Morning journal and courier., 1881-07-14
met and joined hands together. Dr. Stone

met and joined hands together. LIT. stone closed eloquently.
 The chairman most happily welcomed and introduced Rev. Mir. Evsrts, the new pastor of the South Baptist church, Hartford, 8 young, round, full-cheeked, well-built, light haired and pleasing gentleman. His address and manner are engaging. His language does not flow in torrent and overflow like the New York professors who preceded, but l is deliberate, thoughtful and favorous of something good to come. He alluded to some of the theological characteristics of the Baptists and to the glorious hberty-loving, Notwithstanding spirit which glorified the history of the Baptists as denomination. ! The Baptist forefathers contended for free dom of worship, freedom of Church and State. He alluded to other honorable deeds and words of Baptists in the behalf of relig- | ious and civil liberty. And these principles were just as true, glorious and inspiring to- day as ever These Baptist principles were now a part of the current opinion of the day. | One source of strength in the present is in- dividualism Every Baptist is 8 force, power in the world. The speaker gave an ! example of the self-denying power of the Baptist clergymen In the mission heid ID lne | West. Then again there is no chance in the
 Baptist church for worldly ambition. Then ! a source of our strength was progressive | ecclesiastical condition. We are ready to lead the van of new thought. Another force | is our conservatism. The great anchor or our hope lies in the fact that there is a book that we reverence not book of hlsto- ry. but of power divine, because of it's work I in our hearts. Another point of strength IS \ the union in the denomination that prevails
 east and west, north and south. We are united we are one people. The points of | II, T hot we are not liberal enough. don't know how | it is here in Connecticut, but it is so else- | where. Again.. we want to encourage our educational institutions. More money is re- quired. A remarkable advance has been ours
 of late. May we go forward.
 The chair promised to MT. Everts his glad ness that he had come and assured Mir Everts that the brethren of Connecticut were liberal and whole souled though not perfect. He now introduced Brother Dickinson, edit or of the Religious Herald of Richmond, Va,
 who was specially welcomed. With modest
 predatory remarks, tinged with humor, he referred to travelling on the way here with a
 Roman Catholic editor. who expressed the
 thought that the Baptists were at one end of the religious cord and the Roman Catholic
 church at the other. The speaker then pro-
 ceeded to bespeak greater work by the lay
 men and the putting of every man to work.
 There was good brother who couldn't raise
 Ia tune nor lead in prayer. SThe preacher in
 Ia happy moment placed him at the door to
 raise his cane and keep the dogs out of the
 meeting house in service time. Thus the pastor found place for the helper, who mag
 nified his place. Iaughter.)
 | A deacon took for his text, q am deter
 mined to know nothing,'' leaving off-he getting badly broken up, being new to the l effort-the balance of the sentence, and after repeating several times this fragment of
 scripture in great confusion finally flung up
 his hands and exclaimed that be was troubled
 with the same complaint which Paul had-he
 knew nothing and would sit down. With
 other applicable stories pointing moral, ef-
 fectually stated, the speaker closed, specially
 pleading for special effort to build up the
 colleges how $16O, ,00O had been
 raised for Richmond College lately and how the last wing was to be put|up. The speaker
 spoke with vigor of the complete success he had in getting $5, ,OOO from liberal Connec- ticut Baptist c. B. Hoyte$2,5O for each of two objects-and in getting in all $13, ,OOO lately in Connecticut for the college He
 closed with an appeal and a humorous addi-
 tion, creating much merriment.
 Mr. Howard most pleasantly intro
 duced Rev. MT. Garten, of Meriden, who was closed with fine address by Rev. Dr. l Morehouse of New York.
 Officers were elected for the ensuing year ] as follows
 President-James [. Howard, Hartford.
 | Vice presidents-Edwin s. Wheeler, New Haven ! James B. Hoyt, Stamford
 l Directors-James W. Manning, Putnam Ebenezer Morgan, Groton James Lockwood4 Hartford; J. F. Collins, Norwich {; J. L. Amber, Norwich; James Fairman, New Haven; Edward Miller, Meriden :; Marshall E. Morris, Bridgeport.