The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-05-16
BAPTIST UNION BANQUET.

Held at the First Baptist Church Last Evening Pattison Speaks, Also Mir. eFleur-- -Dean Wayland Presides--
 Tables Bountifully spread-A Large Nuin- Der of Members of Various Baptist Churches In the City Present.
 The annual banquet of the Baptist union of New Haven was held last ev- enIng at the First Baptist church,
 The first part of the evening was spent around the festive board which was
 spread in the large lecture room in
 the annex, which was completely filled
 full supper The tables were neatly trim
 med with flowers, and the young ladies
 of the church acted as waitresses.
 Dean Francis Wayland of the Yale
 law school presided and called upon
 pr. Phelps to pronounce the invocation
 of divine blessing, saying that this was
 pr, Phelps seventy-nlnth birthday,
 and therefore the occasion might be
 considered sort of birthday celebra-
 ton.
 Among those noticed at the tables
 were Dean Wayland, Rev. MT. Poteat,
 of Calvary Baptist church. Theodore
 La Fleur of Grand Signe mission, Can ada; Rev. MT. Meyer of the German
 Baptist church on George street. Rev.
 G. b. Nichols of Fair Haven, Rev. F.
 E. Marble of Wallingford, Rev. P. S. Evans of New Haven, Rev J. Il. Mason of the First Baptist church, Prof. Alex ander Van Milligen of Constantinople, Prof. Walter Scott, principal of the Baptist school at Sutfield; MT. and Mrs. Stow, Insurance Commissioner and Mrs. D. A. Betts, MT. and Mrs. Giles Potter, Albert Preuss, Dr. E. J. Walker, w. R. Harper, Burton c. Warner, MT. and Mrs Fred E. Bunnell, Mir. and Mrs. George Lees, Captain and Mrs. William Elkins, Charles B. Henson and Oscar J. Hall.
 After due justice had been done to the repast In the banquet room there was an adjournment to the audience room, wher Dean Wayland in a few well chosen remarks called upon MT. LeFleur for a. few words. MT. LeF'leur described his work emong the Canadian and reported great success. | He also recalled various former occa- sions on which he had visited New Haven and said he recollected all with pleasure. After MT. LeF'leur had con | oluded Dean Wayland introduced Prof. i T. Harwood Pattison of Rochester LII i- versity, formerly pastor of the First | Baptist church.
 MT. Pattison spoke of the neeG of | ministers and said that denomination | takes more interest to-day in educating | ministers than the Baptist. No young | man should be permitted to enter a | theological seminary until he had re- ceived a regular college education. Rochester seminary a few years ago adopted rule that no student could | enter who ws not college graduate or who could not pass an equivalent | examination, and the rule has been found to work successfully, as the class graduated last year is considered the finest ever graduated from the Baptist college in the country. Behind college and school for the fitting of a young nan for the ministry is the home. Here ministers are really made, al- though sometimes young men are de- terred from this profession because heir parents wish them to enter socie- y, or cut more of figure in life. Prof. 2attison then went on to state the far her needs in the way of theological sducation, and was listened to with apt attention