The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-11-19

truth. and mercy is an everlasting gos- pei.
 Nor should 1t be forgotten, as to- day we exalt in honor before all the representative of a long and continuous ministry in this ancient church. that, besides the truth of divinity which he has been sent of God to preach, no cause of humanity. near or far. has failed of his advocacy and support. These sac- red walls not only bear memorial tablets Of the preachers and prophets of the past. but they are eloquent with the cry of the slave. with the appeal of the oppressed for eaven'sjustice.a and with the moral passion of the country's con hict for the freedom and the life of the nation. The reproach which has some times been cast upon thechurch that the anti-slavery agitation found tardy advocacy in the pulpits, cannot be brought to us In this hls- toric place; for ante-dating all this century's agitation, in the year 1790, a Society for Promoting Freedom" met In this first church of New Haven, and heralding in clear, bold utterance the call of liberty which in later years rang out from this pulpit, a pastor of thls people, hundred years age, preach cd With vehement eloquence against
 the traffic in the souls of men," May Ill Just causes never fail to find bold utterance and firm support from people ana pastor here, so long as the light of heaven shall shine over this pulpit rom the face of the Puritan preacher. I ifxy 9haI l..
 Tn righteousness, and no cry of oppres- slon and wrong shall be heard in Gods whole world.
 Just behind the preacher. who had come to the new world with the learning of the old. the face may be seen Of tht student intent upon his words. The first pastor of this church had studied at Oxford, and discoursed under Gothic arches; and 1t was his successor in the next generation who once wrote. "The library which I am collecting. for the college comes on well' We place the quiet scholar by the famous teacher in our memorial window because we would commemo- rate the alliance between religion and all reVerent science, and remember that the college and sound learning have found just recognition and aid throughout the whole history of this church.
 Other figures grouped around the preacher with the uplifted hand, shall Keep in perpetual memorial the strong layman, with his armor on, ready for the next hours duty, and the honest I 6sf hn oiI citizen.
 These men keep the Sabbath day, they would do Gods will on earth. they live "as ever in their great Takmas- | ter's eye" Dear to them, and pre- cious as the promise of the fair city | of their God, are the moral and spir- itual interests of the town. These men gathered before the preacher of Gods | word, were men of prayer; but they | knew how, when duty summoned, to take true aim and to strike their flint locks without fear in the name of the Lord of Hosts.
 Fitting 1t is that among the me morial figures above this pulpit. should stand the soldier ready for action, and one, the most venerable of them all, devout in aspect. who grasps his mus ket in His still firm hand. while He listens to the word of the Eternal. Should ever there come to US hours of civic despondency and we grow weak of righteous purpose in these confused | times, may these strong manful forms stand before us on the Sabbath day | to renew our courage, and may their perpetual presence here remind us that | in the covenant of the church of our fathers, upon us and our, children are laid the VOWS of that eternal vigilance by which alone our sacred inheritance can be saved from the hands of the spoilers, and the promise of. the Lord our God to this new land be fulfilled.
 Still another grouping of figures in our window will set before us a diff ferent, yet no less important and most grateful lesson of our history; we be- hold also here the Puritan mother with her child. No historian has adequately portrayed, no poet. has fully sung the epic of the life of the Puritan mother in the making of. our New England. We greet and honor her, as our eyes now behold her, content to take lowly SLdIlOIl, llSlclilu6 III uCNout oSNotiOll, having forsaken the comfortable and happy promise of her girlhood's home, for her dear Lord and Masters sake no longer richly clad, yet having grace and spiritual beauty all her own-the earnest, brave, true hearted Puritan woman, consecrating her child to God, that he might not return to the country whence she had come forth, worthy ere long herself to take high place serene among Gods martyrs and saints, woman to whom many of us this day might give dear and personal name, for she is the mother of us all
 The grouping around the preacher of the old and the young, the father and the mother and the child, may serve likewise to remind us with peculiar ap- propriateness that our history has been the history of a family church. Broaden and change as its methods must and will, it will also keep it's distinctive ex- cellence as church where whole fam lilies shall meet for the worship of their fathers God. The family history which may be read from the ancient and faded records of our church, and which has continued in some instances in un- broken succession to this davis a grate- full proof that God keeps his covenant with the Christian household, and they that serve him shall prosper and thei,