New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-10-01
CONGREGATIONAL UNITY.

THE NATIONAL TkIENNlAL COUNCib'
THE CHURCH AND CITY IN WHICH THE DELEGATES
META HEARTY SOCIETY IN ITS TWO HUMID
RED AND THIRTY-sEvENTH YEAR.
lFROM AN OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIBUNE!
NEw-HAvEN, Conn.,, Sept. 3O.-The second
of the Of National Trennial Councils OF the con-
greRational Church In the United States could hardly
be held amid inspiring surroundings than 10 mas
here The city OF the earliest seats OF Conerc-
gatonasm. The success Of the Massachusetts, settle
ments led to the foundation In 1886 OF company unaer
Theophilus Eaton cater Governor), the rev.
John Davenport, and Edward Hopkins, Tor purposes
Of emigration and settlement They reached Plymouth
Mass June 8, 1887. and after much consideration de-
cded to settle at "Quinnpac" for which sail was set
March 80, 1885, Passengers who fly nowadays from
New.York to Boston IN nine hours, may indee OF the
difficulties Of voyagng in unexplored waters by the fact
that the vessel did not arrive In New'Haven Bay I'LL
near mid-April, the first Sabbath In the fu'ure
city being April 49, Old Style, or Aprl 20
by modern reckoning The services OF the day
we're held "under large oak near the present inter-
section OF College and Georgests This was the nrat
service "on the ground" Of the church IN which the
Council cOnvenes As DIR. Leonard Bacon loves to put
IT, "The church is older than the town OF New
Haven, than the city Of New-Haven, than inc
State OF Connecticut, than the United otates vi
America" Tho town was subsequently laid out In
o half-me square, with large green covering
ninth Of the Of Its center, and the church ana
buryng ground placed at the middle OF the Green
The buryng ground has since disappeared the church
building has been replaced and remodeled several times
and the Second North Congregational Church has been
erected at tho north and Trinity Episcopal Church at
the south Of 1t, tho three edihces standing In line
directly upon Templest which crosses the Green, ana
making an imposing feature Of that famous park. Tho
building is very large, with nearly square
auditorium, and capacious galleries. The Yale Com
Loo. I.lI Nutfh
mmemoria that all graduates have tender recolec
tions of It, 1t is also kind Of "ccnter" for the town.
many large public meetings being held within IT, ana
everybody looking toward 1t with kind OF reverence
Its membership and wealth are perhaps the largest III
the city, and this fact with the culture and high stand
ing of its members. materially assist 1t In retaining lis
leading position In the temple, then, OF one OF tue
oldest churches IN America-and church which, from
beginning its worship "under large oak" has chung
ever to the simplicity of that first assemolage-th's
great Council Is happy in convening.
1t Is also happy In meeting almost within the shadow
of the great University which was founded In presen
taton OF few volumes, the contributions or Cohgre
gaiional minister's and which In religious matters chngs
still to like simplicity and has furnished some OF the
illustrOus leaders Of that Chnrch-Elwarus' be
amy Dwight, the elder Beecher. Bacon, Woolsey' BUSH
NELL and the rest The Council cannot fail too 10 catch
the spirit OF the work done by the Moderator OF the as
Council his postrrate Of nearly half century over
the Old Center" and in his largeminded defense ana
calculation OF Congregational Polity Not few' in'
deed, will regard it as almost provdential that ME
latest work-"The Genesis OF the New England
Churches"-should appear within q fortnight OF the
converting OF the Council. In meeting In New'HaVen
the Council has also the advantage OF making the I'M
mediate ACQUAINTANCE of an unusually large number OF
Congregational Churches. there being not less than
fourteen of that denomination in the city, and large
group In the immediate vicinity.