The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-03-14
LATEST FAIR HAVEN NEWS
THE FUNERAL SERVICES OF DEA-
 CON WILLlS HEMINGWAY.

ingWay was attended Saturday after noon at 3:30 o'clock from the Grand avenue Congregational church. Preced- ing the service prayer was offered at the late home of the deceased, No. 2S7 Quinnipiac avenue, by Rev. MT. Tom linson of this city. Rev. Dr. Mitchell was assisted in the service at the church by Rev. D. J. Clark of East Ha- ven. Rev. Dr. Mitchell's address was as follows:
 "At this same hour but last Sabbath we gathered about this place, which bore there the emblems of the broken body and shed blood of our Lord, and the form now clothed in the majesty of death was in the place where he so loved to be and we so loved to have him. The air vibrated with death then, triumphant death, life-giving death; it vibrates with death now, the same tri- umphant death-death which crowns life, life forevermore. He who would mourn death on this errand would mourn magma charta and the declara- tion. We are in the presence of tram scendant emancipation. We catch but the faulty reverberating echo of it as though some far-away fair city were one voice around king returning from his wars.
 ''Fifty-one years ago the third of last January young man stood at this al- tar and accepted the cross of Christ. Long lines of shining heads have stood here since. This man stood alone. And yet he has been anything but lonely man. Nearly three generations have passed by since, and this man has been comrade with them all; and to-day if the men of his generation could be brought from beyond the border to sur round him, with the few who may re- at home with them than with us who were born since he was old.
 "A diffident man. I never saw him rise to perform any public duty with out blushing, but he came alone that day when he confessed Christ and has always been as perfectly assured of the law of faith and duty Free from error, moral or intellectual, he was not of course, nor dreamed that he was, but the man lived not that could turn him from the right as he saw the right | to be. And yet there would never be a | trial for heresy and seldom heretic l if all men who know what they believe held that belief as free from the spirit of antagonism as did this believer. De- | cisive belief is ever in itself stronger, | ever in itself more attractive than doubt and frivoIity, but it has such an | unfortunate way sometimes of stirring all the latent rebelliousness in the hu- man heart. If only more men who have clear convictions of the right could live them and assert them as did this lost leader of ours!
 We have lost a strong, judicious and loving man, but our loss is his gain and we may not be selfish He was well equipped for his journey, if he has gone on a journey, and in some real sense he has, for he has passed to an incomparably larger life. A college | mate of mine planning long and haz- ardous journey through lands whose languages and customs he knew not, we sought to dissuade from going. Q, I don't care, he said; you can go any ! where if you have money He was | tolerable correct in liss estimate within | the limits of what he meant by any where. But he meant such little | anywhere. It is such a little way | around this world, even if you go the | longest way. And this worlds moneys friopdSniT,s ra | useless on it's real borders. But then | our beloved went forth with passports | of faith and works that the angels can read He had much treasure over there and was great personal friend | of the Lord of that country Yes, he can go anywhere.
 l Thanksgiving, 1894, as Deacon Hem | ingway came from his home where his family was assembling for the festival, he stopped at the telegraph office and
 sent this dispatch to member of his
 family who could not be present We regret exceedingly your absence. Health, peace Oh, kindly spirit, now made perfect, absent this day from our vision, we send thee greeting by the hand of our Lord, the King, health,
 peace
 The honorary bearers were the dea- ] cons-R c. Smith, Henry Futile, Wal | ter S. Bishop, Charles Hubbard, Ar 1 thur Smith. The bearers were the three sons-W. E., Charles S. and Frederick 1 H. Hemingway-and c. w., Samuel
 James S., E. E. and James W. fleming l way.
 Yesterday morning in the Grand ave- nue Congregational church Rev. Dr.
 Mitchell preached memorial discourse
 in honor of the departed The subject
 was "Participation in God"
 On Saturday evening a surprise par
 ty was rendered Miss Elsie Kelsey al her home on Townsend avenue. A
 number of games were played, and for dressing the new woman" Master
 Fred Widenman received first prize, g
 handsome spoon. Miss Pearl Porter
 received the booby prize, a bouquet oi
 carnations. In the donkey party Mae
 Rowley received first prize, pretty
 doyley, and Master Walter Burwell the
 booby prize, a small watering can
 Among those present were Pearl Por-
 ter, Myrtle Widenman, Maude Gran
 niss May Stanton, Helen Stanton Ida
 Collins, Mamie Younge, Elsie Hubbard
 Emma Bristol, Mae Rowley, Walter