Morning journal and courier., 1885-05-04

| Town Agent Reynolds continues to improve.
| He will not be able to be out for several days
yet. Last evening he was feeling much bet
| ter.
Mr.. Cecil L. Smith, for year or two past
connected with the Commercial Hotel, has
received and accepted position as steward
of the Grand Union Hotel and enters upon
| the dnties of his position at once
Mr.. Fl. A. Bates, of Buffalo, interested
| with Mr.. Bunnell in the show business, was.
| guest of Mr. Bunnell yesterday.
General F. D. Sloat and wife leave for St.
| Louis tomorrow.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. W. Morren left for the
| West Saturday intending to locate there par.
,manently.
Mr.. James R. Craig, since Dec. 4, 1889,
business manager of the News, and who has
resigned the position, sails for Galveston,
| Texas, this week for the improvement of his
health.
| Mr.. George E. Bearn, telegraph editor of
| the Union for nine years, is trip to
| Washington and Richmond, to be absent
| about month.
Mr.. John H. North, of o. B. North & Co.,
is fast improving.
| Mr. William j. Rathgeber and Miss Nellie
| Hitchcock will be married May IS.
| Fred King, of this city, is back from Flori-
| da, where he has been all winter in the no.
| tel business. He goes to Litchfeld for the
summer.
Church Notes.
At Trinity M. E. church yesterday morn
| ing seven new members were received by let
| ter and four on probation. The ordinance of
| baptism was administered to two of the num-
Der. One of the number received by letter
| was ninety-three years of age and has been
consistent member of the Methodist church
for seventy eight years.
The Rev. E. J. H. Van Deerlin preached
at Christ church yesterday morning from
the text, "And yet I say unto you that even
Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like
one of these" Sixth chapter of st. Matthew
and the goth verse. The offertory cover the
Stars is Rest was very finely rendered by
Mr.. R. w. Mills The congregation was very
| large and listened with wrapt attention to
the discourse
UNITED CHURCH.
Professor George P Fisher of Yale con-
Quoted the services of the United church at
the communion season in the forenoon and
the preaching service at evening. He gave
two instructive and interesting sermons.
Three infants were baptized and one young
man received into the church on profession of
his faith The solemn ordinances were of ex-
ceeding interest. The church was filed.
The orphans and their teachers We're present.
The quartette choir rendered the service of
song with beautiful harmony and marked eff
feet The new voices are very fine
CHURCH OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
In compliance with the request of the New
Haven Sunday observance committee Rev.
Phebe A. Hanaford preached in the morning
from the words, eye shall keep my Sabbath
and reverence my sanctuary; I am the
Lord. Lev. XVI, g. Mrs. Hanaford, with
other suggestions, argued that it was at once
privilege and duty to attend public wor-
ship and added: ''It is well for children to
be early trained in habits of church going.
The Sunday school should not take the place
of the public services of the sanctuary. The
one should supplement the other
A larger audience than usual was present,
and much interest was manifested in the dis
course.
In the evening Mrs. Hanaford gave the
first of course of sermons showing that
some of the most prominent preachers of
England have expressed sentiments in accor-
dance with those views of the accomplish |
ment of Christs mission held by Universal |
lists. She cited the language of Rev. Stop |
ford A. Brooke in his book FtChrist in Mod |
ern Life, and will next refer to Canon Kings |
ley. Rev. j. 81. Amies assisted in the open
ing exercises