The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-03-21
PASTOR MARrIN's 7eru BIRTHDAY.
An Interesting Occasion in old Wood
 bridge-Beautiful Testimonials.

 brldge-Beautiful Testimonials. The parish of Woodbridge and other friends celebrated the seventy-sixth birthday of their pastor, Rev. s. P. | Marvin, with an entertainment and l social in the lecture room and church | parlors. The rooms were crowded to \ their utmost capacity. As many as | could stood around the sides of the room while some were unable to get | in at all.
 Albert L. Sperry was master of ceremonies and the programme of the evening, as fololws, was most happily carried out:
 Opening Prayer-Rev. J. P. Hoyt of
 Cheshire.
 Piano Solo-Miss Helen Warner. Quartette--''M Medley Edwin Storrs, Ed ward Hitchcock, Mrs. Edwin Storrs and
 Mrs. Charles E. Peck.
 Recitation-.'rhe Stylish Church"-Miss solo-"The Dream'-,NIiss Lucy Peck. Recitatonm"rhe Model Chdrch"--Mlss Ladies Quartette-"In Primrose Lane"--
 Mrs storrs, Mrs. Rice, Mrs. Edith Peck and Mrs. Grace Beiziegel. Presentation of an elegant crayon picture
 of the pastor to the Ecclesiastical so-
 clety by the Helping Hand society of
 young ladies, to be hung in the ladies'
 parlors: The presentation made by
 Miss Helen Newton of Mount Holyoke Response on accepting the picture for the
 society by Leroy c. Beecher. Solo" Afterwards Mrs, Charles E. Peek Recitation Birthdays" - Miss Addle
 Thomas.
 Song by the choir.
 The following hymn is a composition by the pastor:
 How blest the bond which binds
 Our hearts in this glad hour,
 When each in each, true friendship finds,
 And love unfeigned is ours.
 Here on these Woodbridge heights
 One family we dwell,
 And in our ardent joys delight, Our mutual loves to tell. N Up to the heavenly hills
 We wend our joyful feet,
 And with our glad hosannaS fill
 Thy templed arch complete.
 What changes time has wrought
 Since we in one were joined,
 Pastor and people In one flock,
 To labor in this fold. , How many loved ones crowned ]; With silyered locks of age,
 And dearest children too, are found , l Starred on our mem0ryS page.
 
 We also call to mind; How blest their memories are | Within cur hearts enshrlned. But in the changes made
 We recognize Thy hand,
 Whose purposes sublime are made, And hast us in Thy plans.
 For all thy mercies, Lord, Encircling all our lives; f Here in Thy courts at this glad hour We offer grateful praise. After the hymn William Wales Pecl , presented to the pastor all ornamentec basket containing SIG in silver ant | another containing $40 in gold to Mrs Marvin; also a check from an estima ble young lady of Bridgeport (whos' : grandparents were of Woodbridge for S25. The whole amount of th' : presents was $147. Warren Tomlinson presented al
 Easter lily containing eight buds anc 1. lilies on the stalk. The pastor responded for himsel and his wife, expressing his surprise l and his appreciation of the marks 0 : kindness his friends in Woodbridg i and his summer parishioners hat . shown him, and saying children wer A fond of birthdays, but there comes l time when they are nor so pledSdIll : but if they were to be like the presen - he would like to have them come tWic :, year.
 . The choir then sang a hymn an T, then Rev. MT. Hoyt was introduced ,,' who made the address of the evening :, full of wit and good humor, keepin ;, all in happy frame of mind prepara :. tory to the supper which was to fol T, low After an address by John M
 Marvin of New Haven, the son of tn
 pastor, they all arose and sang tn Doxology, and adjourned to the dinin
 room in the basement of the church y where most sumptuous entertain . nent was provided. In the midst of the festival ther .o | seemed to be a feeling that they woul :. rather hear MT. Hoyt than to eat, an y he was pressed into making another ( - his witty speeches somewhat at the eS
 pense of the pastor, suggesting that h 1 was silver while his wife was pun
 gold, and as the wife gave direction T, things the politics of the parsonae H were safe. At the close of the occs
 sion it was pronounced by all as on ~ of the happiest events ever enjoye '. in Woodbridge.