The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-10-15
CONGREGATIONAL CLUB
ALARGE MEETING AT THE SECOND
 CHURCH, FAIR HAVEN.

A Very Interesting Address by Rev. pr,
 Wells of rNIinneapolis-The After Festlvi-
 ties-New Members Added to the Club.
 A largely attended meeting of the New Haven Congregational club was held in the Second church of Fair Haven last evening, An excellent address was giv- en by Rev Dr, Wells of Minneapolis, It was the address given before the Con gregational council last week, He spoke in part as followe:
 A minister should read the daily pa pers, keep in touch with all the latest, most exciting news. and on Sunday present the most toothsome crime or the most appalling disaster of the week just past. Ills list of sermons ought to form kind of calander of the worlds events, and he should seem to his peo- pie as journal, keeping them fully in- formed upon the happenings and pros poets of the hour. There is some sense even in that view. The preacher should be alert and sympathetic with the world and the time. He should be apt to siege and use the live incidents of life that flow across his path. He should extract the moral lesson and the solemn warn ing that come from bitter fruits of sin. Many of Us make great and griev- ous errors through falling to do this, ntIt- 1,o o ct 7rno real sound like words that echo from bare cliffs, instead of being spoken from the heart. Our hearers are not reached and touched, not grasped and guided by the thoughts that we present. We, however, should be upon our guard, lest in endeavoring to bring the truth down to the common life we spoil it's spirit and render it of the earth earthly. Men do not want the Sabbath to be like the week. to think in church upon
 the same subjects and rest on the like level as in the counting house and office. They have been wrestling with dark, perplexing problems, bearing heavy, galling yoke; they have felt the sore stress of human toll and care. The value
 of the Sabbath to them lies in the great ness of the variety, the completeness or the change which it affords. Their | mental powers are sadly worn. Let these departments of their being rest | to-day and the pastor, like a skillful or ganist, draw forth from the great soul instrument some fresher, sweeter stops | In room of matters from the mart and street provide for them the spirits food | The skill of an Almighty Father can l never be content with rags and husks, | The soul cries blindly indeed, but bitter | ly, for the water of life and for the bread that comes down from heaven, Just because mems walk is so material and gross, because they are so swallow | ed up and swept away by the swift streams of self and sin, therefor for this | very reason bring to them upon the Sabbath some spiritual refreshment and
 supply. No period of history has more urgently needed a time of weekly rest and worship than the present. 1 believe | that no generation would wait more gladly than by the men by whom we are surrounded here and now It is the | privilege and duty of the ministry to meet this want To hear the people as l they call for food and to see to it that
 stones are not given them in place of | bread.
 l During the evening the quartet of the Trinity M. F. church rendered several l fine selections. Previous to the exercises
 in the auditorium a fine supper was
 served by the ladies of the aid society | Mrs L. P. Deming, president The l tables looked very handsome, having
 been prettily decorated. Each table was under charge of a lady with several assistants. The ladies in charge were
 as follows: Mrs. Herbert Barnes, Mrs Willet Hemingway, Mrs. George Augur
 Mrs. George Baldwin, Mrs. Orrin Doc little, Mrs Allen Huntley, Mrs. Filler
 Linsley, Mrs. Henry Lancraft, Mrs
 George Bradley, Mrs. James Wood house, Mrs. Fred Foot, Mrs. Ed Barnes
 Mrs. E. c. Allis, Mrs. John Parker
 Mrs. c. D. Parmelee, Mrs J. H. Clog stone, Mrs. Edgar Allen, Mrs R, G Davis.
 The following new members were elected: Fred r. Andrews, Edwin Hal
 lock, H. S. Higby, James Johnson, Rev H. w. Pope, Joseph Fl. Pratt, pr. II
 A. Street, Henly Sutton, Frank H. Bel
 den, Newell J. Bailey, George R. Cham
 berlain, w. R. Downs, A. G. Shell, Prof W. F. Chandler.