The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-12-09
REV. A. NJ. HALL ORDAINED
AT an ECCLESIASTICAL COUNCIL
REID YESTERDAY


Service Last EvenIng-Many Visiting
ministers Present-NIr. Halls Statement
of Faith.
In the Taylor Congregational church,
corner Shelton avenue and Division
street, yesterday afternoon the Eccle-
siastical council held a conference to
determine whether or not Rev. A. M.
Hall should be ordained as a Congrega-
tional preacher. The council was called
to order at 2:15 and Rev. S. P, Marvin
of Woodbridge was elected moderator
and Rev. G. S. Dickerman scribe. Rev.
Mr.. Hall was then called cpon and read
his statement of faith. Many questions
were asked of him by various members
Of the council. Some time was con-
sumed in this questioning, and the
council then went into executive ses-
sion, where all matters in his state
ment of faith and all answers made
by him were carefully considered.
BY a unanimous vote it was decided
that he should be ordained and COM
mittee consisting of Rev. Frank r.
Luckey and Rev. B. NJ. Wright, was
appointed to notify Mr.. Hall of the de-
cison of the council, which then ad-
journed. Many of the members of the
council remained for the ordination SER
vices, which took place at 1880 last eve
ming, and they were entertained with
an elegant supper, prepared by the Ia
dies society of the church.
The church building was filled to its
capacity by those attending the cere-
monies of ordination. The service was
opened with invocation by Rev. L. II.
Lynch, after which Rev. c. S. McFar-
land read short scripture lesson.
Rev. George B. Stevens, D. D., of the
Yale divinity school, preached the
sermon of the evening. This was fol-
lowed by the ordination prayer by Rev.
E. L. Curtis. The charge of the church
was delivered by Rev. Lewis o. Bras
tow, D. d, and the hand Of fellowship
extended by Rev. DR.. Newman Smyth.
The services closed with prayer by
Rev. H. L. Hutchins. Some appropriate
music was rendered by a special choir.
Rev Hall was the recipient of many
CONGRATULATIONS by those present. The
little church was made very attractive
by some choice flowers tastefully ar
ranged.
Those composing the council We're:
Center church, Rev. Newman Smyth
and Prof. Frank K. Sanders; United
church, Rev. G. S. Dickerman; Dixwell
avenue, Rev. T. N. Baker and j. L.San-
ders; Plymouth, E. w. Boorhees;
Church of the Redeemer, Rev. Watson
Phillips and Rev. N. H. Whittlesey;
Oxford, Rev. G. L. Shafer and DR..
Lewis Barnes; West Haven church,
Norman Squires and Rev. L. P. Peet;
Woodbridge church, Rev S. P. Marvin;
Whitneyville, Rev. c. F, Clark and Rol-
lin C. Horsfall; Ansonia, Rev. w. F.
Markwick and S. P. Brown; Cheshire
Rev James P. Hoyt; First church.
Gui1ford, Rev. F. e. Snow; First
church, Milford, Rev. Henry H, Moss
and D. S. Whitcomb; Plymouth church.
Milford, Rev. c. E. Upson and A. A
Baldwin: Mt. Carmel, Lyman H. Bas-
sett; Orange, Rev. B. M, Wright; How.
ard avenue, New Haven, Rev. w. J
Mulch and G. H. Butricks; Humphrey
street, Rev. Frank r. Luckey; Dwight
Place church, John M. Marvin; Eman'
uel Rev. Charles Ledin; Bethany
church, Rev. c. S. Mcfarland; also
Prof. Stevens, Prof. Brastow, Prof
Curtis, Rev. F. Fl. Lynch, Rev. P. A
Johnson of Yale divinity school.
Rev. Halls statement Of faith and 6
short history Of his life follows:
MR.. HALLS STATEMENT OF
FAITH.
Gentlemen-You ask me for q state
ment of my faith. To this request
gladly accede and will try to be per
fectly frank and explicit, for while thi'
to you is perhaps matter Of small mo
1nent, simply a young mans asking II
be set apart to the Congregational min
istry, it marks an epoch in my life o
vast consequences.
Faith, as understand it, is not pri
marily the acceptance of formulated
opinion or dogmatic truth. If this Wer
so 7 could not in the time allotted dis
cuss more than single point or Civ
more than q dim outline of the system
of thought, poor though it be, that ha
been made my own in the last fourteen
years of college life. The springs o
true faith lie deeper for a. man may b.
conversant with the whole field Of thee
logical thought, and yield assent t
many or all the systems and still lacl
the faith that justifies. Faith is rattle
the attitude of man toward his ideals
toward right, toward God. 1t is striv
ing to have ones mind "ovous" an
conscience cha suneisasis" undefile
Git. 1:15). 1t is the making, the foun
dation of ones life the things hope
for and the being disciplined by the un
seen (Ieb. lid. I take it, then, tina
when you ask me to give statemen
of my faith you ask for the view point
from which survey life and the mo
tives that govern my actions.
TEE NEW POINTS.
Those truths that to me are self evi
dent that are the new points fror
which survey life are:
/. Man exists in a state of Imperfect
ton, weakness, sin.
2. There is a power other than ma
present in all the universe, the highes
revelations of which are the ideals Q
truth and of life.
8. The true end of mans existence
harmony with this power.
4. Man gets help from without in hi
efforts to attain his ideals.
These propositions are not reduced t
the first stage of simplicity and bac
of them any one can go with question