The Newtown bee., 1895-01-11


 repaid for all efforts in this line. Tn
 children who live far distant from tn ' Sunday school enjoy this little touc
 with their more favored brothers and sis j. ters. One little girl who has no way o s coming to our school came to me at on
 of the district meetings, last summer
 and said somewhat timidly, sWe learned - the last lesson in the quarderly to-day I will the new ones be here for next Sun f day?" Needless to say she received tn quarterlies before the next Sunday. Ii
 other homes visited, where the quarter lies have been sent the children have
 proudly brought their cards to show tht :, pricking or sewing done. We believe much good may be done by pushing this
 plan of home study. It brings many iso
 lated lives in contact with the life of the Sunday school and is perhaps their only connection with religious influences, and
 any one who has tried it knows that the surest way to reach the hearts of the par. ents is through the children. I shall never forget little girl once telling me
 how she went to the district Sunday school and after learning the lesson there came home and learned it in the quarter. ly had given her, which was different
 from the one used in the school, and re-
 cited the lesson to her father. It was his
 one touch with church or religious life. for he was a man who never went to church and apparently cared little for
 such things.
 | Mrs Barker was introduced as the as.
 sistant pastor or the pastors assistant
 and reported for the Ladies' Missionary
 society. This society has sent $34 for the support of Bible woman in Turkey, $10 to the New Haven Branch for home missionary work and $3 to help build a Congregational church in Idaho. They
 also sent barrel to home missionary
 at Silver Creek, Neb., which was valued
 at $51.79. Many articles were also dis
 tributed in the parish.
 l Rev Mir Barker introduced Arthur J. Smith to respond for the choir. Among
 other things he said: In presenting re- ! port of the musical progress of the church
 during the year of 1894 I do not feel as
 if had nothing to say and was trying to
 say it, or wrestling with musical essay | either, but rather that there is a great deal to tell which I am afraid I cannot present to you as interestingly as it
 should be presented. Eighteen ninety I four will go on record with the Congre- ! when one of the most important events in it's musical history ever took place. You all know that I refer to the placing in church of the handsome new vocation or gan that has proved such source of en- joyment to us all. I mention this fact first and foremost because itis the prin- -cipal event of the year. The idea of new organ for our church had long sium bered in the minds of large number of
 our people. A little agitation of the sub- ject was the presentation one Sunday by Arthur Wilson of a photograph of a vo- calion organ that seemed to be made for
 ou- church in reality, though not in fact. This started the flame, for MT Bolze. agent for the organs, was in town in a few days to look at the church and he told us it was just what we wanted. A self appointed committee composed of Messrs Arthur Wilson, Fred Hubbell and the writer, visited New Haven to see the organ. We fell in love atsfirst sis ht and sound and came back with glowing ac- count. But we must have money. Ac- cordingly that financial father of our church, c. B. Taylor, was taken into cur hn $700 necessary to procure our treasure was 8 large amount, he told us to go ahead and he would stand back of us. The subscription paper to the organ fund was started. Rich and poor alike gave generously and in less than week it looked like 8 successful undertaking. About week after the first visit sec ond delegation composed of Messrs c. B. Taylor, Fred Hubbell, H. w. Wheeler, Dea Andrew Moore, Rev Mir Barker and the writer went down to see the organ.
 This was on May and this committee
 were even more enthusiastic than when the organ was first seen. We had our moneyed man with us this time and be- fore we came home the or gan was prac- tically ours. On Friday, May II, it was put in position in our church and on the following Sunday, May 13, it was used for the first time at public worship, be- ing played upon by MT Bolze. Of the efforts since made to raise the balance of the $700 needed you all know ,and to-day, as is shown by our treasurer's report, the organ is ours and we don't owe penny for it. But I must say word for our organists, who since the advent of the
 new organ have given us such good ser vice and entirely without remuneration.
 After the first Sunday Fred Hubbell took
 charge of the organ and his success I need not comment upon. We all regret ted, and especially the members of the choir, the circumstances that made it
 necessary for him to give up his position l on account of leaving town, for we felt that it would be impossible for us to find
 another person who would be so in sym l pathy with us in our struggle to master some of the difficult music we have at
 times attempted. But there always seems
 to be person ready to step to the rescue l in our church, and Mrs Andrews, our present organist, who before bad often
 played upon the pipe organ, was induced
 to try playing for us. The members of
 the choir dreaded the first rehearsal with
 the new organist, but our fears were un-
 necessary for we have found in Mrs An-
 drews that kindly sympathy in unstinted
 measure we are in much need of, and her l playing is so excellent that even noted professor from Bridgeport cannot Induce the choir to have her give up her place
 to him, so much do we enjoy her accom- lI panimentr and our feelings are echoed by