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The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-10-16

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The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-10-16

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The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-10-16

From the Brooklyn Life.
Miss Gushington-How do you write
such lovely poetry. Mr.. Stanza7 Do you
have to wait until the spirit moves you,
Mr.. Stanza-Er-yes-or the landlord
threatens to.
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Greenfield Hill. THE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH. Its Early History and Present
 Condition.
CHURCH SERVED A MEN-EARLY
 SACRIFICES THE FATHERS.

The Greenfield Hill church, of the historic churches of the Congregational order u this county, is in ourhng condition o under the able mnsratOn and leadership of it's pastor Rev Joseph B. Kettle The present membership the church is 60 5 males and l07 femae of whom eight the ab- sent list.
 Since February there has been received into membership Will liam H. Gould and Mrs Margea Gould, Mrs Anne Eliza Nichols and Mrs H. Sherwood The church has lost by death Miss Pa mca Banks, member for 55 years Mrs Mary C. Pennel member for 60 years, and Mrs Anne Eliza Nichols
 This church has been served by many able and Gody cuing Rev Timothy Dwight D. D. afterwad president of Yae college The historical sketch presented in connection with this review of the Greenfield church, taken from delivered by Rev Henry Bagg Smith deceased at the 50h anniver- say of the church in 876 There also given connection with this review Rev J. B. Kettle the present pastor
 The history the Greenfield church, like many another al towns, closely nterwned with the history of the fmes and TIE BEE is thus comforting favor placing these historic facts in the hands of every family.
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Ia committee on the part of the Society to arrange for the ordination of My Bel den, that took place October l. 1872.
 He excelled more as teacher of the youth than as 8 minister of the gospel. In both positions he did what he could of his fiock, over whom the Holy Ghost had made him an overseer, until he was dismissed from his pastorate, April 3, 1921. After his dismission the pulpit was supplied for time by the Rev Mir Nicholson, sn Englishman.
 On November l2l, 1921, unanimous call was given by the Church and Socie- ty to the Rev IRichsrd Varick Dey to settle and become their pastor.
 Being handsome young msn of con- msDding presence and natural eloquence, MT Dey became very popular and was much admired ss preacher st home and abroad, SO that multitude fiocked to hear him, and the old meeting house was not large enough to accommodate the congregation. But. while very pop ulsr, he acquired the evil habit of drink. ing the social glass with some of his dis tinguished psrishioners, and before he was aware of it he drank to intoxication. Thus, most distinguished preacher and eloquent orator was ruined by intemper- ance. This having become public, the body of ministers and delegates he was tried and deposed from the ministry. Then, in view of his downfall, all behold CTS were led to exclsim, How art thou fallen, oh, Lucifer, son of the morning." After Mir Dey's dismission the Rev Samuel Merwin preached the gospel for some time to this people, and received 6 call to settle as pastor.
 For year or two Rev Charles Nichon supplied the pulpit and preached the gospel to the few who assembled to hear him. Then, in the good providence of God, Rev Nathaniel Freeman, having been dismissed from the pastorate in Esston, came here as acting pastor and continued in that relation to this people for nearly nine years. Amid many dis SOuA s0AChSSs IIAA4s anu aAltCtlOus He preached faithfully the gospel here, and during the time was called to part with his much beloved wife and seven of his children, whose bodies lie buried on Greenfield Hill. But, amid much tribulation, he made full proof of his ministry and died in triumph of living faith, June IS, 1864, st the age of s yesrs, and his body lies buried beside those of his beloved wife and children.
 In 184O Rev Rodney c. Dennis, for
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| freedom and independence of the United States. During the American Revolu- tion Fairfield was the most patriotic township in Southern Connecticut, and | furnished about the same amount of men and means to carry on the war as New
 Haven.
 Tn the year of 1757 some families in the north-esstern section of the town of Fs ir- field were organized into the Baptst Church and Society of Stratield, and in the year 1757 several families in Green field Parish helped form the Congrega- tional Church and Society in Nortbfield, | town of Weston, and in 1763 a large num- Der of families left Greenfield church and society and formed the Congregational church in Weston, now Easton. Since that time the bounds of Greenfield parish have remained much the same as they were more than 100 years ago, being four miles equare. In Dr Dwight's day the parish numbered 1000 nhabitants, and iu 1886 about l POO. Near the close of the last century flax was extensively raised as an article of commerce in Green field and Fairfield, even more than in all New England. Theodore Burr told Dr Dwight that for 10 years, when he was naval officer of Fairfield, there was sent out of the town annually an average of 20 900 bushels of f1axaeed. Then could be seen here in Greenfield 20 acres of flax in 8 single field. But long since fax has ceased to be raised as an article of commerce, and onions have taken it's place, and many thousand bushels of the latter are now annually raised for the New York market. Few parts of the world are more fruitful and healthy than the parish of Greenfield. "In my own congregation of l, 1000 persons" says Dr Dwight, ''during one year of my minis try here, not single person died, and during another year only two, and one of those was an accidental death." The pqrish has always been Doted for the salubrity of it's climate and the beauty of it's scenery. Well has the pen of Dr Dwight embalmed these characteristics of the place in prose and poetry, and
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The Greenfield Hill Church.

tion thereof we have consented to set our hands and seals, this 22d day of September, 1743.-[Andre Burr, Sam uel Burr, Joseph Wakeman, Committee for assigning the seats.''
 The parish then ''voted that Samuel Bradley shall get 8 bell for said Green field Meeting House, and said bell shall be lodged at the minister's house of said Greenfield" That was the first bell, probably, that was ever rung to call the people together to the house of God on Greenfield Hill, 133 years ago.
 Seventeen years after, the second meeting house having become old and dilapidated, the parish ''voted, February, 1760, to build new meeting house, and to have it stand on the place where stands monument of stones; and that Samuel Bradley, Jr., be a committee to apply to the County Court in behalf of l the parish to affix and establish the des-
 cribed place for the meeting house to
 stand on.gAlso voted, that the dimensions
 of the new meeting house shall be 60 feet in length, 42 feet in breadth, and ! have good, proportionate we'll built ! steeple." In November, 1760, the parish
 voted 'that as many pews as can with
 convenience be laid out, on the ground floor of the new meeting house, by joir-
 CTS that understand the business, and the
 spots or places so laid out, shall be fair
 ly sold to the highest bidder, and the
 money raised to defray the expenses of { the house. Also voted that those who
 purchased the spots or places be obliged
 to build their pews by limited time, and
 to build them uniform, all alike." In the following year the spots for pewa
 were sold, as the record shows: B.
 i've, the subscribers, being appointed
 at the meeting of the 10th of November
 last to sell the spots or pews, then voted
 to be laid out in our new meeting house
 for pews to be erected on, have, accord.
 ing to the vote of the parish, at theil above said meeting to said pews, laid ou and sold the above said spots or placer for pews in the manner following, name 7 fly, with the assistance of David Bradley 8 Jr.: Beginning at the east side of tn B south double door, have laid out tn B spots or places for pew No l, and so sue 3 cessively laid out and numbered al 3 around the house till we came to tn B west side of said double door, they bein, g No 26; and have also this day sold tn D above spots or places, except pew No 1 D for the purposes aforesaid, to the follow ? ing persons, with the sum of each spo r or place annexed to his name, which pel ], sons are obliged by the conditions Q 3 said venture to have their pews wei e built and completed, upon their ow + cost or charge, by the first day of Octe @ Der next, or forfeit the same to the Soc d ety." Accordingly they were sold 8 e follows: To Gershom Banks, pew No t G14 15s; to Samuel Bradley, pew No q f16 los. The whole amount of the gal g Iof these spots or pews was 489 pound e 12 shillings.
 At length the third meeting house b. q ing eompleted-Dr Dwight's church, g + it has been called-Aatlle parish voted, , t- g meeting held October, 1762, to hay r the old meeting house and second houl
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Interior View Greenfield Hill Church

some months preached the gospel to this people. In April, lS42, Rev Thomas B. Sturges was invited to settle as pastor. The invitation having been accepted, Deacon William B. Morehouse, Deacon Seth Jennings, Samuel Betts and Abrsm D. Baldwin were chosen as a committee of arrangements for the ordination. The services of the ordination were in- troductory prayer by Rev John W. Alvord; sermon by Rev Edwin Hall, D. D.; ordaining prayer by Rev Ezra D. kenney; charge to pastor by Rev Noah Coe; right hand of fellowship by Rev Lyman H. Atwster, D. D. address to the people by Rev Theophilus Smith;
 concluding prayer by Rev Chauncey
 Wilcox.
 Accordingly, Rev Mir Sturges was or
 dained pastor of the church, June, lS42,
 and continued in his psstorate here for D years, until June, 1S61. His early | ministry was blest with 8 general revival, as the fruit of which 42 persons united
 with the church on profession of their
 faith in lS43. But need not speak of
 the lsbors and success of the beloved,
 wlse and faithful pastor, who, for 9 years went in and out among you, | preaching Christ and Him crucified.
 The seed that he sowed bore much fruit,
 not only during his ministry but the year following his dismission under the
 continued labors of Rev R. P. Hubbard
 and Rev J. D. Potter, evangelist, when
 spiritual harvest of 60 persons was gathered into the church, go that he that
 soweth and he that Ireapeth may rejoice
 together.
 l My predecessor in pastoral office, Rev
 k. P. Hubbard, was ordained pastor Au-
 gust 1, 1868; the society's committee for
 ordination was Walter O. Murwin, John
 Burr and Cyrus Sherwood.
 Services of the ordination were Intro
 ductory prayer by Rev D. R. Austin |; : sermon by Rev Edward E. Rankin, D. D {; charge to pastor by Rev Frederick Alvord right hand of fellowship by Rev Martin Dudley; address to the people by Rev B. J. Relyea; concluding prayer by Rev George W. Banks.
 He was dismissed April P, 1872. Hi character. labors and usefulness ars known to all of you. Your present pas
 tor began his lsbors here, April, 1878 l and was installed pastor July l, 1873 ' The society's committee for the installA ' tion consisted of John Merwin, Descol Joseph Donaldson and Andrew Wake man.
 Services of the installation were Invo cation and reading of scriptures by Re- Franklin s. Fitch; introductory praye by Rev B. J. Relyes; sermon by Re' l' James ". Hubbel; ordaining prayer bl !, Rev k. E.. Rankin, n. D.; right hand O II felloyship by Rev s. J. NJ. Merwin; con F. cluding prayer by Rev Edwin Johnson The years that have been the mos fruitful in the ingsthering of sheaves in ie to the garner of the Lord were tn 's following: l726, 3l persons; 1742, I6 'r 1906, 2S; 1907, II; ls4s, 42: ls4s, l7
 1857, I2; 1868, 60; 1875, IA. nmy limits would allow and time DC, e init, might speak of some of Greer l. fields most distinguished citizens: ( " Gideon Tomlinson, Esq.. who was nir al CONTINUED ON PAGR SIX.
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son or persons to build the said house
 The parish voted December Il, 1727 that Samuel Thorp and Benjamin Oar ling shall have E5 12s more than their bargain for framing said meeting house. ''
 ''In December, l730, voted that Lieut. Moses Diamond shall Lave power to agree with any persons to carry the work on the meeting house, 80 far as the pariah shall raise money for the same, aud to be paid for his trouble. In De- cember, 1736, voted that there shall be a pew built on each side of the pulpit at the committees discretion. The follow ing year, December, 1737, voted that Moses Diamond, Jr., be a committee to lay out what money is raised for the meeting house, and that Samuel Dia- mond, Jr., and Joseph Banks be con- mittee to regulate the pewing Of the meeting house. and they shall lay out every man his place according to what he has paid toward building the meeting house. In January, 174O, voted that there shall be four braces put in the fn66LlDk nOuse, anu MdTCh, A'f%s EOoS0 that the meeting house be finished, so far as to lath and plaster under the upper floor and under the gallery floor, and to make one seat around the gallery" *-
 So by degrees the fathers built the house of the Lord; but September, l743, the parish 'voted that those persons
 who had paid the most toward building the meeting house shall have pews laid cut to them in the house, and that every man who has pew laid out shall be at the charge of building the same." Ac- cordingly, the pews having been built they were accepted, and Joseph Wheeler had pew No l.; Benjamin Banks, No 9; Joseph Diamond, No 3; Nathaniel Hull, No 4; Daniel Bradley, No 5; Benjamin Gilbert, No 6; John Thorp, No z; Jo- seph Banks, No 8; Samuel Wakeman, No 9; Daniel Burr, No 10; John Gilbert, No II; Samuel Bradley, Nc 12; Benja- min Sherwood, No 13; heirs of Eliphalet Hull, No 14 Joseph Hill, No 15; Jabez Wakeman, No Is; David Williams, NJ 17; Samuel Price, No IS. In confirma-
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made them known wherever the English language is spoken or read. We do not wonder that the muse inspired him to portray in poetry the beautiful scenery from his country seat on Greenfield Hill, for more enchanting spot cannot be found.
 When Dr Dwight settled here new
 impulse was given the cause of educa- tion, especially the higher education of the children and the youth. Soon af- ter his settlement he started 8 select school in the southeast room of the dwelling house now owned and occupied by Miss Adelia Hubbell. la due time the select school grew into an academy, and building was erected on the com mon east of the church, the Green field Academy. The school grew so popular, and became so famous under Dr Dwight's instruction, that students flocked to it from all parts of the United States, from Canada and from South America. It was Dr Dwight's ambition to make his first class of pupils equal in scholarship to the students of Yale col | lege, so that the Greenfield Academy al-
 most became rival to that institution
 of learning. Many of his scholars, in
 after years, became celebrated and dis
 tinguished in all the learned professions.
 After Dr Dwight, the Rev Jeremiah
 Day, D. D., taught the academy for
 some time, so that Greenfield has really
 furnished two distinguished presidents
 for Yale College. Some of the other
 celebrated teachers Of the academy were
 Rev Dr Samuel Blatchford, Rev Wm
 Belden, Rev Nathaniel Freeman, Wm
 Dwight Waterman, Esq, Charles Shel.
 ton, Esq, Park Hill, Esq, and many
 others. But st length, for want of per.
 manent fund, the Academy decreased in
 numbers, and has for some years ceased
 to be.
 shall now proceed to speak of the
 meeting houses which have been DC
 cupied as laces of worship. The frs
 meeting house was built before the par ? ish was formed and the Society establish ed. The building must have been yer,
 cheap and rude structure, still it wa used for a. house of worship. "At r meeting of the North-W Test parish it wa voted, November II, 1725, that the meet 3 ing house shall be the place where tn g parish school shall be kept six month - in the year.' Also, March 2S, 1726, tn , parish voted ''that the house we meet i I shall be the place to-. ordain Rev Joh e Goodsell.'' That house was used onl E temporarily as the place or worship; fo a at meeting of the North West parisE a held October z, 1726, it was voted that s meeting house should be built, and b h begun the year ensuing, and that the d q mensions of said meeting house shall h ], 52 feet in length, Az feet in breath an s 24 or 25 feet between joints. At tn ' same parish meeting It was voted ths t ''the meeting house shall be set and stan if half way between Samuel Whitlock 1T northeast corner of his home lot and tn F meeting house where we now meet. d Thomas Hill, John Burr, Moses Diamon d and Benjamin Banks were chosen con F mittee to take care of building the mee e ing house, and to agree with some pc
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our day, in our towns, cities, in the Stat and National Government, who ar' disposed to rob the public treas
 ury. After his dismission, the church was without pastor for 10 years. At 8 meeting of the Society, November 25, 1795, it was voted to hire Rev MT Beain- field to preach with us till the last Sum- day in December. In the following month of April, 1796, the Society voted to hire the Rev Dr Samuel Blatchford for one year. He was an Englishman, a good scholar and & sound theologian; an acceptable preacher and pastor, and of ten eloquent in his address; but at the close of his engagement here for one year he left Greenfield and went to Bridgeport, where he became pastor of the first Congregational Church in l797, and was the father of IF children. In March, 1900, Rev MT Yates preached as candidate for settlement, and receiv- ed call, which he declined to accept. Also the same year, Rev MT Ten Yeck received and declined 8 call to settle here. In the following year, February l2th, 1901, the society gave Rev Stanley Griswold call to settle with salary of $560, but he declined the offer. The call to him was renewed June 30sh, 1903, and he consented to preach for about 8 year, when he baptized 50 persons, eight adults and 42 children. He was Jeffer- sonian Democrat, and very popular with
 8 portion of the people, and disposed to administer religious ordinances in & broad church way. In after years he left the ministry, removed to Ohio, was there chosen Senator of the United States, and became Judge of the Su- preme Court of that state. On the 10th of November, 1901, call was given to Rev MT Niles to settle in Greenfield, which he declined. Also, June z, 1902, an invitation was extended to Rev Wash ington Mcknight to settle in the work of the gospel ministry in said Society on salary of $560. He accepted the call, and the day was appointed for the con- sociation to meet and effect the union.
 but objections being presented by mi nority of the church before the cons oci- atlon, he withdrew his acceptance of the call, and the church continued to remain
 without a pastor. But the majority were so exasperated at losing MT Me Knight, whom they admired, that they voted, September 9, 1902, ''that MT Ward should not preach in the meeting house, although he will preach for nothing.'' At length the Lord sent to them MT Horace Holly, and he was ordained pss- tor of Greer field Church, September l3
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1895. The committee of arrangements for the ordination were Gershom Wake man, Abel Banks, Moses Betts and Thomas Wheeler.
 MT Holly was born in Salisbury Conn. February B, l781, graduated at Iale College in 1903, ordained pastor Septe m- Der, 1895, and dismissed in September, 1908, after successful pastorate here of three years. He was distinguished preacher, an eloquent orator, and the Church and Society increased in num- bers and p1ospered under his administrs- tion. During his pastorate there were added to the church 70 members on pro- fes sion of their faith, making an avera ge of l6 each year. While here he was an evangelical minister of the gospel, but there was a change in his theological views when he became pastor of the
 Holly Street Unitarian Church, Boston,
 in 1909. After leaving there, be was chosen president Of the Trans ylvania | University, Lexington, Kentucky, which office he held nine years. Leaving there
 he died on his voyage to New York, ot
 the yellow fever, July 3l, 1927.
 Soon after the dismisson of the Rev
 Dr Holly, October II, 1908, the Society voted to refer 8 petition to the Legisla'
 ture of this state, to grant them lot
 tery for the purpose of raising fund to
 assist them in supporting the gospe
 ministry, and appointed Ebenezer Banks
 their agent for the above purpose, witt
 full power to employ counsel. For tho
 honor of Christianity, 1 believe the pc
 tition was not granted.
 On May r, 1910, the Society "votee to give Rev David Austin call to tak'
 the oversight of the church, so long at
 he will accept of three cent tax for hi
 yearly salary, and so long as the Societ7
 shall agree to raise three cent tax fo
 the purpose"
 As he would not accept of the offer
 the Society "Voted at 8 subseQuen meeting, June 2S, 1Sl0, to give Rev Day ,, i'd Austin $500 a year instead of tn three cent tax voted at the other meet ing, so long as he shall continue in dii charge of the gospel ministry with us, which was about two years. He WIS one of the most popular and eccentri preachers of his day, but his reason u supposed to have been affected by sR il : ness of the scarlet fever while pastor { the Presbyterian church, Elizabethtowl ! NJ. He believed in the literal retur of the Israelites to the Holy Land, aI s that the Jews of the United States woul assemble st New Haven, where he bui
 houses for them and a wharf for the r. use, and from there, the place of \ e Austin's birth, he believed the Jev F. would embark for the land of Israe n But with all his errors and eccentricit If he was liked as preacher on account
 his eloquence, intelligence and amisbl 1T ness of character, and is still remembe It ed with interest by those who knew hil b Near the close of his life he pecan r. more rational and scriptural in his vie' y and died in peace, rejoicing in hope g. the glory of God.
 sr The Society gave call to Rev Willia y Belden, August 3, 1872, to settle in il Is work of the gospel ministr y with s' to ary of $500, which he accepted. Gi ;e Gideon Tomlinson, David Hull, Es, of and Hull Bradley, Esq, were appoint
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The Historical Sketch

FROM SERMON BY REV HENRY B. SMITH DELIVERED AT THE CELEBRA- TION OF THE l5OTH ADVERSARY.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-05-18
The Force of a Rifle Bullet.
Washington Star.

In the English official regulations
for 1895 it is stated that the mean
extreme range of the Lee-Metford
bullet may be taken IS about $500
yards. although, with a strong wind,
1850 yards have been observed The
bullets find their way through joints
of walls unless the walls are made
very fine and set in cement About
100 rounds concentrated on nearly the
same spot at 200 yards, will break a
niDe-inch brick wall. Rammed earth
gives less protection than loose.
When fred into sand. the bullet is
found to be ALWAYS turned aside after
it has entered a little way. The follow
ing thickness of matera lin inches J
is usually necessary to stop the re,
gulation .303- nch bullet: Single be
tween board, l: hardened steel plate /:
good brick work, 9: sack of coal, u:
hard dry mud wall, IA: peat earth, CO.:
compressed cot'o, bales, %: oak, 27:
elm. 33; teak, So; fir. 4S: clay, 4S.