The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-10-28

night, disregarding their fathers COM
mand two of his elder sons went.
When Captain Jarvis knew where they
had gone, horsewhip in hand he sought
them, and found them in the very cen
ter of the throng, kneeling among the
Wrapt and entranced worshippers near
est the great preacher. Making MS
way through the large audience ana
vigorously applying the whip to their
| shoulders, he ANONYMOUSLY drove them
home, the laughing stock of all who
| saw them,
With such father it can we'll be I'M
agined that the young Abraham would
be early brought to the minister to re-
ceive holy baptism and called upon to
hear sermons in the small structure
that then served for st. Paurs parish,
Norwalk. Undoubtedly he listened
with childish interest to the Rev. Hen
ry Gamer, who, from his home at Fair
field, journeyed periodically to Norwalk
to minister to the little band of church
| people.
His secular education was the best
that could then be obtained. After a
course In the schools Of Norwalk, he
| was sent to the home of a brother,
| prosperous ldEIIleT DIT lIitlOiNt ebAiu
placed under the care of the Rev Noah
| Wells, the Congregational minister Of
the town, whose ability as a teacher
and tenacity as a controversialist are
still remembered. His delight in study
was intense. Mr.. Jarvis during his
school-boy days always rose before
daylight, and lighting a pitch-pine
torch, for candles were then expensive,
he would eagerly learn his assigned les
son in the dry textbooks Of the period,
Lilly's Grammar and Corderius' and
Erasmus Colloquies.
By the fall Of 1857 he was well pre-
pared to enter Yale college. He was a
d1ligent student, and like the few
churchmen who We're his classmates
and associates in other classes, was
compelled to suffer for his faith. One
anecdote of his college life still sur
wives. AS Mr.. Jarvis went one day to
the Dean Berkeley library* he met COM
ing from it classmate with large
| folio under his arm. Addressing him
by the title which his superior age had
| given him among his associates, Mr..
Jarvis said: What have you there,
father?" II thought I would like to
read a little about Ecclesiastical Polity
and l have found a book upon it writ
ten by Mr.. Richard Hooker Have a
care, father, as sure as you live he will
make a churchman of you" "Oh,
dear, will he?" and the young man re-
| turned the dangerous volume to its
shelf.
Mr.. Jarvis graduated in 1861, and i'm
mediately commenced to prepare for
the holy ministry. Soon after his grad
uation Mr.. Jarvis was invited to be-
| come lay reader in the mission at Mid
dletown, an important center for a
large and growing work, which was
then vacant by the unexpected resigna-
tion of the Rev. Ichabod Camp, it's first
resident missionary, and his removal
| to North Carolina.
The churchmen of Middletown had re
ceived the scholarly ministrations OF
the Rev. James Wetmore, the friend of
Johnson and Cutler, who from his par
ish at Rye, New York, came at least
annually to his nativeNown during the
years from 1925 to 1745 to hold for rela-
tives and friends the services of the
Church of England. 1t became one of
the stations in the wide missionary
circuit of the Rev. Ebenezer Punder-
son of North Groton from 1745 until
Mr.. Camp took charge in 1852, under
whom in 1855 the first Christ church
was built near the South Green.
Mr.. Jarvis did with faithful energy
his work at Middletown and soor
strongly attached the people to him
He studied assiduously theology, and
when obliged to leave the town to be
inoculated for the smallpox, that dread
of our forefathers, resided for some
time in the family of that acute theo-
Logan and defender of the church's pol
ity, Dr. Thomas Bradbury Chandler
of Elizabethtown, N. ].
Living in a household, loving and
united with wise and prudent head
Mr.. Jarvis would learn many useful
lessons in addition to the more formal
instruction in theology which no one in
the colonies, with the exception OF
President johnson of Kings college
(now Columbia university was more
competent to give the young student
than DR.. Chandler
| Mr.. Jarvis seems to have been fully
prepared for ordination in the spring OF
1853 and had evidently received leave
from the society to go to England On
March 81, 1868, at a meeting of the pa
rishioners Of Christ church, Middle
town, it was voted: That a rate OF
three pence on the pound on the list OF
1862 shall be forthwith collected and
paid to the wardens, to be applied tc
defray the charges Of Mr. Abraham
Jarvis, in his going to England to take
orders" Doubtful whether this assess.
ment would yield the full sum of forty
pounds sterling to be advanced to Mr.
Jarvis the wardens were authorized
to borrow from some person that will
lend it," whatever amount might be
necessary to make up the deficiency.
In the fall of 1853 Mr.. Jarvis sailed
for England accompanied by his life.
long friend, Bella Hubbard, afterward
for many years the honored rector Of
Trinity church, and Christ church Bos.
ton. The young men arrived safely in
| December. Their first duty when they
reached London was to pay visits OF
ceremony to the aged Bishop of Lon.
don, Dr. Osbaldiston, then spending
the closing months of his life in strict
retirement, and to DR.. Burton, the sec.
rotary of the venerable society Ar.
engagements were soon made for theii
canonical examinations by the chap
lains of the Bishop of London. (Wher
these had been successfully sustained
and while they were awaiting ordina-