The Newtown bee., 1906-10-12

 Rouse as 1 remember him; tall, sweet tempered and sweet singer in Israel. I can never forget his "Rock of Ages;" he smiled as he sang, and it made a deep impression on me which l have carried all these years and feel sure 1 shall know him in that Home of Many Mansions for he will sing Rock of Ages there, it must be, and my mother will join him in the singing How grandly they sang together at the prayermeetingS; touch of Hea ven on earth. I wish to speak of the "Millerite Advent," which came into so many of the churches in the years of "4O" or 1 about that time. Meetings were held at small settlement on Kent Noun ] tain, where there were iron works, be- l tween Kent and Warren. A fanatic by the name of Morgan carried them on and a large number from both churches were drawn into the whirl- pool and how my father and the pas l tor at Kent, Rev Watson Andrews, did work to hold their little flocks, but it had great setback, when after night spent in trees and on roofs the 1 Lord did not come to those white-rob- ed followers and soon after tho Proph- ct Morgan disappeared. But both churches suffered.
 The maternal or mothers meetings were a power for good in that way. The mothers had prayermeeting once . month, taking the daughters with them; do not remember that the sons were there. There was Mrs Dr Lyman and Eunice, Mrs Hopkins ! and Amelia, Mrs Adonfram Carter and Patty, my mother and myself and many others whose names do not re- call. New England had its praying mothers and in eternity and not until then shall we know how much the "Hay Stack" gathering, which this year we celebrate, is in answer to the prayers of many mothers. Mothers don't forget to pray.
 Warren always had it's fine singers. | Never in my life have heard such singing as in that old church on the hill. There was large Carter family, all fine singers and many of them in that choir. Mrs Hopkins was one. l l remember younger son, Darius Car ter, a sweet singer and leader and how my father loved him. He died very young in Ravena, Ohio. All Warren mourned for him. Ohio was almos t I at the end of the earth then.
 This paper is too long already and have not written of what I feel the church there and its people have the most to be proud of. That is, the ones who have gone to the newer states and it's educational work as we'll as to carry the Gospel, which is now both home and foreign in this broad land of ours, and generations to come should hear of them. "Don't forget to tell it to your children; how the Lord has cared for and led you these many years" Deut. l: II: "The Lord God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many more as ye are and bless you"
 Now, I may not be correct in all of my statements, (they are from msm- ory), but think President Kinney of Oberlin college, President Tanner ot Illinois college and President Sturta- vent of Wheaton college, are all de- scendants, (if not born there), of War ren people. And I have always per haps stretched my imagination and felt that the late President Chapin of our Beloit, the "Yale of the West,' was born so near Warren, either New Preston or Washington, perhaps a corner of each town. q hope sol that perhaps Warren could claim him. Litchfield County can. And last but not least by any means, Rev Homer w. Carter, D. D., the State Secretary of Home Missions in Wisconsin. We are proud of him and the success of his work. He is a grandson of Dea Adoniram Garter. His grandmother was Sackett.
 The Starr, Carter, Sackett, Strong, Lyman, Talmadge, Swift, Wedge, Coleman, Gilbert, Sturtavent, Hop- kins, Beeman and many other families I remember by name as we'll as asso. citations. I trust that enough ara still living to have all of the families represented. l do not think any of the Goodwin family will be there. am the only one left of my fathers first family. My half sister, Mrs Ag- nes Dickenson, is in Los Angeles, Cal, and two half brothers in Hartford.
 And now I am wondering if there is any one there who knows of or re- members Rev John Smith Griffin, who went to Oregon, if I remember right, about the year 1888, (perhaps before that). He was from poor but very worthy Methodist family. He studied with my father but was thought by many to be almost beside himself to think of going alone as he did in an emigrant wagon to the end of the earth then, Oregon, but my father helped and encouraged him. He was six or eight months reaching St Louis, where he found his wife, who was a teacher there from Boston, sold his emigrant wag- on for pack mules and he and the new wife went over the Rockies, settling near Ft Wala Wala for time. I do hope some one will | know of him and his work, for from