Litchfield enquirer., 1879-02-27
Washington.

Washington.
 Accidents upon the Shepaug Railroad arr
 getting to be the rule instead of the exception
 It would seem that the corporation was hardl, strong enough to take the course they do SC independent and careless of the public conven
 fence. A very little extra exertion and ord
 nary enterprise would insure the people along the line that a single car off the track should not rob them of the mails for a season of twen ty-four hours AS long as the locomotive is clear and ready for service the common rule of railway management should suggest that the mails or any chance passengers, who might be on board the train should be forwarded at once on the engine, if no cars can be pressed into the service. Passengers will put up with a great deal of discomfort rather than be delayed along the road, and this duty becomes still more imperative when as in this case only one train per day is attempted to be run. People have learned to submit to the necessities of the company and acquiesce in their determination not to run passenger train during the inclem- ency of the winter season. But in view of the lack of enterprise on the part of the company l in not striving harder to make their single mixed train more reliable, there is serious talk here of reviving the old stage line between l here and New Milford. If mail contract can | be obtained there is no doubt that the stage will he mt an There arc two proioo+o agitated, one tc run direct from Washington to New Milford and the ether to run stage to New Preston and connect with the line already established between that point and New Mil ford. Is it quite reasonable to expect a rail- road force, cut down to the minimum required for single 'mixed'' train day, to incnr the heavy extra expense trunk line" would no doubt incur for the speedy transmission of mails and passengers ED. ENQl
 The lyceum meeting, last week, was en- barrassed by the unfavorable state of the wealth CT. Still fair number assembled and in the absence of the regular disputants volunteers debated with some spirit the equestion, 'Resoved that ministers of the Gospel should not engage in politics" There is nc doubt that the origi nators of the question intended to so word it as to bring up the prepriety of clergymen en- gazing as partisans in politics as they are now conducted in our state and national elections hut the language of the resolution did not actu- ally forbid the interpretation on our side that ministers might perhaps be even excluded from the right of suffrage in exciting elec- tiens, for fear that they might impair their in- fluence on religious matters. It thus happens that large majority favored the side of the largest liberty and so the question was decided by President Logan. A new feature in the proceedings at this meeting was the introduc- tion of the first number of the lyceum paper "The Litchteld County Be-" A. G. Baker and Mrs. w. J. Ford, Editors. It abounded in sharp hits and the usual variety of news, tele- graphic and local. The prospectus proposed by Mir. Baker was an ingenious, witty and comprehensive unfolding of the plans of the publisher both practical and imaginary. The reading of the paper occupied about an hour, and all present recognized the fact that the weekly issue of "1'he Bee' would add much to the interest of the lyceum.-This week comes the representation of the new play My Broth CTS Keeper by the Dramatic association. They nave fixed upon Friday night, the 18th, at the Hall, and have rated ahe price of tickets as follows. Regular admission % cents, re- served seats B cents in body of tho house, and in the gallery 50 cents
 The concert by the Woodbury and Judea musical societies for the benefit of Dr. Fowler will come off Wednesday night, March 5th. EVANGELISM The readers of the Enquirer will please correct all errors in our last which your type-setter made. The great Awakening of 1740-50 was styled by two associations in this State ''as glorious work of God, and doubtless was the preservative of pure religion in this country for the next forty years Nev- ertheless it was attended and followed by many excesses and extravagancies It gave rise to the New Lights, or Separatists, by whom many churches were rent assunder, and produced alterations whicE lasted for more than generation. On account of these ex- cesses, a council of ministers, from all parts of the State, met at Guilford, and pronounced it disorderly for a minister to go into another parish and preach without the consent of the minister and church in that parish. The Gen. eral Assembly of this State passed an act con- frming it, and in addition making it penal offence for any one not ordained to teach or preach without like permission, on penalty of being sent out of the colony The four church. es and pastors in Ancient Woodbury favored the work, and the church in Bethlehem, in op- position to the act of the Assembly, passed the following: "Voted, by the church in Beth lehem, general and universal invitation to all approved orthodox ministers and preachers of the gospel, that manifestly appear friends to the present religious concern in the land, that they would as they have opportunity, come in to the help of the Lord among us. , The vote was concurred in by the pastor. That great work under God, was carried on manly by outside evangelical labors. An ob- servatien of, and experience in revivals, for more than fifty years, has led us to the follow ing conclusions: 1st-A revival of pure relig-
 ion is the work of God, and not of man, and He prepares the way for it, produces it, and carries it forward, using such agencies and in. strumentalities as He pleases, choosing the weak things of this world to oonfound the things that are mighty, that no flesh should glory in themselves. 2d-A revival of true religion is generally preceded by, and given 1T answer to earnest prayer by christians, and by renewed consecration to God, who deigns te
 use them as instruments in the conversion o
 others. Our first knowledge of evangelica
 work commenced with the labors of the Rev
 Dr. Nettleton, in this county, more or les from 1913 to 1926, mostly in places where there was no settled paster. He was first in
 vited by Rev. Dr. Beecher to labor in Milton where his labors were greatly blessed. Fron
 there he went to South Farms, where great