The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-10-08
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l Meeting of Borough Warden and Bur l gesses TO-night-ConflrmatiO at 1 Grace Church-Rev. Charles Smith on
 Mission of the Church at Grand Ave- nue Baptist Church--Other Items.
 A meeting of the Mems club of the Grand Avenue Congregational church will be held in the church parlors this evening at o'clock. A special pro- gramme has been arranged, including a l lecture by Rev. w. F. Dickerman on Ancient Earthquakes and the Present Rocks in the New Haven Region,' and baritone solos by Lawrence w. Sulli- van. A cordial invitation is extended to all friends.
 There was a distinct and marked change in temperature between that Of Saturday evening and yesterday morn- ing. Saturday evening it was quite warm and people were riding in the summer cars. The temperature early yesterday morning was down in the forties and cold wind prevailed The mercury hardly got to the 50 mark all day. Some of the people who watch the weather closely say that there will be a nipping white frost during the week.
 At the East Pearl Street M. D. church yesterday morning there was one bap- tism, three were received into full mem bership and three were received by let ter.
 There will be a special meeting of the warden and burgesses of the borough this evening. number of matters are to receive attention, among them the matter of the per capita tax, which usually raises about $1OO annually and which was not included in the tax bills this year.
 Bishop Brewster officiated at Christ church, East Haven, yesterday and ad- ministered confirmation to small class. Rev. George A. Alcott, of Grace church, who also breaches at the East Haven church, was present at the ser vice. Special music was rendered, and the offering was for the diocesan mis- sions.
 Mrs. Edward Gertcb, of $40 Quinni- piac avenue, who has been an invalid for some time, has been removed to Grace hospital to have an operation performed
 The w. c. T. U. of Fair Haven will give a blue and white supper at it's hall tomorrow evening, and this will be fol- .-t,e ,,.+o of,,,, Itr hn young people.
 Miss Mary A. Houston, of 147 East Chapel street, has gone to Paterson, N. J., to visit friends
 The funeral of Brick A. Spellmans was attended at his late home, 4S Cham berlain street, yesterday afternoon. Mr. Spellmans was thirty-two years old and leaves a wife and several children. He had been i'll several months, He was a wire worker.
 The death of Patrick H. O'Brien at his home, 2S3 James street, on Saturday was due to apoplexy. For many years he was a foreman in the factory of the G. F. Warner Manufacturing company MT O'Brien was a prominent member of the Foresters.
 The Ladies Aid society of the Grand Avenue Congregational church will give a harvest summer Wednesday, and a committee of seven, with Mrs. Holton as chairman, has been appointed for the arrangements.
 "The Mission of the Church" was the topic of the sermon delivered at the Grand Avenue Baptist church yester- day morning by the pastor, Rev. Charles c. Smith. Suggestions for the sermon were furnished by his attend ance, at Deep River the past week, up- on the annual meeting of the New Ha- ven Baptist association. This associa- tion, which includes all the Baptist churches in this city, is made up of thirty-seven churches, and the net gain in church membership during the past year was about 200, a number far too small, said Pastor Smith. Letters from the churches were read showing their standing in membe rship and giving oth CT statistics. "One church reported that they had no baptisms during the year." said MT Smith. But they had bent all of their spare financial ener- gies towards the getting new red car pet for the church. Another church which has also been lacking in mem- bership, had purchased fine Estey organ. which was dedicated with pro- fessional skill at the opening organ re- cital. Still another parish had strained every effort in raising special fund towards providing the church with steeple. The Congregational church in the same town had a steepe and the Baptist parishioners were very anxious to have one, too, and they got 1t, but had no baptsms. Over against this, there were many churches reporting baptisms, and in one church there were 100 baptisms." MT, Smith went on to say that the mission of the church was a larger measure of spiritual growth and power. He did not deprecate fine ly-appointed churches and those things that tended to make the interior of churches attractive and comfortable, but the prime essential, and an element that was too frequently neglected, was the splritual-that which made for righteousness,
 Rev. MT. Smith went to Wallingford yesterday afternoon and conducted the service at the Masonic home, preaching a sermon to the inmats and visiting friends.
 At the Grand Avenue Congregational church yesterday the pulpit was sup piled morning and evening by Professor Roup, of Yale university, in the ab- sence of the pastor, pr. Sheath, who was called to Columbia, F., by the