Orleans County monitor. [volume], May 07, 1894, Image 2

About Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953

Image provided by: University of Vermont

                
A GREAT DAY IN THE HISTORY OF
THE TABERNACLE.
The Twenty-fifth Anniversary of Ecv. Dr.
Talmage's Brooklyn Pastorate An Elo
quent, Appropriate Discourse Preaching
to Twenty-five Million Souls.
r
Brooklyn, May C. This was a great
clay in tho history of the Brooklyn Tab
ernacle. The figures in flowers back of
the platform 18G0 and 1894 indicat
ed Rev. Bf. Talmage's tirao of coming
to Brooklyn and tho present celebration
and were introductory to the great meet
ings in honor of Dr. Talmage's pastor
ate to take place on the following Thurs
day and Friday, presided over by the
mayor of the city and the ex-secretary of
the navy, General Tracy, and to be par
ticipated in by senators and governors
and prominent men from north, south,
east ail west. The subject of the ser
mon today was "The Generations," the
text being Ecclesiastcs i, 4, "One gen
eration passefh away, and another gener
ation cometh. "
According to the longevity of people
in their particular century has a gener
ation been called 100 years, or 50 years,
or 30 years. By common consent ta our
nineteenth century a generation is :l::ed
at 25 years.
The largest procession that ever : n dv
ed is the procession of years, and the
greatest army that ever marched is the
army of generations. In each genera
tion there are about nine full regiments
of days. These 9, 125 days in each gener
ation march with wonderful precision.
They never break ranks. They never
ground arms. They never pitch tents.
They never halt. They are never off on
furlough. They camo out of the eterni
ty past, and they move on toward the
eternity future. They cross rivers with
out any bridge or boats. The GOO im
mortals of tho Crimea dashing into them
cause no confusion. They move as rap
idly at midnight as at midnoon. Their
haversacks are full of good bread and
bitter aloes, clusters of richest vintage
and bottles of agonizing tears. "With a
regular tread that no order of "dou
"ble quick" can hasten or obstacle can
slacken, their tramp is on and on and
on and on while mountains crumble
and pyramids die. "Ono generation
passeth, and another generation com
eth." A Generation.
This is my twenty-fifth anniversary
sermon 18G9 and 1894. It is 25 years
since I assumed the Brooklyn pastorate.
A whole generation has passed. Three
generations we have known that which
preceded our own, that which is now at
the front, and the one coming on. "We
are at the heels of our predecessors, and
our successors arc at our heels. What a
generation it was that preceded us! "We
who are now in the front regiment arc
the only ones competent to tell tho new
generation just now coming in sight
who our predecessors were. Biography
cannot tell it. Autobiography can
not tell it. Biographies are generally
written by special friends of tho depart
ed perhaps by wife cr eou or daughter
and they only tell tho good things. The
biographers of one of the first presi
dents of the United States make no rec
ord of tho president 's account books,
now in the archives at the capitol,
which I have seen, telling how much
he lost or gained daily at the gaming
table. The biographers of one of tho
early sccrctai-ies of the United States
never described tho nccne that day wit
nessed when the secretary was carried
dead drcuik from tho state apartments
to his own home. Autobiography is
written by the man himself, and no one
would record fcr future times his own
weaknesses and moral deficits. Those
who keep diaries put down only things
that read well. No man or woman that
ever lived would dare to make full rec
ord of all the thoughts and words of a
lifetime. We who saw and heard much
of the generation marching just ahead
of us are far more able than any book
to describe accurately to our Fuccessors
who our predecessors were. Very much
like ourselves, thank you. Human na
ture in them very much like human na
ture in us. At our time of life they were
very much like wo now are. At the
time they were in their teens they were
very much like you are in your teens,
and at the time they were in their twen
ties they were very much like you are
in your twenties. Human nature got an
awful twist under a fruit tree in Eden,
and though the grace of God does much
ko straighten things every new gener
ation has tho same twist, and the same
Work of straightening out has to be done
over again.
Twenty-five Years Back.
A mother in the country districts, ex
pecting tho neighbors at her table on
some gala night, had with her own hands
arranged everything in taste, and as she
"was about to turn from it to receive her
Quests saw her little child by accident
upset a pitcher all over the white cloth
and soil everything, and the mother
lifted her hand to slap the child, but
she suddenly remembered the time
'when a little child herself, in her
father's house, where they had al
ways before been used to candles on the
purchase of a lamp, which was a mat
ter of rarity and pride, she took it in
her hands and dropped it, crashing into
pieces, and looking up in her father's
face, expecting chastisement, heard only
the words, "It is a sad loss, but never
mind; you did Hot mean to do it."
History repeats itself. Generations
wonderfully alike. Among that gener
ation that is past, as in our own, and
as it will be in the generation follow
ing us, those who succeeded became
fche target, shot at by these who did not
succeed. In those times, as in ours, a
man's bitterest enemies were those
whom he had befriended and helped.
!Hates, jealousies and revenges were just
'as lively in 1869 as in 1894. Hypocrisy
sniffled and looked solemn then as now.
There was just as much avarice among
the apple barrels as now among the cot
ton hales and among the wheelbarrows
as among the locomotives. The tallow
, candles saw the same sins that are now
found under tho electric lights. Home
spun was just as proud as is tho mod
: ern fashion plate. Twenty -five years
. yea, 25 centuries have not changed
human nature a particle. I say this for
I the encouragement of those who think
i that our times monopolize all the abom-
inations of the ages.
i One minute after Adam got outside
j of paradise ho was just like you, O
man ! Ono step after Eve left the gate
she was just like you, O woman ! All
the faults and vice3 are many times cen
tenarians. Yea, tho cities Sodom, Go
morrah, Pompeii, Hcrculaneum, Heli
opolis and ancient Memphis were as
much worse than our modern cities as
you might expect from the fact that
the modern cities have somewhat yield
ed to the restraints of Christianity,
while those ancient cities were not lim
ited in their abominations.
Great Works Accomplished.
Yea, that generation which passed off
within the last 25 years had their be
reavements, their temptations, their
struggles, their disappointments, their
successes, their failures, their gladness
es and their griefs, like these two gen
erations now in sight, that in advance
and that following. But the 25 years
between 18G9 and 1894 how much
they saw! How much they discovered!
How much they felt ! Within that tii x-.
have been performed the miracles o:
the telephone and the phonograph.
From the observatories other worlds
have been seen to heave in sight. Six
presidents of the United States have
been inaugurated. Transatlantic voyage
abbreviated from 10 days to 5. Chi
cago and New York, once three days
apart, now only 24 hours by the vesti
bule limited. Two additional railroads
have been built to the Pacific. France
has passed from monarchy to republic
anism. Many of the cities have nearly
doubled their populations. During that
generation the chief surviving heroes
of the civil war have gone into the en
campment of the grave. The chief phy
sicians, attorneys, orators, merchants,
have passed off tho earth or are in re
tirement waiting for transition. Other
men in editorial chairs, in pulpits, in
governors' mansions, in legislative, sen
atorial and congressional halls.
There are not 10 men or women on
earth now prominent who were promi
nent 25 years ago. The crew of this old
ship of a world is all changed. Others
at the helm, others on the "lookout,"
others climbing the ratlines. Time is a
doctor who, with potent anodyne, has
put an entire generation into sound
sleep. Time, like another Cromwell, has
roughly prorogued parliament, and With
iconoclasm driven nearly all the rulers
except ono queen from their high places.
So far as I observed that generation,
for tho most part they did their best.
Ghastly exceptions, but so far as I knew
them they did quite well, and many of
them gloriously well. They were born
at the right time, and they died at the
right time. They left the world better
than they found it. "We are indebted to
them for the fact that they prepared the
way for our coming. Eighteen hundred
and ninety-four reverently and grate
fully saltites 18G9. "Ono generation
passeth away, and another generation
cometh. ' '
There are fathers and mothers here
whom I baptized in their infancy.
There is not ono person in this church's
board of session or trustees who was
here when I came. Here and there in
this vast assembly is one person who
heard my opening sermon in Brooklyn,
but not more than one person in every
500 now present. Of the 1 7 persons who
gave mo a unanimous call when I came,
only three, I believe, are living.
The Major Key.
But this sermon is not a dirge. It is
an anthem. "While this world is appro
priate as a temporary stay, as an eter
nal residence it would be a dead fail
ure. It would be a dreadful sentence if
our race were doomed to remain here a
thousand winters and a thousand sum
mers. God keeps us here just long
enough to give us an appetite for heav
en. Had we been born in celestial realms
we would not have been able to appre
ciate the bliss. It needs a good many
rough blasts in this world to qualify us
to properly estimate the superb climate
of that good land where it is never too
cold or too hot, too cloudy or too glar
ing. Heaven will be more to us than to
those supernal beings who were never
tempted or sick or bereaved or tried or
disappointed. So you may well take my
text out of the minor key and, set it to
some tune in the major key. "One gen
eration passeth away, and another gen
eration cometh. ' '
Nothing can rob us of the satisfaction
that uncounted thousands of the gener
ation just past were converted, comfort
ed and harvested for heaven by this
church, whether in the present building
or the three preceding buildings in
which they worshiped. The two great
organs of the previous churches went
down in the memorable fires, but the
multitudinous songs they led year aft
er year were not recalled or injured.
There is no power in earth or hell to
kill a halleluiah. It is impossible to ar
rest a hosanna. "What a satisfaction to
know that there are many thousands in
glory on whose eternal welfare this
church wrought mightily! Nothing can
undo that work. They have ascended,
the multitudes who served God in that
generation. Tliat chapter is gloriously
ended. Bat that generation has left its
impression upon this generation.
A sailor w as dying on shipboard, and
he said to his mates: "My lads, I can
only think of one passage of Scripture,
'The soul that sinneth, it shall die, ' and
that keeps ringing in my ears. 'The
soul that sinneth, it shall die. ' Can'
you think of something else in the Bible
to cheer me up?" "Well, sailors are kind,
and they tried to think of some other
passage of Scripture with which to con
sole their dying comncle, but they could
not. One of them said: "Let us call up
the cabin boy. His mother was a Chris
tian, and I guess he has a Bible; " The
cabin boy was called up, and the dying
sailor asked hiru if he had a Bible. He
eaid "Yes," but he could not exactly
find it, and the dying sailor scolded him
and said, "Ain't you ashamed of your
self not to read your Bible?' ' So the boy
explored the bottom of his trunk and
brought out the Bible, and his mother
had marked a passage that just fitted
tho dying sailor's case, "The blood of
Jesus Christ, his son, cleanseth from all
sin. ' ' That helped the sailor to die in
peace. So one generation helps another,
and good things written or said or done
are reproduced long afterward.
The World For an Audience.
During the passing of the last gener
ation some peculiar events have unfold
ed. Ono day while resting at Sharor
Springs, N. Y., I think it was in 1870,
the year after my settlement in Brook
lyn, and while walking in the park oi
that place, I found myself asking the
question: "I wonder if there is any spe
cial mission for me to execute in this
world? If there is, may God show it to
me!" There soon came upon me a great
desire to preach the gospel through the
secular printing press. I realized that
the vast majority of people, even in
Christian lands, never enter a church,
and that it would be an opportunity of
usefulness infinite if that door of pub
lication were opened.
And so I recorded that prayer in a
blank book and offered the prayer day
in and day out until the answer came,
though in a way different from that
which I had expected, for it came
through the misrepresentation and per
secution of enemies, and I have to re
cord it for the encouragement of alJ
ministers of the gospel who aro misrep
resented, that if the misrepresentation
be virulent enough and bitter enough
and continuous enough there is noth
ing that so widens one's field of useful
ness as hostile attack, if you aro really
doing the Lord's work. The bigger the
lie told about me, the bigger the de
mand to see and hear what I really was
doing. From one stage of sermonic pub
lication to another the work has gone
on until week by week, and for about
23 years, I have had the world for my
audience, as no man ever had, and to
day more so than at any other time.
The syndicates inform mo that my ser
mons go now to about 25,000,000 oi
people in all lands. I mention this not
in vain boast, but as a testimony to the
fact that God answers prayer. Would
God I had better occupied the field and
been more consecrated to the work:
May God forgive me for lack of service
in the past and double and quadruple
and quintuple my work in future.
In this my quarter century sermon I
record the fact that side by side witt
the procession of blessings has gone a
procession of disasters. I am preaching
today in the fourth church building
since I began in this city. My first ser
mon was in the old church on Scher
merhorn street to an audience chiefly
of empty seats, for the church was al
most extinguished. That church filled
and overflowing, we built a larger
church, which after two or three years
disappeared in flame. Then we built
another church, which also in a line of
fiery succession disappeared in the same
way. Then we put up this building, and
may it stand for many years, nTfbrtress
of righteousness and a lighthouse for
the storm tossed, its gates crowded with
vast assemblages long after wo have
ceased to frequent them!
A Noble Work.
We have raised in this church over
$1,030,000 for church charitable pur
poses during the present pastorate, while
we have given, free of all expense, the
gospel to hundreds of thousands of stran
gers, year by year. I record with grat
itude to God that during this genera
tion of 25 years I remember but twe
Sabbaths that I have missed service
through anything like physical indis
positions. ' Almost a fanatic on the sub
ject of physical exercise, I have made
the parks with which our city is bless
ed the means of good physical condi
tion. A daily walk and run in the open
air have kept me ready for work and in
good humor with all the world. I say
to all young ministers of the gospel, it
is easier to keep good health than to re
gain it when once lost. The reason so
many good men think the world is go
ing to ruin is because their own physic
al condition is on the down grade. No
man ought to preach who has a diseased
liver or an enlarged spleen. There are
two things ahead of us that ought to
keep us cheerful in our work heaven
and the millennium.
And now, having come up to the
twenty-fifth milestone in my pastor
ate, I wonder how many more miles I
am to travel? Your company has been
exceedingly pleasant, O my dear people,
and I would like to march by your side
until the generation with whom we ar6
now moving abreast and step to step
shall have stacked arms after the last
battle. But the Lord knows best, and
we ought to be willing to stay or go.
A Summer Outing:.
Most of you are aware that I propose
at this time, between the close of my
twenty-fifth year of pastorate and be
fore the beginning of my twenty-sixth '
year, to be absent for a few months in
order to take a journey around the
world. I expect to sail from San Fran- ;
cisco in the steamer Alameda May 31. !
My place here on Sabbaths will bo fully
occupied, while on Mondays and every
Monday I will continue to speak through
the printing press in this and other
lands as heretofore. Why do I go? To :
make pastoral visitation among people
whom I have never seen, but to whom
I have been permitted a long while tc
administer. I want to see them in their
own cities, towns and neighborhoods. 1
want to know what are their prosperi
ties, what their adversities and what
their opportunities, and so enlarge my
work and get more adaptedness. Why
fio I go? For educational purposes. 1
want t6 freshen my mind and heart .
by new scenes, new faces, new man
ners and customs. I want better to un-
derstand what are the wrongs to be
righted and the waste places to be re
claimed. I will put all I learn in ser
mons to be preached to you when I re
turn. I wnt to see the Sandwich Is
lands, not so much in the light of mod- ;
cm politics as in tho light of the gos
pel of Jesus Christ, which has trans
formed them, and Samoa, and thoso
vast realms of New Zealand, and f s
tralia and Ceylon and India. I wane to
see what Christianity has accomplished.
I want to see how the missionaries have
been lied about as living in luxury and
idleness.
I want to know whether tho heathen
religions aro really as tolerable and as
commendable as they were represented
by their adherents in tho parliament of
religions at Chicago. I want to see
whether Mohammedanism and Bud
dhism would be good things for trans
plantation in America, as it has again and
again been argued. I want to hear the
Brahmans pray. I want to test whether
the Pacific ocean treats its guests any
better than does the Atlantic. I want
to see the wondrous architecture of In
dia, and the Delhi and Cawnpore where
Christ was crucified in the massacre of
his modern disciples, and tho disabled
Juggernaut unwheeled by Christianity,
and to see if the Taj which the Emperor
Sha Jehan built in honor of his empress
really means any more than tho plain
slab we put above our dear departed.
want to see the fields where Havelock
and Sir Colin Campbell won the day
against the sepoys. I want to see the
world from all sides. How much of it
is in darkness, how much of it is in
light, what the Bible means by the
"ends of the earth," and get myself
ready to appreciate the extent of the
present to be made to Christ as spoken
of in the Psalms, "Ask of me, and I
shall give thee the heathen for thino in
heritance and the uttermost parts of
the earth for thy possession," and so I
shall be ready to celebrate in heaven
the victories of Christ in more raptur
ous song than I could have rendered had
I never seen the heathen abominations
before they were conquered. And so I
hope to come back refreshed, re-cnf orccd
and better equipped, and to do in 10
years more effectual work than I have
done in the last 25.
A Garland and a Palm. -
And now, in this twenty-fifth anni
versary sermon, I propose to do two
things first, to put a garland on tho
grave of the generation that has just
passed off and then to put a palm
branch in the hand of the generation
just now coming on the field of action,
for my text is true, "One generation
passeth away, and another generation
cometh." Oh, how many we revered
and honored and loved in tho last gen
eration that quit tho earth! Tears fell
at tho time of their going, and dirges
were sounded, and signals of mourning
were put on, but neither tears nor dirge
nor somber veil told the half we felt.
Their going left a vacancy in our souls
that has never been filled up. Wo never
get used to their absence. There are
times when the sight of something with
which they were associated a picture,
or a book, or a garment, or a staff
breaks us down with emotion, but we
bear it simply because we have to bear
it. Oh, how snowy white their hair got,
and how the wrinkles multiplied, and
the sight grew more dim, and the hearing
less alert, and the step more frail, and
one day they were gone out of the chair
by the fireside, and from the plate at
tho meal, and from tho end of the
church pew, where they worshiped with
us. Oh, my soul, how we miss them!
But let us console each other with the
thought that wo shall meet them again
in tho land of salutation and reunion.
And now I twist a garland for that
departed generation. It need not bo cost
ly perhaps, just a handful of clover
blossoms from the field through which
they used to walk, or as many violets
as you could hold between the thumb
and the forefinger, plucked out of tho
garden whero they used to walk in the
cool of the day. Put these old fashion
ed flowers right down over the heart
that never again will ache, and tho feet
that will never again bo weary, and the
arm that has forever ceased to toil.
Peace, father! Peace, mother I Everlast
ing peace ! All that for the generation
gone.
The Moving Throng.
But what shall we do with the palm
branch? That we will put in tho hand
of the generation coming on. Yours is
to be tho generation for victories. Tho
last and the present generation have
been perfecting tho steam power, and
the electric light, and the electric forces.
To these will bo added transportation.
It will be your mission to uso all these
forces. Everything is ready now for you
to march right up and take this world
for God and heaven. Get your heart
right by repentance and the pardoning
grace of the Lord Jesus, and your mind
right by elevating books and pictures,
and your body right by gymnasium and
field exercise, and plenty of ozone and
by looking as often as you can upon the
face of mountain and of sea. Then start !
In God's name, start 1 And hero is the
palm branch. From conquest to con
quest, move right on and right up. You
will soon have the whole field for your
self. Before another 25 years have gone,
we will be out of the pulpits, and the
offices, and the stores, and the factories,
and the benevolent institutions, and you
will be at the front. Forward into the
battle ! If God be for you, who can be
against you? "He that spared not his
own Son, but delivered him up for us
all, how shall he not with him also
freely give us all things?"
And, as for us who are now at the
front, having put the garland on the
grave of the last generation, and having
put the palm branch in the hand of the
coming generation, we will cheer each
other in the remaining onsets and go in
to the rirfJr , ic somewhere about the
same tk I greeted by the gener
ation tb ' V receded us we will have
to wait ci y Jittlo while to greet the
genera; io; C.t will come after us. And
will net -i-i t bo glorious? Three genera
tions in licivwii together the grandfa
ther, the ic:i and the grandson; the
grandmother, the daughter and the
granddaughter. And 60 with wider
range and keener faculty we shall real
ize the full significance of the text, "One
generation passeth away, and another
generation cometh. "
IK
llo.Z?. Carrey Harness.
w : .r .' . (iriKfimei-v fk Kl V -,
Mviif tn.i.a tVe i'uior' iiHt. Wo are iho
.. i t itnit ,.'! in'iriufiictnrf-r In Anur
Ira so1. in- Vj3S -i imd ilrnn thm wny--lii:
wltU ,ivh t) ; nxmiiine lciii mijr tuuney Is
paid. We p.:y f rclfht tott wnralt not aulHc.
tory. Warrant tor 'J year. W'ty ;ay un aentf 10
to&O tocruer for you Wrltu sour own order.
Uoxtnufrec. Va tako all ni ut damufo lu
etUppiug.
VMOLESALC PRICCO.
Spring Wszone, S3 1 to 30. iu.tnnt...t
6mo anteUrori.vito Curre x, 3C3 tof lOO
Kama as kU for tlCO to ; :. Vr' Burjio,
$37.50, ae f.nM m-iil for t"X r-heolonw,1, ttj
to SIOO. Farm Waporr, Vc ronottf
Mil! Wepon,0livf ry Vrrois Road
Certs. ifu uxK.s tx.i hiu, qxi.s um.r!u...
!&1
W7
Mm . m
n $23.50
0 tvi -iO
No. 731, Burr-T.
No. V.;, al:
!
I'urtn,
28.60.
V. . . '
Ko. U Yam !Urnes.. !ZlZmimtm:;'Lmi-
RTDD.O SADDLE and FLY JVETS. Klkhart lUcrrle. 2iln.wM..
S percent, otr for cash vtilh order, ftt-nd 4c In (uiuiiniatio tlrt1. 1IU-,
lump to pf poattMta on 1 1 U-pug-o ratUtloguOi uLeol luOlutf, drop fonrtnKM.
no. 3, Farm wagon. Adircw W. B. PRATT, Scc'y, ELKHART, INDJ
if l
Flour has dropped At C. C. Grow's
Will sell best grade of Flour at Lower prices than heretofore. Anotl
car on track, must sell in order to get room to laco it.
Genuine Purity Patent, direct from Mill, .... $..
White Satin, -
Don't pay higher prices for poorer flour. Am handling Flour from t
different mills. Have had 20 car-loads within the last year. Frcij?
advances this week on account of combines increasing tho cost of Hot
10 cts. per barrel.
Buy your goods when and where you can get a CJood Trade.
. Car of Shorts and Mixed Feed
Just in. Take it out of the car and save expense.
Nails ! Nails !
$1.25 per keg, or 100 pound base, and if they don't sell quick may f
for less.
All sorts of Grocery Goods at low prices.
Have Four Good Cultivators and Six Spring Too
Harrows, bought at a low price and
will bo sold at great bargains.
Call and see me.
O. C. Grow.
Barton, Vt April 2, 1894.
1712.0 3Zlta2.C7 tJIxo Conxfloldr"
0HN PLANTER ANO OTILIZER DISTRIBUTO
rianto Corn, Bcacc, Pcaa, Boot end Other li:
Gizo Eeed, together with any K'nd of
Fortilizcr, Wot or Pry.
. o sarr.c lasunt
,;.tjlely ami to
. rurhtnndleftof
socil anl mixes
. .rti tlio foil, thus
ojrtinp: all danger
of injury to tho
B'crl. "The machine
will drop any do-t-ired
quantity of
i-. j-w 4 1 1 1 i -7 n a
time at equal and "
ttious distances apart ini '
;ulis checks or drills. The Sl
iwtturo of dividing tho fcr- v-
-v . ....
1
V v ' It with thon.ii u
. -s'.i.-s---''-- "not embodied in
. i any other machine. One man with
-K one horso can plant from evcn to Ui
acres ia a day. Pet Jint 18, 1883.
SEND FOR DESCRIPTIVE CIRCULARS AND TESTIMONIALS,
roit kali: by
II. 0. WIIITCHEU, Harton, Vermont
HAHDWICK S1K Ml III TRUST C
HardwJ.oli, "XT.
Ilcgan Business Sept. 9, 1S93. CAP. STOCK, SliCOj
Guarantee 4 ner cent, compounded twice a Tear on all aavinKa deposit not exceeding
each. Deposits made on or before the 6th, draw interest from ihe 1st of that niottii.
Hasnot one dollar's worth of doubtful paper. Every loan being personally inspected
director, or responsible spent.
we do a Ubecic Deposit business, ana rurnisn nice cneca noons ana an necessary j
free, and guarantee absolute safety and nrst-dnss accomodations to our patrons.
Deposits sent us by mall wm be credited, ana books r turnea oy nrsi man.
B. P. WHITE, Pres;
1. P. TITUS, Vice Pres:
P. J. COWLES, Treasuri
:-: DIRECTORS. :-:
B. P. WHITE, E. Calais, G. L. JOHNSON, E. HardwicL'
J. P. TITUS, Hardwick, J. COWLES, St. Johnsbury,
M. E. TUCKER, G. W. CLARK, Mornsvillc,
J. H. McLOUD, " G. A. MORSE,
D0RMAN BRIDGMAN, Hardwick.
THE CITIZENS' SAVINGS BANK AND TRUST C0MP
St. Johnsbury, Vermont.
Capital,
Undivided Profits,
Deposits,
$50,00q
32,000
950,000
Savings deposits received in sums of $1.00 and upwards and in!
allowed on the same At the rate of 4 per cent per annum, compom
semi-annually, free of taxes on sums lcs.s than $1,500.00.
We transact a General Banking Business. Accounts of Corpora
Firms and Individuals received, and wc extend to depositors eveH
commodation consistent with conservative Banking.
Prompt attention given to coircspondencc.
JOHN T. RITCHIE, Trea