Waterbury Democrat., 1901-05-13
BROOKLYN BRIEFS

l Mrs Louis Strucks of Hartford is visiting Mr and Mrs Matthew shan nahan of Lafayette street.
 1 Francis Hoffman, new addition
 to the St Thomas Cadets baseball nine,
 spent Sunday with friends in Hartford. ARev Father Saurusatis was in Ter
 ryville last evening hearing confess
 sions at Rev Father Neale's church. where the devotion of the Forty Hours
 are being held.
 An entertainment and sociable will
 be given, in the Third Congregational church oIi next Thursday evening by
 the young ladies of the church. A very pleasing entertainment has been
 arranged. Cake and ice cream will be I served.
 l 1.-The funeral of James Magner was
 largely attended this morning from the
 family residence on South Leonard
 street to St Patricks church, where
 solemn requiem mass was celebrated, With Rev Father Sullivan as deacon,
 Father Jordan sub-deacon and Father
 Kennedy sub-deacon. The bearers
 were Thomas McGrath, John Powers, l Edward Kiely, James Mcdonald. Tho
 mas O'Brien, and William Casey. The
 floral offerings included a cross from
 the family. The interment was in the
 new St Joseph's cemetery.
 l A large number of Lithuanians at-
 tended the meeting in Pythian hall
 Saturday evening to protest against
 the erection of parochial residence. 1 The substance of the different speeches
 made at the meeting was that inas- much as the parishioners were to pay l for the residence their wishes should 1 be consulted in regard to It's site and construction. After considerable dis ] cussion the meeting appointed three I delegates to go to Hartford to-day or | tomorrow and lay their grievances be- l fore Right Rev Bishop Tierney. , The railroad commissioners will be 9 Ill Waterbury tomorrow morning and { Will stop at the Porter street crossing 1 Of the Highland division, where gates have been asked for by the city May or Kilduff requests that as many as favor gates at this point be on hand I to tell what they know about the need of them. The commissioners will reach Porter street between 9 and 10 o'clock i'll the morning, and if the peo-
 pie mean business they should turn out m large numbers and explain what they have been putting up with there for years. Everybody is afraid of that i crossing, and it is hoped that the com missioners will act favorably on the 1 petition
 The following is a part of the ser mon preached by the Rev Chas ID. Granger yesterday morning at 1O:30 in { the Third Congregational church at 4l:0 p, m., i'll the Bunker Hill chapel.
 upon the texts Thou will keep him irl
 perfect peace whose mind is stayed on thee, because he trusted in thee" Isa
 xxv1:3. In the chapter previous to the
 one from which our text is taken. the l prophet had given expression to some
 glorious prophecies concerning Gods
 people, and now in this present chap ter we have song of holy joy and
 praise, prepared to be sung when these prophecies should be accomplished. It
 reiterates largely those promised bless ings and may be regarded as devo- 1 tlonaI psalm as truly as any of the songs of David. The particular verse we have as our text is familiar and
 favorite passage with many children of God. They quote it as a pleasing
 assurance, and to an extent are com forted and helped by it, but to. how
 many is the fact here stated real
 experience? fear that the proportion. Eof Christians who live up to this bless ed privilege of enjoying "perfect peace" is very small. How is 1t that in the face of this and many other scriptural assurances, every one of < them promises of God. that Gods pro- fessed believers and followers will be
 restless, fretful and anxious and fear
 full both as to this life and also the { life to come? Consider the times in which Isaiah lived, consider his diffi- { culties and besetmerts on every hand; consider likewise his beautiful, heav- { enly state of mind, wherein he could sing from the heart the language of our text because he trusted in the
 perfect peace!" This is the mother of
 all blessings. Without peace, life is
 hardly worth the living, there Is no joy no comfort, no satisfaction. The idea of perfect peace. seems to many
 too idealistic in these days of disturb ing influences. It Is regarded more as a beautiful dream than as q real pos sibility. But we must notice and ob- serve in our lives some of the condi- tions of perfect peace. All true spir-
 itual peace is based upon reconcilia-
 tion with God. The grand purpose of
 the Gospel is to bring about this peace. { We will attain to perfect peacev pre- cisely in proportion as we attain to perfect harmony with Gods divine will and continue in the same Think not, beloved, that the confidence we
 place in God is misplaced; He will not disappoint us. An appeal to all to make this perfect peacev of God real fact in the daily life concluded the sermon. The singing of d chorus of 90 voices under the direction of the organist, Miss Lucia s. Gertrude Clark, was grand.
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