Connecticut western news., 1878-05-30
COMMITTEES.


 c. s. Adam, Horace B. Stevens, .,F Sheridan W. Barnes, Edwin W. Warner,
 Edmund D. Lawrence, Samuel Rider.
 ... a' On Rel;ef. Henry 0. Stevens, Mrs. S. M. Humphrey, Geo. s. Gillette, .' J. L. Pease,
 Edwin Barnes, |" Louise Smith, , Edward s. Roberts, SC M. L. Reid,
 Mrs. l. N. Beebe, J. R. Fuller,
 " A. T. Roraback, ss F. E. Ryder,
 " G. s. Gillette, " s. A. Cogswell,
 " Ellen Malloy, ,,f.' 't R. H. Marvin.
 Ct. Barrington.-MR EDITOR :--Thougl we must not every week seek space ts spread before Connecticut the on-goings O the good cause in Great Harrington, yet VI will look to you for repetition of your ia vor in notice of one more regular meetin! as 1t came to pass on Monday. 18th. Tn, change of leadership from evening to even. Ing that thus far has afforded pleasing va riety, gave us tonight the guidance of Mir T. Deland, who with quiet dignity direct ed the opening exercises. He also at inter vals yielded suggestions we'll adapted to th' present stage of progress. From thes' arose observations of others resulting in vote to invite a new speaker. The Mir Lawson who has upheld the cause so ac ceptebly in Canaan and that region, wal recommended by MT. Girling, who by 6 few remarks showed his continued interest Some of the steadfsst. efficient money help. CTS. like himself, have been of the silent ones but even these are beginning to realize that money and talk can be joined in hear. ty fellowship in this business. Remarks of Rev. MT. Scudder indicated his own ever steadfast outlook on the whole operation of agencies that work together in soclety, very judiciously spoken in select words, was the thought of our personal individual influence in moulding honestly the public sentiment. We are not to give the slightest sanction in social ways that can be interpreted as grace toward the baleful traffic. A tacit license as if from us might be inferred from our presence within the door where the invite to drink was hung out to view. Let us all shun it. One queried if to go to drinking saloon to buy cigar were not as if we were willing to give 8 tacit assent to the chief business of the estabishm, Ut. Men tion was made of the fact that somewhere in Massachusetts distiller took load of cider brandy to a town where he had never failed to find purchasers and could make DO sale, but had to return homeward with his stock. One rejoined to that recital the hope that there it would remain to make further manufacture needless, and so the distillery could become stM. Dr. Van Deusen, while desiring not in the slightest degree to abate admiration of the ald we had derived from visitors to help us in this work, yet he would be glad to have invitation very cor. dially extended to some of our home talent especially would 1t be qualification to have an evening appropriated to Rev. MT. Scud- der, with the request to repeat an address as given to bis people three years ago, or to use the time as he should prefer. "lt cer tainly was one of the best and straightest addresses on the subject ever made in this lown," said the doctor. In that estimate of the production others were in full ac cord. The invitation therefore was extend | ed on the moment. As to that long ago l sermon of MT. Scudder's before the Hope 1 Fire Company. it was one of a series of ser mons on ''The Young Men of the Gospel" md there never was an impression made on | n audience more thoroughly favorable for conscientious people to seize upon for the public welfare than was the impression of l hat hour in that assembly. It needed but ! tthe of the cooperation that of late has and energized speakers here, to lave developed the zeal aud power bursting within many heart. The message of that ermon has rolled on and it's purpose was lot lost. If it secured not its full intent on he minds of all tue hearers, the pent fervor U the speakers mind may have been basls or the position SO independently assumed q connection with the fearless advocates 7ho came to us the past winter, at an early tage of the meetings. Mir. s. one evening ''There may be things not in &C., ordance with my habits or individual taste mong the new workers, but throwing all bought of such considerations aside, I can sjoice to join shoulder to shoulder with lem in seeking to overthrow this gigantic ViI." Oh! for the time when the mem- CTS of the churches in Great Darlington : nall with one heart and voice arise to the Osition occupied by the pastors here! An i ttendant on these weekly meetings, one s sposed to an hor est pleasure in them, but , ot much accustomed to such off hand fa- iliarlty one with another. remarked, There is something that will interfere with ( le success of those meetings" "What is i '" was questioned. A tendency to run ,e another. Give an instance. Not be. 7 g acquainted with names of all it was i