Morning journal and courier., 1889-09-02
AT THE UHURCHRs.

Imteresting DiscOuYses-Dr. Bacon at
 Center Chdrch-Rev. MT. Williams of
 Meriden-Rev. MT. Squiros-Rev. MT.
 Poteat-Other servicee.
 At Center church yesterday forenoon Rev. Dr. Leonard W. Bacon delivered very fine discourse on the subject, faith. The audi ence was small, many of the members being away yet. The sermon was full of strong, original thought and of encouraging sugges- tions and reflections. He spoke of the devo- tion of the apostles and of their faith and how they left all and followed the master, and of nature's testimony that an infinite power governs and controls the universe. So also Christianity and it's incalulable benefit to mankind told of personal and powerful Christ. There was much in the discourse of elevating inspiring thought.
 The pastor of Center shurch. Rev. Dr. Maine this week and will preach next Sun day.
 AT HUMPHREY STREET CHURCH.
 Rev. Mr. Williams, late pastor of the First church, Aeriden, who resigned his pastorate last week, preached at the Humphrey street Congregational church yesterday. He is a pleasing speaker, and his sermons are well finished and both interest and instruct. AT ST. JOHNS CHURCH.
 St:John's Episcopal church was reopened yesterday. It has been closed two weeks for repairs and improvements. The Rev. Mir. Means ofioiated. During the vacation the church has been entirely renovated and new and larger heating apparatus has been sub- stituted for the old.
 AT THE CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION. A large congregation was present at the morning services at the Church of the As- cension yesterday. The pastor, Rev. MT. Watkins, preached very interesting sermon from the text, "Bear ye one another's bur- dens." At the close of the regular service holy communion was celebrated. As usual the singing of the boy choir was fine.
 CHURCH OF THE MEss1AH-A NOTABLE DIs- COURSE.
 Beautiful flowers tastefully arranged adorned the platform and pulpit of the Church of the Messiah yesterday morn- ing. The pastor, Rev. L. H. Squires, just returned from his vacation and looking greatly improved from his trip, occupied the pulpit and preached, as is usual with hin, an able and deeply interesting sermon, abound ing in thought and rhetoric. Following is an abstract: Friends, am glad to welcome you after the glad vacation. You, perhaps, expect that your pastor should preach 8 bet ter and more interesting sermon after his visit the past month. But one experiences some difficulty when the harness of work is put on, while the effects of the pleasures and perhaps troubles of the vacation trip are not put off. My remarks this morning shall be of an informal nature, and the exercises par take of praise service. I believe and recreation. Many tired man and woman, burdened by the cares and per- plexities incidental to routine life, needs change of scene and occupation. We speak of sleep as "tired nature's sweet restorer," as indeed it Is. There are people nearly worn out by cares and anxieties who would be vastly benefited if they could rest and sleep night and day for a month. Their systems need 1t, and great benefit would accrue from it. Nature has other ways which benefit tired and weary ones. Exercise in the woods and by the streams, where pure air cir- culates is @ grand remedy for the sedentary. The quiet and calm and beauty of the woods and fields are very restful and beneficial to those whose lives are spent in almost cease less toll in the city. So I be-
 
 be a sorry werld without revival. Work, enterprise and activity move this world and make the glory of living. And as we leave our accustomed scenes of labor for brief rest we come back benefited and filled with hope and glad to re-engage in our wonted vooations. The words which would call your attention to as being Appropriate to this occasion are these: ''Enter into his courts with thanksgiving and his gates with praise. We all have much to be thankful for. Gods providence has been over our lives and his care has kept ua from harm and danger. Amidst perils and dangers by night and day his power has shielded us and his protecting care been thrown around us, and so far as can learn all is we'll with you. So greet you this morning, and as look into your faces l think of friendship as being the crowning glory of life. What would this world be If we had to 80 our way alone and friendless. If when separated without any hope of reunion. If friendship were to be taken out of our lives the world would be God stands friendship. When the flowers shall fade and the world shall put on the winter of death, and all nature look oheerless, we still have our dear friends, and the hope that animates and thrills us is, that even when the world itself shall die, still our old friends shall be with us. So we rejoice in the thought. Again, we have reason for thanks SiNAuB IuAn iuokuAuS, oo Wo Coutcmpldto tuc blsssedness of our surroundings; the beauty of this, our earthly home. The longer live the more I appreciate the grandeur and beauty which God has SO lavishly diffused throughout this world. His divine touch is everywhere observable out of His infinite heart of love He has beautifed and adorned 1t and all should worship and adore him for being 80 mindful of us. Again, this earth of ours ii one great temple. While believe in our churches and our forms of worship, and do not underrats their importance and useful ness, yet also believe that we should receg- nize the fact that the world with it's wonder ful mechanism, its mysteries and it's beauties and glories should cause us to remember that God is everywhere. That while the heavens declare his glory and the Armament showeth his handiwork, the earth too with Its hills and valleys, mountains and plains, trees and verdure, rivers and brooks, all attest his omnipotence and love. And our hearts should be lifted in adoration and praise on tho street as we'll as at church; while pursu- ing our secular employment as well as on the