The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-13
Yours very truly,
Address of Blshop Brcwster.

1 to this old town and to this old parish. Address of Bishop Brewster.
 Bishop Brewster said. It becomes my pleasant duty to respond to the courteous welcome of the rector of this parish, It is the mother church of I this old diocese. That, however, with all the years in number she still has life and strength. There Is evidence In the fact that few weeks since 1t was my privilege to confirm in this rural parish class of forty,
 On the 200th anniversary it is a per- tinent question: What did the church in her coming here bring with her for Connecticut2 We can now, only glance at certain things she brought. First, the principles of continuity with the past and the appeal to the history, in other words, the historic conception of Christianity now so largely recognized. Second, A certain reverence and re- strained sobriety of religious feeling. These characteristics later on amid the l excitement and disorders that attend | the Great Awakening marked the old church as a refuge therefrom unto which many restorted and found peace.
 A third characteristic of the church l whose coming here we commemorate that while maintaining for faith the things which belong to faith she also ! conceded the freedom of things which belong to freedom Thus. she brought | txyIn I Tafr tat at. and tone of theological thought which ! presented contrast to the rather hard and sometimes tyrannous theology long 1 dominated in New England. In anoth- e. age when the natural reaction from that theology came here in Connecticut in this church many souls threatened with shipwreck of their faith found the haven where they would be- Thus I should explain the fact that while Uni tGranism made such headway hardly in Massachusetts here in Connecticut It took only the slightest hold. Here had been provided another way 10 escape flem Tritheis and Calvansm.
 Fourth The presence and influence of this church tended to correct the Pur- itan individualism by the social concep- tion of Christianity as a Catholic com menwealth. This was, venture to as- sert, a signal contribution to American life. The greatness of the republic Hes not alone in which America denotes; so many square miles of territory, so many millions of population, so many billions of wealth. The true greatness of the republic and it's significance for | the world lies rather in what America ecnnotes; ideals of humanity and free | dom of genuine democracy. An espe- cial task confronting thls nation Is to reconcile and to realize in their har- mcny those ideals that may sometimes seem to clash in collisions and conflict The ideals of personal freedom and brotherhood, liberty and fraternity.
 The momentous task to be wrought at and brought out in this land, not important part may we'll belong to that historic church that we associated with the winning of the Magma Charta, and has maintained so large liberty and l that has also illustrated and interpret | ed to English speaking peoples, the principle of catholcity and widely inclusively brotherhood. The church that Is at once catholic and free. Lei us, her members, not be, wanting in recognition of the responsibilities and the grandeur of the opportunity. In ar age of transition of. questioning and oi critical analysis let us pray that we bt not without the gift of vision and tha' We have that which followed upor spiritual vision, namely, power, power to do what God would have us do.
 We have heard with our ears, Oh God; our fathers have told us what work thou dldst in their days, in the days of old. To-day we commemorate our spiritual fathers and the glory thou hast by them gotten. "show us thy servants; Thy work and our chll' dren Thy glory"
 Eighteenth Century Church.
 The Rev Joseph Hooker, of ths Church of the Epiphany, Durham, read a paper on "The Church in Connecticut in the Eighteenth Century" He paid a tribute to Dr. James .McSparren Francis Phillips, Dr, John Barnard Timothy Cutler, Samuel Johnson, oi West Haven; Samuel Seabury, of New London; the Rev. Ebenezer Punderson Dr. Thomas Davies and Gideon Bost- wick, and in conclusion quoted the lpoem of the well-known and reverend writer, Arthur Cleveland Coxe, on Sea- bury's Mitre, which visitors to Trinity college see in a glass case.
 Paper by Frederick J. Kingshary.
 Frederick J. Kingsbury, of Water. bury, read paper on The Lay Pio' neers of the Church in Connecticut"
 Mir Kingsbury prefaced his paper with the seriptural instruction of, "Ant He said unto them, Go ye into all thu world and preach the gospel to every (creature," saying that by these words was the church established for the ben. eft of the laity. He said: The church exists for the laity; the laity mainly constitutes the church. The bishop: and other clergy who minister to tht Congregations are the appointed teach. CTS and guides. Without laity there is no church. And yet in the history of the church the laity fill a very in. conspicuous place Nevertheless, i has history, and here in New Eng land, here in Connecticut, it has a def nite history which can be traced
 MT Kingsbury then traced the com ing here of the Purltans, their religious differences in England with the Estab' lished church, the successions in gov lernment until the accession of James
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