The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-05-24
FAIR HAVEN HAPPENINGS
CAPTAIN D1DMUN PREPARING FOR
 NEV LONDON.


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 Captain George Dadmun will leave London, where the Yale crew will go into training preparatory to the races at Poughkeepsie Captain Dadmun will leave with the launch for the Hud- son river June 23. The distance is about two hundred miles, and the launch will have to stop at New Ha- ven and at New York to coal. The board of trade of New London has of- fered to transport the Yale shells from New Haven to New London free of charge, but no arrangement has yet been made. For several years Captain Thompson has transported the shells to and from New London on his steamer Ivernia It Is considered preferable to transport the frail craft by boat, as the liability of damage Is smaller than in carrying them on the cars.
 The members of the Fortnightly club held very pleasant celebration Thurs day evening in the parlors of the Grand avenue Congregational church. The club is composed of twenty-one ladies. The husbands and other friends of the members were present, thirty-five per sons sitting down to the dinner, served by Francis. The affair was a sort of induction into office of the new officers, consisting of Mrs. J. Lee Mitchell. pres sident; Miss Jennie Griswold, vice pres ident and Mrs. Eugene Mather, secre- tary and treasurer. The decorations were in pink and green, and the parlors and dining tables presented an attrac- tive appearance, During the dinner piano selections were rendered by MT Manville and vocal solos by Miss Mary Griswold. The president, Mrs Mitch ell, presided and welcomed all in appro- priate remarks. The retiring president, Mrs. A. I. Boyer, was the toastmaster. The toast Our Literary Aspirations, by Mrs c. B. Adams, was responded to by Dr. A. I. Boyer; An Ideal Illus band" toast by Miss Jennie Gris- wold, was responded to by Rev. J. Lee Mitchell in an address on The New Woman" It was very pleasant af- fair, and was greatly enjoyed by all at tending.
 The w. S. T. U. will give an ice cream sociable and musical entertainment at its rooms, corner of Grand avenue and Front street, this evening at s o'clock The affair promises to be an interesting occasion, and an excellent programme has been prepared, which consists, in part, of recitations by Isidora Goldberg vocal duet by Miss Lena Smith and
 Miss Nora Sage, recitations by Miss Pearl A. Taft, violin solo by Miss Grace Bristol. Admission will be ten cents,
 which includes ice cream
 Rev MT. Marble of Wallingford sup piled the pulpit of the Grand avenue Baptist church yesterday in the ab- sence of the pastor, Rev. Dr. Sage. | Rev. J. Lee Mitchell preached yes 1 terday morning at the Grand avenue i Congregational church from the text
 When thou said'st seek ye my face" :" His sermon was in part as follows: Before every communion season
 there is particularly large crop of people who are impressed by the bad ness of Christians, So far as we can judge their impressions are correct. A genuine Christian generally feels even when he is being accused of wrong things he did not say nor do, and of motives his mind is a stranger to, there there Is plenty In him that Is bad and that though his enemies are wide of the truth in their charges he is not so very unjustly treated.
 "It is no part of the Christians be- lief that he is not bad, and if anything Ir, Iae ioo ,,,l,t
 1t Is still less part of the plea of him who Is not Christian, that Christ fans are bad Indeed a Christian might be defended as man who Is bad and knows it. A non Christian as a man who is bad and does not know 1t, at least does not believe that there Is any such badness in him as makes personal relations with God import ant.
 "The world says there are no such quarrels as church quarrels. It is not true. Political quarrels are far more bitter There is nothing in the church which will go ahead of science for bigotry. Anything that men are vitally interested in they intensity to bitter ness Nevertheless it must disappear out or CnurCn dTdlFS. we must Qeny ourselves the peace of the unholy pleas- ure of incorporate speech. It Is prac- tical thing It can be done, and there is no human agency that would have a larger influence than charitableness among Christians.
 "Tf Christianity is good for anything at all 1t is just as good to make people more agreeable as 1t is to save their souls If 1t can't do one it can't do the other. That was Jesus own argument when he told the sick of the palsy that | his sins were forgiven and they accused him of blaspheny.
 "Then there is one thing so conspic-
 uous to the world and seeming to them so radically different from what Chris tianity ought to be, variously described, as meanness, littleness, selishness, all | words too wide and general Commer- cial dishonesty Is more nearly what it is. I do not mean benevolence. The world would admit that ninety-nine hundredths of the benevolent work of the country is by Christians. And be- sides we all of us, no matter what we did, would have to be charged with | meanness by somebody.
 with all the errors, bigotry and hu-
 man imperfections that have stung into llo of let tho