The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-11-29
PAIR HlrEN.

MT, p. w. J, Sizer, from his property at Center, Brown and Prospect streets, Fair Haven East, has sold two building lots fronting of Brown street to Victor E. Wright and Augustus w. Wright The location Is central, and it is un- derstood that the purchasers win each soon build a residence thereon.
 A goodly congregation gathered in, the Second Congregational church yester- day morning attending the union Thanksgiving services, which were in- troduced by the singing of the hymn, Holy, Holy, Holy" and was followed with the reading of the psalm 146, by Rev J, Lee Mitchell of the Grand ave- nue Congregational church; then Rev, N, G. Chen5y of the East Pearl street M. D. church offered prayer. | Great God we sing, Thy mighty hand By which supported still we stand" was the appropriate hymn which was sung, and was followed by introducing Rev w. T.. Phillips, D. D., pastor of the Church of the Redeemer who preached an eloquent and highly instructive dis l course. The text was psalm 97, 1: "The Lord reigneth; let the earth rejoice" Extracts from this excellent discourse are as follows:
 Some political party always feels sad and sore. The relations between labor and capital are always strained. There are tenant houses where care and want are never lacking. The time has never been when the whole earth could be induced to join in song of praise and gladness. But this text offers an eternal truth in which all cam join: ''The Lord reigneth; let the earth re- joice."
 'In these days of rings the people seem to have no prospect of mounting the throne. Our history is saturated with the moral idea. We were decla- ration of the sovereignity of the people. The moral ideas of Plymouth Rock have been the dominant ideas in Amer 1 ican civilization. Sometimes these ideas has seemed wholly lost, but there comes a revival. The people live near CT the great heart of truth than do the manipulators and the professionals. In
 
 God is working.
 1 ''It is becoming constantly more diff 1 ficult to whip people into politics, right or wrong. There is growing demand l to divorce the government of cities from l politics. This movement is a hope for I the moral idea. To-day there is hardly a human i'll or weakness untouched 1 by this wand of relief. Kindliness is l growing and there is less worshiping 1 of wealth MilIionaires cannot scorn, or go unwhipped of popular opinion 1 Men are judge by what they are, not l by what they own. When was there I wills. or an era of such scattering of l beneflcence? All of this is a growth of moral idea, back of which is God. l Great changes are taking place in the ! thought and drift of the religious world. l There is less insistance of the orthodoxy of the heart. There is less dogma and more morality. The pure language of l the sermon on the mount is being in- sisted on. believe there are those hv- 1 Ing who will see in the matters of di- l vorce, temperance and to rights of la bor settled on the basis of the suprem- acy of conscience and the will of the people"
 The funeral of William F. Russell will be attended this afternoon at 8 l o'clock. As Rev. D. M, James of the 1 Second Congregational church Is out of l town. 1t Is expected that Rev. MT. Clark of East Haven will off1ciate The marriage of Miss Elizabeth F. Astone and Paul Koch of Middletown 1 took place at the home of Captain A. P. Ludington, Quinnipiac street, yester- l day afternoon Rev. F. J. Chaffee of Middletown officiating.
 Mrs. Corlics and her sister, Miss Fan 1 ny Bunce. of Poplar street, spent Thanksgiving day with friends in An- l sonia.
 l Wruck, the Ferry street baker, cook 1 ed thirty turkeys yesterday for as many different families. l Conductor E. c. Booth of 47 Spring street is the happy father of ten pound boy MT. and Mrs. Booth for merly resided here.
 l Captain Harrison has arrived in his schooner from Chinconteague with 2,oOO bushels of oysters for Levi Rowe, Will | liam H. Potter, Alvin Ames and Miles 1 Futile. The bivalves were intended 1 for the Thanksgiving trade, but arrived 1 too late.
 l Mrs. Walter Jacobs of Saltonstall avenue is visiting friends in Hartford i Rev D. M. James is in Philadelphia l for brief stay.
 Marketman Barnes of the east side
 disposed of a big lot of Thanksgiving
 poultry