The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-01-18

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 For neighbors, were many interesting people. Among them Daniel Reade that devotee of music, who raised the
 money to purchase an organ for tht new church, the second instrument oi it's kind in the city. His daughter
 Mary, who afterward married Jonathan Nicholson, was sent to New York tf take lessons of the maker and become the organisr. We are indebted to MT
 Reade for our heritage of some of the
 stately old fashioned hymn tunes, no tably Winter and mournful Windham
 His great friend was MT. Salter, also 8
 musician and totally blind. In the
 neighborhood also lived the Poet Perci- val Dr. Levi Ives; that shrinking, ab-
 sent-minded saint, Professor Fitch; the Sculptor Anger and other distinguished
 citizens.
 Many stories of Mrs Merwin's tact
 and firmness in bringing up her childrer
 are told by those who knew her, and
 illustrate the family government oi
 those days. One of her daughters was
 importuned by a school-mate to teaze
 her mother to let her do thus and SO
 But my mother will not be teazed,
 was the reply She wished her children
 to grow up with orderly habits and she
 told them she should throw out of the
 window whatever she found out of its place, and little Miss Emily's best bon net had to suffer that indignity.
 These children all grew up into hon.
 orable manhood and womanhood. They
 attended the college lectures, took long walks to East and West Rocks, and their sewing societies, the Bee Hive and Our Society, furnished them with gaiety.
 The two sons were graduates of Yale college, and all the five daughters mar ried Yale men with one exception, all but one being clergymen.
 In 1855 MT. and Mrs Merwin celebra- ted their golden wedding, to which Mrs. l.. H. Sigourney and Professor Fitch contributed by letter poetical effusions, as they gathered, an unbroken family circle around the dinner table at the old Tontine Hotel. The following year MT. Merwin died, and his wife survived him only two or three years.
 MT. MerWin's ministry was blessed of the Lord, and there were large and fre- quent additions to the church, aggre- gating eight hundred and ninety five persons during the nearly twenty seven years of his ministry. At one time ninety-nine persons filled the center aisle in long procession, as has been re- gently referred to by your pastor, the death of one reducing the number of the one hundred candidates. In those old days the Holy Bible was not put on par with the Koran, the Vedas or the Zend-Avesta, but was considered the word of the Living God and was reverenced here for many years by the custom of the people to rise and re- main standing wherever it was read, and if two clergymen were in the desk the one not officiating arose when the other announced his text.
 It is pleasant to find the original wo- mems prayer meeting in those days and for many years the only one in the city thus described early in MT. Merwin's ministry. "A few female members of the church were in the habit the even ing after the monthly lecture preparato- " to the sacramental supper of meet ing for edification by reading Scripture, singing of hymns with prayer also whenever there was brother present to lead their devotions. This small un- pretending band with devout constancy pursuing the noiseless tenor of their way proved the germ of expanded vivi- fication in church life"
 The life and expansion of this germ is manifest to all who have knowledge of it's successor the present woman's prayer meeting of the United church, under the loving leadership of the pastors wife.
 I do not know that I can better bring to close this somewhat disjonted re- cital of facts than by quoting again from the pastors words some particu- lars of the great revival of 1921, of which mention has already been made Master mechanics opened the doors of their large establishments (no doubt among these was the carriage manufac- tory Of that benevolent man, James Brewster) and invited their pastors to address the workmen and apprentices on the benches in their shops. Small circles of young ladies met in the after noon at private houses for prayer, in- struction and exhortation from their spiritual guides.
 Among the closing scenes of his mem- Drable year an event of animating in Eerest to the churches here, especially vas the ordination in the midst of them and by them, with subsequent embar- kation from this port of Messrs Will | jam Goodell for Palestine and William Richards for the Sandwich Islands as of the American Board To me, though, after so long a time, the whole scene seems a panorama of yes erday. On the eastern bank of the har- DOT stood the assembled thousands, with | he noble ship riding at anchor in the offing. and her boats well manned at ull tide approaching the shore. The as- ending prayer and praise ("wake, Isles if the South'D from voices quavering | with emotion, the eager grasp of the | land and the parting embrace of those vho were expecting to see each others | acesno more, combined to constitute a cene that left an impression long to be cherished with devout gratitude in the history of New Haven.'
 In replying, the pastor, Dr. Munger, endered the thanks of the church for he valuable portrait of Rev. MT, Mer- win, and spoke of the excellent picture if life and church life drawn by Mrs. l final in her able paper.
 
 SOPHOMORE GERMAN.
 The annual sophomore german will 'e held this year in Warner hall on Ionday evening, January 22, directly