The Newtown bee., 1905-06-30
OUR NEIdHBORS.
BLOOMFIELD.

THE ORDINATION OF REV MARION LIE.
 ROY BURTON IN THE CONGRKGATION-
 AL CHURCH ON TUESDAY.
 The people of the Congregational church are surely to be congratulated on the outcome of their plans for the ordination of their newly chosen pas Tuesday, June 27.. The day was not ''rare" June day, but the weather did not act as balk in keeping any one away. Instead of any hindrance be- ing placed by the Council in the way of the rite of ordination, they pro- nounced the examination of the candi- date eminently satisfactory and gave encouragement in every way for most happy pastorate. The Fairfield East Consolation of Congregational church eS was we'll represented in the Council, besides several outside churches and pastors especially invited. Business was entered upon at II. 30 in the fore noon by the choosing of Rev Otis w. Barker, of Newtown, as moderator, and Rev Grant L. Shaeffer, of the West End Congregational church of Bridge port, as scribe. After the usual min- uteS had been read in reference to the call of the pastor. MT Burton read a paper stating his Christian experience and theological belief. He owed his call to the ministry to careful Chris tian nurture under -a-gedly mother. His early life before coming to Yale Theological seminary had been passed in Iowa and Minnesota being gradu- more year at Yale, and is looking to the foreign missionary field as the pos sible place of work in the future. The ladies of the church provided bounti- full collation., which was served at the noon hour in the Town hall. Rev Cal win B. Moody, of Bristol, in very hap py way returned the thanks of the vis- itors to the ladies for their praise worthy efforts in the culinary line. At half past two the services were opened in the church with scribe. Rev Gerald H. Beard, of the Park Street Congregational church,
 Bridgeport, invoked the blessing Of God upon the gathering, and Rev Jud- son L. Cross, of Trumbull, read part of the 139th Psalm. The choir of the church, which was most ably support ed by the students of Prof Green, sang "Praise His Awful Name," from "The Last Judgment" The sermon by Rev Prof George B. Stevens, D. D., of Yale, showed very clearly how we deal with the unseen in the matters of every day life, and how we do not well to make, as this age is making, the material side of life everything: The congregation then sang "We Bid Thee Welcome" and Rev William J.
 Mutch, of New Haven, made the prayer of ordination. The moderator,
 Rev Otis w. Barker, gave the Right Hand of Fellowship, welcoming MT Burton as coming from old Yale and entering upon work in a country church. He spoke of the new pastors splendid physical equipment for the work as counting for very much. and gregationaliSm insisted, perhaps, as never before upon the independence and autonomy of the local church, it still welcomed into large fellowship every one who in earnestnesS was endeavoring to extend the kingdom of Heaven. Very finely the choir sang Christian, the Morn Breaks Sweetly Der Thee" In giving the charge to the pastor Rev Edward N. Packard, of StratfOrd, advised that he preach the heart of the Gospel from his own heart B. Moody, D. D., as pastor for 13 years of the Pilgrim Congregational church in Minneapolis, had come to look upon MT Burton as his Timothy. He told of the truly heroic struggles which the mother had made to give her boys an education, and imagined the thrill of delight she would experience, could she be present to-day. He urged the people to cooperate with their pastor in every work he might essay, and assured them that he would ask them to undertake nothing but what should enlist their heartieSt support. A fter the singing by the congregation of the stirring hymn, "Forward be Our Watchword," and prayer by Rev Dempster D. Cor ton of BridgeWater, the service was brought to an end with the benedic- tion by the pastor of the Brookfield church, and all dispersed with many cordial wishes for soul prosperity and many expressions of GodSpeed.
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