The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-10-10
at the Meeting.

The New Haven Congregational club
 held it's opening meeting of the year in
 the Davenport church last night. The church was well filled with members of the club and their friends and most interesting meeting was held. Rev John Brown, D. D., of Bedford, Eng land, was the speaker of the evening" Rev. Dr. Browns address was on
 'Bunyan and His Pilgrim" and was an intensely interesting one, the large audience frequently applauding the noted preacher.
 pr. Browns biography of John Bun van is famous all over the English speaking world, and as pastor of the Bunyan meeting at Bedford, England, he is famous. There is no man better fitted to speak on Bunyan than Dr. Brown, as he has made almost a life's study of the great dreamer
 Before Dr. Browns lecture last night there was business meeting of the club at which several were elected to membership. They were Arthur E. Hemingway, William F. Nichols, Ma than s. Bronson, Edward E. Burke, Albert A. Page of East Haven and Herbert c. Nixon. The reading of the minutes of the last meeting was held and other routine business was trans acted. There were some well rendered solos by Miss Martin
 Judge Livingston W. Cleaveland, the president of the Congregational club, after few appropriate remarks intro- duced Dr. Brown to a New Haven au- dience for the first time.
 pr. Brown began by saying it was a great source of pleasure for him to speak before a New Haven audience He congratulated the Congregational lsts on this side of the water for doing so much toward bringing to close rela- tionship the Congregational brethren of this country and England and Wales. pr. Brown said that Bunyan was one of the greatest men of his time. He said he lived in a great age and that he sowed the seed in his early childhood that ripened into the great fruits from which so many thousands of people at the present time have reaped harvest. The speaker has been pastor of the Bunyan meeting for the last thirty-five years and has lec- tured and talked about his subject so much that he said many people on this side of the water believed that he was the famous author of some of Bunyan's famous works.
 Dr. Brown described Bunyan as being or large figure. having strong, bold and ruddy countenance with large sparkling eyes, a look from which would make any bad man wish he was good
 
 Bunyan was born in 1928 and died in 16SS and for each year he lived there was book written, sixty in all the greatest of which, the speaker said, were his Grace Abounding to the Chief of "The Holy War" and "Pil- grims Progress"
 The first of these, Dr. Brown said, was one of the most remarkable pieces in literature from many standpoints and that it is a book which should be read much more extensively than it is. Holy War" Dr. Brown said, was a book relating to religious ex- perences in war and was a wonderful | work. He said Bunyen was a soldier | at the time of the great civil war of | the seventeenth century and so was | able to come in contact with the great | men ot the time and that some of the | characters portrayed in the book were | real characters. Some of the wonder full experiences told of in Holy War; | he believed were personal experiences. |
 "Bunyan was his own Pilgrim in | Pilgrims Progress" the speaker said, | and his dream, as I once heard lady | say was a wideawake dream" Dr. | Brown dwelt long on Pilgrims Prog 'ess," the beautiful passages and con- -ents being brought out in a most in -eresting way.
 The lecture lasted about an hour and 1t the conclusion hearty burst of applause was given the speaker, Be- Ore adjourning for the evening, John y. North moved that a vote of thanks De extended to Dr. Brown for his fine ecture. It was seconded and passed