The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-10-24
THE LATE HORACE DAY.
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 present generation has changed that to read, The chief end of God is to glorify man, that he may enjoy himself forever He felt very keenly the practical diffi- culties in the way of teaching religion in the public schools, but he always fondly hoped the time would come when the last half hour of Friday afternoon would be given up to the study of the Sunday school lesson, whatever it might be. And he saw no reason why minis ters of all denominations should not oc- casionally meet the children of their re- spective ffocks at the school houses, and at least strengthen the tie which bound them together. At one time he spoke much of this, but it was considered merely an ..iridescent dream," and of late years he acquiesced in it's being considered impractical.
 MT. Day was descended on his moth
 ers side from the first settlers of New
 Haven, and many years ago made an
 exhaustive study of the family geneaI- =osies. One of his few boasts was that
 he thought he knew all the lines of de- scent by which all the people of New
 Haven ancestry traced back to the first settlers. And this, he always took
 pains to say, was not so difficult as it
 seemed, because intermarriages were so
 frequent that everybody was related
 to everybody else.'' He took a gently malicious interest in finding, for in- stance, that nearly every one of these
 families had strain of the blood of
 the family of the notorious vagabond
 of early New Haven days. Tt is an
 eight or nine fold strand that links
 us with the first settlers. Think of all the great grandfathers and grandmoth-
 CTS. Some of them were saints, but
 there were some sinners, too" he used
 to say.
 No one regretted the loss of the sec
 ond volume of the Colonial Records of
 New Haven more than he, and he had
 his own theory of its disappearance.
 After farniliarizing himself, very early
 in life with all the existing manuscripts of that period, he became haunter of the College libraries, and occasionally in some out of the way book he would come across some curious document which shed light on existing conditions in New Haven life. His friends well re- member the elation with which he hap pened on such treasure trove Tn one old book he found some mention of Ro-
 bard Day-his paternal progenitor in this mountry was Robert Day-which
 carried the line of male descent back to the fifteenth century-in an old Latin
 book he found some items of great ifl- terest to one of the old families herein still another book a curious letter con-
 cerning Cromwell which threw new light on the controversy concerning the regieides.
 But the vein of antiquarianism in
 New Haven, so thoroughly and enthusi-
 astically worked for years, did finally
 run dry, and MT. Day then found that
 antiquarian and historical tastes logi- cally led to the far broader field ot
 archaeology. For years one particular
 alcove in the old college library was the
 Mecca to which his footsteps turned.
 Long after the general public was de- lnied access to the alcoves, the library authorities made him most kindly and generously welcome. He never could
 become used to card catalogue. He wanted to take the book from it's shelf.
 T can tell when open book whether I want to readit,' he said. But cant E tell from a piece of pasteboard." Tn later years. speaking of some omnivo-
 rous reader, possibly Macaulay, he said, i "I don't know how he did 1t. I have been reading for pleasure since I was four years old, but there is only one al- cove In the College library that | have read through. ]" That was the aicove | containing the Camden collection.
 With this strong bias toward all that was old and curious and beautiful in the annals of the church, with his deep rev erence for authority, and his apprecia- | ton of all that was decorous in public worship, some one once expressed sur prise that he had not become church. man. His answer was characteristical- 1 ly quick and witty. Because I have eight generations of Westminster Cate-
 chism in me" Some one once told him he was Calvinist in his head, but not
 in his heart. His kindly, tolerant be- nignant nature was surely of no school, but of the essence of Christianity.
 | With the multiplication of patriotic and antiquarian societies he had a cer- I tain degree of sympathy in the abstract, but it was not personal one. He nev- CT, though frequently entreated, allied himself with any It was a frequent remark of his that he belonged to but | two organizations-the Center church and the Historical society. Five of the founders of the First Church of Christ 1 in New Haven were his ancestors, and every generation since then has been represented on the membership list, and l to the last he felt the affection for her of l a son for his mother. He was one oi 1 the eight founders of the Historical so- eiety, and his interest in that was more that of parent for @ child. He grieved 1 in her days of narrow estate, he re- l joiced when friendes were raised up tc
 her, he was happy when her beautiful | new home was ready for occupancy, but
 nothing gave him greater delight than ! when he realibzed that the site of the building was part of the plotfof ground
 assigned to Robert Newman in the first allotment of ground to the New Haver