The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-04-23
THE NEW cHuRoH PAPER


 Church.
 The first number of the Young Peo
 pie at Work" a monthly journal to bc
 published in the interest of the young
 peoples societies of the churches of New
 Haven and vicinity, has just appeared
 The paper is in magazine form ant l contains general church news with pa
 pers by various local writers on relig
 ious topics, besides miscellaneous mat
 ter. The editors are John F. Gavit and Albert H. Crosby. The associate edi-
 tors are Rev. w. L. Phillips, Rev. r. A.
 Scofeld, Rev P. A. M. Brown, Rev,
 John II. Mason, Rev. Henry Macbeth,
 and D. B. Tucker, president of the New
 Haven Y. P. $. c. E. union. Albert H.
 Crosby is to be business manager.
 The following article on Center Church" appeared in the first number of the paper, a picture of the church ap-
 bearing on the first cover: The First Church of Christ in New Haven is'coeval with the town. On the 18th of April (old style), 163S, the first settlers of the town, having just landed at the place which they had chosen for their home, assembled for public wor- ship under the guidance of their chosen
 minister; and from that time onward they continued to worship God as a Christian assembly,.
 For about fourteen months the eccle- siastcal and civil affairs of the com munity were conducted under a pro visional arrangement or plantation covenant" On the 4th of June co. S), 1639, after much deliberation and pray CT concerning the forms in which a per manent organization should be insti- tuted, ''all the free planters" agreed In the choice of twelve men who were 10 select from among themselves seven; and to those seven were committed the trust of instituting, in conformity with the Word of God, first the ecclesiastical order and afterwards the civil organiza- ton and government of their common wealth. Theophilus Eaton, John Da- venport, Robert Newman, Matthew Gil- bert, Thomas Fugil, John Punderson, and Jeremiah Dixon, having been selec- ted for that trust, were the original members of the church.
 It has been received by tradition, though no authentic record of the date remains, that the organization of the church was completed on the 22d of Au- gust co. S), in the same year. Dr. Cotton Mather in his Magnalia pub- lished in 1700) says of this church and the first church in Milford that they were both gathered at New Haven and rtya !, in fxun lowing upon the other, and with this one singular circumstance, that mighty barn was the place wherein the duties of that solemnity were perform ed" The records of the Milford church say: "The Church of Christ at Milford was first gathered at New Haven upon August 22, 1639."
 This church was at it's institution, and is now, Congregational in its govern ment. It acknowledges the obligations and responsibilities of the communion of churches, and is in special fellowship with the Congregational churches of New England commonly known as "Or- thodox."
 The pastors and teachers have been as follows:
 Rev John Davenport, D. D., was in- stalled pastor in 1889; resigned his charge in 1867, having been in the ser vice of the church twenty-eight years; he died pastor of the First church in Boston March Il, 1870, aged seventy three.
 Rev. William Hooke was installed teacher in 1644, relinquishing his charge In 1656, having served twelve years; he died in England March 21, 1878, aged seventy-seven.
 Rev. Nicholas Street was installed teacher September 26, 1859, and died April 22, 1874, aged seventy-one, having served fourteen years.
 Rev. James Pierpont was ordained July 2, 1885, and died November 22, 1714 m the fifty-sixth year of his age, having served thirty years.
 Rev Joseph Moves was ordained July | [, 1716, and died June IA, 1761, in the | year of his age, having | served nearly forty-five years.
 Rev. Chauncey Whittlesey was or- | 1ained co-pastor with MT. Moves March | [, 1758 and died July "A, 17S7, at the age | ,f seventy, having served twenty-nine | years.
 Rev. James Dana, D. D., was install | ad April 29 17S9; was dismissed No yember, 1895, having served sixteen years; he died August IS, 1872, aged | 3eventy-seven.
 Rev. Moses Stuart was ordained | March 5, 1906; was dismissed January | ! 1910, having served three years and | 'en months; he died January 4, 1852, lged seventy-two.
 Rev. Nathaniel William Taylor, D. D., vas ordained April 8, 1872; was dismiss d December, 1922, having served ten ears and eight months; he died March O, 1858, aged seventy-two.
 Rev, Leonard Bacon, D. D., was in- tailed March g, 1895, and after serving orty-one years and six months resign q the pastoral office September 9, 1866, ut was not formally dismissed; he ontinued as Pastor Emeritus" in the ervice of the church until his death, December 21, 1881.
 Rev. George Leon Walker, D. D., was installed November IS, 1868; was dis lissed May 19, 1873, having served four ears and six months.
 Rev. Frederick Alphonso Noble, D. D., sas installed November 3, 1875; was ismissed April 30, 1S79
 Rev. Newman Smyth, D. D., was in- tailed September 20, 1882,
 Ul,o Trirst church edif1ca was eraotpd l