The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-09-27
DWIGHT PLACE CHURCH ACTS
RESIGNATION oFTHE PASTOR. REY.
 DIR. TWITCHELL, ACCEPTED.

EtEcIuNAuION OFIHE PASTOR, REY.
 DIR. TWITCHELL, ACCEPTED. Meeting of Church Held Last Night Full Report of the Committce-Reso- luton of Acceptance Adopted-com- mittee Appointed to Arrange for Final Severance of Pastoral Relations.
 An adjourned meeting of the mem bers of Dwight Place church was held last night in the chapel of the church to act upon the resignation of the pas- tor, Rev. J. E. Twitchell, D. D. E. H. Sperry was moderator of the meeting. The committee reported as follows to the meeting:
 To the Dwight Place Church:
 Your committee to whom was refer red the letter of resignation of our pas- tor, Rev. J. E. Twitchell, D. D., beg leave to report:
 That they have carefully considered the subject and have reviewed the vari- ous opinions and suggestions offered with view of arriving at a unanimous report and one which we hope will be acceptable to all members of the church.
 The committee did not feel that the preferences of our pastor should be ig- nored, and therefore before coming to any final action we communicated with him. The following letter speaks for it. self:
 New Haven, Sept. 22, 1893. Rev. J. D. Twitchell, D. D.:
 Dear Pastor-We, the Undersigned, having been appointed a committee of the Dwight Place church to. consider what action should be taken regarding your letter of resignation, would say that personally we regret what seems to you the necessity of this action, as indicated by your letter to the church, thus to sever the happy and helpful re- lations which have existed for so many years, and this we believe to be the feeling of the church.
 The committee understand that your action has been taken after mature de- liberation, and understand that you have expressed yourself as unwilling to change your decision. Would you be willing to communicate with the com mittee on this subject, as they feel that before taking final action they would be glad to know your wishes and learn if your decision is final?
 Yours in Christian love,
 John c. North,
 J. Boardman Smith,
 Spencer A. Clark,
 Wells Campbell,
 J. Y. McDermott, Committee
 To this letter the following reply was read:
 New Haven, Sept. 23, 1898. To Deacons North, Smith, Campbell, Clark and McDermott:
 Dear Brethren-In reply to your note of the Esd permit me to say that the reasons given in my letter of resigna- tion still obtain with at least equal force
 No one not in fairly good health can do best work. I therefore owe 1t to you as well as to myself and family to in sist upon the acceptance of my resig- nation, and would kindly ask any who cannot vote for its acceptance not to vote against it.
 Ever your Christian friend and broth- CT, J. E. Twitchell.
 In view therefore of these circum- stances the committee would respect- fully recommend that the church adopt the following resolution:
 Resolved That this church learns with sincere regret of the action of our beloved pastor, Rev. J. E. Twitchell, D. D., as indicated by his letter of resig- nation. Understanding it to be his earnest desire and purpose to retire, for the present at least, from active per- sonal duties, for reasons indicated in his letter of resignation, and subsequently repeated in answer to a communication from a committee appointed by the church one week ago to make a recom- mendation to this meeting, these rea- sons still being to him of constraining force, there seems to be but one thing left for us to do, viz, accept his resig- nation, and this we do with the hopeN that it may be convenient for him to postpone the date of it's taking effect until January 1, 1899.
 And we desire hereby to express our high appreciation of his work during Ine many years through Wnlcn ne mas led us in Christian service. The large measure of prosperity which we have enjoyed; the extinguishing of our church debt; the building of our new chapel, the numerous accessions to our membership; the unity and harmony which have prevailed; the many rich blessings which have come to us through his instrumentality, attest the character of his work better than any words of ours can express We shall remember with grateful hearts his helpful counsel to all those in need of encouragement, his loving ministry to many homes in their time of trouble, his cheering and inspiring words to the bereaved, his clear and convincing pre- sentation of gospel truth in the pulpit and elsewhere, his deep and abiding in- terest in the Sunday school, the Chris tian Endeavor society, and in every de- partment of the church work. Both by precept and example he has brought to us the comfort of resting in our Divine Fathers love and while earnest and efficient in his devotation to the ma terial interests of the church, he has Foil 1a1 to aiy-f I0 fn ho