Morning journal and courier., 1889-03-18
FAIR HAVEN.

Jonah and she Wha1e-Rev. NIT. Good
 enough,s Dfscourse-A New Par-
 sonage-Temperance MeetIng-A Raf.
 he-Personal Notes-TtemS of General
 Interest.
 The Rev. A. Fl. Goodenough preached an excellent sermon last evening at the East Pearl street church from the subject "A Man in Difficulties" It was the third in his course of Sunday evening discourses on the gospel in the book of Jonah. Among other
 things MT. Goodenough said: "Jonah ran away. God sent out a storm to arrest and
 bring home his delinquent child. The tem-
 pest was severe and the ship was in danger.
 Jonah was considered the cause of the trou-
 ble, and at his own request he was thrown
 into the sea. The record says he was not
 drowned, but miraculously preserved. Per-
 haps this is the most singular episode in the
 history of man. Men have suggested all
 kinds of schemes to get out of the difficulty.
 Some of them are childish in the extreme.
 God prepared fish to swallow up Jonah.
 We do not surely question Gods ability to
 do that. The word 'Ketos,' used by our Lord
 in Matthew and translated 'whale,' means a
 great fish. God can use angels and winds and fish to do his bidding"
 There was nothing miraculous in fish swallowing a man, but to keep a man alive in such prison three days and three nights was miracle. In this prison Jonah became conscious of his position and cried un to the Lord. There are times when the only helI for man is to cry unto the Lord. Scepti- cism can't pray. It has no heart to prompt no God to hear. As the face indexes the ! mind and the eye the health, so 8 mans prayer indicates the faith, life of the soul s'The Lord spoke unto the fish," God speaks | to his whole creation and is answered. Al | Gods bidding the fish lands Jonah on dry l land. To rnn from God is to run into | trouble. Many men do not succeed. Why ' fhav in ha t1C place. Every life is calling. The question is, tWhat does God want me to dog"
 "A9ain God says: Go to Nineveh.' Ht went. His sermon was brief. Yet forty | days and Nineveh shall be destroyed. Worl ' was suspended and the people repented. Oh | Americal Ohi New Englandl It shall b. more tolerab1e for Nineveh than for thee." Edward s. Dayton rsff1ed off fine tandem | tricycle. the other night. He sold 15O tickets ] at $1 each. One man bought thirty-foul | tickets but did not win. The tricycle. went to New York man who invested one dollar ' only day or two before the drawing. The clock in the tower of the Grand ave nue school house is running again and Fail Haven knows what time of day it is once more.
 Mr. John Dorman of Stratford made tho temperance address at the Grand avenue Baptist church yesterday afternoon.
 Next Wednesday afternoon the Fair Ha ven branch of the W. c. T. U. will holc their annual meeting at the Grand avenue Baptist church. The meeting will begin al 2:3O D. m. and will be for the election of off. l cers. In the evening another meeting will | be held when there will be singing and reef. | tations by children of the Loyal legion l There will be free will offering and an ad | dress by Rev. E. L. Thorpe of West Haven ! MT. George Lancraft, of Baltimore, s former Fair Haven man, is stopping at the Elliott house with his bride. MT. Lancraf1 is seventy years of age.
 | The people of the Second church have de. | cided to build a parsonage and have ap t pointed committee to select suitable lot 1 The surprise reception to Postmaster Will ! liam H. Moore and wife Saturday evening 1T
 honor of the popular couples twentyathird
 wedding anniversary, was greatly enjoyed ! The rooms were handsomely decorated fol 1 the occasion. The Fair Haven post office l employees presented beautiful plush easy | chair, Captain M. G. Dickinson making fine presentation speech, paying deserved | tribute to MT. Moore as an official and as { | citizen. Other gifts were an easel and pie | ture entitled Dreamer" from the carriers o1 the Fair Haven office, pickle caster from Mrs Rsntz, library lamp from Fair Haven friends and bouquet holder from Mrs. Hol brook. Postmaster English sent his con. | Rratulations to MT. and Mrs. Moore and re | grets because unable to attend the celebration \ Among those who were present were Captair | anu AA1S. O1oAAnSon, NePoo nAo HAAs. A1O. brook of Boston, MT. and Mrs. Pierce. Will liam Muller, P. L. McGuerty, Mrs. Charles Rentz, Mrs. Minnie Lean, H. A Rowe. MT. and Mrs. William John son, MT. and Mrs. Parrott of Bridgeport MT. and Mrs. Wm. Paxter, MT. and Mrs. E E. Hart, MT. and Mrs. Frank Morse, MT. anG Mrs. Frank Thomas, MT. and Mrs. Henry
 Hublert, Mrs. G. o. Stagg, Bridgeport, Eu' gene Smith, J. O'Brien, J. Webber, P. Me \ Carten, o. Woodruff, J. Miller, MI. Armstrong
 Mir. Cain, John Cain, T. Gill, W. T. Benton e Healv and M Healv