Morning journal and courier., 1885-12-17
INSTALLATION SERVICES.

Rev. William J. Mutch Ordained as
 Pastor of the Howard Avenue Con
 gresational Church-Rev. Dr. Mum
 ger Breaches.
 The Howard Avenue Congregational church was crowded last evening during the ordination services of the Rev. William J. Mutch as pastor of that church. The exercises opened with an anthem ''It is 8 good thing to give thanks to God," sung by the church choir, after which Rev. Spencer H. Bray, of the Humphrey street church, read the minutes of the council, which took place in the afternoon, and at which MT. Mutch presented his statement of belief, which was thoroughly orthodox and con- tained no ideas not already recognized as part of the Congregational faith. MT. Mutch's statement was satisfactory to the council He is graduate of the Yale Theo- logical seminary and has been preaching at the Howard avenue church for the past six months. Rev. A. P. Miller, of this city, made the invocation last evening and read from the scriptures, beginning at Matthew xiii i after which the choir sung the hymn the first verse of which reads:
 Come, kingdom of our God, Sweet reign of light and love! Shed peace and hope and joy abroad, And wisdom from above.
 Rev. T. T. Munger of the United ch rch preached the sermon, taking for the basis the parables in Matthew xiii. During his very interesting address he said: Why does God permit evil? Over one hundred men to day are writing out it's answer, but no answer can be given simply because we cannot see ahead of the human being. Christ says sin comes of sin. Some say God is responsible for sin, but these are only the sinful who blaspheme. Christ says sin does not orig mate in God This we know by the uni versal tendency of God to forgive sin. Christ means to teach us to put good by itself, and to put sin by itself "An enemy hath done this, :" may be alleged, but sin exists. When man says,I sim be- cause am angry or for any such reason, he is in great danger. When man is found out in sin, the first thought is to destroy the man at once. Christ says let him stay; we are not rashly or quickly to exterminate the evil doer It is not Gcd's way to get rid of evil by destroying the evil doer But 1t is the easier way to get rid of evil by destroying the evil doer9 This suggestion seems wise at first thought. but the parables of Christ say it is better to allow evil to exist than to destroy the wheat While to exterminate evil belongs to us, to exterminate evil doers belongs to God. The fact exists that there are bad men in the churches But there are also some good ones. Fares may grow in wheat, but we will be no wheat; so we deny that because there are bad men in the churches there can be no good ones. In nearly every church there are thieves, drunkards and those who go there not for the sake of leading Christian life, but for the sake of business interests, and it is likewise true that there are good men in the church. And believe that there are many people in the churches of New En- gland who would walk up to the stake and be burned to death rather than deny God. Why evil exists we don't know, Eut it is said that goodness in vites evil, and that were it not but the problem of the world seems to be to build up goodness so as to crush out evil.
 The College street church quartette, con sisting of MT. Arthur Pierson tenor, MT. W. F. Mosher basso, Miss Helen A. Sanford soprano and Miss Sophia L. Northrop con- tralto, sang the anthem E'Lovely Appear" in a very pleasing manner, after which the Rev. Timothy Dwight, D. D., offered the ordain- ing prayer
 Rev. MT. Holden of Bridgeport, then offer ed the right hand of fellowship to the new pastor during which he said-my dear bro- ther, am most happy to perform the pleas ant duty of extending to you the right hand of fellowship this evening. I feel confident in welcoming you to this field of labor, that you will do your uttermost to carry out the work before you, to the best possible advsn- tage.
 The College street church choir sang the hymn:
 Here, lord of life and light to thee
 Our pilgrim fathers bowed the knee;
 
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 Rev. Dr. Twitchell, D. D., of the Dwight Place church in his charge to the pastor said: This is the real beginning of your Christian hsfeaf @ f5r that ffii 2 s frR profession, and also charge you to study the sacred words of God, to study yourself, to study men and how best to reach their hearts, and above all I charge you to believe in the conservation of children.
 Dr. McLape then made the charge to the people in a very eloquent manner, after which the Rev. MT. Bray pronounced the doxology and the exercises closed with bene- diction by the new pastor.
 The music of the occasion was by the Col lege street quartette and chorus choir, Prof. Fowler directing.