The Newtown bee., 1902-08-08
AN INSPIRING SERMON BY DR
 MARkWlCk.

HE FILLS IN AN HOUR OF VACATION
 PULPIT WORK.-THE THREATENING
 WEATHER DOES NOT KEEP THE PEO-
 PILE AWAY.
 Sombre skies, ill becoming summer days, have been the rule thus far as the golden weather (that ought to bel has rolled along. Sunday seems to have been particularly selected out as the time for leaden clouds to cover the azure blue, and ministers must have an unusual talent for keeping sunshine at the heart not to develop into pessimists of most pronounced type. The dull clouds came as, usual on Sunday morning, August 3; but the people came, too, to the Congrega- tiona1 church, and the well-tilled pews made up for the out-of-sorts weather. If this cozy editice could keep through the year such audiences as it has in the hot days of summer, the problem of the country church would be solved and there would not be so many rural ministers with strong pullings city, wards.
 Last week Rev William F. Mark wick, pastor of the AnsOnia COngrega- tional church, dropped into our beau tiful town. we may whisper it softly, on a honeymoon. The renoWn of our fair hostelry is spreading so wide, that who shall say that Niagara and the National Capital may some day have to take even line with Newtown as the goal of those recently struck by Cupid $ dart? Of course Dr Markwick liked the place, and why should he not: Most people will like Heaven. toe (when they get there). That is not saving that Newtown is Heaven, but the Comparison holds in that, during the summer months, it is a decidedly pretty spot. Dr MarkWick is one O1 those busy men who deserve vaca' tion and know how to enjoy it. One day was spent fishing in the waters o1 Taunton lake, and fishing is laziness in the superlative degree. For clever months this earnest clergyman has kept busily at work, pounding away | we might say. .fot at his pulpit al! the while, but on the anvil Of efficient 1 alI-rOund service. For years he ha! been chairman in AnsOnia of the com mittee on school books and teachers and a city teeming with children fur nisheS abundant opportunity for wOrl along this line. He has also writer many books for supplementary read
 ing in the schools, and lately has beer engaged in translating several of thes
 into Spanish for use in the Cubal schools, for the young republic
 waking out of her sleep and is going t
 hold up her head proudly among tn
 progressive nations of the earth. D
 Markwick is man who has forged t
 the front by the application
 of the three gs: grit, grac
 and gumption. At seven years of az he sold papers on the streets of Lon
 don, and after that had scarcely an
 schooling save as he got it for himsel
 by rising at o'clock in the mornin
 to study and walking four miles afte
 work at night to recite. These ar
 the men who succeed because the
 have it in them to succeed. Dr Mark wick is now pastor of a church of 3e members in the humming little mant , featuring town of AnSOnia. He Ina
 heen over this church for l2 years, very long term of service as pastorate now go; and his people hold on to hiI with hooks of steel. It is fortunat 7 for the Newcomers that this man ( 3 cloth was willing to have his vacatio