The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-06-18
CONGREGATIONAL CLUB.
ELOQUENT ADD RESS BY RET. DIR.
M'KENZKE.

Twelve Hundred Dollars Raised at the
Meeting for Home MisslOns-E Election oi
Officers-The Presldent-elect, John G.
! North, Introduced to the Audience.
The twelfth annual meeting of the
New Haven Congregational club was
held at Warner hall last evening and
was very largely attended A social
season was enjoyed for half an hour,
from 6 to $3.50 o'clock, after which the
company sat down to "a banquet served
by the Ladies' Seamen's Friend society
of New Haven. There were thirteen ta-
bles, at each one of which lady pre-
sided, each representing a different
church of the city. All the members
of the society contributed bountifully
to the banquet, and in the opinion of
many present the club had never sat
down to better supper,
After supper came the reports of the
committees, followed by the election of
officers for the ensuing year. They are
as follows:
President-John c. North, Dwight
Place.
Vice presidents-Rev. Frank r. Luck
ey. Humphrey street; J. Rice Winchell,
Redeemer; Rufus S. Pickett, College
street
Secretary William M. Parsons, Col
lege street.
Treasurer-John A. Richardson, Unit
ed
Executive committee-Dr. J. E.
Twitchell, Dwight Place; Walter r,
Downs, United; Professor w. e. Chand-
Ter, Church of Redeemer.
Nominal ting committee-George r.
Chamberlain, College street; A. G. Smell,
Davenport; S. Fl. Street, Davenport.
Outlook committee-Simeon e. Bald
win, United; Rev. William T. Reynolds,
North Haven; Harry w. Flint, Grand
avenue
Social commlttee-George B. Hurd,
United; F. A. corbin, Davenport; r. c.
Dlckerman, Howard avenue; D. A. AL
den, Dwight Place; Arthur N. Smith,
Grand avenue; ]. A. Dow, Center.
Necrologist-Rev. Frank r. Luckey,
Humphrey street.
Then came the report Of the necrolo-
gist, Rev. Frank r. Luckey Of the Hum
phrey street church, which was as fol-
lows:
METEOROLOGICAL.
Three members Of the club have pass
ed during the year into that land from
whose bourne no traveller returns-Mr.
Edwin II. Butler. Rev. Charles Cutting
and Mr.. b. S, Merriman.
Mr.. Butler was born in Meriden, Conn,
in 1916; served three years in the army
was twice wounded. At the close OF the
war he made his home in Meriden,
Conn; united with what Is called the
corner church" of that city. DR.. An
He came to New Haven and
united with the Dwight Place church
in 1892 He died December q, 1894, af-
ter a brief Illness. Mr.. Butler was an
earnest, faithful, consecrated Christian
gentleman, publlc-spirited and especial
Iy noted for his broad humanitarian
views.
Rev. Charles Cutting was born in
Mass, March "a, 1870; was
graduated at Amherst In 1853 and from
the Hartford Theological seminary in |
81; ordained and installed at Ledyard, |
Conn, June 20, 1868 In 1881 he was
,alled to MontvIlle, Conn, where he re-
NAMED until 1891, when he came to |
Whitnleyvllle and became the pastor OF |
he Congrega tional church. He resign
ID In 1893 and died the following year. |
Those who knew Mr.. Cutting were at
racted by his modest, retiring Chris
Ian spirit, his gentleness and simplic-
ty.
Mr.. B. S. Merrlman, better known as
Captain Merrlman for he had been a
lea captain for over forty years, was
,orn in Brunswick, Me-, in 1892 The
taken from the Shore Line
Eimes of February /, 1895, is an excel
ent sketch of his life: Captain Merri-
man was a genial and large-hearted
nan, who made warm friends wherever
Ie went. In a long and adventurous
areer upon the sea he several times
ircled the globe, visiting nearly every
commercial port in the world.
Te became identified with New Haven
bout twenty-seven years ago, when he
yas employed upon the New Haven line
teamer Northampton Subsequently
e took charge of a deep water craft
nd was commander and part owner of
everal large sailing vessels in which
e made the voyages already alluded
,. His papers were of the highest
lass, both as navigator and shpmas-
ar. His last command was the ship ,
arah Doe mamed for his wife), which |
-as wrecked in a binding snow storm
a Fishers Island about nine years ago,
that time Captain Merriman and
rev We're lashed to the rigging all
light, with the winter sea breaking
yer them at intervals. His last em- +
loyment was with the Mallory Steam ,
nip line, New York and Galveston, but
e resigned his post about a. year ago,
uilt a pleasant home on the Heights,
air Haven, and resided there until his
cath He had many adventures and {
escapes, which it was "a 6
ire treat to hear him recount. But 1t Z
as his to pass away peacefully in his
ome, respected by all, beloved by those
no knew him intimately.
Rev. DIR. Alexander Mckenzie of Cam
,idge, Mass, then made the address q
the evening on the subject The Build c
e of the Republic"
He began by speaking Of the noble o
lf-sacrificing qualities of the men who Q
unded the republic and paid an elo- e
lent tribute to Washington. He then r
olze Of the struggle of the republic e
;ainst slavery, but said that he
ought the present generation and the
e following it had harder task to
rform than had Washington, Lincoln Il