The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-01-02
WEARY YEARS OF TRIAL.
EARLY DAYS OF EP EPISOOPALCHUR URCH
 HISTORY IN NEIH HAVEN.

Harwood-A Striking and MomentOus
 Period-BufIeting and Oppression and
 Weakness and How Brighter Day
 Dawned and the Difficulties Were at Last
 Overcome.
 Following is the very able, scholarly and brilliant historic address delivered by Rev. Dr. Harwood at Trinity church last Sunday morning. It is a very con else yet comprehensive sketch of the trials and opposition encountered by the Episcopal church in New Haven in Its early history here, and tells of what the church had to contend with and of how these difficulties were at last over come. It is a valuable contribution to the literature relative to the Episcopal church in this city and in Connecticut. The address is entitled "The Begin nings of the Episcopal Church in New Haven" The entire address is as fol- lows
 About the year 175O, if a man of the World,-or, as he would have been called in those days, a man of wit and Rashion,-had seen the little town of New Haven, and known anything of the tastes and the pursuits of it's in habitants, he would have described it as a we'll planned but thinly settled country village, the inhabitants of which were devoted to saving souls, to money making, and to perpetual quar- reling with each other on topics of the plogical interest
 The town was then little more than one hundred years old; the original set tlement and government of the little colony were very, very extraordinary. The colonists proposed to found here by the waters of Long Island Sound a little state which should own allegi- ance neither to king nor foreign poten- tate of any description, and which should be governed solely by the church which, they had proceeded to organize. They proposed to establish a genuine civitas Del, the laws and the spirit of which should be in exact ac- cordance with the laws and the spirit of the holy scriptures. MT. Lever more in his Republic of New Haven" has clearly stated the similarity and all most identity of views between the great Richard Hooker and John Da- Nenport, the leader of the colony, on the relations of the church and the state But the magnificent splendor of Hooker on the one side, and the ob- scure, bec1ouded English of MT. Da- Nenport on the other, are apt to make readers inattentive to this interesting fact. Hooker applied his principles in one way, and the leaders of the New Haven colony in another. In the case of Hooker the state dominated the church; in the case of the New Haven colonists the church was to dominate the state. They had no doubt they uvere right, nor had they any doubt That all people who differed from them lwere wrong But the conception, IHstriking as it may have been, proved complete failure They were soon awakened from their dream of inde- pendence by the fact that the Dutch at New Amsterdam were on one side Of them, and Indians and Engl1shmen who might become friendly were on +he other. Their mercantile instincts, like the mercantile instincts of the Ilng1ish race. were strong. They soon embarked in commercial enterprises or in trading enterprises, which were largely unsuccessful, and the spirits nf the people, though not broken, were very speedily sobered, and they came "a the conclusion that they might as we'll be colonists relying upon the strength of the mother country when thev had left behind them.
 It is not my purpose, however to dwell upon the political beginnings or 4he town of New Haven. simply seek +o refresh your memory with these eoc+s and will proceed to consider the -+o+e of things after three generations bad nassed away. The zeal of the hrst ea++1ers had abated There was, ol co,,rse a new generation with church ,,o+ions somewhat modified, and the re- 1,o,io,,s interests of the people were 1i,5ay,yIse modified, and there was Just +te tornor. moral and spiritual, Whlch s.,o,,i+a blv follows in the wake Of what ss ,rrown as a dead orthodoxy Tne .,,o,sols of the people had deterlorateu. X yrhai,. life was somber, and shoulu -,i.s,1~ sad The ministers and magls- tna+es had become somewhat troupied ba,,+ the state of things, but never 4,sa1ass they would have gone on sun s- +t,aiy old way had not new spirlt da M itself manifest, which conVulseu .iil'1 nM inc settlements of the New Eng a'llrL Tllis convulsion was known as the
 liiS ,ol,ening People were selsrn,ed for their salvation; they de- ,eiored their sins and the sins or thelr Children and of their parents; nnG they and pe Sn,1eht God to keep back His hand ana
 o+ to smite nor slay; the one supJecl 4l.ouesht of was religion; strange men ,nsde. rlle strange speeches; the nolse stlel ana s1ahTIe of public worship were ollell ,3ost bewildering, and for many years connecticut was torn, partly py rear ond inspired, partly, by the nope oL she t-n speedy coming of our Lord Jesus Christ in glory. no,s followed u,,is revival, and it would seem as Il a tnra Kind of moral paralysis were set s,ine su,,s down upon portion of the c4hl- (,t T. ',a,1nitv rnr9 Now it was at this time Qt IS .mel1 .,,sli-' to remember the dates in gene ,, 17AO-175O), that the cHutch @'