The Newtown bee., 1901-09-06
LOCAL AFFAIRS. FAREWELL MEETING
IN HONOR OF A. B. FANCHER AT THE HAWLEYVILLE CHAPEL ON TUESDAY EVENING.

or the HaWleyVllle sunday SCHOOL, WAS held on Tuesday evening, the chapel being we'll filled by the representative people of the community. E. c. Platt, president of the Chapel association, was the chairman of the meeting, and acquitted himself with credit. Mrs o. F. Terrill presided at the organ and after an opening song and a prayer by Rev MT Barker, Rev MT Linsley was introduced. MT Linsley delivered an admirable address in language most happily chosen. He said in sub stance:
 I am very glad to be present here this evening and to share with you all in the occasion which has called you together. And you must remember that when man accepts an invitation to come to Hawleyville on a dark night and drives over the back road and across the network of railroad his life. But after some detention we are thankful to have arrived here safely.
 Not being fully informed to the de- tails of the evenings program shall make my remarks somewhat general, feeling sure that things will become mere personal before the evening is ended.
 One of your number is about to leave this community after residing here for some years and is to take up his residence and work elsewhere. The rest of you will be left here.
 | And see in this event two things which it is worth our while not to lose rations of life. It is very noticeable in these days of change and ease of transportation, that families are be- coming more and more broken up, ing separated more and more and this constitutes some of the most trying experiences in life.
 No man can live long in any com munity and then sever his connection with it without feelings of deep emo tion. The old order changeth to give place to the new. The old associations are ended and the new ones will be found. And the turning point in life that marks this change must deeply impress any thoughtful man.
 And as a man thus looks back upon the period of years thus closing it is worth while to remember that the best thing to have achieved is that he has won the esteem and respect and perhaps the affection of his fellOwmen. We are not any of us born into any royal family and few of us shall attain to that greatness which makes. men known throughout the land, but there is true greatness which is possible to us all, and that is so to live and work as to deserve the esteem and re- spect of those who are most closely as- sociated with us inlOur life'S calling. There is nothing greater to win in life than that.
 The other thought suggested by this occasion has to do with those who are left behind. Ours is town which is not increasing in population. We are l constantly losing not only by death but by removals. One by one some Of our best young men go out from us to the cities and in some cases we lose whole families at time. This must lay upon us who are left increased re- sponsibility of greater faithfulness here. Our numbers being fewer our responsibility is the greater to meet those obligations which we owe to the life of the community. This lesson of the occasion which calls us together ought not to escape us.
 It is gratifying to me that some one has rightly interpreted the good old word farewell" for I see it on the wall in it's true meaning "Fare thee we'll" There are many people who object to saying farewell" to any one But if they would only remember that the word really means flare thee we'll" they could never hesitate to say it.
 And, too, there is the word :'goo6 bye." Some people always avoid say ing that. But if we remember that ir the old English it really means "Got be with you" we surely could not wisf more or less than this for one goinl away from us. And so, tonight, join together these two words in ex pressing my wish for him who is abou to leave this community "Fare the' | l>o
 Allison P. Smith was the nex speaker introduced and after telling story or two, he congratulated M
 Fancher on having been faithful t.
 the duty committed to his hands il
 Hawleyville and urging the lesson o
 faithfulness upon all. He also con
 graduated MT Fancher on having al
 anchor, first being anchored in God
 and then carrying out his dut
 through the visible church. He con
 graduated him that he had not neg - lected his duty, but so far as hi
 health had permitted had endeavore
 to help support the church of hi
 choice. In closing he congra atulate
 MT Fancher in having fund of goo
 cheer and courtesy which does s
 much to oil the working cogs of life
 MT Smith then read poem by Aell
 Greene carrying out this thought.
 The closing address was by Rev C . w. Barker, ::who spoke eloquently an
 to the point. In substance he said:
 It is better to plant Sunday school
 than to establish jails and police sta 1 ti0ns Good Christian men and W0me