IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) 1.0 I.I m Ilia iiiin i 1^ IIIM 12.2 M 1.8 1.25 1.4 1.6 -^ 6" - ► V] »Ses. '%l«^ 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 ovard 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- ^iiittrii^iifisr- ''-- ""-- ^' ^^^-^-^' -^ 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 missireaching 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 4- 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, 4 5 — tivf lool iitry fre- urcli bad 1. at ■d to ■oui- ttcii, otod, Huiild u St. were gloy, 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(), 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 () — 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 i ._7 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 ant 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, • — 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 10 — 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 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- 4- —11 — supplied. Mitre and ;1 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. t'y; hand V. T. Tel- •k. the death )n of the ;usellor, a es of the blither Pv. :aeant bv • was also Brother • and to became il status. to their d church hitlier in 1 recorils )e cannot )le when iier Sco- Uij^nst 7. ted a h't- )\vin;^" his istur. en- iraen 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 «>arnS. 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. Mil!! n i' I — 12-- 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 I ! 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) — 14 — i , I M '1^ -(! i ! 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 St. Armand ) August 27"' IcSOJ )■ preach'' i; And r Brcwn 1 dismit I : fminded 1. July 12, gislature, e Ui)iver- ;)progress 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 \ 1 1 Mil r ticnlly inidor Latin control. During those long woary centuries of waitinjj the An 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. 17 centuries being de- y. xVt the The Bix- enth. wit- rn. This er hy the Mid along tnge over V (lid not es. Will- , in 1<)SS. d a whole lerness of colonists f the old ni of our I stance of sen men/' , were far ill colon i- he choice power in aid poor- the poor sibilities 1 bound- Sl^one saw ciiratelj Untrican y : wise- her grip enteenth s for the e son of of forts >ugh the e swauiji iy miles. I i ? — 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 ((^teat ;nid IS 'Ml ()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 V.) well fiH ill 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 d Mud hiw and bred itoi'H, and e to their aenots of JecU'diali Lioyalists. inon and tv years issionary slied his V. i>"ivin'-'' and what tion was, r ehisses I French m to all d; Napo- \vn since ds ))()wer favored nth cen- he Thinl 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, Brouf 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 ») LM) tM'l III t 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)()riiil 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 Chicao[)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 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 iiii( caiui) of pt the sK'cj) tli(> (Icvt'loj). of iial lire's I six (lays \u ton lo New 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 (•arf 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 t. c c. I 21 — 111 1' ^ I 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 ;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 — 1 \\^{ 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 !.ii I ' M ! ^ ■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 30- 11 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 glorir 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 hundrress, nor yet leaders of 1em[H>rance, or sidfrage or other crusades, but they were women of sterling moral worth, of gr»'at, geat, 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 gke 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- — 34- .1 ( 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. — 35 — 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 30 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- !i 37 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 88- :ii 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. — -U)-.- 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 ytatH.ns, iH'aniiR- i!s in.-iny fears. Itsn,on-butnsn.all.ween 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': 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,«hteri'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 18- •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 '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, TV u— I ' ! ■\ ' M! : ii i ■'III ! 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- — do- 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," anjjles. 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 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 — 40 — 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 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 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 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 o < 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 17s: 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 iSMHH" •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. — 50- ad two years. IRS ns- ''.1, p.ii'-l ; work, itoT in I Flnts, about [\(- has in the no. His ns IS5; ived on loved shock '\ 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. 00- V I- 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 wns iivh lu'ii itor tlu' WMS riitl was oca \ 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 ^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; < I — 02- r '1 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. on ich a in fn- lie, jns ch ias ^Id a I 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., 1Iyh. 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, his —()(') fe ^ r I n \ 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 (hmen 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. — in LIST OF MEMBERS. ,()U 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: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. 171M1 1S20. .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^- ^ ■'^■^'^ iiy.v. .M. nuiiAi.v. jL^->-^ '^i \ Mrs. Cliirihsu liritiilii. S.iimn'l l!riT. 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>. K6. 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. 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'^ »^|" 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. I Extra copies of this pamphlet can be had of the Editor, so long as the> last, at 25 cents each, or three copies for 50 cents.] U DR GILBERTI Jenne qJdor < CO ao _1 H a. SEAT pi;lpit top SINGER5 STOOD HERE DEA. ROGER HI BBARO NAT. HIBBARO < CROSS L_J^l LJ' _J j ' U. £!■> if IS 1 1 QC 1 . 1^ 1 AISLE CoLJonas Abbott 1 1 u E ul _J < LjJ Q OLD MEETING HOUSE, 1802 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\. ] t I BRICK MEETING HOUSE, 1841. 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. tr mv ^0slHl^ ^l^k .«i«>^ R H^^^^^^^l H ' • • bUITOR I.HWIS BAKtR HIBBARU. if I ! 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." r f