Morning journal and courier., 1891-05-06
THE ANNUAL MEETING

or the New Haven West AssOciation- Seven Licenses te Preach Granted Professor Fisherss Tribute to the
 Late Rev. Henry N. Day, D. D., of
 This City.
 The annual meeting of tho New Haven West association of Congregational minis ters was held in Harquand chapel yester- day, beginning at 10 o'clock. Rev. Dr. Samuel Harris, the retiring moderator, called the meeting to order. Officers were elected as follows: Moderator, Professor George P. Fisher; registrar. Rev. w. D. Mossnan; scribe, Rev. Luther H. Long. The association at present has eighteen regular members and thirty-four icentiate members. Members of the association in- clude Rev. Robert Hume, the well known missionary in India, and Rev. J. K. H. De Forest, D. D., missionary in Japan. The association of New Haven county was formed in 17O9, but in 1787 it was divided into the New Haven East and New Haven West associations.
 Professor Fisher, from the committee on memorial notices, read the following paper on the late Rev. Henry Noble Day, D. D., of this city, member of the association, who died in 1890:
 HENRY NOBLE DAY. It is our custom to place on the records of this body brief biographical papers relating to the services and character of it's deceased members. In the case of Professor Henry N. Day, a full and elaborate paper of this nature is less re- quired. for the reason that in printed publica- tion in memory of him there have been brought life to worth. Appended to this publication is a list of the books which he wrote, which are about from his pen to literary and theological publica- | tions We can do little more than to offer one more tribute to his excellence as man, Q scholar l and author, teacher of youth and Christian minister.
 Professor Day was the second son of Colonel Noble Day, who was brother of Jeremiah Day, 1 late president of Yale college. He was born in the village of New Preston, in Washington. Conn.,, @ for e snd am an a mar school, and was graduated at Yale in 1928 l His classmates were warmly attached to him After his death, one of them, MT. Justice Strong wrote: "He had doubtless many friends and ad mirers but none more attached to him than l was.'' The facts of his carer after his gradua tion are thus sketched by Professor F. B Dexter @
 ef wo Burlington, N. J., and having begun the study oi h in He p years, taking at the same time the full course iE in Europe he was ordained pastor of the Frs Congregational church in Waterbury, Conn.,, or November g, 1ss6 He resigned this charge Octo Der l. l84O to accept the chair of sacred rhetoric ! in Western Reserve college at Hudson, Ohio. Ht remained in connection with that institution un til 1858 the title of his professorship for tho las fourteen years being practical theology. During his residence in Hudson he took a leading part il l the endeavor to obtain railroad connection witl l Pittsburgh and Cleveland
 @ induced him to acespt e the @ iG
 sue1rbs us of After ad
 ministration of six years he resigned and re
 place for the literary work to which he proposed
 to devote himself: He had already published
 several volumes, beginning with The Art of Flo
 proved text book, first appeared in 1850. Durinl 1 the quarter of Q century after his return to Nev | Haven his pen continually busy, and hi
 Volume on The Science of Education in 1883 ! number about twenty. The degree of doctor o
 n lie in
 tack of influenza resulting in pleurisy, on Janua
 R a tas B. hs
 wives him with one son and two daughters u
 Munger speaks thus: .'Hs was le.ven. indeed
 and the west was ready for the working force
 helped to be esfa5sh there Ss New l standard of education and refinement, for h
 was teacher che, of both young men men and an youn
 tion with those of men like-minded, entere | deeply and vitally into the life of the state"
 Porter remarks: 'He was minute, exact an
 exhaustive, ingenious in theory and nice discrin | ination but always seeking and seeming alway | of his most ingenious theories and his most r, [ fined analysis He was self-reliant. althoug ble to new ideas, yet not vaiuing doctrine sin l ply for the reason that it was new. He had :, when he worked by himself, with speci, ! stimulus from circumstances or society abor
 ness to the peculiar gentleness, the che-rf, ! friendliness the genuine benevolence, the una fected piety, that characterized him: His valu ] textbooks, have made him known extensive
 beyond the circle of his personal acquaintance
 e m g where he worshipped and among his friends vii a | special affection. GEORGE P. FISHER. A The death of Rev. A. 0. Raymond this city was announced and Rev. Dr. Ha f ris was appointed committee to prepa |, | a memorial.
 q Delegates were appointed as follows
 the annual meeting of tho general confe
 ence of Connecticut to be held in Ne
 London in June: Rev. s. w. Barnur
 Rev. Dr. Dwight, Professor George Fisher and Professor Samuel Harris; su
 stitutes, Professor Hoppin, Rev. L.
 Long, Rev. w. D. Mossman and ex-Pres dent Porter.
 Rev. Dr. Harris was appointed the e sayist for the meeting to be held in N
 vember.
 Seven candidates were examined for
 censes to preach for four years. Question were first propounded by the moderat , and then by the ministers present. Aft . presentation of the religious belief, the z personal experience as to the Christian Ii r and their call to the ministry by each 7, the applicants, they were all licensed. IT 5 members from the senior class are as fc e lows:
 r Arthur Clarence Townsend Bates college, 1s' A of Lewiston, Me.
 6 Benson Newell wyman, oberlin college, 1s
 of Newark, N. J.
 | Mosheim Ross Fishburn, Pennsylvania collee n 1890, of Eizabethtown, Pa.
 U George Atwood Brock, Harvard universit !. 1888, of Boston, Mass.
 h Candidates from the middle class we1 > Joseph Henry Artope, Wiibeforce universit ;- 1 1889, Augusta, Ga.
 :. Hiram Everett Farnham, Colby universlt
 1889, Belgrade, Me.
 ,, Claire Franklin Luther, Amherst college, 1S d of Gainesville, o.
 r, At last years meeting seventeen the Il logical students were granted licenses.
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