The record-union., 1898-01-22
A FAREWELL RECEPTION.
MEMBERS OF THE CONGREGA-
TIONAL CHURCH GIVE 1T.
Appreciation Shown by Them to
Their Retiring Pastor, Rev.
II. N. Hoyt.


attended not only by the members OF
his congregation, but by scores of warm
personal friends who had met and
learned to honor him as a citizen and
a man.
Five tables loaded with good things
filed the basement hall of the church,
and good cheer appeared TO be the
general order, even if sorrow at the
pastors departure was in the hearts
of those assembled.
Professor e. G. Atkinson occupied the
head of the table, and made an ideal
master of ceremonies, marshalng ms
speakers with the ease and certainty OF
veteran campaigner.
After an invocation by Rev. DR.. Banks,
Professor Atkinson said the breaking
of bread was and always had been the
symbol of good fellowship and good
will and while the members of his con-
gregation, and others who had come
into contact with him, felt sorrow be-
cause of his leaving, they understood
that the sun does not always shine for
them. but smiles on other people when
it sinks in the West. DR.. Hoyt, he
said. goes to a new field of labor, and
meet, as he had gladdened those with
which he came in contact in Sacramen-
to. If sorrow was felt, he said, 1t
should not be shown, for what Sacra-
mentans will lose, Bostonians will gain
AS a representative of the church
Professor Atkinson introduced ). T..
Darlington, who said he felt as dld
Mayor Walbeck Of Washington, When
the news of Lees surrender reached
the nations Capital. Walbeck had been
anticipating the event for some days.
and when the news finally arrived he
was in the midst of a celebration of the
event. He, however, drifted with the
crowd to the War Department, ana
after Secretary Of War Stanton had
spoken to the multitude, and other big
guns had told what they knew, the
people called for him. He knew he
could not speak, but the people in
sisted, and when he stood before them
he aimed to say, MY heart is too full
for utterance," but what he really said
was, 81 am too full for utterance," and
the crowd appreciated his condition
He too, the speaker said. was too full
for utterance. He found himself un-
fit the occasion.
DR.. Hoyt, Mr. Darlington said, had
been. with his Sacramento congregation
three years, and the blessings he hao
dispensed would be more fully felt and
appreciated in the future. It had been
said by one who stood high in the
church that in it there was but one
DIR. Hoyt, and now that he was about
to leave his congregation, each and
every member united in wishing him
god-speed, and all realized that they
who turn many to righteousness shall
shine as stars forever more"
AS a representative Of the society
outside the church who had listened to
the teachings of DR.. Hoyt, Professor
Atkinson introduced w D. knights,
who spoke of the pastor from a per-
sonal, rather than a religiouslyfra-
teTnal standpoint. Mr.. knights said
he had listened to the teaching Of the
Doctor with the greatest attention, and
had profited thereby. He had often
taken a fancy to ministers, and it had
ever been his lot to see them depart for
other fields at the time they had sue
ceeded in arousing his greatest inter-
est He hoped it was not because DR..
Hoyt despaired of converting him that
he had decided to leave Sacramento,
but if he thought he could have better
success among the outsiders Of Bos-
ton, he ought to go there.
C. A. Calvin, representing the Sun
day-school, was the next speaker and
he paid glowing tribute to the ability
Of DR.. Hoyt, and to the good work done
L - III L. IT,,
Both, he said, had brought self-conse-
Grafton into both church and Sunday
school, and had incuIcated undying
principles into the boys and girls who
represent the church that is to be. The
teachings Of the pastor had been direct
and to the point, and the powerful
truths he had, enunciated had been
driven home by language terse and
beautiful. In this he had emulated
Dean Swift, who once delivered a SER
mon before many of England's nobility
and wealthy, in Westminster Abbey, in
the interest of a certain charity. Dean
Swift took as his text the passage, 'He
who giveth to the poor, lendeth to the
Lord" and his serman was: You who
believe in the security, come down with
the guineas.' The Sunday-school had
nothing but words of cheer and good
wishes for DR.. Hoyt and his amiable
wife.
Miss Emily NJ. Connolly, as repre-
sentative Of the Christian Endeavor So
ciety, expressed her gratitude for the
teachings Of the pastor in a few well
spoken, cheering words. When she
first heard he was going away she
could not look at him or anybody else
for winking and blinking, but he had
for three years been teaching unselfish-
ness, and she had come to look upon his
departure as a boon to other people, as
we'll as a loss to Sacramento. She was
glad to have known his family, and
could do no less than wish him the
success he was sure to attain wherever
he went.
Next, DIR. Banks, representing the
Pastors Union, spoke in his usual hap
py. cheerful vein. He realized, he
said that the present was no happy oc-
casion, and yet for any pastor to hear
such genuine eulogies- pronounced as
had been poured upon DR.. Hoyt, ought
to be one Of the happiest moments of
his life. Personally, Dr. Banks said,
he always felt good if he could get his
pay and steal out quietly. The genuine
expressions of emotion he had heard,
made him feel glad. DR.. Hoyt had
been an inspiration and a star. Clouds
might gather, but his mission was to
shine, and he had ever stood for Christ
and for man. He expected that the
church would have a great supply Of
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