Connecticut western news., 1877-09-07

A sketch Of the three clergymen Wno pfe2che0 at the Pine Grove Camp meeting, Canaan, Conn.,, Sabbath, Aug. % 1877.
 REV. JOHN W. sELLEOK, A. M.
 This brother who occupied pulpit in the morning is one of the sosid men of the New York Conference. He is in the prime of life, has @ fine phisique, and possesses a vigorous and well trained intellect. He was born at Hyde Park, N. r., and was converted in Amenia at the age of thirteen. Connecticut has the honor of educating him and sending him forth to his life work. He graduated at the Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn, with the ''class of 1sS4." Two years after his graduation he joined the New Xork Conference of the M. E. Church, and has ever since been high ly esteemed and very useful minister of the gospel. He has occupied some very i'm portant fields of labor. Five years of his ministerial life have been spent in the city of New York. He was sent from the Lex ington Ave. M. E. Church New York, to his present charge in Falls Village, Conn.
 His sermon on the camp ground was 8 masterpiece of it's kind. He preached on ''taking hold of the strength of God" He showed himself able to convince the minds and move the hearts of his hearers.
 REV. LUoIUs H. K1Na, D. D.
 This divine occupied the pulpit in the afternoon. The thousands who assembled to hear him evidently expected to hear a great sermon. They were not disappoint- ed. He preached in his own peculiar and pleasing style, very interesting, instruct i've and powerful sermon on the ''Divinity of Christ, which drew tears of joy from the eyes of his hearers and hallelujahs from ther hearts. Dr. King was born at Ct. Burlington Mass, in 1922. He was con Yerred when he was fifteen years of age. He entered the New York Conference in 1844. He has been 8 very successful min ister, especially in winning souls to Christ. About one thousand have been converted on his present charge during the time oi his pastorate there. Eleven years of Dr. Kings life have been spent In New York He is real Jupiter Torrans in the tempe rance cause. There is no other man in the New York Conference so highly esteemed by the superannuated preachers and theil families as Dr. King. Several times Dr. King has been sent as delegate to tht General Conference, and if he lives he vii without doubt be a member of the mex General Conference. Some time ago Dr King received tie vote with the late Dr J. B. Wakeley as candidate for the Elder ship of the New York District, and las spring he was unanimously chosen by tn preachers of the Newburgh District as thei candidate for Presiding Elder. But for eertain snfue7,ce in the conference gwhicl has already overleaped itself, and the deot of which is matter of time only. b would now be Presiding Elder of the New burgh District. Dr. King is an able min ister, and man whom his brethren deligh to honor. He is now pastor of St. John Church, Newburgh.
 REV. J. W. MAcoMBKR.
 This minister. who preached Sabbat evening, first saw the light of day in Yves ern New York. At tte age of eleven was converted and joined the church. l 1s4s he was received in the New Tor Conference. He~has already given abo1 twenty-eight years of his life to the mini try. Like Joshua he is man in whor there is better spirit. A stranger lookin at him might call him ''sadness personifed but really he is generally hopeful and har py. He has great social powers. and us' them very freely, especially among b ministerial brethren. Many aching sid' and sleepless nights in the preachers tel owe their origin to the inexhaustible. W and sarcasm of Brother Macomber. He not the man in the preachers tent WI laughs, but he is certainly the man wh makes everybody else laugh. There is serious, earnest side to bis character; in la he is that man whom Paul describes '.sorrowful. yet always rejoicing"
 He preached very able sermon on Sal bath evening from Rom. II, 6 and 2. I'm the last sermon at the camp meeting, left most excellent impression upon the mint and hearts of all present.
 Brother Macomber is now pastor of u n. B. Church at Sangerties on ths Hudson