The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1899-07-28

If the late President, Rutherfor d B.
Hayes, on his admission to the bar. This
training was of inestimable advantage
TO Mr. Peters in later ears, q hen dee ling
With great and complex political problems
but the bent of his mil was Not towards
legal practise, and in 1S4S he entered the
L beral Institute at Clinton, N. Y.,-then
and Tor many years the, ,fter presided
over by Rev DR. Thomas j. SAWYER, be-
tween whom and Mr. Peters there sprung
up lifelong and warm fTiendsbip-and
took up the study of theology. While at
school at the Clinton Institute he support
ed himself, after the manner of students
with more embition than wealth in those
DAYS, by teaching school in the summer
months. 1t was while so engaged in
That section E ( the Old Dominion, which
is now West Virginia, that Mr. Peters met
Miss Camilla W. Pollock, to whom he
was married in 1851, the year before he
was graduated. Mr. Peters was ordained
as a clergyman Ia the Upiversalist church
in 1862, and his first charge was the
Second Universalist church of Cincinnati
where he labored acceptablv for some
years. He came East In 1856 to assume
the passionate of the First Universalist
church Of Williams burgh, now ALI Souls
church. He soon become noted for the
fervor and magnetic quality of bis dis.
courses, quality which, while it made
him always favorite on the platform,
sapped his nervous resources and ulri.
mately compelled his retirement from the
pulpit. In 1858 he went to Europe and
spent some time at Heidelberg, CORES
bonding at frequent intervals with the
Brooklyn Times and the Cincinnati
Times during his stay abroad. He re.
tux IN Gh
war and resumed the work of the minis
try with renewed fervor. The outbreak
of the war aroused all the intense patriot.
ism and the humanitarian ardor of his
nature, and soon the old church at the
corner of Fourth and South Third streets
became noted as galvanic center of pa
triotic inspiration. There are hundreds
yet in Brooklyn who remember Wv, div
the ferYid eloquence of those war SER
mons, each half battle for liberty, and
all who fell under their spell became the
lifelong admirers and friends OF Bernard
Peters.
Mr. Peters in 1864 sought the calmer at.
mospbera of Hartford, Conn.,, assuming
the passionate of church there, and al
times contributing to the local newsna.
pers. In the following year-the wear OF
Lincoln's assassination and the Succession
of Andrew Johnson-he was Induced bv
David CLARK, proprietor OF the Hartford
Post, to take editorial charge of that
per, and be remained at it's head
until 1868, when he relinquisbed the edi-
tOrship and returned to the pulpit. ac
cepting the pastoral charge of q church
in Reading, Pa. He soon discovered.
however, that his nervous system was
not equal to the strain of preaching, the
most exhaustive OF all professions to one
whose whole soul, as was that of Mr.
Peters, was in his work, and who gave
to his people of the brain and the blood
of his earnest conviction. He relinquisb-
ed his pulpit, returned to Brooklyn and
purchased from George G. Bennett a
half interest In the Brooklyn Times.
When Mr. Peters became identified with
the Times it soon became apparent that
he did not consider his position az q sine
cure, and that he had no purpose of az.
Stunning the easy role Of q silent partner.
His long residence In Brooklyn and the
place he had occupied had
made him thoroughly familiar with the
city, and especially the East District, TO
the interests of which the Tunes was &C
that period almost exclusively devoted.
He entered into the work of the news-l
paper with concentration OF thcu9ht|
and energy that soon made itself appay.
ent In the columns Of the Times. &c Was