Morning journal and courier., 1885-08-17
Monday. August 1s, 1885.
FAIR HAVEN.

At The First Ohurch-The Grant Me.
 morial Address By Rev. BurdetS
 Hart Interesting Words - A Large Consregation-The General News.
 Rev. Burdett Hart delivered Grant me .v.. ,rial sermon at the First church yesteroay mon ming before a large congrega@1,9n, @ Loaohed l .-o the first time MT. Hart had preacneo :o. his return from his vacation trip, ana oitho,,, rh somewhat late, his parlshloners 1vere sa ,xious to hear memorlal serhon' RelovV are a number of extracts from the ser mon: e: -o5+ ,f or
 ,e,ioan life. With all that there has nec- assarilv been of mere worldliness, of personal eraJ seifish effort over the past of our people, . vein of heroism has run throughout all o,. history as @ vein of gold might be woven into cloth of homespun. The tath- CTS invaded wilderness, ana on tne ioisaned aed hnnting grounds of savage races they soWeo tbe seeds of 8 cultured civilization; CsrpanallC barbarian has been pushed hack from the coasts and the products or | refned and religious life have been galned | for a c1raat people. Brawn and brain nave ,,,a,Ied t<,oether to plant the nation. Hard | and steady work day after day and year after | vear has been a necessity of our experience. | HrLa wilderness had to be subdued. lmagl- l nation could not do it. Philosophy was l nowerless before that task. Only stalwart | arr,s con1d do it. So the forces that nave
 
 1vorkino persistent pioneers. But from these l have come forth the two supreme characters | of an aoe the two men of most heroic mould, l whose names not only the present. Piaces
 foremost but who will survive as our great
 est men in the history of the ruIure. 1.1N q.
 end Grant dissinsilar men who were alike III | inc solidity of their success, men who were
 proyidently fitted for each other ana iof 'ile
 crises which developed them. ,o1,
 sIGeneral Grant was the man tor ms epocn s-n
 t,rv school. but that did not counteract tne | ed1catiou he had previously recelveo ano
 uhicb cave him sympathy with the peo
 ,ia in their building, amidst hardships ano
 peculiar obstacles of great nation lie hao
 had some experience of wal, but the long prev
 aIance of peace had made him unused to bat 1 t1efelds. Nevertheless, when the peril came | when armed and defiant and advancing re l bellien threatened to destroy the nat1ona | i;fa and to make all the labor and sacrifice oi
 tbe fathers vain thing, he gently and lntein gently offered his service for contest Wnfcl 1 he foresaw would straln an tne ro'o'i.o0 '- | great people.
 esWhen. at length, the surrender came
 General Grant proved himself to be as grea 1, in victory as he had been in'war He re
 turned the surrendered sword to Genera Ice He permitted the Confederates to re | tain their arms; he said they would have need of their horses for spring ploughing. H' yyould not enter the rebel capitol. There wa : no arrogance in his manner, no oltterness II 2 his terms He wanted the Union7to be restored | with cordiality. @ stFor two successive terms he honestly ant > ! with wisdom presided over the affairs ot | vast and progressive people. No doubt, Q made mistakes, but that showed that he wa q ! human. That he was deceived by others = ! that his counsellors were not always Wlsel | chosen were incidents of his positions |, In speaking about General Grants man = cial troubles Mr. Hart among other thing l said:
 f. thing but himself. Amidst the wreck of hi nj fortune and his hopes and the resources L his age he stood alone. Himself sufV1Ve Y | and out of what he was he determined to It g. ! trieve his losses and to provide for his ram T ly. Opposed as he always had been to sa uu anything of himself he was determined | le | sacrifice himself for those whom he loved i'd His memoirs held his fortune. His life WI !, the mine from which wealth could De pro to duced.
 ,n ssThe moral and religious character "a Grant is of the profoundest interest to h It. fellow citizens. We would know, II we ma IT, that this noble life is perpetuated in high na n spheres and in divine service. All ute as ance from those who have known him be " have been searchingly scrutinized to find e it's l idence that he was indeed Christian. ill ! was regular in his attendance upon d1v1 I3H service and was most interested nearer
 the word The home life of General Gra . was delightful in it's simplicity and affectio
 ateness. Love bound all ot It's members ee gether. The general was a true husband al .~ father He was never so happy as when - was with his wife and children.
 "Obsequies such as in no other 1nstan M | have been accorded mortal man have sl
 nalized his burial The North and the Sout le the soldiers and the generals ot the nation rvs l and Confederate armies made citizens or o common country in sympathy with his sr !, l ferinos and death stood uncovered by
 grave Westminster Abbey, the mausoleu es of the distinguished dead of the worle
 l greatest nation, was crowded with lllustr1o le Englishmen to hear his eulogy pronounc , amongst the shrines of great commando V, who are dead and in hearing of great col IF | manders who are living. Southern han . draped in mourning the house at Appom' i' tox where General Lee surrendered to Ge 'e eral Grant. So, in the sublimities of Il IS pressive results, the victories or ms oea a were vaster than the victories of his life" E. Y. Gale, of this place, has sold t - Rogers House on State street, Meriden,
 John A. Tuttle of Wallingford.
 Miss Hattie Hemingway of North Quinn
 piac street is visiting friends in Spr1ngnel
 Mass.
 :. I was reported very low and fears were ent ta ta tained that he would not recover. it Misses Hattie and Louise Crossley, W he were injured by being thrown from a c riage last Saturday afternoon, were bet
 yesterday.
 : Early yesterday morning Miss Jane He os. otS ingway died at the home of her sister, M D. G. P. Futile, on South Quinnipiac stre ot; aged seventy-four years. Her death was ITS result of heart disease. The deceased wa! !. sister of Deacon Willis Hemingway and les I Allen Huntley and sister-in-law to MT Sa or uel Hemingway. She had been affiict nre with heart disease for some time, but CTS | death was not expected. .
 E. A. Gonchet, formerly station mas
 here, is on from Hartford for few da
 visit among friends.
 .,,o Rev. H. W. Loomis preached before Ia
 congregation at the Second church yestert
 morning. It is expected that he will pre-
 there next Sunday.
 T The temperance address of s. c. John at the rink yesterday afternoon interes many people.
 Dr. $. D. Gilbert goes to the Adironda
 tomorrow His wife has been there
 some little time.P
 Mrs E. G. Munsell, once proprietor of Phoenix House and stepmother of Landl | l Munsel of the Fair Haven Hotel, was bul Si ! ;o uvho she died