riuiiinci'.v .lolii.snn. .Inly 2(\. 
 I-aiira V.Vstov(>r.cxj). Jiily 2f$ 
 
 iHHd- July. 
 Hllzii rowi'i-H. 
 Mis. KIlis I>. K<oll('ld, exp. 
 Allip S^'olicld Ciirpcntpr. 
 
 \HS2. 
 Mr.s. l.ycVia II. H.ikfr You'.il'. 
 
 1 ss;i. 
 .lolm ilollnuil. 
 
 1 S85. 
 Mary A. Smith. 
 Nt'tti" Smith. 
 
 1887. 
 AiiNui.K LiTiiin! Akm.s. I. 
 Mrs. Mtuiii it. Iluilliut Arms, I 
 
 1888. 
 .Mis.s Julia Ann Hridfrc 
 18!i;{. 
 William CraiR. 
 Marsart-t M. CrniK. 
 J<).si'i)li IJnj^ford. 
 Alfird Kmerv. 
 
 18!tr). 
 I".. Spoor. 
 
 18!>6. 
 Ilnrvcy A. Chnffeo, exp. 
 
 o;jp. 
 
 Mrs. Mnrvi'y A. ClialTci 
 Juliii J. M'Ciuty, txp. 
 M"H. i;y;ii;ka McCartv. 
 _ 18!t7. 
 
 Mi'^^MWrflTf^^oiicld I (avis. roRt. 
 
 Harri(-i Tracy. 
 
 I'reeniaii l{o;jn'r.s. 
 
 Mis. I'rofinan Kojjcis. 
 
 I^■a ItridfTi'. 
 
 SiUiio Hrid^re. 
 
 I.ydia Turner. 
 
 Harriet Udders. 
 
 <:iadis MrCarly. ; 
 
 Lila J.sHid, 
 
 <'ari-ie .\rmstronK. 
 
 Mr.s. JJi'.rdner Arni.'ilr.iiig, exp. 
 
 1M»8. 
 Mrs. i;. Drayton. I. 
 Mrs. <r. T. Taxman, I. 
 Mrs. Otis Kennedy. 
 
 is'tit. 
 (Jeo. T. Taxman, I. 
 May i'axman. 
 C. Taxman. 
 
 Anliur Slaiiiiiford. 
 Kva Mullen. 
 
 PASTORS. 
 
 Ilepan 
 
 ISdl Jedediah IIil)bard 
 
 INK) William <;alusha 
 
 ISL'tJ Daniel Sabiii . . . . 
 
 ISl'H Mr. — Clark. . . . 
 
 IS.'.U) Homer Smith. . . . 
 
 18:!!» M. Hritain 
 
 IMl T.'tcr Chase .... 
 
 1841i I'raneis Hosworth 
 
 No. Years. 
 
 8 
 
 l.-| 
 
 ... 2 
 
 ... 2 
 
 ... 7 
 
 ... 1 
 
 ... 1 
 
 .. . 1 
 
 !.'e;;!lii 
 
 1S4:{ 
 IS.-, 7 
 1 sc.-i 
 
 ISf.S 
 
 r';7t> 
 1 Hsr, 
 
 S M- 
 
 I'raiics .V. .'.■ 
 A bra 111 T...deil 
 
 Khcii M. Kid' ' 
 
 Merrill Howard 
 
 Ariidld I,. Aini8 
 
 WeliiiiKion (;. Seon<'ld 
 ( .V.ssociate Taslor. ) 
 
 .\( 
 
 ills. 
 14 
 
 CLERKS. 
 
 Names. 
 
 KoRer IHIil.ard . . . 
 
 Allen Miner 
 
 NalhaninI Hil»!)nrd 
 'tilliert Jennie . . . . 
 Iloiaor Smith . . . , 
 Nathanl(>l llilihard 
 
 Elected. 
 .180(1 
 .1810 
 .1810 
 .1821' 
 . 1 82;-| 
 
 , I8;i3 
 
 Xaiiies. 
 
 H'lraee \. Jaiie.s 
 
 Sherman T. ScDdeld. . 
 Wellin>.'ton <;. Sci.lield. 
 i:ila i:. Tracy \V<,<,d. . 
 .lane Hope Hroe 
 
 Kiccted. 
 ... 1 8.">.-» 
 ... 1 .s.^,,s 
 . . .1874 
 . . . 1 88.1 
 . . .18!I7 
 
 DEACOiNS. 
 
 N/'lJies. Klected. 
 
 \> illiam Holers isoo 
 
 Asahel Ilnrlbut 1 801 
 
 JoNhun Smith istn 
 
 KoRer llihbard iHott 
 
 Allen Miner 180<l 
 
 •lesse Scolleld . . . 1822 
 
 Casper B. Hihbard ." " ." .1843 
 
 vi.o'i"'\. , Klected. 
 
 Isaac N. Janes 184'{ 
 
 Wellington (J. Scotield 1H7(! 
 
 Hanson H. Hibbard 'l87!» 
 
 John Hroe 1 s.s', 
 
 I.uther K. Snrlth. . . ..'.'.".'.' .' ." i«8.% 
 
 Harvey A. Chaffee .' .' .'iSiMS 
 
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 72-- 
 
 LICENTIATES. 
 
 Names. >'^ »^|" 
 
 VVIlllam Rogers i»J l 
 
 William Galusha Jo"" 
 
 Homer Smith 1»>»«/ 
 
 Charles Ilibbard l^^,-* 
 
 Charles Smith lo4.> 
 
 Namc8. . ^ When- 
 
 John I). Frnleigh 18^;> 
 
 Arnold L. Arras !»•>" 
 
 Lewis 11. Ilibbard 18*^" 
 
 Ernest J. Towers. . • • 
 
 Wellington <;. Scotleld lo»» 
 
 1840 
 1866 
 
 18C7 
 
 1888 
 
 William G. rorterfleld, Montreal 
 College. . ^ , 
 
 James C. Yule, Woodstock Col 
 lege. 
 
 Kev. Joshua Donovan, Scotland. 
 
 J. 11. Jackson, MacMaster I Di- 
 versity. 
 
 "STUDENT PASTORS." 
 
 1802 
 
 1804 
 1896 
 1808 
 
 J. 1'. Mclntyre, M. P., MacMaster 
 University. „ , 
 
 A. J. Darrock, MacMaster Unl- 
 vcrslty. 
 
 York A. King, MacMaster Unl- 
 Ycrsity. 
 
 A. «. Baker, MacMaster Uni- 
 versity. 
 
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 Tliis plan w.is drawn tnr mo by Mrs. Wier, at my home, mi 1888. It was 
 huilt in 1802. and torn down in 1855. It was a wood frame huildinv;. "<> p.iinl on 
 it anywhere; liad tiiree outside doors, pulpit in nortii end. It was on the very 
 top of the hill, west of the mad, about fifty rods north of where the road turns 
 up to the old Johnson Hibbard farm. The partition between the pews did not 
 Ko below the se.its. and no doors to the pews. Mrs Wier and Mrs. Ele.anor 
 Hibbard Truax told me w ho owned the pews I h.ive named. The sin>^ers sat in 
 their f.amily pews all over the meeting-house, and when the minister yave out the 
 hymn they ■.a.rne out and stood at the east side of the pulpit, san« the hymn .and 
 then went back to their pews till the next hymn. The members of the old choir 
 

 of 1820 as j;iven mc bs- Mrs. Wier were, Wesley Galuslia, leader. He used no 
 tuiiinj; fork; (iccasinnally they liad a hass viol. Tiic other singers were Major 
 Tyler; Jesse Hibhard, his u ite. Martha Whitman, and his sisters Harriet and 
 Olive; Esther Sniitli. Harriet and Esther Tyler, Major's sisters. Mrs. Wier said 
 the Tylers were "splendid singers." Esther Galusha was also in the choir, a 
 sister, 1 presume, o! Wesle\. 
 
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 It is about 46x38 feet, no spire; has ^8 slips beside the singers' space. In my 
 boyhood the choir occupied the " ^jallery." David Smith, that " sweet sinj!;er," 
 was the leader and his brother Reuben, all the Chandlers, some of the Abbotts, 
 and 1 have forgotten the others, were members of the choir. 
 
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 bUITOR I.HWIS BAKtR HIBBARU. 
 
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 LEWIS B. HIBBARD. 
 
 1834- Born Nov. 20, in llic l.oren/.o Scot'ield liouse. 
 
 1852 -Baptized into tiie Al'bott's Corner cinirch. 
 
 185c;— Liecensed to preach. 
 
 185Q— Graduated from Classical Department, Fairfax, Vt. 
 
 1861— f Graduated from TheoloKical CJepartment, Fairfax, Vt. 
 
 1864— Ordained at Waterlniry Center, Vt. 
 
 1867— Pastor Baptist Church, Somerville, Mass. 
 
 1868— Pastor at Grafton, Vt 
 
 1872— Pastor Adams, Mass. 
 
 1874— Spent three years on farm regaininj^ health 
 
 1876— Edited Vermont Farmer, St. Johnsbury. 
 
 i877~Pastor at Cavendish, Vt. 
 
 1878— Chaplain Vermont Senate, Montpelier. 
 
 1879— Publisher and Editor " Vermont Tribune." 
 
 1881— Supply, Baptist Churcli at Ludlow, Vt. 
 
 1882— Pastor Baptist Church, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. 
 
 Health failed and retired from pastorates 
 1883— Editor "Farmer's Review," Chicago. 
 
 1884— Supt. Agricultural Machinery at World's Fair at New Orleans. 
 1885— Asst. Director-General American Exposition, New Orleans 
 1886— General Manager Exposition, Minneapolis. 
 .1886— Elected President Leiand University, New Orleans. 
 
 Health prevented taking up the work. 
 1 889-1900— Pol ice Judge City Court, Highland Park, ill. 
 1890-92— Editor "Lake County Post." 
 
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