The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-03-18
AT WOODBRIDGE CHURCH.
Continued from Ninth Page.)

| tConCnlueu from N1uJn HuSe.)
 on the Sabbath was by law strictly lor-
 bidden. (The governor of this state was
 once taken up for travelling on the
 Sabbath when passing from @ distance
 to his home). If absent from church for
 two or three Sabbaths a persons name would be read from the pulpit and the culpable person would be required to
 render an account for his absence. The
 ministers were able and devout men
 who preached to the people from loving
 hearts. They were strict adherents
 With here and then an exception to
 to hyper Caivinism. They held that
 only certain number of elect ones
 would be saved though the offer of sal
 vation was made to all, it was limited
 in it's applications.
 They were divinely among themselves
 respecting certain philosophical ques-
 tlons, such as the origin of evil, Elm
 mons holding that God being the cause
 of all things must of necessity be the
 origin of sin. Bellamy maintained that
 sin was necessary as means of the
 greatest good, and for the highest de-
 velopment of Gods moral government.
 Hopkins held that ones complete ac-
 quiesence in the divine will should be such as to lead him to be willing to be consigned to eternal perdition if it should be for the glory of God. Be- sides these philosophical speeula tions there came up the division of the old and new school, the new school holding to the self-determining power of the will, while the old school held to mans inability and his passive state in con- version. This controversy divided the churches and ministers. In some in- stances the churches went apart, form ing two separate organizations In many of the churches while they did not separate but held together. It was with jealousy and a want of fraternal feeling among themselves. This is il- frustrated in a passage from Dr. Mun- gers life of Horace Bushnell When Dr. Bushnell was called to the North church in Hartford there were two par ties strongly marked in the church-an old and new school party. Dr. Bush- nell was sent to stop with the leader of one of them. He says: q was put in hospital and kept away from the infected districts preparatory to a set tlament in the North church of Hart ford. l mention this to show the very delicate condition prepared for the young pastor, who is to be thus daintily between an acid and an all1ali having as his task both to keep them apart and to save himself from being bitten of one or denounced by the other"
 similar state of things existed in many of the churches, while resulted in the establishment of two theological seminaries in the state. But the theo- logical rancor if I may so call it, has passed away. Old school and new school are names of the past. Dr. Bush 1 nelPs book on Christian nurture, which was tabood by the Hartford seminary, | has since been used as one of the text l books in that institution, and Professor Willston Walker, of the Hartford sem nary, has just been elected to profess sorship in the Yale seminary.
 Notice should be taken of the relation | If the denomination to other denomina- ! ions.
 There was a constant struggle be- ween the Armenians, represented by ! he Methbdists, and the Calvinists, who. IS l have already said, were those of i. 'ur own denominatio The Armenians leld to the freedom of the will and that nan had the power of choice, and that when it is said Choose ye this day whom ye will serve" the power of hoice holds with the one to whom the invitation Is extended But Calvinism |enied the freedom of the will; it held o destination, or that the divine will pre-determines the volltion or the hoiee which the will makes.
 Between the two denominations there vas more or less friction and as much