The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-07-16
LATEST FAIR HAVEN NEWS
ITEMS OF INTER EST FROM
 ACROSS THE RIVER.

Rev. Charles G, Smith Breaches an In-
 teresting SermOn-His Subject "A
 Castaway"-Draws Fine Illustration
 from Wrecked Barge Which Lies oA
 Pine Orchard Beach--William B
 Hemingway Celebrates His S1st
 Birthday-FuneraI of Mrs. Anna M
 BIair-PersOnaI Notes and Other
 News.
 Mrs. J. J. Mehaffey, of Blatchley ave- nue, who has been in Boston for the last two months. has returned to her home.
 MT, and Miss Morker, of Allegheny City, Pa., are visiting George w. Hat field and family, of 217 Lloyd street, for a few weeks
 Miss Norma, daughter of MT. and Mrs. Charles II. Cutts, of 26O Lloyd street, is stopping in Granby for few weeks.
 Miss Julia Adams, of Utica, N. Y, is visiting her aunt, Mrs. John F. Hill, of Wolcott street.
 Miss Ethel Kittell, of Kinderhook, N. T., is visiting her aunt, Mrs. Kittell, of Pine street.
 William H. Huntley of Pierpont street, has returned after @ business trip of ten weeks in Newark.
 The funeral of Mrs. Anna M., widow of Henry R. Blair, who died in North Madison, was solemnized at Memorial chapel in Fair Haven cemetery yester- day afternoon. Mrs. Blair had resided here most of her life, but for the past ten years had lived with relatives in North Madison. Her age was ninety years She was the oldest member of the Grand Avenue Congregational church, having been member there for seventy-four years. Rev. pr. Sheath conducted the services and relatives of the deceased were the bearers.
 Thirty-eight relatives of William R. Hemingway, of Quinnipiac avenue, att tended the celebration which he had ar ranged on his eighty-tirst birthday an- niversary Saturday. All assembled at the Pequot house, where MT. fleming way gave a dinner in honor of the oc- casion. During the celebration he re- ceived the gift of a handsome easy chair from his relatives. The presents tion was made by Rev. R. B. Brown, pastor of Pilgrim church, where MT. Hemingway is prominent member MT. Hemingway thanked the donors for Ixs.. T Thn Cinn was much enjoyed by all.
 Benoit Fontaine, of Congress avenue, has broken ground for an eighteen-ten- ement frame house in James street, near Market street.
 William Sullivan, tender of Chapel street drawbridge, has returned from a two weeks vacation.
 "A Castaway" was the topic of the sermon delivered by Rev Charles G. Smith at the Grand Avenue Baptist church yesterday morning, which, in part, was as follows:
 "Luther's epitaph fittingly describes the spirit and character of St. Paul, Here lies one who never feared the face of man. He was resolute, brave soul, throbbing with courage to his finger-tips; unmoved by hattery of friend or threat of foe. Face to face with innumerable trials and apparently insurmountable difficulties, crossed by many and bitter disappointments, he yet could truly say, But none of these things moves me, neither count l my life dear unto myself I wish we had his courage and heroism to-day What a change would soon come over the whole church of Christ! And yet this is the man who confesses that he lived in bondage of fear; that he had one horrible dread gnawing at his heart strings that at times robbed him of all peace and joy-the fear that the day might come when God could use him to mo further purpose in life and he should lie upon the scrap heap of existence, a castaway.' The apostle did not doubt his eternal safety. It was not a ques- tion of salvation, but of the joy of sal- walton he found in service for others. It was not the loss of wearing the crown he feared so much as the loss of bearing the cross.
 q think have met with an illustra- ton this summer that expresses the meaning of this text. The beach down at Pine Orchard and Hotchkiss Grove lies in the form of a crescent. At one corner of the crescent the cliff juts pre- cipitately out to sea, sentineled by a bold ledge of huge rocks At the foot of the precipice, at ebb tide, you can see a coal barge lying prone upon the beach, bottom upwards. Last winter, during a fierce storm, 1t broke tow, drifted ashore and was dashed to pieces on the rocks As I walked out upon 1t one day thought what stories it might tell of long voyages, useful service and fierce battles with wind and wave And yet after all that faithful mission and those many victories, it lies here a hopeless wreck, defeated by the grim elements of which it was for so long the proud master. This battered old coal barge illustrates what St. Paul meant when he said he feared being a casta- way and so kept eternal vigilance upon his life Thank God, he never became a castaway and could whisper from his dungeon, with his latest breath as Paul the Gagged I have fought good fight, I have finished my course, have kept the faith His life and his fear are at once warning and an inspira- ton to all who would truly live, Abhor that which is evil, cleave to that which is good so shall you enjoy