The Newtown bee., 1894-01-26
NUMBER 4

miIIee, IteN V. IF. Luther, Matte B Field, Mrs L. W. Randle. Eloise Selleck, Henry Sanford; social committee, Mrs J. E. Miller, Mrs K. II. Ryckman, J. B. Sanford, Howard c. Miller, Miss Lillie Sanford; floral committee, Mrs J. D. Lounsbury, Mrs E. T. Field, Mrs A. A Weed.
 SOME FIGURES AND THE HOURS OF woR-
 SHIP. On the roll of the Bedding church are 9S members and an average congregation at present is about 90. The regular ser vice is held on Sunday morning at I0.45 and on Sunday evenings the Endeavor society has charge of the service, which varies in form, and occurs at 7 o'clock. All are made welcome at these services and it is the desire of the pastor and people that the stay-at-homes of Bedding will avail themselves of the invitation weekly pealed forth from the belfry to come and worship with them.
 Rev MT Pierce of Danbury preached forcible sermon at the re-dedication service on Sunday afternoon. He took for his text Zechariah 1 6, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of Hosts'' These words, said the preacher, were spoken during the rebuilding of the temple un- der Zerubbabel by the prophet Zechariah for their encouragement and instruction, and they also told of how the future church was to be builded. The thought of the sermon was that it was not fine house of worship, beautiful music, sil- very tongued eloquence in the pulpit. money, social position, or business saga city that made the successful church, but the truth of Jesus Christ taking hold of the hearts of men, with a proper use of all of these valuable adjuncts. It is NOT BY PHYSICAL FORCE OR AUTHORITY that mems minds and souls are captured by Christians for God, but by His spirit He begged them to remember that it is only as the Christian is filled with the spirit of God that he can lead men to Jesus Christ. He believed it a greater miracle that the spiritual eyes were opened to see the glory of God than that the blind eyes of the natural body be opened, and that is what he had heard the church at Bedding has been doing. In closing he congratulated them on their beautiful building, speaking as it did of their love for the church, and their deeper love for the Bible, for their God and Master, and the people of Red- ding, that they might bring them to him.
 After the re-dedication prayer, offered by Rev MT Pierce, Rev Sidney G. Law of New York, former pastor of the church, made few congratulatory re- marks and spoke of the precious memo ries that clustered about his six years of ministry among the people of Bedding.
 Rev H. L. Slack of Bethel extended the cordial
 . CONGRATULATIONS OF A SISTER CHURCH. r. He spoke of the influence the country s church on the hill side had had in the s history of the American nation and how the church stands for the best things ir every community, and finally for tht power of an endless life. Following il d the program of the service in full,
 organ Voluntary.
 Doxology, Invocation. 0- Anthem, "The Lord in His Holy Temple" 's Responsive Reading. le Hymn. d Scripture.
 Anthem, "Jubilate."
 Prayer.
 Hymn.
 D. Notices and offertory. Y Sermon.
 Prayer of fRe-dedication-
 Remarks by Former and Neighboring Pas
 tors.
 Ill Hymn.
 eV The Lords Supper. o, flynn.
 ,e Benedictiop.
 THE CHURCH TO BE CONGRATULATE st Redding church is to be congratulate he on the happy issue of its labors for thel he is not country church in this vicinit
 that has heater and more attracti'
 place for it's gatherings for worshi
 The work of remodeling has extends over six months, yet the people have ID
 regularly, first in the church and afte
 ward in the new chapel, until the chur
 was ready. When warmer weath
 comes new dress of paint on the ol ars
 side will complete the edifice and al
 church might justly feel proud of so co