Morning journal and courier., 1892-05-02
FAIR HAVEN NEWS.

". P. s. 0. E. Enterta1nment-Thl Evening's Wedding-To Overhaul the Phantom - Additions to a Church-Plans for Memorial Day Conductor Nolan Resigns--Took Furniture Polish for Cough Balsam -Rev. J. Lee Mitchell.
 Jacob B. Emery, secretary of the State Street Horse Railroad company, is very i'll at his home, 235 Blatchley avenue, with typhoid pneumonia.
 On Thursday evening the Y. P. s. 0. E. of the Grand avenue Congregational church will give literary and musical en- tertainment in the church. Miss Minnie Kay, the elocutionist, will assist.
 c. D. Parmelee's sloop, Annie Francis, is being put in order for the seasons oys ter business. Captain Henry Garrett will sail in the vessel in few days for the Bridgeport oyster beds.
 Miss Lilla w., daughter of MT. and Mrs J. o. Clogston, and William L. Cort ot Philadelphia will be married in the Second Congregational church this evening at o'clock. Invitations have been extended to the number of 175. A reception will OO SlNOA ou buO DI1u6 b uOuo, Ou0 TIOSD6Cl street, at S:3O for the relatives and imme diate friends.
 At the Second Congregational church yesterday morning the communion service was largely attended. Five persons were added to the membership.
 Miss Eva Squires, engaged as soprano al the Second Congregational church for the ensuing year, began her duties yesterday
 The schooner-yacht Phantom is to be hauled out at the marine railway and thoroughly overhauled.
 Memorial day will be observed at the Fair Haven cemetery very much after the order of former years. The arrangements will be made under the direction of Col. onel w. B. Morgan. The school children will march to the cemetery with flowers and there will also be details from the G A. R. and the Sons of Veterans. The speaker, who will deliver some appropri ate remarks, has not been selected. Al the graves officers of the G. A. R. posts will recite the ritual of the order. One ot the halls will be open in the early morning for the reception of flowers.
 Colonel w. E. Morgan was at the sol diers' home at Noroton on Saturday at ending meeting of the executive board. Alderman Nolan has resigned as 8 con ductor on the horse railroad and will b. | employed by the New Haven Ice company Mir. Blakeslee of Bright street, who tool a dose of furniture polish by mistake fol cough balsam last Friday, has recoveret from the unpleasant effects of the decoc tion. He was packing up his belonging and getting ready to move, and in hi hurry he took the wrong bottle.
 Rev. J. Lee Mitchell preached at tn Grand avenue Congregational church yes l tarHQu nn0rninry nr, ho or,hsaof hot sa Church?" In the course of his very inte, esting remarks he said:
 "What is churcha Is it building, societya Is it the kingdom of God? Is i God or his agent9 Body of Christ it wa called once. Is it Christianitya Is it any thing identical with salvationa
 "A man who puts his hand behind hir and looks right over his neighbours hea or into the pit of his stomach might jus as we'll steal his pocketbook. A woma who will not know other women has sin ned as surely against the hopes of her se as though she had sold the honor of he sex. David B. Hill has worked with Go more than the Presbyterian elder sittin behind the unapproachable glass doors c his money-lender's office. Difidence ma be charming in lady, but to indulge one self in it is to defeat that very winnin purpose for which that charm was given
 "Now a church is men in society, me in rank and company, men in acquaint ance, men in solidarity. It is not to inter fere with the reserve rights, with tn lonely hours, with the closet worship of human soul, but it is not itself the plac for the exercise of any of these privileges It is organized to bring young men tc gether, to bunch their interests and thei prayers and if men and women stand O. ceremony of acquaintanceship, or refus acquaintanceship, they defeat it's purpos in the very beginning. You know it break my heart, you know it injures the churc for you to act this way, but you still per sist in saying that if anybody wants t is sometimes right for you to be alone an reserved, but the church is never the plac for it. What is church? It is an organ ization in obedience to those high plans c God which can only be executed by tn race in solidarity.
 "The boundary on the hither side is fla less clear; faults must be overlooked b all. Unfortunately all the men who ar doing just right are outside the churc just now and the church carries men an women whose immoralities, whose over teachings, whose gossipings pass far be yond the mark of faults. If the evidenc was straightforward and plain, if it woul, not gratlfy the conceit of worse peopl more than it would gratify the justice 0 better ones, they would be dealt with put licly by the visible church. As it is W believe it the part of wisdom to leave then to their invisible master, knowing tha both they and their pharisaical critics ar surely passing onward to judge who can not err. Reduce the membership of th church to Jesus Christ himself. Expe from it every man whom anybody think is not fit to be Christian and the peopl who are outside the church will be outsid still. They would have an excuse for no pulling with Jesus himself.
 1T repeat, the day will never come agai1 when 1t will ever be asserted in theor. that the church is identical with Chris tianity, for history does not repeat itsel in exact circles, but the day surely draw nearer when the church shall be practical ly identified with the kingdom of God" GENERAL STATE NEWS.