Litchfield enquirer., 1864-11-24
WHOLE NO. so69.


 have light that reflects from ell the windows of l the soul.
 So far as he was concerted, if there sas any light anywhere. he supposed it Was down in the basement where the work was sons.
 Certainly 1t was too datk iR the apartment from which thoughts and words eiaahAss, for him to undertake to make speech q tAas late hour of the day. ..s.5
 One thought suggested itssif- -NhAA is h that most of all commends oar antaslois to our regard and reverencei Not bscaufa tEsy were rich of poor, learned or inlearned. elo. quent or slow of speech as ths iiisss Ut iish count these things, but because oi the Ohris tian characters they possessed. and of the Christian moral power they e1erted in. iAs world-a power which is making it wisef aha better as the years roll away. Be it Sur6 t1 follow their example, and to give aagmensed force to all the good they have bequeashsd b us. -f........ ,,. .,
 Others spoke who did justice to ths glad occasion, but I already trespass too much on
 
 your space. . ....,..., ,,.l
 Allow me to say fSr the benefit of ail insuts ested, that a more full and complets record of the sayings and doings at this gathering, and of the fanily history, viii be prepared, Aha put in better shape for preservation and ref efence, than newspaper article cai afoFt.
 After the intellectual part of the entertain. ment had been for the most part gonS through with, some quaint relics were e&hi6itsA by Mrs. Noah Rogers of North Cornwall, Mn. Clarlssa Burnham North, of New Britain, and others. Sacred mementos, all of ysars lUnk since buried in the past ........ e There were the wedding brooches vWorR bv Noah the 3d. From present indications, xS judge that they were of gay texture h their day, and so we presume was the tccasiUh oh which they were worn. Could they spsak, they would tell us what bright hopes and fond anticipations gathered around that happy tims. They could tell us how the limbs trembisd, us the words Sd solemn, so full of nisaiing iR that early golden season, were uttered, which bound two loving hearts together.
 Then came the high heeled slppefs which his wife wore on the same wedding occasioA. They were of pink silk, skilfilly embroidered, and doubtless the good Rhoda was very happy when standing in them on that joyous bridal day.
 Then an embroidered linen dress, wrought With great skill, and the first one put upoA Noah the 4th. As we looked, dur thoughts ran back an hundred years to the day of his birth. There was joy in that household; and as the fond, young mother saw him clad in the garment she had so carefully and delicate. ly wrought, she doubtless thought hiA tka most promising child loving mother ever gazed upon. We suppose he kicked and crept, laughed and cried in its ample folds tsfS much like other children, wholly unconscious of the dignity, which the little garment should attain in subsequent years. -..#
 There was an embroidered damask silk blanket which belonged to Noah the Sd, And Rhoda his wife. It was wrapped arotRd their little ones at baptism, and used only oh such occasions.
 Embroidered curtains, deftly wrought by tho same young Bride-a silver cup-the wedding gift of dear friend. This cup, with two oE three others i'd the possession of the family were for many years used by the CongregatioH. al Church in North Cornwall, Ut the Ceisbsa: tion of the Lords Supper. @
 A bunch of soft fax, hetcheled by Aunt Ives," and skein of fine linen thread, Sp6H by her fair hands, in those good old days wken the mothers and the daughters alike, laid their hands to the spindle and the distaF-when they s,ught wool and flax, ,and worked willingly with their hands that their households might bd clothed, &c.
 The e. old arm chair" of three hundred years, and an old Bible of Msy.Flower nisEi0. ry-it was printed in 1875. and its appear ance would indicate that it might have been in Noah's Ark" It sCas in the one down in Branford. that has been spoken of, but not, we think, in the~one that rode the pillows thoss mansdays when Gods judgment covered tho y6ole earth with it's waters. hs,4 That OM Bi6le-how many hearts 1t haS cheered .-how many souls 1t has strengthened in thdse trying days when our fathers planted in the deep, savage wilderness, |" A Church without Bishop, State withouta King.'' That old English print dark, heavy, rough, unfinished, how dear it was to many, ver1 many, whose memory is cherished by us " When these things had been looked at, our Pastor, Rev. Charles WethsrBS, was intro duced, and in brief, fit words, uttered the clos. ing thoughts. He spoke of John RdgsFs, and how he died in behalf of liberty--libetty of thought and belief He said, the same Strug. gle between truth and error, bet*esh slavery and freedom that was waged in 1855, was in progress to-day, and that the same demands which God then made upon our ancestors, He makes now in another form upon us. Hs urged us therefore to remember our cbuntr3 and it's great perilled interests, and % to act that our work should blend with the tide of