The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-07-01

ence room only, a fine front arising i about ten feet beyond the rear pews' 1 having on it a tall. sky-piercing spire, l with clock tower and clock, It was 1 beautiful Romanesque structure, with a more beautiful audience room. The sermon at the dedication was preached by Rev. Henry Ward Beeeher. l read to you last year the list of contributors and you will recall their liberality. In
 the year 1854 the chapel was removed to this place and found a new resting
 spot in the rear, bstween the church
 building and the cemetery. Later 1t
 was removed, and to-day stands as
 dwelling house on Middletown avenue.
 With the erection of a new building and the promise of great success new
 perils appeared. 4 third church was
 organized and erected an edifice on
 Grandavenue nearly opposite Perkins
 street. It grew out of a, difference in
 the Second church, some of whose
 members wanted Rev. William B. Lee
 as their pastor. In the face of a pro
 test from the First and Second church.
 ss, a conucil organized the Third
 church and installed Mr. Lee. The
 First church was not represented, and
 for seven years the feeling between
 these two churches was not too friend-
 Iy. "There were times of precarious
 navigation for MT. Hart" A more se-
 rious matter for the welfare of the
 church was the failure of the pastors
 health. He was sent to EEurope and
 returned improved. Later he went
 west because of a return of his throat difficulty, but to no avail. He finally resigned. This church bore expense
 upon expens,>, reluctant to spare the man. Finally the letter of resignation
 was accepted and he was dismissed De-
 tober 15, 1860. His farewell text was so | appropriate:. "As for me, I have not ! hastened from being pastor. Neither ! have I desired the woeful day thou | knowest!" A few interesting features | of this pastorate must yet be noticed. ! The organ which servSs us to-day was plaled in this church building at the 1 time of its erection, and has responded faithfully to many an organist's touch ] Two church manuals were published | during this period which reveal some
 inttresting facts. The confession of faith in the manuals of 1S49 and 1856 affirm that God in his mercy has not
 left mankind to perish forever, but out
 of his mere good pleasure has from all 1 eternity elected some to everlasting | life" and that they twill never be per mitted so to fall away as finally to per- ish," and as for the rest they ''are just ly exposed to all the miseries of this life and to the pains of hell for ever,
 and "all the wicked are sentenced to
 misery without end" While its con
 fession of faith was harsh, it's cove 1 nant on the other hand was beautiful
 and Christian. The rules for discipline
 were also severe, and during this and
 the previous pastorates a goodly num- Der of persons were disciplined and eX-
 communicated for drunkenness and fo1
 heinous crimes. The manual of 1S4E
 contains rule which does not appear
 in the manual of 1856. No persor
 shall be received to membership in this
 church who manufactures, sells or uses
 ardent spirits, as or far the purpose oi
 beverage" The following rule is
 found in both, but not in the later man.
 ua1 of 1891: Members of this church
 who statedly desert the sanctuary ol
 the Lords Table without presenting
 satisfactory reasons therefore to tht
 pastor and the standing committee
 shall be amenable to thorough disci pline, and shall be brought before tho
 church for that purpose" have con
 these laws led to their abolishment. l s,,A sx, 4k,A
 of 1856 deserves msntion. A catalogue
 of the heads of families and pew hold
 CTS is given, which concludes as fol
 lows: Sea captains, 43; whole nun ber 24S,' If time permitted I shoult 7 like to mention the captains thus re -4i Jnembered. During the fourteen year
 BOA members were added to this church ', of which twenty-five remain as mem % bers to this day, In this connection
 sholud be mentioned the names o those who have continuously held membership in this church for mor
 than fifty years: 1832 Ann M. Tal 1nadgeBlair; 1889, Mary A. Curti
 Russell; 1S41, Maria E. Seeley Barnes i.1S47, Eliza A. Potter Blakeslee; 1S4S
 ,Arietta Potter Harrison; 1849 Marga
 tret L. Granniss Adams: Emily I t'Thompson Culver, Mary L. Lanfail sCelestia A. Hutchins Sanford, Jane A , Maltby Stevens, Sarah Maltby Morri. , Harriet L. Ludington Rowe, Mary I ,, Mallory Linsley; 1851, Charlotte I Rowe Thompson; 1852, Rev. Burdett Rlarte; 1853, Charlotte A. Lancraft Tut l tYe, Mary A. Turner Pierpont; 1854, Her ry J. Stevens, Mary E. Riley, Ellen N Barren Maltby. It should be adde
 that in the cases of Dr. Hart and Mir Earnes, Pierpont, Blakeslee and AC , anns, their membership was temporar ' ly in other churches, becase of res Cence elsewhere. Adding to the aboy liatu the names of Georgiana M Hay
 den Hardy, Mary A. Augur Lane, Sli, ! a;tsath R. Lee, Eliza A. Price, Winery . Mallory, Susan T. Rowe, Henry A. Stt . veSs, Lydia B. Stevens, Mary S. Tucl
 CT, Merritt L. Potter and s. Jennett Goodsell we finish the roll of the thil ty-one persons who remain as member from the pastorates of Dr. Hart an
 his two predecessors. Time would ia : us tto speak of the Sabbath school wit it's membership in 1880 of fifty-five ar , constantly growing; of the church l A | 1n,So,. an5 fp5 ,a11 1f 5ta