Morning journal and courier., 1890-05-07
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New Haven West mlnlsterlal Associa. &i0n Holds Its semI-Annual Meeting seventeen Apply for License and Sixteen Licenses Were Gfantea-The Late Ex-President Woolsey-A Beau- siful Tribute From Kx-President Porter.
 The New Haven Ministerial association met yesterday morning at 10 o'clock In Mar> quand chapelreo held its semi-annual meet- ing and to examine candidates offered them selves for examination, one of whom was . senior, the rest being middlers. The aaso- citation organized with Professor Samuel Harris as moderator and Rev. 0. B. Whit comb as scribe. Rev. W. D. Hossmsn, New Haven's oity missionary. is the registrar, whose office is permanent. There were pres ent the following members of tho association: Harris and Fisher, Rev. o. B. Whitoomb, Rev. J. Y. Leonard, Professor Ladd and Rev. W. D. Nossman. Rev. George A. Pel- ton, corresponding member of the Nauga- tuck Valley association, being present was invited to act with the association. Tho following lioentiate members were also pres. ent: MT. John T. Nichols, Morrison Weimer, William Austin Trow, Luoius o. Baird, Ed ward l.. Smith, Daniel E. Burtuer and Gerald H. Beard.
 After the reading of the minutes of the previous meeting and prayer, several items of business were disposed of. Among others committee report was adopted with ref erence to inviting the icentiate members to take part in the semi-annual meeting by the preparation of papers for discussion, and a committee was appointed to arrange the pro- gram for the next meeting. It was voted to invite all members of the seminary to be present at these meetings. Mention was made of the death of Rev. Dr. Henry N. Day, and a committee was ap- pointed to prepare an obituary notice to be read at the next meeting. Professor Fisher l was invited to prepare this notice.
 Rev. J. Y. Leonard was dismissed at his own request that he might join the susque- hannah association in New York state. l The Rev. Dr. Porter presented sn obit- uary notice of ex-President Woolsey, who was formerly Q member of this association.
 Then followed the examination of the can didates. The committees of examination theology, Professors Harris and Ladd; on church history, Professor Fisher and Rev. 8. W. Barnum; on church polity, Rev. w. D. Mossman and Rev. George A. Pelton; and in homiletics, Rev. 0. B. Whitoomb and Rev. John P. Eagle.
 Seventeen members of the seminary offered themselves for licensure, but one, @ senior,
 
 important doctrine to warrant the associa- tion to recommend him to the churches as a minister. Those who were successful in the ordeal were all members of the middle class and their names are as follows: Harvey Stafford Bush of Port Huron, Mich; James Romeyer Danforth, jr., Philadelphia; Arthur Ernest Davies, London, Eng; Charles Hatfield Dickerson, Sumter, s. O.; Edward Augustus George, Providence, R. l.; Dorr Albert Hudson, Wakefield, Mass; George Merriam Hyde, Chicago, Ill.,; David Lyman Kebbe, Hollister, Mass; Allen Alonzo Keene, Atkinson, Me. William Albert Korn, Nertzsown, Pa. Fred Frederick Warren Oakes, Lawrence, Mass. Frederick William Phelps, Topeka, Kan. Frederick Cowles Taylors Granby, Mass. Willard Brown Thorp, Oxford, N. Y., and Samuel Weyler, Vitebsk, Russia.
 Five of these successful candidates were found to be members of churches other than Congregational churches; hence 1t was voted that their license should be withheld unti they should join some Congregational church One exception was made to this in the case of MT. Thorp who is 8 member of The Church of the Strangers of New York City, which is an independent church. Those whose licenses will be withheld are Messrs. Davies, Keene, Korn and Oakes.
 Ex-President Porter of Yale, in his paper read before the meeting, paid an admirable tribute to the memory of the late ex Presi. dent Woolsey.
 The paper spoke of ex President Woolsey's noble achievements, of his historical exposi tions of the New Testament, of his reluctance at first to be ordained 8 minister of the Ros pei, but of his final yielding to the entreatiea of his friends, of his services to public moral ity and Christian civilization and to the gospel of Christ.
 | ELECTED OFFICERS.
 The Yale Theological Seminary Missionary society elected the following officers for next year yesterday: MT. Elbridgs o. Whiting president, and Charles E. Ozanne of Oleve land, O., for vice president. The secretary will be elected next fall from the incoming junior olaes.
 ACCEPTS CALL.
 Mr. E. N. Chapman of Yale theologica