Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1872-06-21
G. Day Noble.

A visit to the New Jerusalem church,
corner of Thirty-third street and South
Park avenue, last Sunday morning, i'm
pressed our reporter with the quiet home
like feeling that seems characteristic of
the Swedenborgians and Quakers. The
plain neatness of the room, its small di-
mensions, the flowers upon the altar, the
expression of the faces of the audience,
and the earnestness of their singing, ali
contributed to this effect. The pastor,
Rev. G. Day Noble, is slight man, of
medium height, with pale, intellectual
face, which contrasts with his back eyes
beard and hair. You know him to be
student and man Of culture from his
manner and appearance, before you have
heard him speak. His voice is full and
rich, and like face and gesture, offers no
hint of harshness or angularity. His
sermons are written, and he reads them
with the careful infection and emphasis
of an elocutionist, and with subdued
reverence that never rises to thea tricaI
defamation, or frenzed appeal. His au-
dience are intent upon the matter of his
sermon, from which his manner does not
distract their attention. His power is
one of insight, delicate appreciation, nice
distinction, detection of the universal
spirit under its varying forms. In his
choice of words and arrangement of SEN
tences, he shows the marks of the same
culture and polish that his appearance
suggests. Mr.. Noble was born the 18th
of August, 1910, in Rochester, Vermont
where his father, Rev. G. d. Noble, re-
sided.s~ He was left an orphan when six
years old, and from that time until he
was fourteen, he lived upon farm. The
next two years he spent in printing of.
fee, learning to set type. He then COM
menced to prepare himself for college,
attending Burr Seminary, at Manchester
Vermont, afterwards entering Middle
bury College, from which he graduated
with honor in 1864. Thinking that his
family had been ably represented in the
ministry in the persons of his father,
grandfather and great-grandfather, he
determined to devote himself to litera-
ry life. To that end he accepted the post
of assistant editor OF the historical pa
per, the Vermont Record, which he re-
signed after year, for that of literary
editor of the Houston CTexas) Tele-
graph. Besides his editorial duties he
found time to contribute several articles
to various magazines, some of which af
terwards were translated into some of
the European journals. Had his health
allowed him to continue his literary ca
reer, he would no doubt have acquired
eminence in a field for which he has 30
many of the elements of success. But
his failing health interfering with his la
bors and literary projects, he left Hous-
ton and came to Cleveland, Ohio, to
spend year in rest and recuperation.-
MIR. Noble had, since his college days,
been Swedenborgian, and after he had
somewhat recovered his health, in 1867.
he yielded to the earnest solicitation of
friends, and entered the ministry of that
church. Or was it only the triumph of
the inherited tendency to preach that
came down from all his Puritan ances-
tors He Immediately went about the
organization of society in Cleveland,
who were soon strong enough to build a
house of worship. He remained as their
pastor three years, until in October, 1870
when he came to Chicago, as the col
league of Rev. DIR. Hibbard. Since Mr.
Hibbard's departure for Europe, Mr.. No
BILE has the entire charge of the two
Swedenborgian congregations in this city
preaching in the morning in the church
on South Park avenue, and in the after
noon in Carr's Hall, corner of West
Lake and Wood Streets Chicago PsE-
pit.