The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-06-02
SEVENTEEN ANNIVERSARY
or THE CONGREGATION4L NOME
MISSIONARY SOCLETY.

The Public Exercises Begin This Evening
With the Annual Sermon by Rev, Daniel
Merriman, ID. D., of Worcester, Mass
To-morrow's Program--Thursday's Pro-
gram.
The exercises of the SEVENTEEN ami
versary Of the Congregational Home
Missionary society will begin in Center
church to-day, and will continue until
and Including Thursday, Last evening
there was a private meeting of the fol-
lowing Representatives of the missionary
society; Field secretaries--Rev w. G.
Puddefoot, South birmingham, Mass;
Rev. C. w. Shelton, Derby; Rev. II. d.
Wizard. Chicago,
Superintendents-R Morit2 e, Nv
/. ersz, d. D., German department, Chi
cago; Rev. s. V. S, Fisher, Scandina-
Wan department, Minneapolis, Mimi;
Rev. Henry A, Schauffier, d. D., Slavic
department, Cleveland, o.; Rev. Ed
ward Curtis. Indianapolis, Ind; Rev.
s. f. Gale. Jacksonville, Fla; Rev, j.,
HI. Morley, Minneapolis, Mimi; Rev.
Alfred K, Wray, Kansas City, Mo-;
Rev. l.. P,~Broad. Topeka, Kan. Rev.
e. H. Ashmun, Albuquerque, N. M;
Rev A. Judson Bailey, Seattle, Wash;
Rev T. G. Grassie, Ashland, Wis;
Rev A. A. Brown, Black Hills and
Wyoming, Hot Springs, South Dakota;
Rev. Harmon Bross, Lincoln, Neb.;
Rev. S. e. Bassett (Supt. Alabama), TT.
Valley, Ga; Rev. w. H. Thrall, Huron,
S. Oak: Rev. H. C. Simmons, Fargo,
N. Oak; Rev. II. Sanderson, Denver,
Col; Rev. w. S. Hawkes., Salt Lake
City, Utah; Rev. j. K. Harrison, San
Francisco, CAL; Rev. C. i. Clapp, For
est Grove, Ore; Rev. T. w. Jones, D.
D., 511 Woodland Terrace, Philadelphia,
Pa; Rev. W. S. Bell Helena, Mon;
Rev. S. c. Mcdaniel, Atlanta, Ca; Rev.
j. Homer Parker, Kingfisher, Okla.
The program for the week will be as
follows:
This Evening, June 2.
7:30-Annual sermon by Rev. Daniel
Merriman, d. D., of Worcester, Mass, !;
salutations by Rev Newman Smyth,
d. D., and President Timothy Dwight,
D. D.; response by the vice president,
DR.. E. B. Webb.
Wednesday, June 8.
$50 a. m.-Auxiliaries; addresses by
Rev Ethan Curtis, New York; Rev.
Joshua Colt, Massachusetts; Rev A. 7.
Hillman, New Hampshire.
1890 a. manual meeting of the
woman's department, Mrs. H. S. Cas-
we'll, secretary presiding; addresses by
Mrs. II. S. Heinzelman Of Indiana; Miss
Caroline Potter, California; Rev. Dora
Reed Barber of Oregon; Mrs. Margaret
e. Sangster Of New York,
230 p. m.-Annual meeting of the so
ciety for the election of officers, hearing
of reports and other business.
$3.50 p. Incorporating societies, Con-
gregational Building society addresses
by Rev. L, III. Cobb, d. D., secretary,
and Rev. Wallace Nutting, d. D., OF
Rhode Island, The Congregational Sun
day school and Publishing society, ad-
dresses by r. A. Rowley of Oregon
Florida and Alabama. Eighth anniver-
sary of the Congregational Education
society, addresses by Rev. ]. A. Hamil-
ton, d. D., secretary, and Rev. w. E.
| Barton, D. D., Boston. Ministerial re
lief Rev. N. H. Whittlesey, D. D.
7:30 p. m.-Paper by Secretary Wash
| ington Choate, The Story OF the Year
| Addresses by Rev. c. H. Patton of Min
nesota, Secretary w. H. Warren OF
Michigan, and Rev. A. J. Lyman, D. D.
of Brooklyn, N. Y.
| Thursday, June a.
a. m.-Paper by Secretary JOSEPH
B. Clark on "a Look Backward" Ad-
dresses by Rev. Ephriam Adams of tht
Andover- Iowa band; Rev. Richard
Cordley of the Andover- Kansas band
Rev c. w. Chelton of the Yale-Dako
ia band; President S. B. L. Penrose o
the Yale Washington band; Prof Georg,