The Newtown bee., 1907-09-27
Trinity Church.
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started for Eugland. or at any rate about the same time there went a let ter from several members of the Church of England in Reading and Newtown. to the yenera- hle society, stating his willingness to return to this place of his former set clement and abode after he should be ordained. bearing testimony to his so- Der and regular conduct and his learn ing and good ability to discharge the ministerial office and promising to do all that they could for his support if he should be sent to them and to the Eng lishmen ..and Indians in neighborlng towns who were willing to listen to him.
 He came back, priest in the Church of God, to find that his former congre- gation had been alienated from him and that some of them would not speak to him when they met him on the street and that the minds of the Indians who had been his friends, were to use his own words antidoted against him. He further said that there were but five families here, presumably churchmen from the beginning. who were willing to accept his ministrations. But to them he ministered, beginning in Sep tember l75 years ago. first under the shade of a great buttonball tree on a spot now permanently marked, then under the roughly covered frame of a small building, and after not many years in larger and more suitable church.
 Let me read you in his own words what as he said he had gained by the exchange" when he became a church. man, and what, he implied, others might gain by following his teaching: :
 First, 1 have by this change gained perfect satisfaction in my own con science that have now authority from Christ to act in his Name and as his ambassador.
 Secondly, 1 have gained vastly better way of worshipping God. l confess, when came into the church, it was not so much from sense of the excellency of the liturgy as from the consideration of the necessity of regular ordination; but now that 1 have experienced it, l find so much more of the spirit of devotion in the use of it, that it is not easy to be ex- pressed.
 Thirdly, have gained a juster notion of Christianity by the church than ever could learn by the dissent CTS. In particular, such are the shock ing absurdities of Calvinism, as it is taught in most dissenting meetings, that believe thousands, as well as l, may thank God that by the doctrine of the church they have been preserved from despair on the one hand and skep- ticism and infidelity on the other"
 Dr Hart said in closing:
 X Many are waiting for us to commend to them the truth of which the church is the keeper and witness, many are waiting for us to unveil before their eyes the clear light and true knowledge of God and of His SonssJ Jesus Christ and of His Holy Spirit; their consciences are ready to recognize the truth, their minds and will are ready to accept it. See to 1t that we, the Connecticut Churchmen of the beginning of the third century of Church work in this ancient diocese and commonwealth, know aright, live aright, and teach aright, yes, and inn part aright, that great deposit of truth and grace which the Church. holds in trust for all mankind.
 THE CLERGY PRESENT.
 Among the clergymen present were Rt Rev Chauncey Brewster of Hart ford Rt Rev Frederick F. Johnson of South Dakota, Roy Samuel Hart D.. D., Middletown,; Rev s. o. Seymour, Litchfeld, Rev w. N. Ackley, Brook lyn; Rev George H. Buck, Derby; Rev J. s. Clark, Salisbury; Rev N E. Corn wall, Stratford; Rev G. w. Davenport, Danbury; Rev Louis French, Darien ; Rev Alfred Goldsborough, Monroe; Rev F. w. Hartman, D. D., Windsor; Rev w. D. Humphrey, Roxbury Rev W. Il. Jepson, Bedding; RevsW. H. Lewis, D.. D., Bridgeport; Rev George T. Lins- ley, Hartford; Rev c. s. Mullikin,