New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-01-13
A PURSE FOR DIR. LYMAN.
CELEBRATION OF THE PASTORS TWEEN
TY.rIFTH ANNIVERSARY
ADDRESSES BY THE REV. RICHARD srohhs
|. AND ST. CLAIR NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

ADDRESSES BY lHE REV. hiNhNi'N -
AND ST. CLAIR NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
m THE PARISH HOUSE
The South Congregat,onai Church was filed last
evening by guests who were assembled IN nonor Vi
the twenty fifty anniversary OF the pastorate OIL e
Rev Dr. Albert ]. Lyman. Among these were
many clergymen Of Congregational ana otneF
churches DR.. Thomas b. Mcleod, pastor OF inc
Clinton Avenue Congregational Church. VINO as
s,st.a a, the ,nstala.ion services presided at the
exercises The Rev. Or. Richard S. Storrs pali
a. most impressive tribute to Dr. Lyman sayiis
that he rejoiced in his long pastorate because II
showed the present tendency In the congregational
Church TO make permanent pastorates. AFTER the
early style of the Church in New-Ensland Dr-
storrs also rejoiced In the certainty OF III Ly'
mans convictions and OF his sermons. saying ne
had no use for either pastors sermons that mag
pifed doubt.
Dr. 81, Clair McKe,way dwelt upon the manl''
ness always shown by Or. Lyman In his pulpit
saying:
Manhood most becomes OF all men minister %
the Son OF Man to the sons OF men. WIN Haih'
ness, and other things, his equipment Is compete
With other things but without mannness' Dis
equipment is incomplete. do not mean mercy ''e
physical fact of strength. There are inVanos VIM
are prodeies of moral power In the pupil 4neio
are giants and athletes who are mental ana moral
pigmies i'll the pulpit Manlness is OF the heart
and mind as well as Of the body. Happy is he VINO
is possessed OF all three. All things being equal
sound body IL the admirable temple OF a sound
heart Both together can be made the temple NJ
the palace beautiful OF the Holy Ghost.
II know not and not 10 what department
of Christianity DR.. Lyman's career ana character
will bring most credit. But do know ana re-
joce that the net credit OF IL will be 10 the reality
of religion the superiority Of faith - dount 70
the fact that right living conduces 10 rlsht thlik-
ing and both TO right dying, and 70 the everlasting
truth that greater than our DIVISIONS are our agree
ncnts that greater than our heads are our hearts,
and that greater than our achievements or our
ambitions for worldly gain or for worldly power
vii! be, and should be. the record which thls man
can exhibit before the great white throne Itself
when those who have gone before shall meet him.
ard when from the Judge of quick and dead he can
hear the gracious and assuring declaration: In
asmuch as you have done 1t unto the least OF these,
my brethren, you have done IL unto Ne AND may
these words eternally shine In the heavens, be-
tween the lines Of the letter in his face
At the close OF the addresses and before the
clergymen had left the pulpit George Hunt Prem
tiss presented u Dr. Lyman check for T,eoO, the
gift of the church, and intended 10 pay of the
mortgage on DR.. Lymans house. This was com
pete surprise TO the pastor.
Following these exercises there was reception
In the parish house, which given for DR.. Ly-
by the of the church. Those who re-
csived were Mrs George Hunt Prentiss; president
Hart. Mrs. Cornelius Zabriskie. Mrs: Theodore
son. Mrs. j. " HILL Mrs. William c. Richie, Mrs.
jeremiah Crowel. Mrs Eugene Bissell, Mrs.
Becker, Mrs. Bailey, Mrs. Bristow, Miss Cleveland
and FRS I'M