Morning journal and courier., 1888-11-05

then became the pastor of the new Memorial l church in Springfield, Mass, with which he l remained until his death, in the early part of ! the present year. He is still 50 well remem. bered by many of you, that it is hardly neces- sary to sketch his character as pastor. In- deed, it would be difficult to do it in few words. Coming here in his youth, quick, bright, energetic, determined, active, fearless, 8 little pugnacious, an excellent man ot bus1- ness, cIear-sighted, and of good judg- ment, not perhaps too much inclined to con- ciliate, Warm-hearted and affectionate, he
 made 6 multitude of friends and incurred, as
 was natural, some opposition, hardly dislike, for it was hardly possible to know him and
 not like him. In his later years he became
 celebrated through the country as champion
 of orthodoxy in connection with the Andover
 troubles. And perhaps the idea of him
 which good many have is that he was
 fighter. But there was never anything ill.,
 natuIed about him; and in the last years of
 his life his character wonderfully ripened and
 mellowed and his spirituality deepened The
 relations between him and your present pas
 tor were always of the most cordial kind. He
 seldom came to New Haven without coming
 to see me, and was often at his house. Our
 exchanges were frequent; we often talked
 over confidentially the matters in which we
 were interested in common. was very fond
 of him and mourned his loss as 8 personal
 one. It was my hope that he would live to
 be present on this occasion; but he died sud-
 denly in his study several months ago. At
 the last service which he attended, only few
 hours before, he expressed the wish that he
 might pass away in that manner. His fune-
 ral was attended in his church by great
 multitude of people and ministers from far and near.
 Your present pastor was installed Septem-
 Der 15, 1869, coming to you from the Central church in Boston, of which he had been pas tor nearly ten years.
 &I,aks years of it's existence this church has had only five pastors, that the two last pastorates cover period ot forty years, very remarkable fact in these days of change, and that of all the pastors and ex-pasters am the sole sur vivor.
 find that besides the pastors there have been sixteen ministers connected with the church. Some of these have been students in the seminary, temporarily sojourntng with us, but others have been young men trained up for the ministry in our own families. Their names are Edward E. Atwater, Edward s. Dwight, Judson A. Root, Wm. Whittelsey, Nathan Douglass, Aaron M. Hills, 5. Lee Hillyer, Melvin c. Wood, H. B. Mead. Joseph H. Isham, Chauncey J. Richardson, E. Clar- ence Oakley, Edward D. Kelsey, Charles s. Leeper, Oscar s. MoIntire and John Pierpont. The church has had just twenty deaooDs. Of these seven have resigned-Charles Bost- wick, Nathaniel Olmstead, Smith Merwin, Sylvester E. Waterbury, Henry N. Whittel- sey Hiram A. Gray and Burritt Mauville. Of these only one, Hiram A. Gray, is now living. Five have died in offce-Isaac Mix, Morris Tyler, Alfred s. Grant, J. Minot Au- gur and George Darrow. Eight are now off ciating. The beloved Deacon Mix was 8 pattern officer. His purity of life and character, his benevolence and kind, meas, his devotion to his duties. endeared him to multitudes. In many homes his name is still as ''oiniment poured forth" I often .zl1 l. oI1a Tyler was greatly respected as an officer. His manner was dignifed. his Judgment good, his liberslity noble. At one time he gave five thousand dollars for the building of this edi- fee, and in his will he left five hundred dol lars, the interest of which was to be given to l the poor of the church. Deacon Darrow was greatly beloved. It was his delight to be- stow his services whenever there was any hard work to be done. To watch the church building and see that everything was in or der, to lend helping hand on every occas- ion, to participate in all the services, was his delight. Of the living officers I will not speak, except to say that our present senior officer has served through almost the entire fifty years, having been elected only one year
 and fifteen days after the organization, though he was at one time absent for some years
 from the city. He still enjoys comfortable
 and is with us to day. Until 1874 the des-
 cons were elected for life. But in the year
 mentioned a change was made and deacons
 were elected for five years. Thus far, how
 ever, the change has been merely nominal one, reelection having invariably taken place.
 The whole number of members has
 been 1701. Of these 641 have been males and 1060 females; 987 have joined by let ter and 714 on profession. Of the whole number 314 have died in the communion of the church, 790 have been dismissed to other churches and 65 have been removed by disci- pline, chiefly by withdrawal of fellowship. The present membership is, therefore, 532, of
 whom 1S1 are males, 351 are females; 238
 joined by letter, 294 on profession. Of the
 present members almost two-thirds have
 joined the church during the present pasto- rate. Several times the church has enjoyed more or less powerful reViVaIs. There was unusual interest during the short pastorate of Mir. Cotton, and quite a number were added to the church while he was on his dying bed. In 1S41 there was en extensive revival under the ministry of Mir. Thompson; 1O2 were add ed to the church. During the last pastorate 150 were added in the year 1959-more than hundred ct one communion-and again 57 in 1866. During the present pnstorate there
 were "A added in 1876 and again, only two years later, 71 in 1878.
 Dr. Todd then spoke Of the methods by
 which money was raised by the church and of it's satisfactory working. The average
 amount raised is $7,0o0 yearly. He told of
 the original Chapel street church, describing
 it. Immediately after the present past
 took charge the church, as it now is, cQd ."or
 $125, GOO was built. The debt has @cSsnng
 Sbapos Sba1Ssd iT9m 9 cRaPs place the church oh
 took the s- o.. a.4e and took the name and
 pliese h- one which it now bears. As no ap
 nSstion was made to the legislature for the i change of the name it is really yet the Chapel na1 U made to the weekly prayer meetings, the mis- | sion school, the Young Peoples societies and their various societies.
 The RemInIseenee Meeting in she Evening.
 A reminiscence meeting in honor of the 6ftieth anniversary of the Church of the Re-