Morning journal and courier., 1885-05-12
CONGRESS OF CHURCHES.

The Opening Session Last Night at |
 Hartford Governor Harrison's Ad- l
 dress of Welcome The Proceed |
 fngs.
 The American Congress of Churches began | it's meeting for 1885 last evening at Hart | ford. The session was at Allyn Hall. Gov | ernor Harrison, of Connecticut, the presi- | dent, presided and made the following | address,:
 This is the first meeting of the American Congress of Churches
 You have come hither from every part of the country. You represent various denomi nations of Christians, You differ from each other in opinion in many particulars, and in very important particulars. But you agree with each other in the fundamental faith, which is the salvation, the strength and hope of men and of States, and you agree in the one great design of advancing, as best you can, the growth of the kingdom of God upon earth.
 You are to discuss high themes I shall not venture to touch upon any one of them. But beg leave to express my profound sympathy with the purposes with which you have in view, and my hope that those pur- poses may be, in part, at least, here by you accomplish ed.
 It was a happy accident, think, if it was an accident, which led you to meet first ill Connecticut. For it is the highest distinc- tion of this ancient commonwealth that she sprang into existence with the declaration of her faith in God upon her lips. The archives of heraldry contain no nobler legend than the motto of Connecticut-"Qu transtulit sustinet." To him she looked in the beginning. In him she then resolved to trust forever; and wherever her shield or her flag has been displayed she has repeated, day by day, from generation to generation, the unchanging confession of her unchangeable faith.
 Out of that faith have grown the benign laws, the peaceful and orderly society, the noble public institutions of education, ref ormation and charity which illustrate here, perhaps as wildly as anywhere on earth, the power and the glory of the Christian ideas in the organization and development of the State.
 One whose words are warmer and more eloquent than mine will welcome you to Connecticut and to the homes and hearts of the people of this most beautiful and hospitable city.
 The following were chosen officers of the meeting of 1885: President, His Excellency Governor Henry B. Harrison, New Haven. Vice-presidents, Rev. Lyman Abbott, D. D., Cornwall, New York; Bishop Edward
 e tan, 6 hndreys c' MT. D. W. D. H. TssRiag Bsid~ig,
 Boston; Mr. James G. Patterson, Hartford, Hon. Richard M Bishop, Cincinnati Mr. Cephas Brainerd, New York; Hon. John R. Buck, Hartford Rev. Nathaniel J. Burton, D. D., Hartford; President James H. Car !isle, 1, IL. D., sPartanbqrg, s. C.; Pres, college, Pa; Hon. David Clark, Hartford, Ct.; Hon. J. L. M. Curry, D. D., IL. D., Richmond, Va; Hon. Henry L. Dawes, IL. D., Pittsfeld, Mass; Rev. Henry M Dexter, D. D., Boston; Hon. Charles D. Drake, IL. D., Washington; Rev Joseph L. Duryea, D. D., Boston; Hon. George F. Ed T. Pur1i Mr Dana P Eells, Cleveland, O.; Hon. Clinton B. Fisk, seabright, N. J.; Bishop Cyrus D. Foss, DID,, IL. D., Minneapolis, Minn. Rev. John Fulton, D. D., St. Louis; Rev. Washington Gladden., D. D., Columbus, O.; Rt Rev. Samuel s. Harris, D. D., Detroit; ticus G. Haygood, D. D., IL. D., Oxford, Ga. Rev President R. D. Hitchcock, ,D.D., LL.D., New York; Rt- Rev. M. A. DeWolf Howe, D. D., Reading, Pa.; Hon. Oliver Hoyt, Stamford, Ct,; Hon. Frederick J: Kings
 bury, Waterbury, Ct;; Hon John D. ard Newton, D. D., Philadelphia; Hon. F. A. Palmer, New York; Mr. Thomas w. Phillips, New Castle, Pa.; Albert H. Plumb, D. D., Roxbury, Mass; Rev. President Noah Porter, D. D., IL. D., New Haven, Conn.,;
 Rev. James M Pullman, D. D., New York; E. G. Robinson, D. D., IL. D., Provi- dence, R. l.; Rev. s. S. Seward; New York; Hon. Nathaniel Shipman, Hartford;
 MT. Roswell Smith, New York; Rev. Presi- I dent George Williamson Smith, D. D., Hart ford; Rev. Richard I. Storrs, D. D., IL. D., Rev. William Thompson, D. D., Hartford, Ct; Rt Rev. Daniel L. Futile, D. D., Salt Lake City, Utah. Hon. William H. Upson, Akron, Ohio; Rev. George L. Walker, D. D., Hartford, Ct.; Bishop Henry w. Warren, D. D., Denver, Colorado. Local secretaries, I.,r Cn,1 Tox,1 Pax To1- ~ ,1>o11 1 Mr. John c. Kinney, MT. Gilbert Gates ! Moseley. Local committee, Rev. Edwin.P. Parker, chairman; Rev. Messrs. William F. | Nichols, Joseph H. Twitchell, Francis Good | win, George M. Stone, J. Aspinwall Hodge, | William H. Dearborn, Llewel1yn Pratt, Sam I Robinson, William B. Franklin, James L. ! Howard, Charles Dudley Warner, A. C. Dun ' ham, Frank W. Cheney, Rodney Dennis, John 0. Parsons, Jacob l.. Greene, R. R. | Lattimore.
 ! Following is the council: Rev Joseph Rev. Henry M. Booth, D. D., Englewood, N. J.; Rt. Rev. Thomas NJ. Clarke, D. D., IL. D., Providence, R. l.; Rev. F. w. Conrad | D. D., Philadelphia; Hon. Jus
 tin Dewey, Great Harrington, Mass. :;
 Mr. James Francis, Pitts6eld, Mass; Rev Chauncey Giles, Philadelphia; Rev. Charles ! H. Hamlin, Easthampton, Mass; Rev. John
 Henry Hopkins, D. D., Williamsport, Penn. i; Rev. Jonathan L. Jenkins, Pittsfeld, Mass; Rev. President D. A. Long, Yellow Springs, O.; Rev Daniel Merriman, D. D., Worcester, Mass; Rev. William Wilberforce Newton, secretary, Pittsfeld, Mass; Rev.
 William Ormiston, D. D., New York; Rev. Andrew P. Peabody, D. D. ILL. D., Cam ! bridge, Mass; Rev. J. O. Peck, D. D., New ! Haven, Ct.; MT. Anson D. E. Randolph, Rev. Charles s. Robinson, D. D., New York; Rev.
 George Skene, Springfield, Mass; Rev.
 Jesse B. Thomas, D. D., Brooklyn; Rev. J. M.
 Twiner, Pittsfeld, Mo; Hon. Francis Way
 land, IL. D., New Haven, Conn; Professor
 William Wells, IL D., Schenectady, N. Y.;
 Rev. Theodore c. Williams, New York Ex-
 ecutive committee, Rev. Joseph Anderson,
 D. D., chairman; MT. James Francis, Rev
 Charles H. Hamlin, Rev. Jonathan L. Jenk-
 ins Rev. Daniel Merriman, D. D., Rev. Will
 liam Wilberforce Newton, secretary, Rev.
 George Skene.
 The discussion assigned for the opening
 session was "The relations of divided
 Christendom to aggressive Christianity. J
 The speakers on this theme were Rev. How
 ard Crosby of New York, Rev Dr. Hopkins
 of Williamsport, Pa., and Rev. MT. Power of n