Morning journal and courier., 1889-08-26

ford one of the founders and first pastor of
 the church at Farmington 1s45lsS7; installed pas
 ing till his death in i6ss good master of Jesus
 Christ, nourished in the words of the faith and of the good doctrine.
 The Afternoon Service. The visitors were entertained at lunch in the parlor of the church or at the neighbor- ing residences of members. The church was crowded again when the second service com- l menced at 2:45. The Rev. MT. Hill, of Strat- 2 ferd, invoked tine divine blessing, instead of the Rev. MT. s. M. Keeler, ot South Britain, who was i'll ct the residence of the Milford people who are entertaining him. A letter which had been received from the Rev. P. Hubbell, of Mansfield, O., @ former pas l tor of the church, was not read yesterday | owing to the length of the programme, but will be read to his old practitioners next Sunday. Foundations laid by our ancestors was. subject assigned to the Rev. A. J. Lyman, of Brooklyn, but that gentleman
 did not appear.
 The remainder of the mural tablets wexs presented at this point in the services. The Rev. Henry G. Marshall appropriately presented the tablet to the Rev. Samuel An- drew, third pastor, who oficiated from 1885. Ascos As0Vs 6nmuOA AhoE0W AOku buo AOukcob pastorate of the church, and received into it more candidates than any one else, more than the present membership. He was es- pecially man of God, a saint upon the earth.
 In response Rev. Mir. Riddle spoke of Sam- ! uel Andrew as a man in whom the love of commonplace had taken the place of desire
 for greatness. Andrew lived in his age entirely and seemed very we'll | satisfied with it. Above all he was @ theo-
 logian, and in the heaven of speculative the- ology Andrew lived. He was so completely of his age that the people loved him. He was great in fixing up and running a ma- chine. He was the embodiment of intellec- l tual Puritanism as a form. In his day they
 seated people in the church according to their position on the grand list. In his day they ] fined man five shillings if he got into the wrong seat. This tablet reads:
 In memoriam Samuel Andrew born in Cam
 bridge. Mass. 16se, graduated at Harvard college
 suto % trd of ths died January s4, isss. He was one of the princi.
 os e the senior class in Milford A man of exemplary holiness and unwearied labors, modest. courteous THE wHrTTLEsEY.
 Harry O. O. Miles, @ descendant of Rev. Samuel Whittlesey, presented the tablet in
 memory of the fourth pastor. From 1737- 176S MT. Whittlesey occupied the rastorate. The inscription on this tablet is: | In memoriam Samuel Whittesey, A. M. at Yale and Harvard, whose virtue, piety, and good deeds unceasipg and faithful labors in sacred things for
 more more than thirty years among tho inhabitants of July 10, 17l3. Entered into rest October g, 176s In accepting the tablet, Rev. Mr. Riddle | said he loved these honored men so we'll it
 was great joy to him to be present at the l unveiling of these tablets, and of all these men Whittlesey was one of those most hon. ored by him. Whittlesey was born ont of his time. He was a child of the former age
 of peace and not of the troublous times upon
 which he was cast. The saintly Whittlesey did not and could not see | how sinful men were. During all his time neighbors fought with neighbors and brothers with brothers. His spirit went l back too early to that heaven he 50 beauti- ! fully described, and for which in his troub. ! lous times he must have longed. Samuel Wales, magnificent preacher, succeeded Whittlesey.
 WALES AND LOCKWOOD. He had the spirit of Prudden but not his liberty. Wales was conscientiously sad. He
 represented Puritanism bereft of it's joys His sadness terminated in insanity. To me | he WAS giant in chains. hope some day | some generous friend will place a tablet here | to his memory. William Lockwood, grad | uate of Yale, followed Wales. He was a good man in the wrong place. When it was l found that the society did not want him ! longer he had the good sense to leave in peace.
 BEzALEEL PINNED.
 The tablet to the memory of the Rev. Beg l aleel Pinneo was presented by his grandson,
 MT. Albert Pinneo. The Rev. MT. Pinneo acted from 1796. .1849 as the seventh pastor of
 the church. Pinneo educated many men for the ministry, among them Nettleton, the re- vivalist. The inscription is:
 ! Rev. Bezaieel Pinneo, 17s91s40; He graduated at
 sao as baptized o4 received in
 buried 1,126. He was eminently discreet. faithful and successful. His first American ancestor @ Huguenot refugee.
 The Rev. David B. Coe, for some years | Mr. Pinneo's assistant, accepted the gift, The tablet is valuable as being the gift of dear Christian friends, many of whom were
 baptized in this church. But it is precious | as being the appropriate memorial of that venerated and saintly man. For four years
 was the colleague of MT. Pinneo in the pastorate of this church. It was forty-nine years ago that first entered MT. Pinneo's dwelling. Not 250 as certain of the newspa- pers who have declared that was the irst pastor of the church here would imply. He
 had apparently adopted the motto-this one
 thing do. He was logical and instructive
 preacher. In 1S43 sighty-one members were
 received into the church on one Sunday.
 TO JoHNATHAN BRACE.
 The last tablet is in memory of the Rev.
 Johnathan Brace, who acted from 1S45-1s8s
 as pastor of the church, and was presented
 by his grandson, Albert Brace Patton of
 New York city. The pastor accepted 1t. He
 spoke of the fact that there were doubtless
 many before him who were acquainted with the learned divine. There is no office that
 ranks in dignity and importance of far
 reaching results that of the minister. The
 career of the Rev. Johnathan Brace the pas
 tor of the church was that of a Christian champion and victor. There was no one trait
 in his character more prominent than his rigid and well-defned public address. It is
 said of him that in all his life he never
 preached poor sermon. Though @ man of
 superior strength, he was man of the most
 touching tenderness. We are yet gathering the fruits of his labors.
 The tablet reads:
 Ini;memoria% nm Rev Johussahn BracaD: D, pastor l tered unto us. In the Cross of Christ glory. THE HISTORICAL ADDRESS.
 The historical address was delivered by
 the Rev. Elijah Baldwin of Cheshire. He
 said that those who had preceded him had
 referred at such length to the early history of the church that there seemed little further need of him. The 9th verse of the 112th | Psalm was his text: "The righteous shall be had in everlasting remembrance" He re- ferred at length to the history of the Milford | church. Some brief extracts from the ad l. | dress follow:
 THE CHURCH ORGANIZATION. l During the first year at New Havan there was no distinct church organization for eith- l much of the time there was considerable de- l bate about returning to Massachusetts. The Prudden or HerefordShire men deciding to buy Wepowage began to bring matters to @ | crisis. Some of the settlers had been non- conforming members of the Church of Eng land. Some had separated themselves before leaving the mother country. Some among them were mere adventurous who had been | induced to come by friends wishing to be \ rid of them. In @ new enterprise where the labors of all were needed even these became | of consequence and ultimately some of them | among the best clements of the new settle 1 ments. Under the influence of such godly
 men and women as they now intimately as-
 sociated with they became true Christians and valuable members of society. All saw, whatever might have been their former asso- citations and preferences, that the only prac- tical thing here was to unite in Congrega- tional churches.
 The most troublesome question was to de- termine the relation @ non-church member l should hold to the civil government Most