The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-02-02
LATEST FAIR HAVEN NEWS
DIR. STONE ON THE HOUR AND
POWER OF DARKNESS.
interesting Discourse at Baptist Church
congregational Club Tonight
Lodge and Society Notes-PersOnaI-
Mr.. Mallory Very Low Last Night.

MT. hnlioFy very LO" A--sA NAsAA.
Lester Mallory was still very low yester-
day and sinking His death was hourly ex-
peeted last evening.
T. At the Grand avenue Baptist church yes
terday morning the pastor, the Rev. E. W.
Stone, preached on The Hour and Power
OF Darkness" During the course of his
sermon, he said:
There is such thing as the hour ana
power of iaFkness-the time when wicked
ness, injustice, falsehoOd, dishonesty and
scheming, triumphS, or seems TO triumph
Innocence is crushed, justice and truth
tramplsd under foot. virtue Is mocksd,
righteousness continued and gOdlineSS put
away | do not know that our times are
any worse than former ones, but 1t seems
to me we have fallen upon all hour Of the
power Of darkness.
lin public lif>, competition, fraud, selhsh-
ness, are everywhere found. In business,
falsehoOd, dishonesty and avarice are SO
common as hardly to excite a ripple on the
surface of society; and in society Itself, eV-
cry kind of vice prevails TO an alarming
extent. OF course there have always been
such things, but this does not make this
hour less serious for us, or less full of pos
sibilitie of great evil.
As an illustration Of his theme, Mr.. Stone
related briefly chapter III the race track
war in New Jersey in the early ninetieS.
He was then pastor of Baptist church in
New Jersey The chamber of commerce
had selected a committee of twenty-five to
go to the capital at Trenton and use its
influence to try and secure some law to
prevent gambling on the race tracks of the
state. There We're several clergymen repre-
senting all the denominations on the COM
mittee and Mr.. Stone was representative
of the BaDtjsts. day had been set for
committees from all parts of the state to
go up to Trenton to make known their
wishes to the legislature, but, as a slight
upon these committees, the legislature ad
jOurned and went on a Junket to Washing
,In fhnf hal
hour of the power of darkness, but it did
not last. A few months later. eonstitu-
ti0nal amendment was enacted which abol-
ished gambling from the race tracks. And
SO in the end. right was hound to triumph.
At the meeting of the Christian EndeaVor
union at the Church Of the Redeemer, to-
night, Rev. Alex. f. Irvine of Pilgrim
church will have charge. of the question
box.
air. and Mrs. C. W. Kanahan were in Lis
bon Saturday attending the funeral of i
friend. Mrs Kanahan will remain there Il
few days. 1t Is their former home.
Perseverance council, Daughter of Liber-
ty, will give railroad sociable on Wednes-
day eYning.
Home council No. 1, Brotherhood of Re-
lief has elected officers as follows: Pres
dent, John Hubbell; vice president, Charles
| o. Francis; secretary and treasurer, Edwin
The New Haven Congregational club will
meet. this evening at the Grand avenue
Congregational church. The speaker of the
evening will be the Rev. Dr. Lyman, pas
tor of the South church, Brooklyn.
The funeral of Marie. wife of Joseph
Klopfer, was held yesterday afternoon ut
her late home, 81 Poplar street. and was
largely attended. Rev. John A. Timm Off
clated. The burial was in Evergreen Gene
terry.
Thursday evening was the birth anniyer-
sary of Mrs. H. W. Crawford. In the early
evening the children-Ernest Il. Crawford,
Frank NJ. Crawford, Harry w. Crawford of
this place and Mrs. Robert GriswoId of
Hartford-with their families, paid a sur
prise visit upon their mother at her home
on Clinton avenue. The children furnished
| the supper. which was served at the LSLa:
time. The evening was spent very pleas
antly as a reunion Mrs. Crawford received
number of gifts. Her brother, Lucius S.
Ludington of East Pearl street, whose birth
anniversary occurred the same day, was
present with his WIFE
The Motherhood club of Bushnell hall will
+ meet In the church parlors, corner of Ferry
! and State streets, this afternoon at 2:30.
Mrs. Nathan Bronson will address the club.
! invitation to ladies is extended.
Edward Dillon, II. w. Foley. c.? II. Con-
way and James z. Brees of Fair Haven are
members of the committee In charge of
raising funds for monument to the Ninth
regiment, G.. ", to be erected tin this, CITY,
Mi, and Mrs. Marcus Hemingway If 1856
Grand avenue have gone abroad to make
a European trip Of two or three months
duration, They will land In England first
! touring to the principal points of interest
there and then going onto the continent.
! They have left their two. children in charge
of their aunt Mrs. Walter Buck a sister
of Mr. Hemingway.