, 1875-03-05

Bowen gavo As follows, from reference to thl,
book, hia acquaintance With MIR. Beccher:
THE POUNDING OF PLYMOUTH CHURCH,
"Aftor considerable talk on Tho nuoIect 4
meeting uns cslIod at my house saturday night.
May ., 1877, to organize now Congseeationa
church. 1'hcrc wero prcsene iu All Hix persutls,
Of whom join T. Howard "as ono. bought
occupied Presbyterian building which lad
been orecteti in 1898, and Eayo go, GOO fot
IL, Henry Ward f}occher, then aged about A.,
who lad made high reputation In tile Wcat,
happened to TO in Urooklyn Ito si,at sunday wo
impression and wAa Felecto.l ~ tho pastor, June
A. by unani.nolia vote, ho waa elected, and. nf.
Ter two months delay, accepted tic call. Among
tho council which. Installed him waA Dr. Btosrs,
Edward Eeecber. Thoy examined him ~ to ll!s
doctrines on natural and reyoaled religion, Hnno-
t!flcatsona, ctc. Tho Iscv. It. y. storis wss ono
Of tho speakers Ut the installation. At that
time tho cntire membership wan suonsy ono per-
sons, amongst whom were myself and wife. John
r. Howard, aod Johu +. aud lsebecca Morse,
After q fro In 1911 NO rcaolyed to Luid now
church. and s3l.489 Was collected for tha pur-
poRc. J. O. Wells WAS the architect
WIZ MB. nowKS hEIAINH llis rEw.
~ waa tile first superintendent" continued
1lr. Bowen, "of jtho bunday-Bc4ool, and began
it with ten teachors aud twentv-elghk Ycboiard,
and you cnn therefore understand Why hold
my pow in piymonth Church; 1t IL part Of tie
HuFk 0I I4T 44iGa AA v AEdEUu vi kuD CHilTCb,
Trustoo Of tho Society. I named Tho church
and compensation. aud put my noney and heart
into Tho onserprlBe."
nERcfkR'a couAsgL'a srATEMkS7s ptsrRoysp.
:. Now, 'lo. about tho Independent newspaper
Mr. D0won p
II startotl tho Independent with sIr. Chitsen-
don. and II is now Ia tho twonty y-soyeuti volume.
In 1867 eavo up my hualness 10 devote my en-
tire attention 10 the concern. Mr. ueechcr aud
his friends are constantly putting, ont tho Idea
.r4 Lila 11au In
Of tho Christian Union .unde us angry
statemonta Of nv cash receipts shich
will show you that, II figures havo my value, my
establishment was better Of without either
ueecl,er or Triton. The cash receipts III 1854.
wien 5fr. Deeeher loft 1ne, wore Sl5a 552 n.
Tho next year thoy wero s203, ,545.74; and after
lo was gone and forgotten, or In l87l they wore
3245, ,0J27G. Tho year Tilton left mo, 1870, tie
cash receipts were 9295, C83.28. TIE noxt year,
bttfon and jealousy Of anch literary rivals, nj
cash receipts wero $500. .506.15."
CHARACTER OF 1CBEPlI RICHARDS.
"fow, Mr. Bowen. II you TO not object, please
Richards to he whom In yonr employment, and
what Ills reliability isl mean hlrs. 1ilton's
brother, WHO toatified to tho ludeble scono b.
tween his sister aud her pastori"
II know him very wcll, answered atr. Dowsn.
lilo Ia one Of Tho most reliable men ever had
"Ycg." said NIr. Uovou, Jr, stanaip, hr.
Richards is a. sound US q doiiar. You nsp bo, b,
love oyory word i,o eayu,"
Tie elder Yowop continued. "I tonk n,ch.
ards out OF q bank. whoro ho vns rett,nr al '9ao
year: rayo lin 81, 900. thnn 81 e5iIl. and NJ.
yancod bin, along until be was receiving s2'60o.
whcn he left mo. IIo cana To ma mn eai,i IL,
was offered $1,000 wear and anna
nartnerIhir, frtcroat in po,r oo,,ea.
r. In c.,1oi ii,n Sn,;on toIS is;,t
that i,o MIMI nccnnt II ~ Il w.o ,,,.a T
nor,I my. ink ravc hin t,n a,s;ao o'u ~ eoau
tbn cnmnanv to Wr;ts nnt m arreeors ~ tilst
ther wo,,1 Eoen hin t, rcara ad i. t',,, a'a. ~.
ntorcst in tI,o nroN1a Thorn ,rnra ~. .,.anta ~
Tho enncnr s,nk Mi tn n,nnoy md h,4 ~ ~.
s,,rrrst;on ha wonid i,ayo ho:, n,H ~ IT, NY ~,
finn1 in ot,n vnsr 0'7A e'' "a 'n' 3'"~
".ihen van i.ava m ida. that n,c,,,a, Ala ,,r
vo,nntarv nr irnnhlc worf: IL ~ t-"ii" VI" Aa'
"Eot In thn loant. liz IL nat ~. .t.t bind y,
man roo1 c;tsan aa N .,o ~ cons. sSs 1 A1 y;
tI,o truth II smn,nn Ts "a w. vo an~ su
aud tn nnnnio hsvc ~, aia,r a Wy n."sspaposs
he wost testfvuntiI p,,,,nnn" ,i,a
onti, tcstii;na IL snmnth,n1 ,saraan,a T. ~
wrong. Amothcr tino cntin,,a r. oso,, 70 ~
" IL nnnntiv wron1Ns',a ta,tNnr .ha,,, @ o"sn, sa,
n mcrch.nt IN H.. t.'r,, .ub ,sb Pau"v. @ Aoom
~ ia rounor.iI,lo 'ora w., wv ~ sNIt. ~ aas
tnld mn i,ia cjrc,,ma,, ,unns NJ ran ,;al't ahu
80 ~. -. etse4't.'saAeo'. Au naa 1iknt