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MASSACHUSETTS
CONGREGATIONAL
CONFERENCE and
MISSIONARY
SOCIETY
1936
MINUTES AND REPORTS
WITH THE STATISTICS
GARDNER, MAY 18, 19, 20, 1936
THE BOARD OF MINISTERIAL AID
Officers. — President, Arthur H. Wellman, Topsfield; Sec- retary, Mr. John Albree, Swampscott; Treasurer, Rev. Oliver D. Sewall, 14 Beacon Street, Boston.
Executive Committbe. — Rev. Oliver D. Sewall, Rev. John H. Quint, Rev. Austin Rice.
All applications for aid should be sent to Rev. Oliver D. Sewell, 14 Beacon Street, Boston.
Should any one desire to leave a legacy in aid of the benevolent work of this board, the following form of bequest will be sufficient:
I give and devise to The Board of Ministerial Aid, incorporated under the laws of Massachusetts, for the charitable uses and pur- poses of said Corporation
Gifts are needed from living donors.
Agreement has been made between the Board of Ministerial Aid and the Congregational Board of Ministerial Relief by which the National Board places at the disposal of the State Board such money as is needed for the pay- ment of its grants. The Congregational Board of Minis- terial Relief receives a portion of the percentage of contri- butions assigned to the National Home Boards.
MASSACHUSETTS CONGREGATIONAL CONFERENCE
AND
MISSIONARY SOCIETY
1936
MINUTES OF THE 137th ANNUAL MEETING
WITH THE STATISTICS
GARDNER, MAY 18, 19, 20, 1936
THE JORDAN & MORE PRESS BOSTON
NOTICES
All communications should be addressed to the Massachusetts Con- gregational Conference and Missionary Society, Room 611, 14 Beacon Street, Boston.
All missionary contributions should be sent to Oliver D. Sewall, Treasurer, 14 Beacon Street, Boston.
According to the vote of the Conference, contributions for the year 1936 are divided as follows, unless the Treasurer is otherwise in- structed by the contributing church :
American Board 41.00%
National Home Boards 42.50%
Council for Social Action 2.50%
Mass. Cong'l Conference and Missionary Society 13.00%
Boston Seaman's Friend Society 1.00%
Checks should be made payable to Oliyer D. Sewall, Treasurer.
It is recommended and earnestly requested that church treasurers remit quarterly in January, April, July and October such funds as are in hand, and that the final remittance for each calendar year be sent before January 10, if credit it desired in the next Year-Book.
Honorary Life Membership in the Massachusetts Congregational Conference and Missionary Society may be secured by a gift of thirty dollars, by a church or individual. Gifts made at different dates within the limits of any one fiscal year may be applied to Honorary Life Membership, if the wish for such application is expressed when the gifts are made.
Copies of the Act of Incorporation may be had on application to 14 Beacon Street, Boston.
The churches are requested to contribute through the treasurers of their Associations for the expenses of the Conference a sum equiva- lent to thirteen cents for each member, based upon the total member- ship of January 1, 1936, and the treasurers of the Associations are requested to forward the amounts as soon as possible to Oliver D. Sewall, Treasurer, 14 Beacon St., Boston.
The "Minutes" are sent to the churches by direction of the Con- ference, with distribution of one copy to every minister, one to every church clerk, one to every Conference oflicial or committee member, one to each local Association ofiicial named within, and one to every life member of the Massachusetts Home Missionary Society. As long as the edition lasts, other copies may be secured by Massachusetts Con- gregationalists without charge, and by others for twenty-five cents, upon application to the Secretary, Rev. Alfred V. Bliss, 14 Beacon St., Boston. It is suggested that every church preserve a copy of the "Minutes" with its other records.
CONTENTS PART I REPORTS
PAGE
Officers 1936-1937 4
Committees, 1936-1937 6
Board of Pastoral Supply 11
Past Annual Meetings 11
Next Annual Meeting 11
Minutes of the Meeting of 1936 12
Report of the President 38
Report of the Secretary 42
Necrology 49
Report of the Treasurer 52
Report of the Auditor 64
Report on Allotment Account 65
Bequests 65
Trust Funds, Conditional Gifts 66
Congregational Union of Springfield 67
Worcester City Missionary Society 67
Grants from the Conference 68
Statistics of Aided Churches 69
Reports of Boards and Committees 77
PART II STATISTICS
Explanatory 1
Statistics of the Churches, 1935 2
Summaries : I. People Is
II. Finances 19
III. Continued Table of Summaries .... 20
Church Clerks 21
Associations of the Churches 26
Ministerial Standing 33
Ministerial Record for 1935-1936 47
Alphabetical List of Ministers 49
" " " Licentiates 57
" " " Pastors not Congregationalists .... 57
" " " Church Assistants 58
By-lays of the Conference 59
MASSACHUSETTS CONGREGATIONAL CONFERENCE AND MISSIONARY SOCIETY
Incorporated 1808 Office : Room 611, 14 Beacon St., Boston, Mass.
EXECUTIVE STAFF
PRESIDENT Rev. Raxph M. Timbeklake
PRESIDENT EMERITUS Rev. Fkederick Haelan Page
SECRETARY Rev. Alfred V. Bliss
TREASURER
Rev. Olivek D. Sevv^all
FIELD SECRETARY
Rev. Geokge A. Tuttle
SECRETARY OF WOMAN'S WORK Mks. Maey R. Carvek
YOUNG PEOPLE'S SECRETARY
Mrs. Manley F. Allbright
MASSACHUSETTS CONGREGATIONAL CONFERENCE AND MISSIONARY SOCIETY
MODERATOR Judge Wilbur E. Rowell, Lawrence
VICE-MODERATOR Rev. Clarence E. Hellens, Fall River
RECORDING SECRETARY Rev. William L. Boicourt, Shirley
CHAIRMAN OF DEPARTMENT OF WOMAN'S WORK Mrs. Ethelbert V. Grabill, Jamaica Plain
VICE-CHAIRMAN OF DEPARTMENT OF WOMAN'S WORK Mrs. Robert P. Trask, Lexington
TRUSTEES Fob Year Beginning May, 1936
Chairman Mr. Thomas Todd
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Term expires May, 1937
Rev. Theodore Bachelee South Hadley Falls
Mrs. Kenneth W. Fobman Danvers
Rev. Paul G. Macy Worcester
Mrs. Ambekt G. Moody Northfleld
Mr. Edward W. Sherman New Bedford
Mr. Thomas Todd Concord
Term expires Hay. 193S
Rev. Hugh Penney, Andover Association . . Lowell
Rev. Leonard C. Nightwine, Barnstable Asso- ciation Falmouth
Mr. Frederick C. Toeey, Berkshire South Asso- ciation West Stockbridge
Mr. Leonard B. Campbell, Brookfield Associ- ation Ware
Mrs. Clifton Johnson, Hampshire Association Hadley
Mrs. Francis L. Cooper, Pilgrim Association . Brockton
Mr. Arthur W. Davis, Member at Large . . . Waban
Term, expires May, 1939
Rev. John Gratton, Berkshire North Associa- tion Pittsfield
Rev. Ernest L. Baker, Essex North Association Amesbury
Mr. John C. Hull, Middlesex Union Association Leominster
Dr. Arthur L. Miles, Suffolk North Association Cambridge
Mrs. Herbert B. Cole, Woburn Association . . Melrose
Mr. Roy A. Hovey, Member at Large .... Wakefield
Judge Wilbur E. Rowell, Member at Large . . Lawrence
Term expires May, 19^i0
Rev. G. Edgar Wolfe, Middlesex -Mendon Associ- ation Milford
Rev. Alfred J. Barnard, Suffolk South Associ- ation Roslindale
Mr. HoLLEY A. Wilkinson, Suffolk West Associ- ation Needham
Mrs. David Findlay, Worcester North Associ- ation Athol
Mrs. W. S. Schuster, Worcester South Associ- ation East Douglas
Mr. Burton S. Fi.agg, Member-at-Large . . . Andover
Committees of the Board op Trustees Aided Churches Rev. Alfred J. Barnard, 55 Arborough Road, Roslindale Mrs. Kenneth W. Forman, 142 Holten Street, Danvers Rev. John Gratton, 130 Wendell Avenue, Pittsfield Mr. John C. Hull, Leominster Mrs. Ambert G. Moody, East Northfield Rev. Leonard S. Nightwine, Falmouth Mr. Frederick C. Tobey, West Stockbridge Mr. Holley a. Wilkinson, 67 Mayo Avenue, Needham
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Finance "^
Mr. Leonard B. Campbell, Ware
Mr. Ajbtiiub W. Davis, Waban, 45 Milk St., Boston
Mr. Burton S. Flagg, School Street, Andover
Mr. Roy A. Hovey, 50 Park Avenue, Wakefield
Judge Wilbur E. Rowell, Bay State Building, Lawrence
Mr. Edward W. Sherman, 61 Cottage Street, New Bedford
Mr. Thomas Todd, Concord, 14 Beacon St., Boston
General Conference
Rev. Theodore Baciieler, 35 Bardwell Street, South Hadley Falls
Mrs. Francis L. Cooper, 26 South Street, Brockton
Mrs. David Findlay, 142 High Street, Athol
Mrs. Ethelbert V. Grabill, 16 Aldworth Street, Jamaica Plain
Mrs. Clifton Johnson, Hadley
Mr. Thomas Todd, Concord, 14 Beacon St., Boston
Rev. G. Edgar Wolfe, Milford
Missions and Apportionment
Rev. Ernest L. Baker, 380 Main Street, Amesbury
Mrs. Herbert B. Cole, 124 Trenton Street, Melrose
Mrs. Ethelbert V. Grabill, 16 Aldworth Street, Jamaica Plain
Rev. Paul G. Macy, 790 Main Street, Worcester
Dr. Arthur L. Miles, 12 Magazine Street, Cambridge
Rev. Hugh Penney, 17 Belmont Street, Lowell
Mrs. W. S. Schuster, East Douglas
Mrs. Robert P. Trask, 2118 Massachusetts Avenue, Lexington
Executive Committee of the Department of Woman's Work 1936-1937
Chairman, Mrs. Ethelbert V. Grabill, 16 Aldworth Street, Jamaica
Plain Vice-Chairman, Mrs. Robert P. Trask, 2118 Massachusetts Avenue,
Lexington Clerk, 1938, Mrs. Lyman G. Smith, 51 Mapleton Street, Brighton
Miss Rachel Blair, 66 School Street, Springfield
Mrs. Edward C. Camp, 25 Garfield Street, Watertown
Mrs. Kenneth W. Forman, 142 Holton Street, Danvers
Mrs. Ambert G. Moody, East Northfield, Mass.
Mrs. Francis L. Cooper, 26 South Street, Campello
Mrs. Vaughan Dabne, 128 Institution Avenue, Newton Centre
Mrs. Clifton Johnson, Hadley, Mass.
Mrs. Herbert B. Cole, 124 Trenton Street, Melrose
Miss Rachel Snow, Pin Oak Way, Falmouth
Mrs. Edward M. Condit, Lee
Mrs. Lyman R. Allen, Beech Street, Framingham
Mrs. David Findlay, 142 High Street, Athol
Mrs. Walter S. Schuster, East Douglas
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Chairmen of Standing Committees Box Work — Miss Amelia J. Bukkill, 799 Broadway, South Boston
South Boston 2327
Education — Mrs. Benjamin C. Lane, 28 Maxfield Street, West Rox-
bury Parkway 0944-W
PiiMic Meetings — Mrs. Morton Dunning, 31 Glen Road, Wellesley
Hills Wellesley 1141
Social Relations and Christian CitisensJiip — Mrs. Richard Fuller,
256 Beacon Street, Brookline Kenmore 7959
District Presidents
Andover — Mrs. J. C. Mills, Chelmsford BarnstaMe — Mrs. Carl Schultz, Hyannis
Berkshire — Mrs. George W. Andrews, 92 Central Avenue, Dalton Essex North — Mrs. Harold Buxton, 8 Lafayette Street, Newburyport Essex South — Mrs. Harjby P. Gifford, 16 Winter Street, Salem Franklin — Mrs. Ambert G. Moody, East Northfield Hampden — Mrs. William Goodman, 679 Longmeadow Street, Long- meadow Hampshire — Mrs. W. V. TeWinkel, 55 Kensington Avenue, North- ampton Middlesex-Mendon — Mrs. Lawrence R. Howard, West Medway Middlesex-Union — Mrs. Howard Case, Great Road, Maynard Old Colony United — Mrs. W. L. Hopkins, 182 Chauncey Street, Mans- field Pilgrim — Mrs. W. Elmer Maltby, 31 Walnut Street, Stoughton Sujfolk — Miss Katharyn Adams, 105 Plimpton Street, Walpole Wodurn — Mrs. Walter B. Nichols, 33 Bancroft Avenue, Reading Worcester — Mrs. William H. Watson, 35 Stoneland Road, Worcester
Conference Committees
Program, Committee — Rev. Harry Grimes, Newburyport, 1937 ; Rev. Edwin H. Byington, Needham, 1937 ; Rev. Chester A. Wheeler, Ches- ter, 1938 ; Rev. Theodore B. Lathrop, Framingham, 1938 ; Mrs. John B. Holt, Andover, 1939 ; Miss Flora L. Mason, Taunton, 1939 ; Rev. Hugh Penney, Lowell, ex officio; Rev. Alfred V. Bliss, Boston, ex officio.
Nominating Committee — Mr. Henry W. Gibson, Watertown, 1937 ; Rev. John A. Hawley, Amherst, 1937 ; Mrs. Chester M. Grover, Cam- bridge, 1937; Rev. Joseph C. MacDonald, Waban, 1937; Mrs. Horace F. Holton, Brockton, 1938; Rev. Harry L. Oldfleld, West Springfield, 1938; Rev. C. Donald Plomer, New Bedford, 1938; Rev. John M. Trout, Sandwich, 1938 ; Rev. David N. Beach, Springfield, ex officio.
Committee on Religious Education — Miss Mildred C. Widber, Bos- ton, 1937 ; Rev. Carl D. Skillin, Worcester, 1937 ; Rev. A. William Loos. Waltham, 1937 ; Mr. Harold R. Morse, Bradford, 1938 ; Rev. Leon E. Grubaugh, Adams, 1938 ; Rev. Harry T. Stock, Boston, 1938, Rev. Ray Gibbons, Northampton, 1938; Rev. Arthur Keimel, West Springfield, 1938 ; Rev. Charles S. Nichols, Springfield, 1939 ; Miss Eleanor Riddle, Cambridge, 1939; Rev. Myron R. Bunnell, Bridgewater, 1939; Rev.
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Ralph S. Huffer, Spencer, 1939; Rev. Ralph M. Timberlake, Boston, ex officio; Mrs. Manley F. Allbright, Boston, ex officio; Mrs. Benjamin C. Lane, West Roxbury, and Rev. L. R. Howard, West Medway, by invitation.
Committee on Relation of Churches and Colleges — For one year: Rev. Kenneth R. Henley (Chairman), Danvers ; Rev. Henry D. Gray, South Hadley ; Rev. H. B. Ingalls, Northfleld ; Mrs. Henry O. Tilton, Worcester ; Rev. Raymond Blakney, Williamstown.
Committee on Moral and Social Welfare — Rev. Egbert W. A. Jen- kinson, Methuen, 1937; Rev. Joseph C. MacDonald, Waban, 1937; Rev. Lawrence R. Howard, West Medway, 1938 ; Rev. Samuel S. Lavis- count, Roxbury, 1938 (to fill unexpired term of Mr. H. L. Jenkins) ; Rev. Carl M. Sandree, Cummington, 1939; Miss Helen McGregor Noyes, South Byfield, 1939; Mrs. Lucius E. Thayer, West Newton, 1939 ; Rev. Edward M. Condit, Lee, 1938.
Regional Committee — Rev. Robert L. Underwood, Fitchburg. 1937; Mrs. Ethelbert V. Grabill, Jamaica Plain, 1937 ; Rev. Ralph M. Timber- . lake, Belmont, 1937 ; Mrs. Emma I. Boardman, Wakefiield, 1938 ; Mrs. Basil D. Hall, Florence, 1938 ; Rev. Wallace S. Anderson, Springfield, 1938; Rev. Emmons E. White, Palmer, 1939; Rev. Paul S. McElroy, Manchester, 1939; Mr. Walter G. Butler, Worcester, 1939.
Committee on Polity and Standards for the Ministry — For one year : Rev. Francis L. Cooper, Brockton; Rev. Vaughan Dabney, Newton Centre; Rev. Frank E. Duddy, Cambridge; Rev. Daniel I. Gross, Athol ; Rev. Albert J. Penner, Northampton ; Rev. Edward U. Cowles, Westfield.
Other Delegates, Committees and Trustees
Member of Prudential Committee of American Board — Rev. George E. Cary, Bradford.
Trustees for the Boston Seaman's Friend Society — Dr. Enos H. Bigelow, Framingham, 1937 ; Rev. Arthur P. Pratt, Greenfield, 1937 ; Rev. Robert M. Bartlett, Longmeadow, 1937 ; Mr. Henry B. Prout, Brookline, 1937 ; Mr. Herbert P. Sawtell, Worcester, 1937 ; Rev. George L. Thurlow, Concord, 1938; Rev. Payson E. Pierce, Reading, 1938; Rev. C. Donald Plomer, New Bedford, 1938; Rev. Carl F. Schultz, Hyannis, 1938 ; Rev. David Fraser, West Somerville, 1939 ; Mr. Nathan Heard, Cambridge, 1939; Rev. Roy G. Pavy, Westfield, 1939; Mr. Harry H. Walker, Boston, 1939; Rev. Hubert A. Allenby, Webster, 1939.
Congregational Representatives on the Massachusetts Council of Churches:
Term expiring in 1937 — Rev. Edwin E. Aiken, Jr., Boston ; Mr. James S. Allen, Winchester ; Rev. Daniel Bliss, Boston ; Mr. Charles A. Butts, Woburn, Mrs. George E. Cary, Bradford ; Mrs. Vaughan Dabney, Newton Centre ; Rev. Frank E. Duddy, Cambridge ; Mr. Frank H. Grebe, West Newton ; Miss Ellen Lane. Brockton ; Mrs. Lloyd W. Miller, West Somerville ; Rev. Albert J. Penner, North- ampton ; Rev. Carl D. Skillin, Worcester ; Rev. Harry T. Stock, West Medford ; Mr. Lucius E. Thayer, Newton Centre ; Rev. Ralph M. Timberlake, Boston ; Mrs. Frank B. Towue, Holyoke ; Mr. Percy R. Ziegler, West Newton.
Term expiring in 1938 — Rev. George A. Koponen, South Carver ; Mrs. Roy H. Bradford, Andover; Mr. Arthur J. Crockett, West Rox-
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bury ; Mr. Charles H. Cummings, Springfield ; Mrs. Elbert A. Harvey, Chestnut Hill ; Rev. John H. Lobinger, Winchester ; Rev. A. William Loos, Waltham ; Rev. Roderick McLeod, Lawrence ; Mr. Arthur H. Merritt, Boston ; Mrs. John V. Holt, Andover ; Miss Ruth Palmer, Framingham ; Mr. Joseph Partenheimer, Springfield ; Mrs. James A. Potter, West Medford ; Rev. Scott C. Siegle, Westminster ; Rev. J. Harold Gould, Lanesville ; Mr. Sidney A. Weston, Wellesley ; Miss Mildred Widber, Boston.
Term expiring in 1939 — Mrs. John H. Moseley, Saundersville ; For three years : Mrs. Clarence Carr, Southfield ; Rev. John L. Findlay, Taunton ; Mr. H. B. Belcher, Maiden ; Mrs. E. A. Driscoll, Lenox ; Rev. E. W. Grimshavs^, Worcester ; Mr. E. F. Mann, Worcester ; Mr. A. G. Moody, East Northfield ; Mrs. L. A. Whiston, Fitchburg,; Rev. Arthur B. Clark, Northbridge ; Rev. John H. Miller, Springfield, Rev. F. D. Bennett, Nantucket ; Miss Grace L. Wheeler, Pittsfield ; Rev. Eino Friberg, Westminster ; Mrs. W. C. Prentiss, North Brookfield.
Board of Trustees of the Anti-Saloon League. — For one year. Rev. Manley F. Allbright, Allston ; Rev. Osmund J. Billings, Orange ; Mr. Philip Emerson, Lynn ; Mrs. John H. Hollis, Swampscott ; Rev. John B. Lewis, Springfield ; Mr. A. W. Robinson, Natick ; Rev. E. Talmadge Root, Somerville ; Mr. S. H. Thompson, Lowell ; Rev. William R. Usher, East Douglas.
Preaching Mission — For one year : Rev. Frederick W. Alden, Taun- ton ; Rev. Lyndon S. Beardslee, Westboro ; Rev. Robert W. Coe, Brook- line ; Rev. Frank Cook, Groveland ; Rev. Harry W. Kimball, Needham ; Rev. Roy L. Minich, Maiden ; Rev. Andrew Richards, Dorchester ; Rev. Ralph H. Rogers, Auburndale.
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CONGREGATIONAL BOARD OF PASTORAL SUPPLY
Office, 606 Congregational House
Rev. Ernest F. McGregor, Chairman
Mr. Sargent H. Wellman, Treasurer
Rev. Charles C. Merrill, Secretary
Mr. Burton S. Flagg, Auditor
Massachusetts Directors — Mr. Sargent H. Wellman, Topsfield, 1937 ; Rev. Karnek Handanian, Ware, 1937 ; Mr. Burton S. Flagg, Andover, 1937; Rev. Howard J. Chidley, Winchester, 1938; Mr. Fred L. Oaks, Framingham, 1938; Rev. Horace F. Holton, Brockton, 1938; Rev. George A. Tuttle, Lawrence, 1939; Rev. Ralph M. Timberlake, Bel- mont, 1939 ; Mrs. Edward C. Camp, Watertown, 1939.
PAST ANNUAL MEETINGS OF THE CONFERENCE
1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936
Westfield
New Bedford
Boston
Springfield
Haverhill
Holyoke
Fall River
Gardner
Pittsfield
Cambridge
Taunton
Worcester
Northampton
Plymouth
Lawrence
Fitchburg
Great Barrington
Brockton
Holyoke
Dorchester
Worcester
Greenfield
Framingham
Springfield
New Bedford
Quincy
North Adams
Brookline
Newburyport
Gardner
Moderator
Mr. Charles N. Prouty Rev.
Rev. Samuel C. Bushnell Rev.
Rev. Clarence F. Swift Rev.
Mr. Samuel Usher Rev.
Rev. Theodore E. Busfield Rev.
Mr. Victor J. Loring Rev.
Rev. Frank R. Shipman Rev. Mr. Kenyon L. Butterfield Rev.
Rev. Edward A. Reed Rev.
Mr. Edwin O. Childs Rev.
Rev. George W. Andrews Rev.
Mr. William B. Aspinwall Rev.
Rev. Frederick H. Page Rev.
Mr. Henry K. Hyde Rev.
Mr. Thomas Weston Rev.
Rev. Shepherd Knapp Rev.
Mr. Arthur H. Wellman Rev.
Rev. Edward P. Drew Rev.
Rev. Charles H. Williams Rev.
Mr. Elbert A. Harvey Rev.
Rev. Samuel H. Woodrow Rev.
Dr. Enos H. Bigelow Rev.
Rev. Benj. A. Willmott Rev.
Mr. Sheridan R. Gate Rev.
Rev. Clarence W. Dunham Rev.
Rev. Edwin B. Robinson Rev.
Mr. John C. Hull Rev.
Rev. J. Harold Dale Rev.
Mr. Frank L. Boyden Rev,
Rev. David N. Beach Rev,
Preacher
Samuel H. Woodrow Albert P. Fitch George S. Rollins William V. W. Davis Nehemiah Boynton Edward P. Drew Raymond Calkins William C. Gordon Ambrose W. Vernon Newton M. Hall Benjamin A. Willmott William A. Knight Ernest G. Guthrie George A. Gordon Robert MacDonald Hugh Gordon Ross Robert R. Wicks Edward M. Noyes James Gordon Gilkey Allen E. Cross Arcturus Z. Conrad Howard J. Childley Claude A. McKay Ashley D. Leavitt Garfield Morgan Vaughan Dabney J. Lee Mitchell Arthur P. Pratt Shepherd Knapp Russell H. Stafford
NEXT ANNUAL MEETING
The annual meeting of 1937 will be with the Eliot-Union Congre- gational Church of Lowell, beginning the third Monday in May (May 17, 18, 19), 1937.
MINUTES
The Massachusetts Congregational Conference and Mis- sionary Society held its one hundred and thirty-seventh annual meeting with the First Church in Gardner, May 18-20, 1936. The roll of delegates when complete was as follows:
ROLL OF THE CONFERENCE
CHURCHES PASTORS
Abington C. Stanley Knott
North Stanley F. Murray
Acton Glen W. Douglass
Adams Leon E. Grubaugh
Agawam, Feeding Hills . . . Cleveland R. Dierlamm
Amesbury, 1st George A. Roemer
" Main St. . . . Leon A. Dean
" Union Ernest L. Baker
Amherst, 1st John A. Hawley
2d Clair F. Luther
" South Eben F. Francis
North Theodore T. Dixon
Andover, South Frederick B. Noss
" West Newman Matthews
" Free Alfred C. Church
Arlington, Orthodox . . . Laurence L. Barber
" Park Avenue . . Clifford O. Simpson
Ashburnham Horace V. Boackford
South .... Ashby Ernest W. Eldridge
Athol Daniel L Gross
Ayer Harold E. LeMay
Barnstable, Cotuit .... Walter R. Kraft " Finnish .... Veijo V. Sundelin
Barre Charles M. Crooks
Belchertown ..*.... Arthur H. Hope Belmont, Plymouth . . . . B. Kenneth Anthony " Payson Park . . . Richard H. Bennett
Beverly, Washington St.
Billerica, 1st J. Harold Dale
Boston, Old South ....
" 2d, Dorchester . . . f Andrew Richards \Frank T. Jensen
" Union
" Brighton . . . . S. Whitman Anthony
" Village, Dorchester
" Eliot, Roxbury . . Charles C. Keith
" Central Rex S. Clements
" West Roxbury .
Central, J. Plain . . Edgar H. S. Chandler
DELEGATES
/Mrs. W. S. O'Brien \Mrs. Alice B. Knoll G. Parker WilUamson /Dr. Nella B.Clark \Mrs. Spencer H. Taylor /Mrs. Harold J. Millett \Mrs. Robert W. Scott
Mrs. Rosa Roemer
Mrs. Ernest L. Baker /Bertram O. Moody \Mrs. W. W. Stifler
fMarjorie Atkins JMrs. E. F. Francis /Louise Dickinson \Mr8. Edith Harllendorff Mrs. Frederick B. Noss
/Mrs. William E. Luxford \Mrs. Ernest M. Steele
Mrs. Horace V. Blackford Mrs. Eloise H. Williams
!Mrs. A. I. Brewer Mrs. E. A. Piper Winfield H. Brock Mrs. W. H. Brock Mrs. Harold E. LeMay Mrs. Walter R. Kraft /Peter Fish \ Henry Johnson
!Mrs. Louis A. Jones Mrs. H. C. Mueller Mrs. John Ferrin Mrs. Charles H. Cressy E. R. Brigham Mrs. H. L. Southwick
! James H. Richardson Mrs. J. H. Richardson Benjamin C. Lane Florence IJ. Wilson Mrs. Lyman G. Smith Miss Anita Kemp /Percival FitzGerald \Oren C. Boothby Rev. William B. Oliver /Franklin W. Davis \Mrs. J. Heber Ramsay
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Boston, Neponset .... J. Irving Fletcher " Hyde Park .... George W. Owen " Pilgrim, Dorchester . Clarence W. Dunham
Highland Boylston, Jam. Pl'n
Seaman's Roslindale .
Ferdinand J. Loungway Howard E. Pomeroy
Alfred J. Barnard
" St. Mark .... Samuel L. Laviscount
" Italian John J. Romolo
Boylston Frederick W. Manning
Braintree, 1st Joseph L. McCorison, Jr.
Bridgewater, Central Sq. . . Myron R. Bunnell
Brimfield Burleigh V. Mathews
Brockton, 1st Edwin H. Gibson
South
Wendell Ave. . . George W. Dale
Brookfield Eric I. Lindh
Brookline, Leyden .... Robert W. Coe
Cambridge, 1st Raymond Calkins
North .... Frank E. Duddy
" Pilgrim ....
Canton John G. Gaskill
Chelmsford, Central . . . John G. Lovell
Chelsea, Central Leslie H. Perdriau
Chesterfield Ralph Krout
Clinton, 1st Nathan H. Gist
" German George Marquardt
Concord George L. Thurlow
Dana Henry M. Brown
Danvers, 1st Russell T. Loesch
Maple St Kenneth R. Henley
Dennis, South Malcolm Matheson
" Union Arthur S. Burrill
Douglas, 2d, East .... William R. Usher
Draout, 1st Winthrop H. Richardson
Dudley George B. Hawkes
Duxbury Gordon L. King
Easthampton Ned B. McKenney
East Longmeadow .... Frederick J. Bishop Easton, Evang'l, South . . . John P. Fitzsimmons
Edgartown Harry R. Butman
Egremont, South .... Pearl E. Mathias Enfield Burton E. Marsh
Erving John C. Wightman
" Farley John C. Wightman
Fall River, Central .... Clarence E. Hellens
" North .... Harold G. Leland
" Bogle St. . . . Henry A. Adams
Fitchburg, Calvinistic . . . Lionel A. Whiston
" Rollstone . . . Robert L. Underwood
German
. Max B. Scha£f
Miss Miriam J. Higgins /Samuel D. James \ Harriett Briggs
f George E. Seabury \Mrs. G. E. Seabury Rev. Merritt A. Farren /Rev. James Alexander IMiss Edith Wilson
/Mrs. Charles H. Powers \Mrs. Hubert Perry
! Warren Tirrell Mrs. Warren Tirrell Mrs. Francis L. Cooper Clara M. Keith Mrs. George W. Dale
/Maynard Swift \Mrs. Mary R. Swift
i Alfred C. Lane Putnam Stearns Arthur L. Miles Mrs. Arthur L. Miles
Mrs. J. C. Mills Effie D. Duesbury fMrs. James Healy iMrs. B. G. Higgins
Mrs. George Marquardt Ruth Marquardt Mrs. George L. Thurlow Mrs. Thomas Todd
Fred Nowers Mrs. Harry Curtis Mrs. Amos L. Perkins Mrs. Charles W. Trotter
Mrs. W. H. Richardson Mrs. George B. Hawkes
fW. M. Gaylord
\Mrs. Jennette L. Russell
(Mrs. Robert Birnie (.Mrs. E. R. Hayward
/Mrs. Grace C. Sheffield IJ. Frederick Zappey fMrs. F. E. Johnson \Mrs. Doris Turner
/Mrs. Lillian W. Booth \Mrs. Howard A. Stanley
/Catharine C. Perry f IMarjorie Turner /Charles H. Whitcomb 1 Mrs. Fred Colvin /Mrs. J. B. Romans iMrs. M. Annie Sammet
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Fitchburg, Finnish .... Andrew Groop
Foxboro Harold E. Martin
Framingham, Plymouth . . Roswell F. Hinkelman
" Grace. . . . Theodore B. Lathrop
Gardner, 1st Baldwin W. Callahan
" Finnish .... Arthur F. Virta
Gill Dorr A. Hudson
Grafton
Great Barrington, Housatonic . Watson Wordsworth
Greenfield, 1st George K. Carter
2d Arthur P. Pratt
" Robbins Mem'l . William S. Anderson
Groton Edwin R. Gordon
Groveland Frank Crook
Hadley, 1st Roderick MacLeod
Hardwick H. G. Merrill
Harvard George E. Millard
Haverhill, Bradford .... George E. Gary
Hinsdale Samuel R. Swift
Holden
Holliston Mark R. Shaw
Holyoke, 1st Ronald J. Tamblyn
2d Moses R. Lovell
" Grace Edwin B. Robinson
Hopkinton Edwin B. Nylan
Hubbardston Robert J. Hodgen
Ipswich, 1st and South . . . Frederick C. Wilson
Lancaster Frederick K. Brown
Lawrence, Riverside . . . Ernest A. Whitnall
Trinity ....
United .... Arba J. Marsh
" Armenian . . . Arshag B. Hussian
Lee Edward M. Condit
Leominster, Pilgrim .... Benjamin A. Willmott
Lexington Robert W. Putsch
Lincoln Charles M. Styron
Littleton Edward M. Reighard
Longmeadow
Lowell, Pawtucket .... David Pike
" 1st Percy E. Thomas
Highland . . . Eliot-Union
John H. Sargent Hugh Penney
Ludlow, Union Henry F. Burdon
Lunenburg Donald Fraser
Lynn, North Charles R. Small
" Bethany Edwin E. Aiken, Jr.
Maiden, 1st Roy L. Minich
" Maplewood . . . Ray E. Butterfield
Manchester
Marlboro John Cummings
Mattapoisett Paul B. Myers
Maynard, Union ....
" Finnish .... Jacob Rinta
/S. C. Walsh
\Mrs. Amelia Kimball
Enos H. Bigelow
Fred L. Oaks
fMrs. Lottie A. W. Spratt \Mrs. Clara Staples
/Mrs. Harold B. Hatch [Mrs. Elizabeth D. Nash /H. M. MacDonald \ Frank A. Yeaw Mrs. Jacob Sterner
/Sherman F. Flu tMrs. Horace W. Murray /Thomas A. Frissell \Mrs. S. R. Swift
Rev. Charles O. Eames /Mrs. Mark R. Shaw \Mary Wells
Mrs. Ronald J. Tamblyn /William A. Allyn \Charles A. Prouty
Mrs. Edwin B. Robinson /Arthur C. Regan iMrs. Lucia H. King /Mrs. Robert J. Hodgen \E. Clinton Holden
Mrs. Ernest A. Whitnall
Wilbur E. Rowell fMrs. Arba J. Marsh \Mrs. James A. Hyde
Mrs. H. A. Hussian
Mrs. George L. Thurston Mrs. Robert P. Trask Mrs. Charles M. Styron
iMrs. Stanley Conant Mrs. Sherman Frost Rev. Henry L. Bailey Mrs. Henry L. Bailey
/Walter H. Hoyt tR. S.Fulton /Mrs. Charles Langley \Helen Buttrick /Mrs. Louis A. Olney {Harriet F. Wakefield Mrs. Henry F. Burdon
Mrs. Charles R. Small
Clarence S. Walker /Mrs. Ray E. Butterfield \Minnie Butterfield
Mrs. Hattie F. Baker /George H. Cuthbert \Mary E. Curtis
/Gavin Taylor
IMrs. C. A. Stockbridge
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Medford, Mystic .... George W. Hylton
West Henry F. Smith
Med way, 2d, West ....
Melrose Olin B. Tracy
Merrimac Harry S. Lowd
Methuen Egbert W. A. Jenkinson
Middlefield David J. Julius
Milford, 1st G. Edgar Wolfe
Millbury, 2d Elliott O. Foster
Milton John P. Lindsay
East Horace G. Robson
Monterey Ralph H. Abercrombie
Needham Harry W. Kimball
New Bedford, 1st ....
" North . . . William B. Mathews
" United . . . C. Donald Plomer
Newbury, 1st Charles S. Holton
Newburyport, Belleville . . J. William L. Graham
" Central . . . Harry Grimes
" 1st .... Clarence Carr
" Southfield . . Clarence Carr
Mill River . . Clarence Carr
New Salem, 1st Q. K. Barrett
North . . . . Q. K. Barrett Newton, 1st, Centre
" Highlands .... Ben Roberts
" Waban Joseph C. MacDonald
North Adams William W. Rock
Northampton, Edwards
North And over Clinton W. Carvell
Northboro James S. Clark
Northbridge, Center
" Whitinsville . . Carleton L. Feener
" Rockdale . . . Arthur B. Clarke
North Brookfield
William C. Prentiss
Northfield . . ._ . . .
Orange, Central Osmond J. Billings
Oxford Archibald Cullens
Palmer, Three Rivers . . . Frederick K. Ellsworth
Paxton
Peabody, South John Reid
Petersham James T. Carter
Phillipston William Fryling
Pittsfield, South Russell B. Richardson
" Pilgrim Mem'l . . Wilfrid H. Bunker
Plymouth, Italian .... A. Lawrence DiFlorio
Princeton Frederic F. G. Donaldson
Quincy, Bethany .... George E. Gilchrist
" WoUaston .... Stuart C. Haskins
" Memorial .... Ralph B. Edwards
" Finnish William Hokkanen
" Hough's Neck . . . Frank C. Seymour Raynham, Center . . . . M. Stokes Dawes
" 2d C. Leonard Holton
Reading Payson E. Pierce
Rehoboth Stanley M . Sargent
Revere E. Ambrose Jenkins
Mrs. Henry F. Smith fMrs. W. W. Ollendorff \Mrs. George R. Osgood
/John F. Damon \Mrs. F. L. Davis Mrs. Elliott O. Foster
/Mrs. Marion G. Hilton \Mrs. Edna A. Taber Wilfred H. Chapin Mrs. Louis D. Cook
Mrs. J. W. L. Graham /Dana C. Wells (Clara A. Bliss
/Charles W. Bond 1 Mrs. Charles W. Bond /Dr. Mark H. Ward \Appleton P. Williams
/Clara P. Bodman lAlice E.Cook
/Irving O. Darhng \Mrs. Eva Fletcher
James C. Brown /Frank D. Smith (Mrs. Mary Beck jF. C. Swornsbourne 1 Mrs. W. C. Prenties /Rev. William A. White \Mrs. William A. White George W. Andrews Mrs. Archibald Cullens
/Earl Bemis \ Albert N. Putnam Mrs. John Reid /William S. MacNutt \Mrs. Sarah E. Gates
Mrs. Ruth E. Richardson
/Mrs. F. F. G. Donaldson \Mary Gregory
/Mrs. William Hokkanen \M. Isaacson
/Mrs. Eva.L. Corey \Mrs. May A. Thomas Mrs. C. Leonard Holton Mrs. Payson E. Pierce
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Revere, Beachmont .... Albert F. Pierce Royalston, 1st
2d, South . . .
Rutland Robert M. French
Salem, Tabernacle .... Milo E. Pearson
Sheffield Ivor S. Williams
Sherbom . Merritt S. Buckingham
Shirley .... William Boicourt Shrewsbury '. Frederick D. Thayer
Shutesbury ^yi^V// S''®^''
Somerset ^1^®^* ^- S°^'^
Potters ville . . . Frank H. Gardner
Somerville, Ist Stephen C. Lang
Prospect Hill . . Walter B. Jerge
Southboro Henry E. Oxnard
South Hadley Henry D. Gray
" Falls .... Theodore Bacheler
Southwick Lawrence A. Nyberg
Spencer
Springfield, 1st David N. Beach
South ....
Indian Orchard . Hermann Lohmann Hope . . . ./John H. Miller \Otto K. Jonas Park .... Herbert H. Deck Faith .... Charles S. Nichols " Union .... John B. Lewis
" East Earl Vinie
Sterling „ ^ -^^ -n
Stockbridge ^.^^^''* ^- S.'r"'^?
Stoneham Homer J. Elf ord
Sunderland ...... William P. Barton
Swampscott Charles G.Christianson
Swansea JainesL. Carter
Taunton, West A. Robert Harrison
Trinitarian . . . John L. Fmdlay
Winslow .... Frederick W. Alden
Union LeRoy G.Allen
Templeton Richard L. Badey
" Baldwinville .
Tewksbury Gordon LKeni son
Townsend Sherman Goodwin
-prm-o Charles E. Garran
Wakefield' '.'..... Austin Rice
Walpole, United Louis C. Schroeder
Waltham, Ist A. William Loos
Ware, East Karnek A. Handanian
Wareham, Finnish .... George A. Koponen Watertown Edward C. Camp
Wayland S'''"f^''''''w- Yn" S
Webster Herbert W. Allenby
Wellesley J- Burford Parry
/Mrs. Alice F. Chase \Florence J. Graves /Walter H. Glazier \Miss C. E. Glazier )E. D. Marsh \Mrs. R. M. French /Mrs. Harry P. Gifford (Adelaide W. Berry
/Bertha C. Buckingham \John W. Grossman
/Herbert M. Carleton \Mrs. F. D. Thayer
H. F. Bates /Mrs. Stephen C. Lang \Loui8e E. Pratt
Mrs. Henry E. Oxnard /Raymond Smith \Mrs. Gerald H. Beard
/Mrs. Maud Bemis \Mrs. Richard Fowler
Mrs. David N. Beach
Rachel Blair
Mrs. Hermann Lohmann
Mrs. Charles S. Nichols George Hiltpold Mabel Clark Mrs. Clarence Deabill Mrs. Elmer Francoeur Mrs. F. R. Trask
/Walter F. Colwell IMrs. W. F. Colwell Mrs. W. Elmer Maltby
/Mrs. John L. Findlay tHugh C. Findlay
/Dr. Paul W. Goldsbury /Wallace M. Bulfinch /WiUiam P. Hawley IMrs. Allen A. Bronsdon
Mrs. Charles E. Garran /Willard P. Farwell \Mrs. W. P. Farwell /Frank M. Howe /Mrs. Frank M. Howe /George A. Mansfield \Mrs. G. A. Mansfield
Mrs. George A. Koponen Mrs. Edward C. Camp
/Mrs. Ernest A. Joslin \Mrs. George H. French /Herbert S. Austin IMrs. Ernest Newhouse
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Wellesley, Hills Carl M. Gates
Wellfleet Raymond O. Rhine
Wenham
Westboro Lyndon S. Beardslee
West Bridgewater .... J. Harold Gould
Westfield, 1st Edward U. Cowles
2d Roy G. Pavy
Westford George H. Douglas
Westhampton Kenneth R. Teed
Westminster Scott C. Siegle
Westport, 1st Frank H. Gardner
West Springfield, 1st . . . Harry L. Oldfield
" Mittineague . Arthur Keimel
West Stockbridge, Village . . Charles G. White Weymouth, North ....
Wilbraham Howard Orr
" North .... William Ganley
Williamstown, 1st .... Raymond B. Blakney
" White Oaks . . Archie G. Axtell
Winchendon, North .... Joseph W. Reeves
Winchester, 1st . Winthrop, Union
Woburn, Montvale . Worcester, 1st, Old South
" Central .
" Union
" Plymouth-Piedmont
" Pilgrim ....
Howard J. Chidley R. E. Gilmore
George A. Merrill Carl D. Skillin
Park . . . .
Hope " Bethany
" Armenian
" Tatnuck .
" Hadwen Park
' ' Swedish-Finnish Worthington
Joseph W. Beach
Paul G. Macy Joseph O. Todd
Myron W. Fowell Thomas Foxall Clement F. Hahn Kapriel Bedrosian
Chester A. Wheeler
David Carlson J. Herbert Owen
Rev. Caleb E. Smith Rev. Herman P. Fisher
fElmer H. Parmelee IMrs. E. H. Parmelee /Fred G. Farr mrs. Fred G. Farr jMrs. Mattie McMaster 1 May E. Day /Edward H. Montague \Gilbert I. Flint /Cyrus Miller \Mrs. Florence B. Rice
/Joseph M. Smith \Clara P. Smith
/Mrs. Alice M. Clifford \Mrs. Elliott C. Sabens
/H. W. Abbott \John H. Welch
Mrs. C. H. Cunningham /Mrs. R. E. Gilmore \Elizabeth M. Davis
Mrs. George A. Merrill /Mrs.HoUis W. Cobb JMrs. W. H. Watson /David K. Arey 1 Mrs. David K. Arey /Arthur C. Higgins \Mrs. Daniel J. Skinner
Mrs. Paul G. Macy /George W. Hastings iMrs. G. W. Hastings
Mrs. S. K. Bedrosian Mrs. Edmund E. Newton /Mrs. Lloyd B. Hibbard \Mr8. B. S. Grosvenor
/Arthur G. Capen \Mrs. Walter L. Higgins
OFFICIAL AND HONORARY MEMBERS
President
Secretary
Treasurer
Field Secretary .... Secretary of Woman's Work Young People's Secretary
Rev. Ralph M. Timberlake Rev. Alfred V. Bliss Rev. Oliver D. Sewall Rev. George A. Tuttle Mrs. Mary R. Carver Mrs. Manley F. Allbright
Trustees Rev. Lyndon S. Beardslee
Mrs. Edward P. Berry Roy A. Hovey Rev. Paul G. Macy Dr. Arthur L. Miles Mrs. Ambert G. Moody Fred L. Oaks Rev. Hugh Penney Wilbur E. Rowell Mrs. George E. Seabury Thomas Todd
Belmont
Wollaston
Dedham
Florence
Newtonville
AUston
Westboro
Springfield
Wakefield
Worcester
Cambridge
East Northfield
Framingham
Lowell
Lawrence
Jamaica Plain
Concord
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ExecutiveBoard.Woman'sDept. Mrs. Ethelbert V. Grabill Mrs. Benjamin C. Lane
Program Committee Nominating Committee Speakers
Florence W. Davis Mrs. Clair F. Luther Wilfred H. Chapin Rev. Frank Jennings Rev. Frank C. Laubach Stanley Maxwell Dean James Muilenburg Margaret Slattery Fred B. Smith Rev. Russell H. Stafford Mayor James A. Timpany George N. White Mrs. Royal G. Whiting Prof. Earl M. Winslow
Jamaica Plain
West Roxbury
West Roxbury
Amherst
Fairhaven
Boston
Lanao, Philippine Ids.
Reading
Orono, Me.
Boston
New York City
Boston
Gardner
New York City
Weston
Medford
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MINUTES OF THE
137th ANNUAL MEETING OF THE MASSACHUSETTS
CONGREGATIONAL CONFERENCE AND
MISSIONARY SOCIETY
MONDAY AFTERNOON
The Conference was called to order exactly at 2.00 o'clock by the Moderator, Rev. David N. Beach of Springfield.
The Service of Worship was conducted by the Chaplain of the Conference, Rev. Raymond Calkins of Cambridge. His subject was "The Credentials of Christ." The authen- ticity of the church is its serviceableness, and the proof of Christianity is in biography rather than in theology.
The Moderator announced the appointment of committees as follows:
Business Committee — Rev. Mj^on W. Fowell, Chairman, Mrs. Chester L. Grover, Rev. S. Lawrence Johnson, Rev. C. Donald Plomer, Rev. Ralph H. Rogers, Rev. Samuel R. Swift.
Credential Committee: Rev. Henry Lincoln Bailey, Rev. J. William L. Graham, Rev. Stephen C. Lang.
Deacons Avpointed to Serve at the Cmnmunion Service Tuesday Evening: E. G. Watkins, C. C. Rathbun, E. W. Tandy, W. M. Tenney, A. H. Nourse, J. A. Pearson, Frank Derby, W. P. Hawley, Benjamin F. Holden, Charles Davis.
The Chairman of the Nominating Committee announced a vacancy in the office of Recording Secretary and nomi- nated Rev. William L. Boicourt of Shirley, who was elected.
Rev. Harry W. Kimball presented a resolution concerning the establishment of a Department of Religious Education, which was referred to the Business Committee.
The "Advance Reports" of the Conference committees, which had been sent by mail to pastors and delegates, were submitted for discussion as follows:
The report of the Committee on Religious Education was presented by Rev. Harry T. Stock, Chairman. This committee has been exceedingly active during the year and has func-
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tioned through sub-committees, four of which have had age- group assignments. The chief recommendation is the re- iterated request for a Department of Religious Education, with a full-time Secretary.
The report of the Committee on Moral and Social Welfare was presented by Rev. Joseph C. MacDonald, Chairman. He urged the consideration by all the churches of the resume of Conference resolutions 1932-1935, as found on pages 12 and 18 of the Advance Reports.
The first of the two new resolutions was amended by delet- ing certain sentences from the preamble and substituting ip. the resolution the word ''Commonwealth" for "State." It was adopted as follows:
Because of our deep concern for those high principles and noble tradi- tions which have made Massachusetts great, we view with grave appre- hension the spirit being shown by the present administration in our Com- monwealth. We appeal to every conscientious citizen, regardless of race or creed or social status, to do his utmost to restore decent government to Massachusetts. For it is our firm belief that one of the needs of the present hour is for honest men in the places of responsibihty in our Commonwealth. -i^
Therefore be %t resolved: That at the coming state elections the con- scientious citizens of our Commonwealth are urged to make every effort, after a careful examination of their records, to put out of public office all those who are using that office for their own selfish ends, and to elect in their places trustworthy public officials who can be counted upon to main- tain the noblest traditions of our great Commonwealth.
The second resolution relative to the Teachers' Oath Law occasioned sharp discussion and Prof. Alfred K. Lane of Tufts College, by request, spoke from the platform. This resolu- tion was also amended and adopted to read as follows:
Although the State Legislature may have taken action on the repeal of the Teachers' Oath Law before the Conference meets, the Committee is so vigorously opposed to all legislation of this kind that it believes the Con- ference should put itself on record in this matter. The Committee feels that true patriotism cannot be compelled. It regards the Oath Law as an unM^arranted interference with intellectual freedom, democratic princi- ples, and Christian ideals. It seems to us to be an unnecessary discrimina- tion against the teachers of our Commonwealth.
Therefore he it Resolved: That the Massachusetts Congregational Con- ference calls for the repeal of the Teachers' Oath Law and for unremitting opposition to all kindred measures as insidious steps in the direction of that coerced conformity with set patterns of political thought which has marked the regimes of both fascism and communism. We declare such coercive methods to be repugnant to the traditions of our country, to
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intellectual liberty and to Christian sincerity. We therefore call upon the people of our churches to mobilize their moral and spiritual power in behalf of a new crusade for freedom.
The Report of the Woman's Department was presented by Mrs. Elizabeth Z. Grabill, Chairman of the Department of Woman's Work, who was given applause by the Conference.
The report of the Committee on the Future Policy of the Conference to The Board of Pastoral Supply was presented by Rev. Clarence W. Dunham, Chairman. The Conference adopted the first seven recommendations and referred the eighth recommendation to the Business Committee.
The seven recommendations adopted are as follows:
1. That the Board of Pastoral Supply be maintained in its present rela- tion to the Massachusetts Conference and other New England Conferences, but with a clearer definition of areas of responsibility and operation.
2. It is recommended that churches aided by the State Conference should all go directly to the state office for advice as to pastors and policies.
3. It is recommended that in the true spirit of Congregationalism the way be left open for independent churches to seek advice as to new pastors through the Board of Paotoral Supply, the state office, or any other channel desired.
4. It is recommended that closer contacts be maintained between the Board of Pastoral Supply and the State Office relative to all suggestions made to Massachusetts churches regarding pastors. This should be carried out through personal conversations between the President of the Conference and the Secretary of the Board.
5. It is recommended that when vacancies occur in Massachusetts churches and letters are sent by the Board to such churches offering the aid of the Board, such letters should include the suggestion that both the State Office and the Board are ready to assist in any way possible. This will follow the practice of other New England Conferences.
6. It is recommended that after the settlement of a pastor, when there is need in a church for outside advice in matters of policy and problems within the church, the church should confer with the state office, rather than with the Board of Pastoral Supply.
7. It is recommended that the President of the State Conference should always be included among the Massachusetts representatives of the Con- ference on the Board of Pastoral Supply.
The report of the Grant Study Committee was adopted. This included an approval of the work of the American Inter- national College as a missionary enterprise and the endorse- ment of the work of providing opportunity for religious in- struction at Massachusetts State College.
It was Voted: That any further action as suggested by this report bo left with the Trustees' Committee on Aided Churches.
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It was moved and carried that the amendment to Article IV of the By-Laws which had been laid upon the table last year, be taken from the table.
The following amendment was then adopted:
Thai in Article IV, paragraph entitled "Voting Members" of the By- Laws, after the words "(including the members of the Board of Trustees)" there be added within the parentheses the words "and any person who shall have been elected an Officer Emeritus."
The report of the Committee on Missions and Apportion- ment was presented by the Chairman, Rev. Hugh Penney, and the report was accepted and the following recommenda- tions adopted, approved by the Board of Trustees for presentation to the Conference were adopted:
1. That the Goal for Apportionment giving for 1936 be set at ^3.50,000. This is the same figure as adopted last year, but represents about a 10 per cent advance over the Apportionment giving of 1935.
2. That the receipts from Apportionment giving for the year 1936 be divided, unless the Treasurer is otherwise instructed by the contributing churches, according to the following schedule :
American Board 41. %
National Home Boards 42.5%
Council for Social Action 2.5%
State Work (including 1% for the Boston
Seaman's Friend Society) 14. %
100%
3. That the receipts from Apportionment giving for 1937 be divided, unless the Treasiu-er is otherwise instructed by the contributing churches, according to the following schedule:
American Board 40. %
National Home Boards 41. %
Council for Social Action 2.5%
State Work 15.5%
Boston Seaman's Friend Society . . . 1- %
100%
4. That grants to aided churches be made with the clear understanding that a contribution to the Apportionment shall be made by them each year.
The Conference then took a recess until 4,00 o'clock.
The Conference resumed its session at 4.00 o'clock. Miss Margaret Slattery of Boston gave an address on: "Thy Kingdom Come — but not Now." This was a most com- pelling address, urging sacrificial acceptance of the disturbing social results of Jesus' teaching. The auditorium was crowded, with many standing, and a loud speaker was installed in an adjoining room for an overflow meeting.
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Four simultaneous supper conferences were held by the laymen, the women, the young people and the Preaching Mission Committee.
The young people met at 6.00 o'clock in the dining hall of the church. One hundred and ninety young people sat down to supper. Professor Ralph S. Harlow of Smith College gave an address on ''Our Religion — Suppose it Really Worked." A forum period followed the address. A concluding worship service was conducted by the Rev. Joseph Reeves of Win- chendon.
The Annual Meeting of the Woman's Department was held at a supper meeting May 18, Mrs. Ethelbert V. Grabill, the Chairman, presiding. One hundred and fifty women were present. Members of the Executive Committee and other Standing Committees were elected. Mrs. Mary R. Carver, Secretary, gave a review of the year's work. Mrs. Grabill gave a fine presentation of the activities in the Districts and the plans for the future, urging the use of the Missionary Herald, the Cent-a-Meal Boxes, and suggesting a united women's organization in each church.
MONDAY EVENING
The service of worship was conducted by the Chaplain of the Conference under the theme: "The Twofold Ministry." In the words of Jesus to the impotent man, ''Thy sins be for- given" and "arise," Jesus showed once for all that the spiritual and social gospel are one.
Music was furnished during the evening by the Nevin Glee Club, under the direction of Mr. Walter B. Eaton.
Greetings from Gardner were felicitously presented by the pastor of the church, the Rev. Baldwin W. Callahan, and by his Honor James A. Timpany, Mayor of Gardner. On behalf of the Conference, the Moderator, Rev. David N. Beach, made suitable response.
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Our most distinguished layman, for more than forty years a world traveler and a crusader for righteousness, Mr, Fred B. Smith, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the General Council of the Congregational and Christian Churches, gave the address of the evening, on the topic, "The Church of Tomorrow." Mr. Smith brought, at the opening of his address, the greetings of the Regional Conference of the South- east, recently held at Burlington, North Carolina, and the greetings also of the New York Conference through Superin- tendent Walter H. Rollins. The evening session was ad- journed after the singing of the hymn, 'Taith of our Fathers."
TUESDAY MORNING
The Business meeting was called to order at 9.00 o'clock by the Moderator, who opened the session with prayer.
The report of the Treasurer was then presented by Mr. Sewall. He commented upon the decline not only in gifts from the churches, but the even greater decline in receipts from invested funds. Bequests have also fallen off. Refer- ring to the fears once expressed by Dr. Emrich that the Home Missionary work of the state would suffer as a result of the merger, Mr, Sewall urged that only an increased emphasis upon the missionary motive can ever restore or advance the giving of the churches.
The auditor's report was presented and read by the Presi- dent of the Conference.
It was Voted: That the reports be accepted and printed.
It was Voted: That the recommendation accepted yesterday fixing the 1937 distribution of apportionment giving, be reconsidered and that the question be referred to a joint committee of the Business Committee and the Committee on Missions and Apportionment.
Rev. Henry Lincoln Bailey presented in an impressive manner the Necrology of the Conference, giving brief items of interest in the life and work of pastors and former pastors who have died during the past twelve months.
Rev. Alfred V. Bliss, Secretary of the Conference, then
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presented his report, which may be found in printed form elsewhere in these Minutes.
The President of the Conference, Rev. Ralph M. Timber- lake, then presented a comprehensive, forward looking re- port, which may be found elsewhere in these Minutes.
Rev. Frank Jennings, Secretary of the Massachusetts Council of Churches, presented a brief report in which he recognized that the Congregational churches of Massachu- setts include in their membership one-third of all the Protest- ants in the Commonwealth.
The following officers and committees were elected:
Moderator — Mr. Wilbur E. Rowell, Lawrence. Vice-Moderator — Rev. Clarence E. Hellens, Fall River. Recording Secretary — Rev. William L. Boicourt, Shirley. Chairman of Department of Woman's Work. — Mrs. Ethelbert V. Gra- bill, Jamaica Plain.
Vice-Chairman of Department of Woman's Work — Mrs. Robert P. Trask, Lexington.
Trustees — 1936-1940:
Middlesex-Mendon Association, Rev. G. Edgar Wolfe, Milford.
Suffolk South Association, Rev. Alfred J. Barnard, Roslindale.
Suffolk West Association, Mr. HoUey A. Wilkinson, Needham.
Worcester North Association, Mrs. David Findlay, Athol.
Worcester South Association, Mrs. W. S. Schuster, East Douglas.
Member-at-Ijarge, Mr. Burton S. Flagg, Andover.
Executive Officers ' President — Rev. Ralph M. Timberlake, Belmont.
Secretary — Rev. Alfred V. Bliss, WoUaston.
Treasurer — Rev. Oliver D. Sewall, Dedham.
Field Secretary — Rev. George A. Tuttle, Northampton.
Secretary of Woman's Work — Mrs. Mary R. Carver, Auburndale.
Young People's Secretary — Mrs. Manley F. Allbright, Allston.
Member of Prudential Committee of American Board — Rev. George E. Gary, Bradford.
Program Committee — Mrs. John V. Holt, Andover, 1939; Rev. Alfred V. Bliss, ex-officio; Miss Flora L. Mason, Taunton, 1939; Rev. Hugh Penney, Lowell, 1939.
Board of Pastoral Supply — Rev. George A. Tuttle, Florence, 1939; Rev. Ralph M. Timberlake, Belmont, 1939; Mrs. Edward C. Camp, Watertown, 1939.
Trustees for the Seaman's Friend Society — Rev. David Frazer, Somer- vUle, 1939; Rev. Roy G. Pavy, Westfield, 1939; Mr. Nathan Heard, Cam- bridge, 1939; Rev. Hubert A. Allenby, Webster, 1939; Mr. Harry H. Walker, Boston, 1939.
Trustee of Board of Ministerial Aid — Mr. Lewis S. McCreary, Belmont.
Committee on Religious Education — Rev. Charles S. Nichols, Spring- field, 1939; Miss Eleanor Riddle, Cambridge, 1939; Rev. Myron R. Bunnell, Bridgewater, 1939; Rev. Ralph S. Huffer, Spencer, 1939.
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Committee on Relation of Churches and Colleges. For one year. — Rev. Kenneth R. Henley (chairman), Danvers; Rev. Henry D. Gray, South Hadley; Rev. H. B. Ingalls, Northfield; Mrs. Henry O. Tilton, Worcester; Rev. Raymond B. Blakney, Williamstown.
Regional Committee — Rev. Emmons E. White, Palmer, 1939; Rev. Paul S. McElroy, Manchester, 1939; Mr. Walter G. Butler, Worcester, 1939.
Committee on Moral and Social Welfare — Rev. Carl M. Sangree, Cum- mington, 1939; Miss Helen McGregor Noyes, South Byfield, 1939; Mrs. Lucius E. Thayer, West Newton, 1939; Rev. Samuel L. La viscount, Roxbury, 1938 (to fill unexpired term of H. L. Jenkins).
Committee on Polity and Standards for the Ministry. For one year. — Rev. Francis L. Cooper, Brockton; Rev. Vaughan Dabney, Newton Centre; Rev. Franlc E. Duddy, Cambridge; Rev. Daniel I. Gross, Athol; Rev. Albert J. Penner, Northampton; Rev. Edward U. Cowles, Westfield.
Board of Trustees of the Anti-Saloon League. For one year. Rev. Manley F. Allbright, Allston; Rev. Osmund J. Billings, Orange; Mr. Philip Emerson, Lynn; Mrs. John H. Hollis, Swampscott; Rev. John B. Lewis, Springfield; Mr. A. W. Robinson, Natick; Rev. E. Talmadge Root, Somerville; Mr. S. H. Thompson, Lowell; Rev. William R. Usher, East Douglas.
Congregational Representatives on the Massachusetts Council of Churches — For two years: Mrs. John H. Moseley, Saunders ville; For three years: Mrs. Clarence Carr, Southfield; Rev. John L. Findlay, Taunton, Mr. H. B. Belcher, Maiden; Mrs. E. A. DriscoU, Lenox; Rev. E. W. Grimshaw, Worcester; Mr. E. F. Mann, Worcester; Mr. A. G. Moody, East North- field; Mrs. L. A. Whiston, Fitchburg; Rev. Arthur B. Clark, Northbridge; Rev. John H. Miller, Springfield; Rev. F. D. Bennett, Nantucket; Mr. J. B. Fort, Norwood; Mrs. H. L. Jenlcins, Bridgewater; Mr. Thomas Todd, Concord; Miss Grace L. Wheeler, Pittsfield; Rev. Eino Friberg, Westminster; Mrs. W. C. Prentiss, North Brookfield.
Preaching Mission — For one year: Rev. Frederick W. Alden, Taunton; Rev. Lyndon S. Beardslee, Westboro; Rev. Robert W. Coe, Brookline; Rev. Frank Cook, Groveland; Rev. Harry W. Kimball, Needham; Rev. Roy L. Minich, Maiden; Rev. Andrew Richards, Dorchester; Rev. Ralph H. Rogers, Aubiirndale.
Delegates to the General Council — Mr. John L. Bagg, Greenfield; Mrs. Harold W. Buxton, Newburyport; Mrs. Howard Case, Maj'^nard; Rev. Fred F. Goodsell, Boston; Mrs. William Goodman, Longmeadow; Mrs. Ethelbert V. Grabill, Jamaica Plain; Mr. Charles E. Hildreth, Worcester; Mrs. W. L. Hopkins, Mansfield; Mr. Roger F. Langley, Barre; Rev. Charles C. Merrill, Boston; Mrs. J. C. Mills, Chelmsford; Mr. and Mrs. Fred L. Oaks, Framingham; Rev. George A. Tuttle, Florence; Mrs. William H. Watson, Worcester; Mr. George Rogers, Monson; Mrs. L. G. Robbins, Pittsfield.
Nominating Committee — Mrs. Horace F. Holton, Brockton; Rev. Harry L. Oldfield, West Springfield; Rev. C. Donald Plomer, New Bed- ford; Rev. John M. Trout, Sandwich.
At 11.15 the Chaplain of the Conference led his service of worship on the theme, "And now Abideth Hope." It may not be true that while there is life there is hope, but it is true that while there is hope there is life.
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The Council for Social Action through the chairman, Rev. Joseph C. MacDonald, then presented Prof. Earl M. Winslow, who recently resigned as Professor of Economics at Tufts College in protest against the Teachers' Oath Law, who spoke upon the subject, ''The Threat of Fascism to a Christian Social Order."
Prof. Winslow also spoke with others at a luncheon hour discussion, held by the Social Action group at the Chestnut St. Methodist Church.
TUESDAY AFTERNOON
The session was resumed at 2.00 o'clock. Home and Foreign work was considered with Rev. Hugh Penney in the chair. Secretary George N. White spoke with fire and under- standing of the present need for even more aggressive work by the American Missionary Association on behalf of the rights of personality among the underprivileged of our land.
Rev. Frank C. Laubach of the American Board of Foreign Missions then spoke. He has developed in Mindanao, Philippine Islands, a system for teaching illiterates to read, which has elicited the enthusiasm of educators everywhere and has aroused hope among that half of the world's popula- tion which does not yet know how to read. One result of his address was that an offering was taken to help defray the expenses of his proposed world trip in the interest of his language charts. This offering amounted to $115.72.
The report of the Boston Seaman's Friend Society was then presented by Rev. Roy G. Pavy, who emphasized the little realized cruelty and bitterness of life on the sea.
At 4.00 o'clock the Rev. Harry R. Butman of Edgartown, Massachusetts, presented most felicitously and effectively the case for the Federated Church.
The Rev. Harry W. Kimball of Needham presented "A Forward Looking Program for Massachusetts Congregational- ism." He spoke to the resolution presented on Monday, calling for an appropriation of $6,000 for the establishment of a
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Department of Religious Education, with a full-time secre- tary. A spirited discussion followed this presentation in which twelve men and one woman participated. The recom- mendation of the Business Committee was then adopted that an appropriation of $600 be granted to the Committee on Rehgious Education for the purpose of dramatizing the need for strengthening the work of religious education through our churches in the Commonwealth with the hope that new re- sources may soon be discovered to engage the services of a fuU-- time secretary of Religious Education and Young People's Work.
Section No. 8 of the Report of the Committee on the Future Policy of the Conference to the Board of Pastoral Supply, which was referred yesterday to the Business Committee, was brought before the Conference by the Business Committee with its recommendation that the grant to the Board of Pastoral Supply be increased from J 5-6 cents per member to 2 cents per member pro rata.
In the discussion which followed. Rev. Charles C. Merrill, Secretary of the Board of Pastoral Supply, presented certain reasons which convinced the Conference of the need of a larger grant. As a result, the following amendment was
adopted :
Section 8. In view of the report of the work rendered to Massachusetts by the Board of Pastoral Supply, in view of the decrease of revenues from normal sources, and in view of the fact that three other Conferences have voted to increase their grants to two cents per member, it is recommended that in place of the additional grant of $800.00 made this year by the Board of Trustees, Massachusetts increase its annual grant to the Board of Pastoral Supply from If cents per member to 2| cents per member, pro rata.
The Business Committee then presented the following resolution which had been submitted by Rev. George H. Douglas of Westford, which was adopted: In view of the opportunity which we shall have to vote on local option at the state election in November:
Be it Resolved: Thai the State Conference urge each of its constituent churches to bring before its community the facts of its owti liquor selling situation and so appeal in the strongest way to its people to vote no-license.
Rev. Hugh Penney for the Joint Committee of the Business
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Committee and the Committee on Missions and Apportion- ment reported back to the Conference the recommendation adopted Monday afternoon concerning the distribution of apportionment giving for the year 1937 which it was voted to reconsider: The Committee recommended that the vote passed Monday afternoon regarding the division of Appor- tionment giving for 1937 be rescinded and that the receipts from apportionment giving for the year 1937 be the same as for the year 1936, unless the Treasurer is otherwise instructed by the contributing churches, namely according to the follow- ing schedule:
American Board 41. %
National Home Boards 42.5%
Council for Social Action 2.5%
State Work (including 1% for the Boston
Seaman's Friend Society) 14. %
100%
These recommendations were adopted.
At this point the Conference received the invitation of the Eliot-Union Church of Lowell, Rev. Hugh Penney, pastor, to hold its session in 1937 in that church. The invitation was gratefully accepted.
TUESDAY EVENING
The session began at 7.30 with music with Mr. Walter B. Eaton at the organ, also directing the church quartet and chorus.
The scripture lesson was read by Rev. Russell Henry Staf- ford, and prayer was offered by Chaplain Calkins.
The work of the Board of Ministerial Aid was presented by Rev. Austin Rice of Wakefield, following which an offering was taken amounting to $155.25 for Ministerial Relief.
Rev. Russell Henry Stafford of the Old South Church, Boston, preached a sermon of great power on the equality of all nations before God, as revealed in the prophecy of Amos 1:6 to 2:16.
The communion service was conducted by Rev. Baldwin W.
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Callahan, Minister of the entertaining church, assisted by Rev. Ralph M. Timberlake, President of the Conference.
WEDNESDAY MORNING
The Conference was called to order at 9.00 o'clock by the Moderator, who led in prayer.
He then presented on behalf of the Committee on Religious Education Dean James Muilenburg of the University of Maine, who in his address and during the discussion which followed, infused vitality and optimism into that which, tragically enough, is too often assumed to be deadening, namely, Re- ligious Education.
At 10.15, under the general topic, ''The Church Facing its Problems,'- Rev. Lionel Whiston of Fitchburg spoke on "Evangelism." Evangelism is not good news, but the bear- ing of it, and the evangelist must himself first be the embodi- ment of it.
Rev. Raymond B. Blakney, of Williamstown, spoke on "Devotional Life." He related an interesting experiment in placing the sermon near to the beginning of the service, with the definite purpose of preparing the congregation for the culmination of the hour in worship.
Mrs. Royal G. Whiting, of Weston, spoke for "Social Action," beginning with a beautifully presented life of Christ as it might be told were He to have lived in the world of our century.
Rev. Paul G. Macy, of Worcester, spoke for "Missions," urging the realization of two facts: first, that all available financial resources of the American Board have been ex- hausted; and second, that there are, nevertheless, many reasons for encouragement. Our educational and medical work has made distinct advancements as compared with seven years ago. He urged that Congregationalists everywhere read, mark, learn and inwardly digest the Massachusetts issue of the new missionary booklet called "Custodians of the Pilgrim Spirit.'"
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A report of the Business Committee was presented by Rev. Myron W. Fowell, Chairman, and the following resolutions
were adopted :
Be it Resolved: That the Massachusetts Conference expresses its appre- ciation of the splendid hospitaUty afforded by the First Congregational Church of Gardner and its pastor in the generous provisions made for the 137th Annual Meeting of the Conference.
It likewise expresses its appreciation of the hospitality of the city of Gardner as expressed by its Mayor, and of the co-operation of the St. Paul's Episcopal Church, the Chestnut Street Methodist Church, the Unitarian Society and the order of Eastern Star in preparing delightful meals for the Conference guests.
The Conference expresses its appreciation of the very capable leadership of the retiring Moderator, of the unusually effective work of the Program Committee and of the faithful service of all other committees and individ- uals whose thought and prayers have made for a truly great Conference.
The Conference learns with regret of the illness of Dr. A. Z. Conrad, of Boston, and extends to him its sympathy and goodwill.
The Conference also sends greetings to Rev. Arthur J. Covell, of Arlington, whose illness has caused us to miss his counsel and fellowship.
The Conference appreciates the friendly greeting of the New York Conference extended through Dr. Fred B. Smith and extends its own good wishes to that Conference for a very successful meeting.
The Conference also sends its greetings to Rev. Arthur Barber, of Lawrence.
Rev. Clifford 0. Simpson, of Arlington, spoke of the informal discussion periods to be held in connection with the General Council meeting at South Hadley in June.
Rev. Henry Lincoln Bailey, Chairman, then read the
report of the Committee on Credentials, which is as follows: Number of churches represented:
By pastor only 114
By pastor and one delegate 54
By pastor and two delegates .... 88
By one delegate only 13
By two delegates 21
Total niunber of churches represented 290 Number of individuals, minus duplicates 528 Ofhcial and honorary, minus duplicates 27
Total net enrollment 555
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The Recording Secretary, in co-operation with the staff,
was authorized to complete the Minutes.
Voted: That the Conference be adjourned after the benediction by the Chaplain.
The concluding service of worship was then conducted by the Chaplain, whose subject was, ''Religion as Music."
ALFRED V. BLISS, Secretary. WILLIAM L. BOICOURT, Recording Secretary.
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REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT
Inasmuch as a primary obligation of the Conference is to serve its ministers, we have several times this year invited the pastors of the churches to meet together in order that they might "consider one another, to arouse one another to love and good works."
The first occasion was the Annual Convocation at South Hadley in Sep- tember. It would not do to say that we "broke the ice" for the General Council, rather — that we enjoyed the Cream of the Hospitality of Mount Holyoke College.
The addresses by Dean Potter, Professor John C. Bennett, Dr. Harry W. Kimball and Rev. Ronald J. Tamblyn gave the delegates helpful sugges- tion for their study and work through the months that followed. Many pastors were good enough to say that the program this year was worthy of its predecessors.
In November with the assistance of Dr. Goodsell, Dr. Burton and Dean Graham, five Churchmanship Conferences were held across the state. We were entertained by Paul Macy at Plymouth-Piedmont Church, Worces- ter; George Cary at the Bradford Church, Haverhill; Dr. Raymond Calkins at the First Church, Cambridge; Carl Knudsen at the Church of the Pilgrimage, Plymouth, and by Ray Gibbons at the First Church, North- ampton. At these one-day sessions some of the problems of the modern effective church received thorough consideration, particularly those rela- tive to the outreach of the church into the community and into the foreign field.
The qmckening of the thought of the younger ministers toward the missionary program of the church was attempted by two conferences for pastors ordained within the last eight years. With Dr. Fagley's help, meetings were held in Watertown with Dr. Camp and in Northampton with Albert Penner, to which all the younger pastors of the state were invited.
In February, about the time of the Springfield Study Conference, yet in no way conflicting with that inspirational program, and again with the assistance of Dr. Fkgley, pre-Lenten conversations were held at eight t strategic centers for the pastors of the vicinity. The ministers of Essex and Andover met with Howard Bozarth at Haverhill, those of Pilgrim with Joseph McCorison at Braintree, Theodore Lathrop of Framingham enter- tained the ministers of that locality, and Roy Minich, of Maiden, the pastors of Wobrn-n Association. The Old Colony pastors met with William B. Mathews at New Bedford, the Cape pastors with Carl Schultz at Hy- annis and the Worcester and Brookfield men with Earl Steeves in Lei-
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cester. Robert Underwood was the host to the ministers in the vicinity of Fitchburg.
While there is no question as to the inspirational value in the fellowship and varied program of these several types of meetings, it would seem as though in an ordinary year it would be much better to have fewer meetings and to continue them through longer periods, putting on at one time a more comprejiensive and intensive program. Because there are OYQf five hundred pastoi's in the state there seems to be wisdom in a plan of sectional convocations. To maintain the morale of its ministers, broadening their outlook, stimulating their thinking, building up their sense of comradeship and unity in a great cause, quickening their spiritual life, — this is one of the first and most important duties of our Conference. For this important work there should be always available sufficient funds to secure the best possible leadership. The caring for these Convocations might well be the obligation of the Committee on the Standards for the Ministry. We pride ourselves upon the standards for Congregational pastors set by this com- mittee. We might well assign to them the responsibility of encouraging our pastors to maintain this high level of efficiency and spirituality.
Because the General Council meets this June in Massachusetts and the National Preaching Mission in Boston in December, the Trustees have thought well to omit the usual Convocation this fall.
In addition to these formal gatherings it has been a great satisfaction to have had so many informal meetings with individual pastors in their homes and beside my desk. It is a rare and sacred privilege which we have, as members of the Staff, in sharing the intimate and personal prob- lems, aspirations and achievements. There was real uplift and encourage- ment when so many pastors individually responded to my invitation to join in the quiet moments of intercession each morning daring Lent.
II. Associations
During the year several more Associations have adopted new constitu- tions, modeled after the form prepared under the direction of the State Office, Closer uniformity in organization will undoubtedly lead to a freer interchange of plans and programs, and to easier cooperation in mat- ters of our common concern.
Last winter representatives from each Association met to discuss the I^ossibility of synchronizing the dates of the semi-annual meetings of our twenty-one Associations. A schedule was developed whereby in both spring and fall, through a period of five weeks there would be but two meet- ings on any one day and these would be in adjacent territory. According to latest reports every Association has approved this arrangement, although in some instances it has required a change in by-laws. Such cooperative spirit strengthens the bonds of fellowship.
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From my acquaintance with the working of the different Associations 1 have noticed three important matters that should receive careful thought. Perhaps it may be permissible for me, in this general meeting, to refer to these improvements in administration because they affect, not alone the individual groups but the wellbeing of our Conference as a whole. First, there is a laxity in some Ordination Councils. Failure to hold to the standards recommended by this Conference and the General Council may seriously embarrass the Conference in years to come. Another advance might be made by greater care in the important work of Nominating Committees. Too much thought cannot be given to the selection of leaders within the Association or of representatives of the Association in the larger work of the Conference. In the third place, I have discovered that the Association meetings best attended and most interesting are those for which a responsible committee has given adequate time and thought to the preparation of the program. It is expecting too much to ask the entertaining pastor to take the full charge of this responsibility.
III. Committees
You will be interested to know that at last the benevolence giving of our churches shows signs of improvement. This is true not only for the country as a whole but also here in Massachusetts. For instance, the comparative figures for the first four months of the past several years show that since 1927 there has been a gradual decrease, from $105,000 to $40,000 in 1935. Last year we dropped below the previous year something like $7,000. For the months of January, February, March and April in 1936 the gifts of the churches to our whole missionary work has increased over the amount in 1935 by $2,000. It should be noted that the bulk of this increase was in gifts to the work of the American Board, and not to our state work. We have reason, as a missionary-minded church, to thank God and take courage. Evidence is here of the value of the work that has been done by our state committee on Missions and Apportionment and the corresponding committees in the Associations.
Reference ought to be made to the excellent report of the Committee on Religious Education concerning the work accomplished and the program contemplated, particularly by the sub-committees on Young People's Work and on Summer Conferences. We are fortunate in having this well qualified, volunteer group, led by Dr. Harry T. Stock, Secretary of the national Education Society, willing to give their enthusiastic and intelli- gent guidance to this important department of Education.
In considering the appointment of a full time secretary for this depart- ment no one would question the importance of this worlc with young people. A member of the staff, charged with leadership in education, not alone for Children and Youth, but for Adults as well, and for education, — not
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only in Religion, but in Social Ethics and Missions, — would be a great asset. Inasmuch as some may question the advisability of incurring additional expense at the present time, it might be borne in mind that we have not yet tapped all the leadership resources available at the Congrega- tional House. There are other national leaders, resident in Massachusetts, members of our churches, related to our Associations, who might be willing to put at our disposal some of their free time and much of their valuable experience. Quite properly the hearty thanks of this meeting should be extended to Dr. Stock for his generous assistance.
As in recent years, the administrative work of the Religious Education Committee has been done by Mrs. Allbright. She has, in a like capacity, served the State Young People's Committee. For the Conference, Mrs. Allbright has had charge of the Peace Plebiscite assisting the Committee on Moral and Social Welfare, and has been the Managing Editor of the News Letter. It is a testimony of her popularity that she has been called upon frequently to speak before Young People's and Church School groups.
The Laymen's Committee, under the leadership of Mr. Wilfred Chapin, has made considerable progress in organizing the church men in several Associations. They planned a second Laymen's Supper Conference for this Annual Meeting with the definite intention of securing the attendance of a larger proportion of men. This year our committee has joined with those of the other New England states in promoting the Isles of Shoals Laymen's Conference, over the first week-end of August.
Congregationalism began in New England at Plymouth as a layman's Chm-ch. Functionally a Congregational Church is a laymen's organiza- tion. One of the great needs of today is to enlist the enthusiastic support of laymen and reawaken a sense of reisponsibil^ty for the life and work of the Church. Several of our pastors have with marked success used a Laymen's Retreat for their officials. Over a week-end they have gone apart with their men to think together concerning the things of the King- dom. Not every pastor or church is able to do this. Here is an oppor- timity for the Conference to promote a general program of Laymen's Retre'ats. The facilities of Andover-Newton Seminary are available for such a purpose. Our pl3,ns for the future should include a definite advance along this line. But aggressive work on the part of this committee as of the other Conference committees is dependent upon sufficient funds being provided by the chm-ches to enable them to meet their opportunities.
IV. Evangelism
If one may rightly judge by the reports received from the chiu-ches, the past Lenten period has been one of marked spiritual development. More and more our churches are using this season for special services and our pastors are themselves giving able educational and religious leadership to
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their own people. Some valuable original material was prepared this year for Young People both by Paul McElroy in Manchester and Dr. H. D. Gray of South Hadley.
The Preaching Mission Program has been used with varying degrees of success in twelve of our chiu-ches. The season, the preparation, the program and the missioner, — thefee all have had much to do with determin- ing the beneficial results. As the pastors have entered heartily and sym- pathetically into this program they have discovered its great possibilities for a sane evangelism.
The Conference appreciates the willing spirit of the ministers of the State who went out as Missioners. It was not always easy for them to leave their own churches, to give of their time and strength to this work, — ■ nor for their churches to have them away, — and we would take this occa- sion publicly to thank them. We are well aware, too, of the splendid co- operation on the part of the pastors of the churches visited in making prayerful preparation for tjiese services.
V. The Flood
As a result of our appeal for contributions toward a fund to aid parishes seriously affected by the flood, about three thousand dollars have been sub- scribed. The contributors have been churches, associations and indi- viduals, 200 in number. We are hopeful of receiving checks from many more. Will you let this announcement be a reminder of the need and an invitation to participate.
VI. Staff
It gives me pleasure to express great satisfaction with what has been accomplished in his first year of service by the Field Secretary, George A. Tuttle. Realizing that his work would be effective only as it was built upon a foundation of good- will and friendly relationships, Mr. Tuttle has sought in various ways to meet ministers and church people of western Massachusetts. He has already made more than one hundred such con- tacts, and some fifty-eight churches have definitely turned to him for service in one form or another. He has given special study to the fifty or more churches receiving financial aid from the Conference. Of these twelve might be consideSred as problem fields and have required particular investigation. One federation of churches has been consummated and preparations are under way for another. Other realignments are under consideration. There is every indication that Mr. Tuttle is liecoming a strong tie binding the churches and associations of western Massachusetts more closely to one another and more understandingly and cordially to the State Conference itself.
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The past year has been a very active one for Mrs. Carver. As Secretary of the Woman's Work she has been accountable for the details of the Woman's Department, committee meetings, public meetings, supply lists for schools and hospitals, parsonage boxes, programs for local societies, together with many speaking appointments on behalf of the Home Boards.
For the Conference she has continued her oversight of appointments for Missionary Speakers and of the Missionary Projects. Information regard- ing the missionary work, both at home and abroad, together with recent letters from the field are always available from Mrs. Carver.
Mention should be made of an achievement in cooperation between the Conference and the Congregational Church Union of Boston. Many of you know of the very helpful work of this latter organization in aiding and directing building programs of om- churches in Greater Boston and vicinity.
The C. C. U. has gained a wide experience, has assumed large responsi- bility and has made heavy investments, but recently its income has ma- terially diminished.
Our Board of Trustees, at the suggestion of the Directors of the C. C. U., has decided to enter into a cooperative relationship with them. The plan provides for a joint "Committee on Churches and Parsonages" which shall confer on building Grants and make united recommendations to the Church Building Society. Thus will the Trustees and the Staff of the Conference become acquainted with the activities and methods of the Union and have a share in advising and counseling a new department. The arrangement is purely tentative and may be discontinued or developed as experience warrants.
This venture in the unification of Congregational interests in Boston may warrant further advance along this line. It is the outcome of the advice and vision of Dr. Frederick Harlan Page and is typical of the con- tinued service to the Conference of its beloved and esteemed President Emeritus.
Vn. The Futuke
Looking ahead, I have already suggested several objectives for our en- deavor, — for instance, a comprehensive and intensive Convocation for Ministers; a definite plan of conferences for Laymen; the gradual develop- ment of a Department of Education; the provision of funds for Conference Committees in order that they may more fully meet their responsibilities.
Due to our declining income, the Trustees have been forced to reduce the salaries of some of our missionary pastors below the amount they should receive. The Board is about to inaugurate a definite program of further retrenchment in missionary Grants. We ought to plan, however, to main- tain all truly missionary enterprises in the State, and to give each worker whom we do continue, an equitable and adequate salary. By encourag- ing some churches to unite, by requiring others to attempt self-support,
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and by transferring to local support some work which is not strictly a Conference obligation, we hope to carry on an aggressive program this year without drawing too heavily upon our capital resource^.
A cooperative plan is being developed whereby the News Letters of the several State Conferences will be published simultaneously and will con- tain common material in the way of illustrations and general church news. To secure the benefit of this cooperative enterprise we will need to make radical changes in the publication of our Neivs Letters. While the Board of Trustees favors this step, its inception will incur considerable initial expense, and its success will depend upon the assistance of every pastor and church.
In many communities there is great need of a thorough and complete religious survey. We ought to know, regarding several cities, the social and religious trends in order to plan wisely for a realignment of our churches.
With the impending increased migration of colored people to the North, we must prepare to support an enlarged program for our colored churches.
To maintain the annuities of retired ministers in our state at a minimum rate of $500, last year we gave to the Ministerial Boards a special appro- priation. This year we were asked to do the same thing, but as yet have not done so. Next year the necessary contribution for this purpose will be a larger amount. The justice and heart appeal of this request is so apparent that we should be prepared to meet our obligation to the full.
Next fall the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America will conduct a National Preaching Mission in 25 leading cities of United States and Canada. Boston is to be one of these. The Mission will be held thdre Dec. 3, 4, 5, 6. Having had a little insight into the purpose and methods of the National Preaching Mission Committee, 1 have every expectation that the meetings in Boston will be productive of great spiritual good for all the churches of the Commonwealth, and particularly for our Congregational churches, inasmuch as we already have had some experience with, and have learned the value of, the Parish Preaching Mission.
To Boston there will come some fifteen of the outstanding religious leaders of the nation for these four days. Among the names that are better known stand those of Albert W. Beaven, E. Stanley Jones, Lynn Harold Hough, T. Z. Koo, George A. Buttrick, Douglas Horton, Muriel Lester, Daniel A. Poling, Merton S. Rice, Francis B. Sayre and Robert E. Spear. These will come, not to put on an exhibit of great preaching, nor to solve all our problems, not to raise money nor to promote any particular cause: They will come with the sincere desire to create the assurance that our needs can be met only by rededication; that our problems will be solved only by response to spiritual power and that the solution will be found, not in these visitors but in ourselves. Their one intent will be to help our people realize that the Christian Gospel is the greatest thing in the world, —
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more so than foreign missions, than religious education, than cooperatives. The purpose of the National Preaching Mission is to rebuild the foundations of Faith, to impart a new vision of God and convictions regarding God.
The program for the three week days will include on each morning a session for ministers, with the general theme, "Effective Preaching", and discussing on the successive days the Preacher, Preparation for Preaching, Preaching for the Mind of Today. On each morning there will also be a session for women, to consider the theme, "The Responsibility of Women for a Christian World." During the morning there will be a radio address. At noon each day there will be a public service in some down-town church, — also a luncheon for key laymen with an address and a similar luncheon for women.
On each afternoon from two to five o'clock there will be two groups of seminars for ministers and church leaders covering ten different vital sub- jects. At half past four there will be a Young People's session with an address and an opportunity for questions. At 6.00 o'clock there will be a supper conference for church workers. Each evening there will be a mass meeting, having the definite purpose of uplifting Jesus Christ as the power of God unto Salvation, — ■ and within a radius of 25 miles there will be extension meetings in outlying centers. The Mission will close with a general meteting Sunday afternoon.
The ultimate purpose of this whole-souled, sacrificial §;ffort is to arouse churches to sense the value of, and to inspire our leaders with enthusiasm for a program of individual parish missions. The important feature of the whole endeavor is this final general arrangement for a week or more of special services in local churches, these to be conducted by the pastor or a neighboring pastor or an evangelist.
Here is a program, therefore, that 1 believe the Congregational churches of Massachusetts should enter into most heartily. Not within twenty- five years, not since the Men and Religion Forward Movement, has there been such a concerted and genuinely religious effort on the part of the Protestant Churches of America.
1 hope that it will be possible to offer every Congregational minister in the state free entertainment in Boston during this period, and that each chm-ch will be represented by some lay folk as well as the pastor. The National Preaching Mission is not an undertaking rqgarding which we can be indifferent or critical. Its very purpose and spirit make it a movement by which will be judged our worthiness to be leaders in the Christian Church.
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God moves in a mysterious way
His wonders to perform. He plants His footsteps in the sea,
And rides upon the storm.
Ye faithful saints, fresh courage take.
The clouds ye so much dread .4re big with mercy, and shall break
In blessing on your head.
REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF THE MASSACHUSETTS CONGREGATIONAL CON- FERENCE AND MISSIONARY SOCIETY
It is an honor and a joy to report to you on the state of the churches in the Conference, especially the churches with which the Conference is cooperating financially. This is the first time that I have been asked to make an annual report. I do it now because the work heretofore done by the Registrar is now combined with the duties of the Secretary. Dr. Henry Lincoln Bailey, who served the Conference as Registrar for 27 years, had a passion for figures and statistics. He made them strut across the stage, clothed with life, and at times adorned with beauty. Dr. Bailey is truly a good man to follow but a hard man to equal. Massachusetts Congregationalism owes him an incalculable debt of gratitude. He has collaborated with me in preparing portions of the statistics for the national and state year books.
We have 26 churches, each with a thousand members or over. The largest is Holyoke, Second, with 1,883 members. The largest church school is Dorchester, Second, with 1,075 members.
In Massachusetts there are many elements that on the surface present divisive differences. There are three areas where these differences are most conspicuous: first, among peoples of native and foreign stocks; second, between the white and the colored races; third, between the people in the city and those in the country.
In the first area, the people of foreign stock still have a voting majority. Among our total population of 4,249,000 people, 1,000,000 are foreign born, 1,700,000 are native born children of foreign parentage, leaving 1,500,000 of us of native American stock — 27 foreign to 15 native people in this old Puritan commonwealth, where up to 1691 no one could vote in the colony imless he was a member of the Congregational church. The percentage of people of foreign stock in Massachusetts and in several of our cities is as foUows: Massachusetts, 64.2%; Boston, 71.50%; Chelsea, 84.4%; New Bedford, 77%; Brockton, 60%; FaU River, 78.4%; Worcester, 69.1%; Newton, 53%; Peabody, 71.1%. I welcome this as a pentecostal opportunity for the Kingdom of God. We are still preaching the gospel of Christ and doing his work in this commonwealth in 13 different foreign languages, the Polish work in Easthampton being discontinued, tempo-
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rarily I hope. We have 35 foreign-speaking churches of recognized stand- ing with a total membership of 3,254 members, a goodly number of people to save for Christ, many of whom, but for our faithful foreign pastors, might today be atheists and communists. Today, some of our foreign pastors, notably the Finns, are showing the friendly spirit of Christ to the atheist and the communist and in many cases are winning them for Christ. Christ is the only power, so far as I know, that will profoundly unify native and foreigner, Jew and gentile, bond and free, and fashion them into one happy people.
The Swedes seem to have been the first foreign group to organize churches in Massachusetts, our Swedish church in Worcester having been organized in 1880, and the Swedish churches in Lowell and Roxbury being organized the next year. No one of these three churches receives aid from the Conference.
Our work with our foreign-speaking people to me is exceedingly import- ant. Their young people are proving themselves in school and in business and the professions to be keen and clean, ambitious and industrious.
We are reducing our grants, however, in nearly all our foreign fields. The Portuguese work in Falmouth has been discontinued as such; the Swedish churches in Beverly and in Rockport, Pigeon Cove, are planning to come together as a yoked field under one pastor; the two branches of the Cilician Armenian Church in Cambridge have within a month voted to come together as one united church; the Swedish church in Fitchburg has already promised to go ahead without financial aid from the Con- ference, beginning next fall.
Wlierever there is a foreign-speaking church near an English-speaking church, the two churches should consider uniting as one church, all in a friendly, democratic spirit. On this spirit depends the coalescing of these two tjT^es of churches into one Church of Christ, made rich and strong by the union of two national cultures.
II.
An insane racialism threatens to disrupt the unity of our nation, our educational system, and even of our church. Christ has the power to unite all groups in himself. Racialism in the church rests on the assump- tion that the church is a social club and not a brotherhood in Christ. In the early church Paul had great difficulty setting Peter right on this matter. In the second chapter of Galatians, which deals with this, you will see why Dr. Lyman Abbott long ago remarked that if Peter was the first Pope, Paul was the first Protestant. We have four colored churches that the Conference is aiding and we count these four ministers and their people among our most loyal Christian workers in the state. The aid to our colored church in Amherst was discontinued on the death of their
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faithful minister, Rev. C. A. Gooding, last winter. Our wisest race leaders realize that the best way for any group to advance is not by coercion, but by showing themselves intellectually and morally superior. And many of our colored people are doing just this.
III.
The obstinate question still persists: "Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?" We answer, "Yes, come and see." In our cloud of answering witnesses I can see Mary Lyon, Russell H. Conwell, Marshall Field, Dwight L. Moody, William Cullen Bryant, Eugene W. Lyman, Emily Dickinson, Dr. Dyer, medical missionary in China, Miss Truesdell, another mission- ary in Africa, all and many others equally worthy and useful, who have come out of our little hill towns of less than 2,000 population. Are our rural towns producing such leaders today? Yes, some of them are. We think it is important to maintain the work of Christ with dignity and effectiveness in the rural towns of Massachusetts. From 1920 to 1930 in the United States at large there was a mass emigration from country to city. Massachusetts shared in this movement. In numbers, in the United States for example, there was a net total movement from country to city of 1,137,000 in 1922. For 1930, 1931, 1932, the tide reversed and ran to the country. But in 1933 and 1934 it was over 200,000 a year from country to city. In this city trek the ages 18 to 30 predominated. This means vigorous young people, seeking richer economic and cultural op- portunity, many of them taking with them their savings from farming. The country towns lost money by this depletion. They had fed, clothed, educated and maintained the health of these youth for 15-30 years. O. E. Baker of the Department of Agriculture in Washington estimates that between 1920 and 1930 the rural contribution to the city in the United States, for the young people, in these four items of food, clothes, education and health, amounted to $1,400,000,000 a year. Of course this city popu- lation increase raised property values and promoted trade generally. This increase has probably been largely Protestant. With immigration a minus quantity now, but originally largely Roman Catholic, the general trend in the city ought to be helpful to our Protestant churches.
New England today has a well organized rural movement. The New England Town and Country Church Commission of which Dr. Kenyon Butterfield was President until his death last winter, and he has been succeeded by Rev. Hilda L. Ives — this Commission is studjdng and sur- vejdng the country towns, with a view to an "adequate and therefore a Christian rural civilization," more effective church work, more cooperation, fewer churches, more yoked fields, more Larger Parishes. It is cooperat- ing with the denominational officers, the Massachusetts Council of Churches, the Extension Service of the Federal Department of Agriculture,
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and various other farm and rural organizations. I had the honor to be connected with it while in Maine and am still a member of its Board of Directors.
Affiliated with this, and acting as a source of supply for it, is the Inter- Seminary Commission for Training of the Rural Ministr}^, which is a piece of interdenominational cooperation among Yale, Hartford, Andover Newton, Boston University, and Bangor Theological Schools, to give special assistance to the rural churches of New England, especially in training ministers in the understanding of rural life and people, and in the special technique of the Larger Parish. Dr. Butterfield says in his book on "The Christian Enterprise among Rural People," "For effective church work the small, independent, open country church is doomed. Nor is the outlook more hopeful for the weak, competitive village church."
Our one Larger Parish in Massachusetts, at Rochester and Lakeville is doing valiant work with a reduced staff at present. We hope for a new member for the staff very soon. A Larger Parish is in the incubating stage in three different areas in the state, and I hope that within the year ahead they may all three break through the shell and come out into the light of day.
In regard to the rural church and community, Massachusetts especially needs:
1. A stronger sense of the importance and dignity of the rural church and community.
2. A larger understanding and appreciation of the rural and the city church, by each other.
3. A more frequent exchange between rural and city ministers. The Harvard and the Leyden Churches in Brookline, our church at West Newton and the Baptist churches in Melrose and Fall River last Sunday had five of our finest rural ministers preach in their pulpits, in observance of Rural Sunday.
4. The city should in some way compensate the country for the cost of its contribution to the city, which I have already referred to.
5. The rural ministry should have a spiritual and financial dignity so as to command a long, and in many cases the life, service of the minister.
6. The rural community should enjoy more of the cultural advantages enjoyed by the city, such as, musical concerts, public forums, adult educa- tion. I happen to be on the advisory committee of the Boston Center for Adult Education, and we would welcome any request for aid from any community in the state in this matter of adult education.
7. The rural church should more effectively follow its young people who move to the city, and the city church its yoxmg people who move to the country.
8. The rural church would be greatly encouraged and helped if city
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people, when they are in the country for a day, or a longer vacation, would attend the services or other functions of the rural church.
The Conference is cooperating with a number of our larger city churches which are doing valiant and valuable service amid the shifting currents of race and nationality, student and boarding house. Instead of retreating to the suburbs they are driving down their tent posts, and strengthening their lines and giving light and hope and courage to those who greatly need their help.
The inevitable trend today is toward cooperation and imity. Denomi- nationalism as an end in itself has long outstayed its welcome. It has no more future than a cake of ice in May. We rejoice in the rich heritage of each one of the major denominations. But today these heritages belong to all of us. No denomination has any copjright on any of its sacred rights, memories or possessions. Our only hope of going ahead is in going ahead together. The federated church and the Larger Parish are steps in this direction. The union of the Christian denomination and the Con- gregational is another step ahead. The recent decision of the great Methodist Episcopal Church to unite with the Methodist Church South and the Methodist Protestant Church, in one strong group, is another step ahead, except for its abject surrender to race prejudice in segregating the Negro churches in a Conference by themselves. Unions like these were taking place in Canada in the Methodist, the Presbyterian and the Congre- gational lellowships, for a hundred years, preparing the way for the coming of the United Church of Canada, in 192-5.
Our Roman Catholic friends have been far wiser than we have been in forming their churches. Counting only those persons 13 years old and over, the average size of a Roman Catholic church in the United States is 900 members, while the average size of a Protestant church is 178 members. In Massachusetts the average size of a Roman Catholic church is 1,659 members, 13 years of age and over, and of a Protestant church 243 members. The average size of our Congregational churches this year in Massachu- setts is 268 over 13. In 1900 our average size per church, over 13, was 180. We are improving.
I am glad to report our spirit of interdenominational cooperation as revealed in this fact, namely, that out of the 55 federated churches, includ- ing united churches of various kinds, in this commonwealth today, 49 of these 55 have Congregational churches in them.
But the federated church is only a step forward — an important step in the right direction. There is something better in the future. I see the federated church up the street and I am proud of it. But beyond the federated church, farther up the. road, beyond the colored church, beyond the foreign-speaking church, away on ahead up the hill I see gleaming in the sunlight of the new age the United Church of Christ in North America.
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SUPPLEMENT TO THE SECRETARY'S REPORT Charts Compiled from the 1935 Statistics
LARGEST CHURCHES
1. Holyoke, Second 1,883
2. Springfield, South 1,646
3. Boston, Park Street 1,566
4. Springfield, Hope 1,461
5. Dorchester, Second 1,436
6. West Newton 1,413
7. Brookline, Harvard 1,405
8. Winchester, 1st 1,272
9. Attleboro, Second 1,247 10. Worcester, Plymouth-Piedmont 1,240 11. /Worcester, First 1,167
\Northampton, Edwards 1,167
SMALLEST CHURCHES
1. Haverhill, Fourth 1
2. Bakerville 2
3. Hanover, Second 5
4. South Wellfleet 6
5. [Holland 7 \New Marlboro 7 [East Brimfield 9
7.\ Chester, First 9
[Hawley 9
10. Peru 10
11. New Boston 12 12.fMilford, Swedish 13
\North Orange 13
LARGEST SUNDAY SCHOOLS
1. Dorchester Second 1,075
2. Springfield, South 1,039
3. Dorchester, Pilgrim 905
4. Everett, First 850
5. Attleboro, Second 801
6. West Somerville 727
7. Hyde Park 692
8. West Newton 691
9. Wakefield 672
10. Stoneham 650
11. Melrose Highlands 631 12.fHolyoke, Grace 625
\Longmeadow 625
ADULT BAPTISMS
l.j Springfield, South 21
\Springfield, Hope 21
3. Stoneham 19
4. Wakefield 18
5. WoUaston 17 [Everett, First 16
e.JFoxboro 16
1 West Newton 16
IStoughton 16
10. Somerville, B'way 15
11. Groton 14 12. /Southampton 13
\West Boylston 13
INFANT BAPTISMS
1. Dorchester, Pilgrim 47
2.fHolyoke, Grace 45
\ Norwood, First 45
4. Framingham, Grace 40
6. /Beverly, Dane St. 35
\Greenfield, First 35
7. /Dorchester, Second 33
\Springfield, South 33
9. West Newton
10. Roslindale
11. West Somerville 12.fBrockton, Porter
\Middleboro, Central
LONGEST PASTORATES
1. Andrew Groop, Fitchburg
2. Charles S. Hplton, Newbury
3. James Lee Mitchell, Attleboro
4. T. Nelson Baker, Pittsfield
5. Edwin B. Robinson, Holyoke
6. John Harold Dale, Billerica
7. Arcturus Z. Conrad, Boston
8. Arthur G. Cummings, Middleboro 9. [Charles A. Bidwell, Belmont
\Edward C. Camp, Watertown
11. Arthur Barber, Lawrence
12. HansonE.Thygeson.E. Falmouth or next — -Austin Rice, Wakefield
31 30 29 27 27
1895 1897 1901 1901 1902 1903 1905 1905 1906 1906 1906 1907 1907
ADDITIONS ON CONFESSION
1. Holyoke, Second 73
2. Springfield, Hope 69
3. West Newton 60
4. Wakefield 57
5. Framingham, Grace 55
6. Boston, St. Mark 52
7. Wollaston 50 [Springfield, South 49
8.1 Stoneham 49
[Winchester, First 49
11. Holyoke, Grace 45
12. [West Roxbury 40 \Wollaston, Union 40
PROPORTIONATE ADDITIONS ON CONFESSION
Mem- bers
Per
Added Cent
1. East Brimfield
2. Tolland
3. Norwood, Swedish
4. Wendell
5. Phillipston
6. Fall River, French
7. W. Barnstable, Fin. 38
8. Boston, St. Mark 255
9. Packardville
10. Haydenville
11. Royalston
12. Southampton
4 18 10 23 36 33
17 117
54 149
100.00 50.00 40.00 26.08 25.00 24.24 21.05 20.39 17.64 15.38 14.81 14.76
GREATEST NET GAIN
1 . West Newton 77
2. Longmeadow 69
3. Wollaston 61
4. Winchester, First 66
5. Boston, Clarendon 47
6. Belmont, Payson Park 41
7. Needham 40
8. Braintree 39
9. Wellesley 37 10. Springfield, Emmanuel 35 ll.[Foxboro 34
\Worcester, Union 34
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GREATEST NET LOSS
1. Boston, Park Street 295
2. New Bedford, United 191
3. Maiden, First 147
4. Lynn, First 133
5. Framingham, Plymouth 88
6. Fitch burg, Calvinistic 84
7. Wakefield 65
8. Arlington Heights 59
9. Maynard, Union 54
10. Springfield, First 46
11. Saugus 44
12. Cambridge, First 37
APPORTIONMENT BENEVOLENCE
1. Boston, Old South
2. Dalton
3. Brookline, Harvard
4. Cambridge, First
5. Pittsfield, First
6. Worcester, First
7. Brookline, Leyden
8. Fall River, Central
9. Newtonville
10. Newton, Eliot
11. Worcester, Central
12. Winchester, First
$14,099 9,647 8,508 7,548 7,036 6,624 4,985 4,327^ 4,015 3,947 3,856 3,647
TOTAL BENEVOLENCE
1. Boston, Old South S18,417
2. Brookline, Harvard 16,094
3. Springfield, South 11,682
4. Dalton $10,413
5. Cambridge, First 9,521
6. Pittsfield, First 7,060
7. Worcester, First 6,624
8. Newton, Eliot 6,260
9. Boston, Park Street 6,223
10. West Newton 5,368
11. Northampton, Edwards 6,297
12. Brookline, Leyden 4,985
PER CAPITA GIVING ON APPORTIONMENT Mem- bers Total Average
744 9,647
415 4,985 12.01
1. Boston,
Old South 1,023 114,099
2. Dalton
3. Brookline,
Leyden
4. Fall River,
Central
5. Petersham
6. Williamstown,
First
7. Pittsfield, First
8. Southampton 9. /Enfield
IWellesley Hills
11. Fall River,
First
12. Cambridge,
First
$13.78 12.96
470 69
288 912 149 140 495
4,327 598
2,408 7,036 1,101 1,017 3,596
9.20 8.66
8.36
7.71
7.38
7.264
7.264
473 3,373 7.13
1,108 7,548 6.81
NECROLOGY
HENRY LINCOLN BAILEY
Twenty-one men holding their standing in ten of our Associations have been promoted to a liigher fellowship within the year, Worcester Central losing five and Hampshire four. Their ages ranged from 87 to 52, averaging almost exactly 69 years. Three were pastors installed, three pastors, four pastors emeritus, and eleven were out of the pastorate, most of them on the retired list because of age or infirmity. Only five were born in this state, but 15 died here. Two were English, one Scotch, one a native of Barbadoes, while Vermont produced three, Maine, New York and Ohio two each, and Connecticut, Pennsylvania and Minnesota one each. Death came to one each in Maine, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Florida and Quebec. Fourteen colleges from Glasgow to Chicago and Beloit, and fourteen seminaries, again from Glasgow to Chicago, contributed to the making of these ministers. Five had no pastorates outside of Massachusetts, and two had none inside. Their range included most of New England and the middle west, reaching to Utah and California on the west, and to Quebec, the American Church in Berlin, and Harpoot.
George Irving Adams had a short pastorate in Vermont. When health permitted he was a teacher, chiefly in Pennsylvania, retiring to a farm in Boylston before he was 50. William Baker Allis was early and briefly at Haverhill, Arlington and Waltham, his connec- tion being chiefly with the New York Conference. George Albert Furness had a five-year pastorate at West Tisbury, and stayed on as a resident ten years more. Clarence A. Gooding, a black brother from the West Indies, came to Amherst a score of years ago as a cabinet maker. In 1920 he was ordained as a Methodist and in '29 he took over our Hope Church also. Within the past year he transferred his standing to Hampshire Association and died in the true faith. Tragedy stalked the pathway of Marshall N. Goold. His first pas- torate was stopped by illness. He was a chaplain in the Boer war, and served through the World War on the Belgian front, twice gassed, twice wounded. With exceptional literary talent, he was persuaded to serve Union Church in Worcester as pastor for nine years, inter- rupted by ill health which finally caused a self-infiicted death. Frederick Burnham Lyman, fifteen years at Fairhaven and Shrews- bury, gave up for health reasons in 1915, living thenceforth in Maine. Robert William McLaughlin had a single pastorate here, at Piedmont Church, Worcester, after service in Wisconsin, Michigan and New York, and followed by three years at the American Church in Berlin.
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Harlan Paul Metcalf, pastor at Warwick and Wendell since 1934 had served a number of churches as assistant pastor in Iowa, Michigan and Ohio, and in Y. M. 0. A. work in Indiana and Minnesota, since 1900. After a 15-year pastorate at Madison, Ohio, he came to the little parish in Franklin County where he died last week.
Charles Lincoln Morgan was the first pastor of Hope Church, Spring- field, 60 years ago. In 1880 he went to Illinois for 14 years. He came back to minister 10 years to Central Church, Jamaica Plain, went back to Illinois for another 14 years, and then became pastor of Payson Park in Belmont for nine years. Jesse Gilman Nichols had a 12-year pastorate at Hamilton and then began a service at South Hadley last- ing 29 years. Ira William Pierce, born in western New York, was virtually a Canadian, by education and pastorates in Quebec before and since his five-year service at Harpoot under the American Board. He lodged his credentials with the Suffolk West Association in 1915 and never transferred back. I cannot think of Thomas Cole Richards as a bird of passage, yet he had seven pastorates in 38 years, two in Connecticut and five with us, at Dudley, Warren, Westboro, Bethany in Quincy, and Mystic in Medford, where he has been pastor emeritus since 1928. He was a prolific publicist and author. Charles Loring Skinner had 30 years of pastoral service in Maine and New Hamp- shire, broken by a year at Harwich Port and later by a year as super- intendent of the Walker Home at Auburndale, after which he had nine years at Greenwich, Hamilton and Douglas.
Among all these commissioned ofBicers in the Lord's army, one had received the field marshal's baton, and the whole Congregational host gasped at the news of Jay Thomas Stocking's unexpected death. Mounting steadily to the height where it is difficult to estimate how much one parish differeth from another parish in glory, he came back last year to the city of his longesit service but to another church. And suddenly he was not, for God took him. He was on our Conference progra^l last year, inspiring us. And while we were in session an- other brother passed out without warning when Carlyle Summerbell dropped after speaking at the Unitarian annual meeting. He had been pastor of Christian churches in Swansea and Fall River, as well as prominent elsewhere.
Joseph Brainerd Thrall had time to spend six years at Pepperell and ten at Leicester in the midst of transcontinental moves from California to Connecticut to Utah to New York and Massachusetts to South Dakota to North Carolina, and he lacked less than a month of reaching 86. Last week Frederick James Ward, briefly pastor emeri- tus at Southampton after a dozen years of service there, ended his career. Of English birth and Baptist training, he had three Baptist
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pastorates in this state before going to Southampton. Carey Herbert Watson was 23 years with Greenfield First Church and later made pastor emeritus, and five years at Phillipston. Charles Burditt Wil- liams, ordained a Baptist 39 years ago had two Congregational pas- torates in New Hampshire and two with us at Greenwich and Colrain. Charles Henry Williams, trained a Methodist, stepped like several others from Boston University into our ranks, with pastorates in Cambridge, Gloucester and Jamaica Plain, and wielding ou;- moder- ator's gavel in 1925. Frederick Arthur Wilson was pastor seven years at Billerica and 31 at the Free Church in Andover, becoming church clerk and pastor emeritus in 1920.
Besides these 21 memliers of our Conference, there are 13 others who have ministered in the past to one or more of our churches, August L. Anderson was six years with the First Swedish Church in Worcester, and twice had a two-year pastorate in Orange. Truman D. Childs was at Rochester, Chatham and Manomet for two years each. William Weston Evans was two years at Northbridge Center, and had very recently ended his five years at West Brookfield. Frank Hugh Foster of Oberlin began his career in the North Reading church for two years. William H. Hainer ministered to the Christian Church in New Bedford four years half a century ago. Joseph Burnett Long was pastor three years at Woods Hole. Caleb Lamb Rotch spent a dozen years in two pastorates at Stoughton, and was also at Edgar- town, North Rochester and Lakeville. Frank C. F. Scherff organized our German church at Clinton in '87, remaining four years. Charles Howard Shank began his ministry with nine years at the Christian church in North Dighton. William Frederick Slocum, identified with Colorado College nearly half a century, began with a six-year pas- torate at Union Church, Amesbury. Charles B. Stenman spent eight years with our Finnish churches in Worcester and Quincy. Samuel Gordon Tucker served Kingston and Magnolia four years! Thomas Eynon Williams was three years at North Wilbraham. I have just time to mention three of our native sons who found their fields of service outside our borders : Enoch Hale Burt, born in Westhampton, spending 37 of his 49 pastoral years in Connecticut ; Charles Edwin Gordon, born in Lawrence in 1848, serving in all our bordering New England states, and Wilbur Leroy W^ood, born in Groveland and or- dained there before going to Vermont and Rhode Island.
MASSACHUSETTS
CONGREGATIONAL CONFERENCE AND
MISSIONARY SOCIETY
TREASURER'S REPORT
INCOME ACCOUNT
For the year ending March 31, 1936
Income from Invested Funds :
Annuity Funds $1,004.10
Permanent Funds . 54,472.91
Permanent Legacy Fund 8,353.47
Contingent Fund 4,417.31
$68,247.79
Allotment for Denominational Expenses . . $19,223.81 Amount voted for Preaching
Mission $1,000.00
Less: Amount expended for
Preaching Mission 15.70 984.30 18,289.51
Apportionment percentage for Massachusetts Congrega- tional Conference and Missionary Society . . . 32,512.67 Massachusetts Woman's Home Missionary Union . . 7,053.45 Board of Ministerial Aid for general expenses . . . 400.00 Income of Brackett, Harvey and Nye Funds .... 146.55
Unrestricted Legacies $1,640.92
Less: One-third added to principal of
Permanent Legacy Fund . . $546.97 One-third added to principal of
Contingent Fund .... 546.97 1,093.94 546.98
TOTAL INCOME $127,146.95
EXPENDITURES Aid to English-Speaking
Churches and Missionaries .... $56,947.57 Aid to Foreign-Speaking Churches and Missionaries :
Albanian $1,727.80
American International Col- lege 2,400.00
Armenian 8,981.92
Chinese 487.50
Finnish 4,480.65
French 1,463.50
German 958.00
Greek 1,955.39
Italian 6,546.50
Norwegian 279.00
Polish 60.00
Portuguese 1,782.00
Swedish 1,172.50
Swedish-Finnish .... 380.00
Syrian 804.00
33,478.76
Aid — General and Special 1,329.66
Aid — Ministers' Annuity 945.99
Forward $92,701.98
INCOME ACCOUNT {Continued) EXPEND IT URES ( Continued )
Forwarded $92,701.98
Salaries :
President $5,115.00
Secretary 3,720.00
Treasurer 3,720.00
Field Secretary, six months . 1,800.00
Registrar 633.34
Secretary of Woman's Depart- ment 1,900.00
Young People's Secretary . . 860.00
Department of Accounting . 3,800.00
Stenographers 4,774.50
• $26,382.84
Traveling Expenses :
President $741.39
President Emeritus .... 19.30
Secretary 288.42
Treasurer 292.34
District Secretary, six months 361.82 Secretary of Woman's Depart- ment 39.50
Young People's Secretary . . 10.30
Trustees 721.25
Missionary Speakers . . . 9.75
Woman's Department . . . 138.61
Registrar 17.00
2,639.68
General Expenses :
Advertising $178.38
Ice vpater service .■'■ . . . 54.95
Insurance 86.22
Petty cash expenditures . . 10.92
Postage 1,369.94
Printing and stationery . . 1,788.99
Rent and light 3,714.20
Rent of safe deposit boxes . . 115..50
Repairs 86.54
Supplies 637.58
Telephone and telegraph . . 490.90
Accountants' fees .... 475.00
Miscellaneous 137.40
9,146.52
38,169.04
Legal expenses 600.94
Payments from Annuity Fund Income :
Annuities to Beneficiaries $1,420.05
Less: Amount transferred from principal
of Annuity Fund to pay annuities . . 415.95
1,004.10
Forward $132,476.06
INCOME ACCOUNT (Continued) EXPENDITURES (Continued)
Forwarded
Allotment Account :
General Council of Congregational
Christian Churches
Congregational Board of Pastoral Supply Massachusetts Federation of Churches Expenses of Committees :
Churches and Colleges .
Layman's State Committee
Moral and Social Welfare .
Missionary Apportionment
Nominating Committee
Program Committee
Religious Education Committee
Other Committees ....
and
$10,345.20 3,900.00 1,200.00
23.50 73.56 23.98 63.97 30.00 6.25 400.34 46.82
Convocations : State Conference : Ministers' Travel Other expenses .
$134.97 186.74
$132,476.06
16,113.62
$321.71
Woman's Department : Pilgrim Hall Meetings Other expenses .
f92.05 50.09
Summer Conferences for Ministers
Colored Conferences
Springfield Study Conference Mount Holyoke for Ministers Other Conferences
142.14
53.30
3.00
65.90
137.70
33.49
757.24
Total Expenditures $149,346.92
EXCESS OF EXPENDITURES OVER INCOME (Transfer from Principal of Funds — Contingent Fund — to Income Account)
$22,199.97
SUMMARY OF GASH RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS
For the year ending March 31, 1936
Balance on hand April 1, 1935 $106.04
RECEIPTS Apportionment percentage for Massachu- setts Congregational Conference and Mis- sionary Society $33,583.16
Income from invested funds 81,929.98
Income from Brackett, Harvey and Nye
Funds 146.55
Legacies : •
Andover, Ada B. Chandler Estate $1,000.00 Brookline, Caroline M. Smith
Estate 592.17
Danvers, Mary E. Batson Estate 697.51 Westboro, Morgie A. Sawyer Es- tate 200.00 2,489.68
Conditional Gifts, Annuity Fund .... 4,000.00 Massachusetts Woman's Home Missionary
Union, contribution 7,053.45
Allotment Account, collected from the
Churches for Denominational expenses . 19,223.81 Board of Ministerial Aid — account general
expenses 400.00
Refunds on account of :
Aid $1,557.34
Allotment Preaching Mission . 5.00
Cash advanced 20.60
Convocations 6.90
Legal expenses 69.28
Office expenses 729.29
Travel 27.00 2,415.41
Petty cash deposited 100.00
Beach Bluff, Agreement of Sale .... 100.00
Sales of securities, etc 322,100.51
Apportionment percentage for other Mission- ary Societies 216,331.48 689,874.03
Total $689,980.07
SUMMARY OF CASH RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS ( Continued )
DISB URSEMENTS
Aid to English-Speaking Churches and Mis- sionaries . $56,555.44
Aid to Foreign-Speaking Churches and
Missionaries 33,821.26
Aid — General and Special 1,076.63
Aid — Ministers' Annuity Premiums . . 945.99
Total Aid to Churches and Missionaries .... $92,399.32
Salaries $26,382.84
Traveling expenses 2,666.68
Accountants' charges 475.00
Legal services 600.94
General expenses 9,378.41
Annuities on Conditional Gifts .... 1,420.05
Cash advanced 1,050.60
Allotment account 16,118.62
Convocations 757.89
Miscellaneous : Annuity Fund for Congregational Minis- ters from Massachusetts Congrega- tional Conference and Missionary
Society 1,070.49
Congregational Home Missionary Society : % Legacy of Mary E. Bat- son $348.76
1/^ Legacy of Ada B. Chand- ler 500.00 848.76
Beach Bluff property : Taxes $39 55
Legal expenses . . . . 275.08 314.63 61.084.91
Securities purchased, etc $306,268.98
Interest and premium on bonds purchased 13,688.44 319,957.42
Apportionment payments :
American Board of Commissioners for
Foreign Missions $102,856.65
Congregational Home Boards .... 110,093.65
Boston Seaman's Friend Society . . . 2,435.42
Other Missionary Societies .... 1,068.16 216,453.88
Total Disbursements $689,895.53
Balance on hand March 31, 1936 84.54
Total $689,980.07
1936] Report of the Treasurer 57
MASSACHUSETTS
CONGREGATIONAL CONFERENCE AND
MISSIONARY SOCIETY
BALANCE SHEET March 31, 1936
ASSETS
Cash in bank $84.54
Cash advances 940.43
Accounts receivable 197.88
Investments — book value 1,810,888.28
Total Assets $1,812,111.13
LIABILITIES
Loans payable $5,000.00
Allotment Account — ■ Preaching Mission balance . . 984.30
Annuity Fund 33,510.76
Permanent Fund 1,437,511.12
Permanent Legacy Fund 219,231.76
Contingent Fund 115,873.19
Total LiaUlUies and Funds $1,812,111.13
Respectfully submitted,
OLIVER D. SBWALL, Treasurer. .
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[1936
INVESTED FUNDS
The invested funds of the Massachusetts Congregational Confer- ence and Missionary Society, March 31, 1936, were as follows :
Conditional Gifts Subject to stated payments to designated individuals . $33,510.76
Contingent Fund Subject to withdrawals to balance accounts .... 115,873.19
Permanent Funds Income Applied to Home Missionary Work
Atwater, Mary N., Fund $12,308.02
Brimbecom, Mary, Memorial Fund . . . 1,193.40
Brooks, Reuben, Fund 6,117.22
Chase, Daniel L. F., Fund 1,170.67
Dewing, Benjamin F., Fund 14,725.41
G£ige, Almira, Fund 2,108.19
Gilbert, Lewis N., Fund 86,993.80
Green, Alonzo W., Fund 23,596.44
Haile, Sabrana Walker, Fund .... 2,089.86
Hale, E. J. M., Fund 5,276.50
Jackson, Hannah A., Fund 4,273.82
Jessup, Charles A., Fund 5,091.89
Mead, Charles M., Fund 532.13
North Attleboro Fund 1,049.23
Ordway, Henry C, Fund 2,036.60
Paine, William A., Fund 25,207.62
Prescott Congregational Church Fund . . 18,500.82
Putnam, Mary B., Fund 3,042.92
Reed, Dwight, Fund 21,482.45
Rice, Lucy W., Memorial Fund .... 1,034.71
Roberts, John E., Fund 59,706.92
Sage, Sarah R., Fund 15,472.13
Shawmut Church Fund 10,156.16
Smith, Timothy, Fund 10,410.78
Springfield, North Church, Fund . . . 18,088.00
Stearns, Charles H., Fund 24,835.35
Stone, Joseph M. and Susan F., Fund . . 1,001,260.92
Stone, William E. D., Fund 9,796.96
Topliff, Emilia L., Fund 1,034.67
Whitcomb, David, Fund 25,601.31
White, Samuel, Fund 3,103.92
Whitin, J. C, Fund 20,744.46
Permanent Legacy 219,231.76
Total $1,657,275.04
Less Beach Blufe Fund Deficit .... 532.16 $1,656,742.88
Total $1,806,126.83
The David N. Skillings Fund of $5,000, the income of which is paid to the Massachusetts Congregational Conference and Missionary So- ciety, is held by the pastor and deacons of the First Congregational Church, Winchester, Mass.
The Society holds in trust church properties in North Chester, Fal- mouth, Greenfield, New Ashford, New Marlboro, East Princeton, Salis- bury Beach, Waquoit, and East Windsor.
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SUMMARY OF CASH RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS For the year ending March SI, 1936 Balance on hand — April 1, 1935
J^SGS'i'DtS '
Securities sold $67,309.42
Savings bank withdrawals .... 12,596.13
Income from Invested Funds .... 15,628.63
Principal received 49,991.59
Refund on insurance premium . . . 7.71
Dishursetnents :
Payment of income to beneficiaries . . $13,486.90 Interest accrued on bonds purchased . 1,178.67
Premium on bonds amortized .... 455.49
Attorneys' fees 804.75
Bonds purchased and deposits in sav- ings bank 125,626.01
Massachusetts Congregational Confer- ence and Missionary Society . . . 15.00 Payments from principal — funds re- turned 1,200.00
$1,214.36
145,533.48
$146,747.84
142,766.82
Balance on hand — March 31, 1936
5,981.02
1936] Report of the Treasurer 61
MASSACHUSETTS
CONGREGATIONAL CONFERENCE AND
MISSIONARY SOCIETY— TRUSTEE
BALANCE SHEET
March SI, 1936
ASSETS
Investments — Funds A — book value $87,122.71
Investments — Funds B — book value 273,856.78
Cash — Income — Funds A 174.56
Cash — Uninvested — Funds A 430.00
Cash — Uninvested — Funds B 3,376.46
Overdistributed Income — Funds B 247.23
Total Assets , $365,207.74
LIABILITIES AND FUNDS
Principal — Funds A $87,552.71
Principal — Funds B 277,480.47
Undistributed Income — Funds A 174.56
Total Liabilities and Funds $365,207.74
Respectfully submitted,
OLIVER D. SEWALL, Treasurer.
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Report of the Treasurer
[1936
FUNDS HELD IN TRUST FOR CHURCHES
For the year ending March 31, 1936
Funds A
Held as Trustee by appointment of Probate Court or limited as to
investment in Savings Banks or to securities legal for Massachusetts
Savings Banks.
Principal A
$87,552.71
Atherton
Charles
Clapp
Hanson, House Hanson, Thomas . Huntington, Talcott . Interlaken, Clarke
Lakeville
Lenox
Lowell
New Marlboro .... North Rochester .
Nye
Peabody, Charity . Peabody, Moore Provincetown, Mills . Provincetown, Myrick Provincetown, Young Provinctown, S. S. Library
Shirley
Yarmouth, Coggswell Yarmouth, A. Eldridge . Yarmouth, E. B. Eldridge Yarmouth, Howes
|
Payments of |
|
|
Principal |
Income to |
|
or for |
|
|
Beneficiaries |
|
|
$1,111.12 |
$66.26 |
|
412.94 |
6.09 |
|
17,626.58 |
663.64 |
|
2,500.00 |
83.00 |
|
1,000.00 |
8.75 |
|
300.00 |
9.00 |
|
1,124.08 |
60.62 |
|
10,942.95 |
1,036.79 |
|
2,137.00 |
126.25 |
|
20,004.16 |
1,601.50 |
|
3,055.00 |
105.00 |
|
10,000.00 |
92.66 |
|
608.46 |
28.25 |
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_ |
131.00 |
|
1,000.00 |
22.77 |
|
935.00 |
28.06 |
|
290.00 |
8.70 |
|
1,000.00 |
30.00 |
|
200.00 |
6.00 |
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4,277.98 |
234.22 |
|
2,589.00 |
87.68 |
|
1,352.00 |
40.42 |
|
3,086.44 |
87.54 |
|
2,000.00 |
32.68 |
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$87,552.71 |
$4,602.88 |
1936]
Report of the Treasurer
63
Funds B Combined for investment and for greater security.
Principal
Ayer, AVallace $10,483.42
Balfour -
Barre 15,884.42
Barton 2,014.54
Beachmont, White 5,421.67
Beauvais 4,046.31
Beeket, G. K. Baird 517.10
Becket, L. C. Baird 1,108.29
Beeket, Perkins . 1,016.18
Beckman 2,008.77
Beech wood, Litchfield 1,000.00
Beechwood, General 0,500.00
Berlin, Hartshorn 1,100.00
Berlin, Jones 1,531.04
Berlin, Sawyer -
Berlin, Severance 1,007.28
Berlin, Wheeler 500.69
Brackett 5,343.64
Bushnell 3,213.96
East Longmeadow, Hunn .... 351.27
East Longmeadow, Lathrop . . . 1,003.97
Emerson 1,043.11
Enfield 11,944.26
Enfield Property 30.752.99
Ewell 1,031.71
Fisher 1,540.44
Freeman 5,032.72
French 2,055.75
Friend 2,780.11
Goss
Greek Church, Boston 1.751.52
Groton, Dalrymple 2,012.63
Groton, General 1,501.04
Groton, Greene 5,433.69
Groton, Bobbins 3,138.76
Hamilton 1,732.18
Hardwick 6,327.19
Harvey 3,766.27
Hawlev 1,625.17
Holland, Allen 201.45
Hopkins 2.210.45
Hubbardston 2,014.52
Huntington 4,207.32
Interlaken, Fairchild 1,030.74
Interlaken, General 3,086.43
Interlaken, Trowbridge 749.80
Kingston, Adams Pulpit Supply . . 15,.331.27
Kingston, Adams Benevolent . . . 500.00
Lanesville, Brooks 501.22
Ludden 1,006.,53
Medford, Foulkes 5,072.19
Medford, Hankinson 3.017..37
Mendell 9,888.11
New Ashford 243.68
Forward $196,583.17
Payments of
Income to
or for
Beneficiaries
$489.63
10.00
47.05 42.30 188.37 24.15 52.07 47.46 65.28
71.51 1,18
47.04
5.22
249.57
150.11
10.28
28.98
48.72 556.65 600.00
48.19
71.95 235.06
96.01 135.85 262.75
79.05
2.61
7.83
251.67
156.33
80.90 256.33 175.90
75.90
7.83
103.24
94.09 196.50
48.14 144.15
35.02 254.07
10.00
15.37
47.01 236.90 129.28 461.82
11.00
$6,466.32
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[1936
Principal
Forwarded ....... $196,583.17
New Boston, Viets $543.44
New Boston, Warren 2,023.75
New Braintree, Busli 1,150.64
New Braintree, Thompson .... 515.22
New Braintree, Tufts 531.83
Nitz 50.00
No. Attleboro Falls, Jubilee .... 2,812.84
No. Attleboro Falls, Mackreth . . . 5,713.70
Northbridge, Allen 500.51
Northbridge, Lee 2,522.38
Northbridge, Annie L. Whitin . . . 2,001.57
Northbridge, Paul A. Whitin . . . 2,776.65
North Raynham, Lincoln .... 571.62
North Raynham, Robinson .... 529.81
Norton 609.52
Packardville 9,033.77
Peabody, Blaney 1,007.03
Peabody, Gary 10,072.65
Peabody, Poor 2,014.57
Peabody, Woodbury 1,007.03
Rollins 1,102.66
Salisbury, Christmas 503.61
Salisbury, General 835.04
Shirley 9,063.02
Townsend, Wallace 6,041.77
Weeks 1,076.52
West Granville 2,375.37
West Granville, Library 2,013.72
West Granville, Parsonage .... 1,033.08
West Yarmouth 1,611.63
Willis Parsonage 955.85
Worcester, Pilgrim, Southgate . . . 1,207.62
Yarmouth, General 8,088.78
Total $278,480.47
AUDITORS' REPORT
Rev. Ralph M. Timbeelake, President, Massachusetts Congregational Conference
and Missionary Society, Boston, Mass.
Bir: — We have audited the accounts of the Treasurer of the Massa- chusetts Congregational Conference and Missionary Society and of the Massachusetts Congregational Conference and Missionary Society, Trustee, for the year ending March 31, 1936, and we hereby certify that income receivable from invested funds has been duly accounted for ; that all payments have been properly vouched ; that we have veri- fied the possession of the securities representing the invested funds ; that the cash in banks has been verified, and that, in our opinion, the accompanying financial statements correctly exhibit the condition of the funds in the hands of the Society as at the close of business March 31, 1936, and the Treasurer's transactions during the year ending at that date.
Respectfully submitted,
Patterson, Teele & Dennis.
May 7, 1936.
Payments of
Income to
or for
Beneficiaries
$6,466.32
$25.38
94.52
53.74
24.06
24.84
130.81 266.86 11.42 50.08 30.00 68.97 26.70 24.75 28.47 37.00 47.03 470.44 94.09 47.03 51.50 25.00
423.29
282.19 50.18
110.94 94.05 48.25 75.27 44.64 56.40
377.79
$9,662.01
ALLOTMENT ACCOUNT
In 1928 the Massachusetts Congregational Conference and the Massachusetts Home Missionary Society were united in a single cor- poration. Previous to that time, the National Council of Congrega- tional Churches and the Conference had paid their expenses for meetings and administration by thirteen cents collected for each church member. It seems right that the Conference part of our organization should still pay its own charges. Thirteen cents per member is still asked of the churches. Seven cents of the thirteen goes to the General Council (formerly The National Council) and six cents is kept by the Conference. The collection of the six cents per member is the attempt of the Conference part of our organiza- tion to pay its expenses and not to become a charge upon mis- sionary funds.
BEQUESTS
Bequests to the Massachusetts Congregational Conference and Mission- ary Society are used to aid weak churches and to promote the work and interests of the Conference in the State. Bequests may be made perma- nent funds by the donor, and the Conference restricted to the use of the income only. The practice of the Conference is to divide unrestricted legacies into three equal parts. One part is used for current work, one part is added to the Permanent Legacy Fund, the income only of which is used for general purposes; and the third part is added to a Contingent Fund, the principal of which may be drawn upon to care for special under- takings or to avoid a deficit.
If, on the other hand, a testator specifies that his entire legacy is to be expended as current income and that he does not wish it invested in whole or in part, these directions will be carefully observed.
Bequests to the Massachusetts Congregational Conference and Mission- ary Society pay no Massachusetts inheritance tax.
FORM OF BEQUEST
I give to the Massachusetts Congregational Conference and Mission- ary Society incorporated under the laws of the Commonwealth of Massa- chusetts, the sum of Dollars.
CONDITIONAL GIFTS
The Conference receives conditional gifts, subject to annuity agreements with the donors, and encourages this method for those who wish any part of their property to be applied to our work after their death, and desire an assured income from this property for themselves, or for others whom they may designate as beneficiaries, so long as they hve. Correspondence with the Treasurer concerning such annuity agreements is invited.
TRUST FUNDS
The Conference is glad to receive bequests to be held in trust for the benefit of churches. Many churches have put their trust funds in the care of the Conference. It is now administering trust funds for churches in Massachusetts to the amount of $377,000. It makes no charge for its service. If any extra expense is incurred (expense for legal service, for example) that is charged against the principal or income of the fund involved. On funds which can be combined in investment (Funds B) the Conference has earned and paid churches the last year at the rate of 4.7%. Funds which have to be kept sepa- rate in investment have yielded about 4.4%.
It is not an easy matter for church or parish committees, made up for the most part of persons who have had little experience in admin- istering funds, to guard the safety of church trust funds. The Con- ference has exceptional facilities for keeping funds safely and invest- ing them profitably and wisely. The Board of Trustees of the Con- ference, which has charge of all its funds, contains men of large ability and experience in such matters. The churches may avail themselves of the service of this ability and experience without expense.
THE CONGREGATIONAL UNION OF SPRINGFIELD
PKESIDENT, MR. JOHN A. DALE CLEEK, MKS. ELMER T. OTTIKG TREASURER, REV. GARRETT V. STRYKER, D.D.
In co-operation with tlie Massachusetts Congregational Conference and Missionary Society, the Congregational Union of Springfield super- vises the home missionary work in Springfield.
All contributions for home missionary work in Massachusetts by the churches of Springfield should be made to the Congregational Union, and will be credited on the apportionment. In accordance with the mutual agreement between the two organizations, ten per cent of the contributions for current work received by the Union is paid over to the Massachusetts Congregational Conference and Mis- sionary Society.
The Congregational Union of Springfield is incorporated under the laws of Massachusetts and may receive bequests and hold property.
THE WORCESTER CITY MISSIONARY SOCIETY
PRESIDENT, MR. KARL F. WILSON
EXECUTIVE SECRETARY, REV. MYRON W. FOWELL
RECORDING SECRETARY, REV. HOLLIS M. BARTLETT
TREASURER, MR. EBENEZER G. SEAL
The Massachusetts Congregational Conference and Missionary So- ciety, by agreement with the Worcester City Missionary Society, is responsible for the financial assistance and the supervision of home missionary churches in Worcester in their current work, while the Worcester City Missionary Society represents the fellowship of the Congregational churches of the city and is responsible for aiding churches in property matters, contributing toward the purchase and maintenance of property and the payment of building debts.
Contributions for home missions from the churches in Worcester, to be credited on the apportionment, should be sent to the Massa- chusetts Congregational Conference and Missionary Society. Con- tributions for the local work, given in addition to the apportionment and not to be credited as a part of it, should be sent to the treasurer of the Worcester City Missionary Society.
GRANTS FROM THE MASSACHUSETTS CON- GREGATIONAL CONFERENCE AND MISSIONARY SOCIETY
1. Wherever a community is too far from a church to benefit from its privileges, the Conference encourages the establishment of regular religious services, and, if possible, the organization of a church, or a branch of a neighboring church.
2. Applications by any church for financial aid should be made by the vote of the church, and upon forms furnished by the Conference, and should have the approval of the Advisory or Missionary Commit- tee of the local Association of Churches.
3. Churches applying for aid must show that they have met in full all financial obligations to their ministers and are doing their utmost toward self-support.
4. In granting aid the Conference will appropriate different amounts according to the necessity, importance, and prospects of each field.
5. Every church aided by the Conference must consult the Presi- dent or Secretary before making arrangements for pastoral service.
6. Whenever the service of the minister or other worker, for whose support an appropriation is made, shall terminate, the appropriation shall lapse, except for special reasons satisfactory to the President.
7. The Conference advocates adequate compensation for every minister and worker.
8. The Conference favors hearty co-operation with other denomi- nations, the avoidance of overlapping and competing work, and the consolidation or federation of churches of different denominations in over-churched communities.
1936] Aided Churches
STATISTICS FOR THE YEAR ENDING MARCH 31, 1936 Co-operative Work
69
Field
Lawrence, Armenian . Lawrence, Portuguese 1 Lowell, Portuguese J Lawrence, Syrian . Methuen, Tozier's Corner
Minister
Andover Association H Arshag B. Hussian . Joaquim Mendes Reis
Hanna Skeirik N William A. Lee
Tewksbury G t John Cummings
Ge^nt English Years Speak- Foreign Salary Helped ing Speech
36 — $1,500 $1,700
20 — 1,632E 1,632
H Yoked with Haverhill, Armenian; see Essex North Association. E And expenses. R Includes $300 for rent. N Yoked with Salem Depot, New Hampshire. G Grant discontinued May, 1935. t Service ended during the year.
28 1 1
— 744 B
480
444
108
1,300
$588 $3,876 $5,184
Barnstable Association
Barnstable, West, Finnish\ . Cape Cod, Finnish j
Falmouth, Waquoit, Portuguese
Wellfleet, First
Yarmouth, West . . . . Y
D Grant discontinued, November, 1935. Y Yoked with Yarmouth, First.
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$552 |
$948 |
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Veijo V. Sundelin |
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— |
516 |
516 |
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Hanson E. Thygeson |
25 |
— |
60D |
60 |
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13 |
$288 |
— |
1,200 |
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Allan E. Burtt .... |
89 |
175 |
— • |
500 |
$463 $1,128 $3,224
Lanesboro, I
Lanesboro, Berkshire] Peru
Pittsfield, Second .
" Immanuel
" French 1
" Italian J Williamstown, South \ New Ashford /
Williamstown, White Oaks Windsor \ . . .
East J Minister-at-Large .
Berkshire North Association
22 $264
Clarence M. Cossum ... 29 276
H Samuel R. Swift 46 198
T. Nelson Baker 57 660£
F E. Pomeroy Cutler .... 25 180
44 —
Ulrich Gay 27 —
54 240
Philip A. Job 26 132
A. G. Axtell 63 300
77 660
Euphemia Deysdale D William M. Crane ,
H Yoked with Hinsdale, First.
F Yoked with Richmond, First.
R Less refunds of $316.
r Less refunds of $125.
D Work discontinued June, 1935.
E And expenses.
* And parsonage.
39 1,440 s
— *1,026
— 426
— 400
— 1,290 1,000
738
738
*1,235
307
*1,000
*1,200
1,440
738K 738 r
1,350 $1,476 $10,800
70
Aided Churches
[1936
Field
Egremont, South . . . . New Marlborough, Southfieldl Mill River / Otis \
Sandisfield, New Boston/ . Sandisfield, South . . . .
♦Washington
West Stockbridge, Village
Minister
Grant
English Years Speak- Foreign Helped ing Speech
Salary
Berkshire South Association
P. E. Mathias 31
18
Clarence Carr 16
72 Clarence H. Perry .... 53
C J. Edward Lair 58
Charles I. Ramsey .... M Charles G. White ....
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$252 |
— . |
*1,300 |
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312 |
— / |
*972 |
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5 228 |
-1 |
708 |
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486 |
=1 |
*987 |
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318 |
594 |
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i 276 |
464 |
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5 155 |
— |
155 |
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i 480 |
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*1,000 |
C Yoked with Colebrook, Conn. M Conducts Mission at State Line.
* Not an organized church; yoked with Federated Church, Becket.
* And parsonage.
Brookfield Association
Dana M Henry M. Brown ....
Holland W Frederick J. Dark ....
Oakham Walter M. Stone ....
Af Yoked with Methodist Episcopal Church, North Dana. PF Yoked with East Brimfield and Baptist Church, Wales.
* And parsonage.
93 107
$2,507
$120 270 168
$6,180
$850
405
*1,200
— $2,455
Haverhill, Armenian .
" New American Mission .
" Ward Hill .... Newbury port, Armenian . Salisbury Beach, Hope Chapel Burton L. Hess .
Essex North Association
A Arshag B. Hussian . Miss Rose Kochakian t George H. Credeford Martiros Ter Sahakian
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. . . 25 |
— . |
$204 |
$204 |
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. . . 7 |
— |
600C |
360 |
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. . . 40 |
$448 |
— |
*900 |
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. . . 23 |
— |
300K |
300 |
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. . . 16 |
600 |
— |
600 |
A Yoked with Lawrence, Armenian; see Andover Association. C Includes $240 to apply on expenses of church. R Less refunds of $60.
* And parsonage.
t Service ended during the year.
$1,048 $1,104 $2,364
Beverly, Immanuel " Swedi'sb .
Gloucester, Lanesville
West . Lynn, First . . . . " Bethany
" Armenian Peabody, Second .
Rockport, Pigeon Cove
Essex South Association
Vernon F. Bevan . . ffDavid B. Bjurlin
\ David I. Seger Strom t John Harold Gould . . . . Elbridge C. Whiting . . t William B. Oliver
. ffFrederic B. Withington
\ Edwin E. Aiken, Jr. .
. C Arsham K. Yeramian
. . (tJohn G. Gaskill . .
\ Frank E. Dunn .
Swedish f Albert — M. Johanson
C Yoked with Chelsea Armenian; see Suffolk North Association. R Less refunds of $120.
t Service ended during the year.
* And parsonage.
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$240 |
— $1,440 |
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420 372 948 |
$180 900 — *940 — 972 — 2,500 |
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5 17 |
684 |
— 1,200 420K 420 |
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29 42 |
168 |
— *1,332 300 1,300 |
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|
$2,832 |
$900 $11,004 |
1936]
Aided Churches
71
Field
Minister
Franklin Association
Bernardston Arthur L. Truesdell .
Erving, First \
" Farley / . . . . John C. Wightman .
Gill Dorr A. Hudson .
Greenfield, Robbins Memorial WUliam S. Anderson
Hawley, Wesfl
Heath / Frederick R. Dixon .
Shutesbury L Arthur J. Green .
Warwick \
Wendell / Harlan P. Metcalf .
Summer Student Work . . Gifford H. Towle 1 . Herbert Dixon J
L Yoked with North Leverett, Baptist. * And parsonage.
Gbant English Years Speak- Foreign Salary Helped ing Speech
|
66 |
$240 |
— |
*$ 1,450 |
|
93 23 |
300 144 |
— ■ |
900 300 |
|
29 |
180 |
— |
700 |
|
22 |
492 |
— |
*1,000 |
|
63 63 |
120 240 |
={ |
412 *1,020 |
|
37 |
72 |
— |
572 |
|
04 74 |
120 240 |
— |
380 292 |
|
40 |
40 |
||
|
S2,188 |
|
$7,066 |
Blandford, North, Second Chester, First ]
North \ . * " LittlevilleJ Chicopee, First
Falls . . . Granville, West Palmer, Thorndike
Three Rivers . Springfield, East
" Indian Orchard
" St. John's .
" Union .
" Wachogue
Hampden Association B Allen S. Lehman
t C. Francis Anderson
Hubert S. Stafford . Henry S. Hitchcock . George Booth Owen P H. Chester Hoyt
Frederick K. Ellsworth
Earl Vinie
Herman Lohmann
Roland T. Heacock .
John B. Lewis
J. Lincoln Thomas .
B Yoked with Blandford, First.
* Not an organized church. Af For 7'}4 months service.
P Yoked with Palmer, Bondsville, M. E. Church, t Service ended during the year.
* And parsonage.
|
20 |
$120 |
|
63 |
— |
|
22 |
384 |
|
17 |
456 |
|
2 |
216 |
|
54 |
263M |
|
9 |
120 |
|
1 |
120 |
|
11 |
2,124 |
|
12 |
600 |
|
35 |
600 |
|
8 |
1,620 |
|
10 |
384 |
$7,007
— *985
— *946
— *1,418
— '624
— 780
— *1,300
— 2,475
— *2,000
— *1,500
— 2,160
— *2,000
$16,538
Amherst, Hope
Cummington, West ■•■Easthampton, Polish
Huntington, First .
Leverett, First . * Northampton, West Farms
Pelham, First
Paokardville ■•■Belchertown, Dwight
Hampshire Association D Charence A. Gooding V Carl M. Sangree W Anthony Demoracski Mrs. Charles H. Chapin Herbert Dixon EUery C. Clapp . .
Gifford H. Towle .
|
31 |
$300 |
|
66 |
96 |
|
7 |
— |
|
49 |
300 |
|
48 |
240 |
|
24 |
156 |
|
81 59 4 |
444 |
300
60
*94S
*1,350
312
852
72
Aided Churches
[193e
Field
Plainfield Worthington, First Minister-at-Large .
Minister
Hampshikb Association-
Howard Duff Gould S J. Herbert Owen M John C. Wightman .
Geant English Years Speak- Foreign Helped ing Speech -Continued
Salary
45 6
$300 120
23 2,000S
— 1,320
— 2,196
$3,956 $60 $8,678
D Died January 7, 1936.
V Yoked with Village Church, Cummington and C.C.C. W Work discontinued July, 1935. S Yoked with South Worthington.
M Plus $196 for work in Franklin County until June 1, when county workers were discontinued. + Not an organized church. * And parsonage.
Middlesex-Mendon Association
Marlborough, Robin Hill . Maynard, Finnish . Natick, South .... West ....
Sherborn
Wayland
B Louis G. Hudson W Jaakko Rinta
Rowland C. Adams .
William J. Kelly . . .
Merritt G. Buckingham
Gardner D. Cottle .
13 34 78 23 24 55
$204 —
— $400
108 —
60 —
396 —
276 —
$456
696
900
472
*1,200
1.170
B Yoked with Berlin.
W Yoked with Worcester, Finnish; see Worcester Central Association. * And parsonage.
Middlesex Union Association Fitchburg and Vicinity, Ar- menian W Kapriel Bedrosian ....
Fitchburg, German . . . Max B. Schaff
" Swedish . . . Ruben T. Nygren ....
$1,044
$400 $4,894
— $276
— 552
— 240
$276 1,414 1,740
— $1,068 W Yoked with Worcester and Whitinsville, Armenian; see Worcester Central Association.
Old Colony United Association
$3,430
L Less gifts of $250 each from Central and First Churches, Fall River. B Yoked with New Bedford, French Baptist.
t Service ended during year. C Also serves Finnish Missions in Connecticut. F Federated Church. Baptist also pay .?900. G Grant discontinued at end of pastorate.
* And parsonage.
;,460 $2,016 19,858
|
Edgartown Fall River, French .... |
F Harry R. Butman . B Auguste De Vos . |
53 48 |
$132 |
$1,140L |
$900 1,140 |
|
" Pilgrim |
t Gerald E. Richter . . |
37 |
468G |
— |
1,800 |
|
Raynham, First, Center . |
ffC. Leonard Holton . \ Milton Stokes Dawes |
17 |
96 |
|
800 |
|
" Second, North |
C. Leonard Holton . |
17 |
324 |
— |
*950 |
|
Rochester, Lakeville Larger |
|||||
|
Parish: |
5 |
— |
— |
— |
|
|
Lakeville, Grove Chapel Lakeville and Taunton Precinct Rochester, East North .... |
1 Harry L. Coole . tAndrew W. Solandt |
57 '. 34 82 |
720 720 |
— |
*1,700 *1,500 |
|
Wareham, West, Finnish . |
George A. Koponen C . |
26 |
— |
876 |
1,068 |
1936]
Aided Churches
73
Field
Abington, North Brockton, Lincoln .
Waldo . .
" Wendell Ave. Carver, North . Cohasset, Beechwood . Plymouth, Chiltonville
" Manomet .
" North, Italian
West Bridgewater .
^ Hingham, Finnish .
Minister
Pilgrim Association Stanley F. Murray . Thomas J. Bell . . Melbourne O. Baltzer George W. Dale . B M. Walker Coe . . Winston L. King Mrs. Mary J. Goodwin Frank I. Noyes . A. Lawrence Di Florio ffClarence Kilde \ John Harold Gould . Q William Hokkanen .
B Yoked with First Baptist Church, Carver.
Q Yoked with Quincy and Allston Finnish; see Suffolk, West.
E And expenses.
* Not an organized church.
* And parsonage.
t Service ended during year.
Boston, Charlestown .
" East, Baker-Maverick
" East, Italian . Revere, Italian .... Chelsea, Armenian
" Central, Assistant Everett, Courtland Street
" First, Assistant
" Mystic Side .
" Swedish Revere, Beachmont
First . . .
" Point of Pines Somerville, First, Assistant
Suffolk North Association Thomas W. Davison James McD. Blue
( John J. Ronaolo . L Arsham K. Yeramian t Mrs. Beryl Bartlett Paine JfD. Turner Conlan I Felix G. Davis Lillian G. Hamer Richard G. Douglas . M A. Ragnor Lindblade William H. Nicolas . E. Ambrose Jenkins . Howard A. Morton . Helen Knight Harris
Grant English Years Speak- Foreign Salary Helped ing Speech
|
12 |
$288 |
— |
$1,200 |
|
39 |
552 |
— |
1,680 |
|
14 |
276 |
— |
1,476 |
|
21 |
816 |
— |
1,724 |
|
71 |
432 |
— |
*1,200 |
|
59 |
108 |
— |
*1,000 |
|
29 |
204 |
— |
882 |
|
42 |
600 |
— |
*2,000 |
|
37 |
— |
$1,416£; |
1,530 |
|
15 |
414 |
_ |
*1,040 |
|
14 |
— |
72 |
72 |
R Includes $204 (less refunds of $102) for expenses at St. Mary's Church.
E And expenses.
L Yoked with Lynn, Armenian; see Essex South Association.
M Yoked with Maiden, Swedish.
t Service ended during year.
* And parsonage.
Boston, Boylston, Jamaica Plain " Clarendon, Hyde Park " Pilgrim, Dorchester St. Mark . . . " Assistant " Trinity, Neponset " Norwegian, Roxbury
Suffolk South Association Howard E. Pomeroy Francis Marion Jones Clarence W. Dunham Samuel L. Laviscount Olga G. Ferguson J. Irving Fletcher Ludwig J. Pedersen .
3,690 $1,488 $13,804
|
15 |
$1,404 |
— |
$2,792 |
|
3 |
1,584 |
— |
2,488 |
|
7 |
— |
$1,344R |
1,140 |
|
6 |
■ — • |
372E |
372 |
|
23 |
— |
1,080 |
1,140 |
|
15 |
1,200 |
— |
1,200 |
|
47 |
540 |
_ |
900 |
|
19 |
624 |
— |
1,275 |
|
8 |
300 |
— |
2,200 |
|
29 |
— |
228 |
1,020 |
|
39 |
276 |
— |
2,000 |
|
47 |
900 |
— |
2,500 |
|
8 |
260 |
— • |
520 |
|
13 |
240 |
— |
240 |
,328 S3,024 $19,787
|
45 |
$600 |
— |
$3,100 |
|
57 |
504 |
— |
2,400 |
|
2 |
276 |
— |
*3,000 |
|
37 |
1,200 |
— |
*2,160 |
|
14 |
900 |
— |
900 |
|
38 |
240 |
— |
*1,500 |
|
50 |
— |
$186 |
1,800 |
74
Aided Churches
[1936
Grant
Field
Canton, Ponkapoag Dedham, Riverdale Norwood, Swedish .
Quincy, Hough's Neck " Squantum .
|
Minister |
Years Helped |
English Speak- ing |
Foreign Speech |
Salary |
|
Suffolk South Association— Coniinued |
||||
|
. . H Robert Eddy .... |
10 |
$85 |
— |
$400 |
|
Thomas MacAnespie |
16 |
576 |
— |
1,600 |
|
. . Af ffWilliam Tornberg . . \ La Verne C. Erickson . |
; 23 |
_ |
$120 |
420 |
|
Frank C. Seymour . |
14 |
600 |
— |
*1,200 |
|
. t John Philip Lindsay |
24 |
372 |
— |
*1,400 |
H Yoked with Boston, Hyde Park, First. M Yoked with Milford, Swedish.
t Service ended during year.
* And parsonage.
Boston, Cilician, Armenian •■ " Allston, Finnish .
" Greek General Missionary, Greek Boston, Union ....
" Chinese Waltham, Swedish .
Watertown, Armenian
" Union
Suffolk West Association
Samuel H. Hallajian F \ William Hokkanen . /
Christie G. Tokas
Dwight J. Bradley .
Mrs. Annie M. Readie ffBernard A. Hawkinson \ Arthur C. Carlson . ffMiss Mary W. Riggs \Miss Lousintak Kavaljian ffJames C. Simpson 1 Marshall S. Jenkins .
F Yoked with Hingham, Finnish; see Pilgrim Association. R Includes $400 for rent.
+ Not an organized church.
t Service ended during year. E And expenses. A Includes $240 for rent.
Billerica, Pinehurst
Maiden, Linden
" Maplewood
Medford Hillside . " Union
Melrose, Hillcrest .
Winchester, Second
Woburn, Montvale
WoBURN Association
A'' t Martin L. Goslin
Morris C. McEldowney Gt John R. Bartlett R,ayE.Butterfield . E. Chandler Garfield Edward G. Ernst John R. Nelson . John E. Whitley . . George A. Merrill
N Yoked with Billerica, Nuttings Lake.
R No parsonage but rent is paid by church.
G Grant discontinued June 1, 1935.
t Service ended during year.
* And parsonage.
$5,353
|
28 |
— |
$850B $1,850 |
|
|
14 |
— . |
72 |
72 |
|
30 |
— ■ |
1,320 |
1,420 |
|
13 |
— ■ |
276S |
276 |
|
16 |
$2,220 |
— |
4,500 |
|
12 |
— |
450 |
450 |
|
47 |
— |
192 |
1,572 |
|
26 |
— |
720A |
480 |
|
6 |
1.80 |
— |
1,500 |
$2,400 $3,880 $12,120
|
10 |
$240 |
— *$1,132 |
|
11 |
300 |
— *600 |
|
38 |
276 |
— *1,800 |
|
16 |
1,800 |
— 2,500 |
|
5 |
420 |
— 2,000 |
|
23 |
648 |
— R 1,850 |
|
13 |
216 |
— 1,425 |
|
25 |
240 |
— 1,200 |
$4,140 — $12,507
1936]
Aided Churches
75
Grant
|
Field |
Minister |
Years Helped |
English Speak- ing |
Foreign Speech |
Salary |
||||
|
Worcester Central Association |
|||||||||
|
Clinton, German . |
George Marquardt .... 48 |
— |
$360 |
$*1,260 |
|||||
|
Millbury, |
East .... |
W Hollis M. Bartlett |
3 |
$240 |
— |
600 |
|||
|
Worcester |
, Hadwen Park . |
t Aden B. Albertson |
15 |
672 |
— |
*1,300 |
|||
|
" |
Hope |
Thomas Foxall . |
4 |
192 |
— |
*2,250 |
|||
|
*' |
Tatnuck |
/tJames T. Carter . \ Chester A. Wheeler |
10 |
2,400 |
— . |
*2,500 |
|||
|
" |
Albanian . |
Peter V. Kolonia |
14 |
— |
1,584£; |
1,584 |
|||
|
" |
Armenian . |
N Kapriel Bedrosian |
35 |
— |
720 |
1,700 |
|||
|
" |
Finnish |
M Jaakko Rinta |
34 |
— |
572 |
900 |
|||
|
" |
Bethesda . (Swedish-Finnish) |
H\ David A. E. Carlson |
33 |
— |
372 |
650 |
|||
|
J |
S3, 504 |
$3,608 |
$12,744 |
W Yoked with Worcester, Lake View. N Yoked with Northbridge, Whitinsville, and Fitchburg Vicinity; see Worcester South and Middlesex Union Associations.
M Yoked with Maynard, Finnish ; see Middlesex-Mendon Association. H Yoked with Holden, Swedish, t Service ended during year. E And expenses. * And parsonage.
Ashburnham, South Gardner, Finnish 1
Hubbardston, Finnish J Hubbardston, Evangelical New Salem, Central 1 North J
Phillipston
Templeton
Worcester North Association Gardner D. Underhill .
Arthur F. Virta
Robert J. Hodgen ....
Q. K. Barrett
William Fryling
Richard L. Bailey ....
Worcester South Association
Northbridge, Center . . . R Arthur B. Clarke ....
" Whitinsville, Armenian. W Kapriel Bedrosian ....
$260 $564 $1,084
W Yoked with Worcester, Armenian and Fitchburg Vicinity, Armenian; see Worcester Central and Middlesex Union.
R Yoked with Northbridge, Rockdale.
|
2 |
$192 |
— |
$1,000 |
|
31 |
— |
$576 |
713 |
|
18 |
— |
576 |
677 |
|
5 |
144 |
— |
*1,288 |
|
89 |
336 |
— |
*853 |
|
71 |
276 |
— |
548 |
|
46 |
360 |
— |
*800 |
|
12 |
120 |
— |
*1,020 |
|
$1,428 |
$1,152 |
$6,899 |
|
|
38 |
$260 |
— |
$520 |
|
25 |
— |
564B |
564 |
SUMMARY OF FIELDS
|
For the Year ending March 31, 1936 |
Grant |
Salary |
|
Totals, English-speaking Fields, including institutions Totals, Work for People of Foreign Speech, including institutions |
$61,956 31,860 |
$157,762 43,400 |
|
Totals . . |
$93,816 |
$201,162 |
1
76
Aided Churches COMPARATIVE SUMMARY
[1936
|
1931 |
1932 |
1933 |
1934 |
1935 |
|
|
Churches and other fields served |
179 |
183 |
179 |
190 |
183 |
|
Single fields .... |
90 |
105 |
102 |
109 |
110 |
|
Yoked fields .... |
89 |
78 |
77 |
81 |
73 |
|
Number of missionaries . |
159 |
171 |
156 |
157 |
164 |
|
Amount expended . |
$120,857.74 |
«117,734.66 |
$107,073.00 |
$97,843.14 |
$92,399.32 |
INSTITUTIONS AND SPECIAL GRANTS
Amherst State College, Student Pastor, Rev. J. Paul Williams, $1,704.
Rev. Aram T. Bagdikian, General Work among Armenians, Turks and Kurds, $650.
Boston, East, Italian, Good Will House Association, $2,760.
Boston, General Theological Library, Postage Fund, $100.
Springfield, American International College, $2,400.
Southeastern Massachusetts, Minister-at-Large, Rev. Joseph B. Lyman, $2,196, and expenses.
Rev. John C. Wightman special grant from June 1, $492.
Worcester State Hospital, Chaplain, Carroll A. Wise, $360.
SCHEDULE OF GRANTS TO, AND CONTRIBUTIONS FROM, THE ASSOCIATIONS FOR STATE* AND TOTAL WORK.
|
Conference granted |
This Association |
Thi |
s Association |
|||||
|
for |
missionary |
work, |
gave |
for missionary |
gave |
for total appor- |
||
|
for |
year |
ending March |
work |
in Conference, |
tionment, for year |
|||
|
31, |
1936 |
year |
ending Decem- |
ending December 31, |
||||
|
ber31, 1935: |
1935 |
|||||||
|
Andover |
$4,464 |
$1,307 |
$10,493 |
|||||
|
Barnstable . |
1,591 |
65 |
536 |
|||||
|
Berkshire, North . |
5,826 |
2,399 |
23,213 |
|||||
|
Berkshire, South . |
2,507 |
727 |
4,490 |
|||||
|
Brookfield . . . |
558 |
299 |
2,581 |
|||||
|
Essex, North . |
2,152 |
1,093 |
8,174 |
|||||
|
Essex, South |
3,732 |
1,937 |
14,844 |
|||||
|
Franklin |
2,188 |
575 |
5,963 |
|||||
|
Hampden . |
7,007 |
2,434 |
16,873 |
|||||
|
Hampshire . |
4,016 |
2,004 |
17,173 |
|||||
|
Middlesex-M endon |
1,444 |
1,465 |
10,054 |
|||||
|
Middlesex, Union . |
1,068 |
891 |
7,153 |
|||||
|
Old Colony, United |
4,476 |
1,976 |
16,837 |
|||||
|
Pilgrim |
5,178 |
1,614 |
12,839 |
|||||
|
Suffolk, North . . |
10,352 |
2,377 |
16,646 |
|||||
|
Suffolk, South . . |
5,659 |
2.405 |
19,139 |
|||||
|
Suffolk, West . . |
6,280 |
6,679 |
64,362 |
|||||
|
Woburn |
4,140 |
2,795 |
20,968 |
|||||
|
Worcester, Central |
7,112 |
2,701 |
22,319 |
|||||
|
Worcester, North . |
2,580 |
550 |
4,245 |
|||||
|
Worcester, South . |
824 |
1,182 |
9,512 |
* Not including grants to institutions, or special grants.
REPORTS OF BOARDS AND COMMITTEES
It has been voted to omit from this volume the Reports of Boards and Committees which were print- ed in the Advance Reports and distributed before the meeting in Brookline. Any person desiring a copy of these Reports for fihng with the Minutes may obtain it by writing to Secretary A. V. Bliss, 14 Beacon St., Boston.
STATISTICAL TABLES
EXPLANATORY
The tables which follow comprise:
1. The statistics of the churches, giving the ministers, church membership, additions, removals, Sunday schools, and the amount of benevolences and expenses. These tables, in accordance with the vote of the Conference, in 1887, are made to conform to those in the Year Book; but names in the pastoral column are changed according to the latest information before going to press.
2. The Associations of the churches, with the names of officers and the times of meeting.
3. The Ministerial Standing, giving the date of ordination of each minister, the date of membership, the residence and his "employment." "P. C." means pastor by council; "P.," pastor otherwise; "W. C." means without church; other abbreviations are self- evident. "W. C," however, includes many who have retired from active service, and some who are in business.
4. The Ministerial Record containing lists of ordinations, installations, dismissals, and deaths.
The tables of the first part contain the names of all the Congregational churches in Massachusetts, the towns and cities being arranged alphabetically; churches in each town according to age. If the post office name of the church and the town name differ, a foot- note on the page where the post office name would naturally be found will direct the reader to the town name.
Church members and families are reported as numbered January 1, 1936. Admissions and removals cover the year 1935. "Absent" are not additional to "males," "females" and "total," but included in them. "Sunday school" includes total membership of officers, teachers and scholars, January 1, 1936. or when the school is in operation (if not at that date), covering "branch schools," "mission schools" and "home departments," so far as maintained by the reporting church.
The months and days in the dates of the organization of churches are omitted. They will be found in the publications of 1873, those of churches since organized being given in the "Minutes" of each year. Also the months and days in the dates of ordination and installation of ministers are omitted. The former may be found in the lists of the local Associations which follow the tables.
"Ordained" denotes the date on which the person was originally set apart to the ministry by the "laying-on of hands." "Commenced" denotes the date of the beginning of his present pastorate.
In accordance with the recommendation of the General Council, in the Statistical Tables pastors installed are marked "i."; pastors recognized by a council called for that purpose are marked "r."; pastors duly called by their churches, but not installed or rec- ognized by councU, are not marked; "y" before a pastor's name indicates that he has a yoked (double or triple) field.
Blanks in any column of figures are never equivalent to "none," but mean "no report"; but blanks in the column of ministers do mean that the church has no pastor or acting pastor, and the blank is left for the convenience of those who note changes.
Under Sunday Schools, "c" denotes cradle roll, "h" home department, "e" both cradle roll and home department, and "b" a mission or branch school.
In the final column, under valuation of church property, an asterisk * indicates that the church has a parsonage (value included), or in a very few cases that house rent for the minister is paid in addition to the stated salary.
The condensed form in which the Year Book tables are published this year offers the reader an opportunity for personal computation, as, for example, to find the number of female members, subtract the number of male naembers from the total.
Statistics of the Churches
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