The Press., 1899-11-23
wILLINarON.


 ing last.
 John G. Ryder returned from his visit to Groton, Vt., last Friday. He reports good sleighing in that vicinity.
 The Wilmington correspondent of the N. E. Homestead quotes local prices of farm produce in a recent issue.
 Rev. Perley Wedge, now of Rock vile, Is candidating for the pastorate of the Carew street Baptist church, Springfield, Mass.
 The Baptist choir was largely aug mented last Sunday by young people in whom Miss Lord, the preacher of the day, Is interested.
 Last Sunday being "Mormon day." Rev. Mir. Davies, in the Congregationalist meeting house, spoke on the tenets and spread of Mormonism.
 There is notice on the public sign post of the annual meeting of the Baptist ecclesiastical society Saturday evening, 25th, inst, at 2 o'clock.
 Extensive repairs are being made on the Daleville mill. Fifty thousand shin gles are being placed on it's roof, while it's interior is to be newly plastered. We were misinformed as to the amount of Rev. Mir. Browns salary in his new field of labor also as to the religious so- ciety meeting noted to be held last Satur- day evening ....
 "An unmarried woman is only half 8 possible whole. She Is restlessly reach ing out for her unknown complement. This assertion may insult her delicacy and humiliate her pride, but it is the ex- act truth concerning her condition"
 Rev. Charles A. Piddock, the Baptist "bishop" of Connecticut, will occupy the pulpit of the meeting house next Sunday morning. In the afternoon, at o'clock, 8 temperance union service, under the held at the same place. There will be an address by Rev. MT. Davies and reel tations and singing by the children of the two congregations.
 Neighbor Wishwell, who has the repu- tation of being somewhat plainspoken, has this to say about the new religious interest recently evoked in town. A week or two ago he said that the schoolhouse and cottage meetings bore good results, and what he has to say now cannot, by any twist, be construed into any malevo- lent opposition to the work. It is the apparent spirit and motive underlying the movement that actuate his comments as an observer of public events. The prin. cipal place of meeting has been at the "Hollow," a hamlet scarcely mile from two meeting houses, whose religious bodies, with all their human frailties have, for generations, borne the heat anC burden of the day, in storm and stress Latterly, in one case, for the period o nearly ten years, in the other, over two years, the pastors of these two focks early and late for the moral and religious
 good of their respective charges. Botl
 confessedly left the field discouraged ant
 disheartened. Both members and non = members persistently stayed away iron - their public ministrations. The "world
 the flesh and the devil" remained on top
 notwithstanding the methods employees - by each of these two Christian teacher 5 to shift the scene. If these men preache, the true gospel and failed-that is on U thing; If they did not, and the same la mentable result occurred that is anoth l. CT story. In any event, should these nov comparatively shepherdless flocks b o crippled and starved by any independen movement If organized churches an . membership therein Is of no account, tha Y Is one view. But if the old order ( ,r , things supernatural that our fathers, no l. all fools, believed in and maintained a 70 considerable sacrifice has not yet bee U preached down, 1t is important that thes 1- old organizations that stand for the COT $ servation of the moral and religious char
 acter of the community at large be ss
 credly rallied around and supported. this shall be the result of this new move l. ment, well and good. Somebody must fol IS low along in the path of those who hay n gone before and are fast passing away n Perhaps 8 legitimate, substantial rtlie
 ious awakening, such as he hopes is no, '. under way, may lead to this desired rt ' = suit. But if merely spasmodic excite ment is evoked by the itching for "somt ,.. thing now," sexual attraction or by an ,r other unwholesome means, he fears tn
 natural sequence. One word more
 would say in this connection: It is nc k wholly what enters into man that defile g him. It is what comes out of him-hi "A action, in word and deed-that attest . and signifies true conversion-a turnin
 around.
 =; South WillingtOn Correspondence. ~ The Bible day exercises were held i t, ble day service was used Miss Lord ( g. the Sunday School association conducte 2. the service.
 II Miss Lord, field worker of the Com IF Sunday School association, who is holt l. ing services in the hall, is doing goo g. work here. She Is greeted with gooC a sized audiences nightly.
 le Temperance Sunday will be observe 10 on the Hill next Sunday in the Bapti, - church. There will be union servic, is singing by the choirs and recitation b " give an address. Services begin at tw 's o'clock.
 l. W. R. Perry of New London was 70 town Tuesday in the interest of his 1. s plant here. Mir. Perry's intentions wei 10 to enlarge his ice houses this fall, but tf [v poor freight accommodations he has r. y ceived from the local railroad the pa
 season may cause him to build in son
 other locality, unless otherwise remedies
 Mir. and Mrs. Charles 0. Latham eel v- brated the 25th anniversary of their we
 ding on Wednesday evening, the 15t 7n A number of relatives and friends met
 their home and spent very pleasant ar or enjoyable evening. Many valuable pre- N ents were presented them. Among u
 out-of-town guests were Mir. and MT nt Henry Pease of Somers, MT. and MT
 John Day, MT. and Mrs. Henry Day al :, Miss May Brown of Mansfield Be
 wishes and congratulations were shower,
 upon Mir. and Mrs. Latham on departin S. The incorporators of the new Willin
 ton cemetery association, met in accor h. ance with their articles of incorporate
 last Monday evening at the house y- Selectman Adolph Korper. for the pu
 pose of organization, electing the folio, s ing persons members of the new assoc