The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-03-18

North Branford-Bishop at St. James
 Personal.
 Patrick, the Christian servant of God" was the subject of the dis course of Rev. Dr. Sheath at the Grand avenue Congregational church last eve ming. He said: "st. Patrick was a great man; and better still, a good man. He was born in the year 389 about HOO years before the discovery of America, and the Protestant reformation. He was born a Briton and what is now Scottish soil Ireland became his adopt ed country. He died on the 17th of March, 461, after an eventful career. his life which we possess; but legends are numerous, and the higher critic is at work to-day seeking to destroy faith in the facts that remain. At sev- enteen a captive slave in Ireland, he became Christian and began his life of spiritual power. Later, escaping he fitted himself to preach the gospel to the Irish in heathendom This he did with great s uccess, and having finish ed his course with joy, died, was buried and like Moses, his place of burial is unknown to this day.
 "St Patrick was a man of genuine faith in Christ He was a strong spirit ual nature and his life thoroughly consecrated one. He lived for God and the Irish people. He was a man of one book, His education was limited, His Latin was defective. He was no great theologian; but he knew his Bible from Genesis to Revelation. He endured a large amount of persecution, fulfilling the declaration all that will live Godly must suffer persecution.' He suffered not only from the Irish, but especially from fellow clergymen in the church who were jealous of his life and suc- cess. He was strong personality. Men were readily drawn to him. He had good common sense and business ability And in all his dealings with the Irish people, whether Christian or heather, he was as honest and true as the sunlight. Add to all this his un- wavering faith in God, his humility and his indomitable purpose to win Ireland to Christ and you have no ordinary man.
 He achieved three great results. He organized the Christians in Ireland into churches, He converted the re- maining unChristian tribes into Chris tianity He united Ireland to the Rom an empire and to the Christian church. And there followed after his death an intense missionary zeal on the part of the Irish clergy. Judged by what he actually accomplished he must be placed along with the most efficient of those who took part in spreading the Christian faith beyond the boundaries of the Roman empire
 'I beg of you tonight to forget much that you have heard in connection with the life of St Patrick and much that you have seen in connection with the day of his death; and I think of him as a noble Christian missionary of the fifth century full of enthusiasm and the spirit of Christ. He was strong personality and a heroic servant of God to the Irish in the bonds of Druid ical heathensm."
 After the morning service Dr. Sheath lpreached on Church Loyalty and Pros- perity," and right after the service he Icaled for pledges to extingush bal llance of current indebtedness. Pledges were taken to be paid in a month and the sum of $515 was subscribed and this with an amount already pledged will pay off all current indebtedness to May 1. The people felt much pleased over the hearty response to the call.
 The wearing of little bits of green rib bon yesterday served to recall that 1t was the anniversary of St. Patrick At St Francis church there were large congregations attending all the ser vices of the day.
 Rev. E. c. Tullar. pastor of East Pearl street M. E. church, was absent in New York yesterday attending the Gypsy Smith revival meetings. At his church in the morning Rev MT. Pruener of St. Andrews church preached and in the evening Rev MT. Grey of Howard avenue M. E, church preached, Rev. A. O. Abbott of Fair Haven preached at the St. Andrews church in the morn- ing and at the Howard avenue church in the evening.
 s. H. Morgan of East Pearl street, the builder, has purchased the Cherry Hill farm of 203 acres in the town of Avon.
 People residing in the Foxon district feel quite confident that the trolley to North Branford will be built and that work will begin before long. Ex-Rep- resentative c. W. Grannis says that there is a charter to build to North lBranford and the line will be built and that an attempt is being made tc get the road through to Guilford II that is done it will be link in ttse through route in the southern part oi the state The plan is to have the line join the Consolidated tracks at the upper part of Qulnnipiac street While some of the grades would be heavy it is said there will be no difficulty in build
 inc the road.
 Beginning this week the entire mil of the New Haven Iron and Steel com. pany will be in operation, twenty-five 5men coming here from New Jersey ant starting portion of the plant whicf has been idle since early in the winter
 Bishop Brewster was present at St James church yesterday afternoon ant Administered confirmation.
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 have thirty-six candidates for the clas