Morning journal and courier., 1882-06-05
The Churches.

Utterances from the City PuIpits-Itev.
DIR. Newman Smyth's Letter of Accepts
ance to Center Church.
At Center church yesterday Prof. Ladd
preached morning and afternoon two very
acceptable sermons. The following letter of
acceptance of the passionate of Center church
from Rev. DR.. Newman Smyth, of Quincy,
Illinois, was read by Rev. E. E. Atwater:
REV. DIR. sMYTH's LETTER.
QUINCY, ILL.,, May 80, 1882.
To the First Church and Society in New Ha-
ven:
Brethren and Friends-Your invitation to
become your pastor, with the record of the
church and the Ecclesiastical society, has been
duly communicated to me. I rejoice that
after long deliberation 1 can now accept your
call with my whole heart Your invitation
and Christian endorsement, coming to me as
they did under circumstances of peculiar mis-
representation and trial, laid me at once I'M
der grateful obligation. While for longer
time than [ had anticipated or desired I have
been compelled to wait the will of God in my
life to become plain before me, being bur
dened with the responsibility of a decision
from which [ would gladly have been re-
ieved, and where I felt a mistake on my
part might involve consequences far tran
scending any merely personal loss or gain,
and possibly imperil religious interests of su-
preme Importance, your patience and for
bearance during these weeks of waiting have
increased my confidence in committing to
your help and sympathy my own future work,
now that with good conscience [ can &C.
cept your call as an opportunity of labor
given to me by the great head of the church.
AS expressive of my own feeling you will
permit me to use, not without reverence for
the father and friend who has SO lately been
translated from you, these words in which
DR.. Bacon ffty-seven years ago accepted the
solemn responsibilities which you have now
asked me to assume: II may have erred in
IoloWlng what I supposed To laa the e,'iaine
hand of Providence; and the probability OF
such an error when we think of it in its con.
nection with the prosperity of the church
and with your own eternal interests is enough
to make us tremble. Whether I have beer
thus mistaken We know not now, but we shall
know hereafter, in the day when all secret
things shall be revealed"
Hoping that by the grace of God may be
able to maintain our common loyalty to those
great evangelical faithsy which were dear tc
the fathers, in that spirit of conscientious in
dependence and teachabieness of mind AND
heart which DIR. Bacon illustrated and pre-
served to the last, and asking your prayers
for the divine guidance and for Gods bless
ing upon us all, I am your brother and friend
in Christ. NEWMAN SMYTH
THIRD CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH.
A correspondent says Rev. DIR. Denner
preached yesterday afternoon from the text
"Grow in grace and in the knowledge of the
Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ" It was one
of the eloquent and impressive discourses fol-
which DR.. Dennen is distinguished. He com
menced by saying that grace was not neces
sarlly spiritual quality. Grace of form and
manner and speech may be without religious
motives. The apostle, however, joins them
together and insists upon true grace as the
result of Christian principle. The different
kinds of growth were then Observation-Disclosures
al intellectual, moral and spiritual. The ne.
cessity of growth, its wonderful transform.
lug power was then spoken of. To hide our
ignorance we call this principle life, but it
cannot be satisfactorily explained. The doc
trIne of perfection, except as an ideal finds
no favor with DR.. Dennen; when peaches
are perfect they begin to rot To grow in
the Christian graces we must be constantly
growing In the knowledge of Christ. The
sermon abounded with many beautiful figures
and illustrations connected with the subject
and the springtime OF the year.
NORTH CHURCH
This third successive rainy Sunday dimin-
ished somewhat the attendance at the North
church. The inspiring music, the impressive
prayers and sermon richly satisfied the soul
thirst and hunger of the hearers On the
altar table in front Of the pulpit small white
vase filled with the graceful sprays of white
bell flowers set in their broad bright green
leaves (ilies of the Valley lent pleasing
look to the sacred place. For his text the
pastor, DR.. Halves, read from the new YER
sion, Matthew iv., 23d to 25th verses: And
Jesus went about in all Galilee, teaching in
their synagogues and preaching the
gospel of their kingdom healing all
manner of disease and all manner of
sickness among the people, and the report of
him went forth into all Syria; holden with
divers diseases and torments, possessed with
devils and epileptic and palsied, and he
healed them. And then followed him great
multitudes from Galilee, Decapolis, Jerusa-
lem, India and from beyond Jordan" These
words of the great teacher make known the
gospel of Jesus Christ. To minister to the
sick and the needy, to relieve bodily and
mental suffering, to show the way, the truth
and the life. Gods love and condescension
to suffering humanity, apparent in our Saw
lour's life and death on earth, was set forth
in the sermon very clearly and earnestly.
Our low, pitiable and lost estate without the
gospel was shown in strong contrast with the
blessings and happiness confessed by Chris
tianity Sin is the cause of all our woe
Christ's atoning sacrifice the only remedy.
Good attendance at the Bible and Sunday
school service in the afternoon. The choir
singing and that of the school was of the
best.
PRAISE SERVICE.
A praise service was held last evening at
half past six o'clock at the College street
church. The Choral orchestra assisted,
Prof. Fowler, musical director at the church,
presiding at the piano. A quartette also as
sisted. 1t was extra service, and was
much enjoyed by a large congregation.
Revisiting Ger many.
DR.. r. II. Chittenden, of Yale S. S., sailed
Saturday on the steamship Donan, of the
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