Putnam patriot., 1910-11-18

among the aliens and more Of vel come into brotherhood.
 A splendid. strong sustained Con- gregational plant in the center Of every city where the churches are slipping out into the suburbs and leaving the core of the city to moral and spiritual decadenee or 10 puny patronizing missions which only play with the problem.
 What does this mean all along the line? Self batting on the back? Nay, 1t means ministers for our churches everywhere, missionaries for the wide world over. better men and women for our growing commu- mites and larger churches: and en- larged and enduring revenue for all the seven societies of our Congrega tional order.
 As Connecticut leads America in organized Home Missionary work, so she still leads in the outside shar- ing of her Home Missionary gifts. and hope she may not abate in her altruism.
 Sixty per cent. of her undesignated Home Missionary beneyolenee she she sends without the state. New Hampshire comes next with fifty per cent. and the Bay state which is sometimes heard to boasto fl IS ben evolent spirit sends out of its bor- ders only 33 Ia per cent of its Home Missionary receipts.
 If your churches match the growing need by increased contributions as 1 purpose and promise to enlarge the income from invested funds by in diyidual gifts We can keep the flag of sixty per cent for others flying at the top of the mast. At a Home Mis- sionary ra'ly during the year. on a table the Congregational Home Mis- sionary society had display of its literature and among the same was a volume entitled Heroes of the Cross and of the five worthies glori- fled for instruction and inspiration two were from Connecticut, one from old Haddam. harhoring on the great river below Hartford and the other from Morris up among the Litchheld Hills.
 At the recent great Congregational convention in Boston, there vas hung about Fremont Temple along it's great galleries names notable in the life and labor of our dear denomina- tiun and To, Connecticut again led ali the rest.
 The fiery Finney. from wind swept Warren away up among the Litch- field Hills
 Henry Ward Beeoher. the liberaior Of mems minds and mems bodies not enIT l.. i.itchfield County but t..t,Laeld itself Thomas Hooker not born in this country but belonging 10 Connecticut as nowhere else Leonard Bacon born by chance in Michigan it is true but for the simple reason that his father David Bacon from Woodstock next town 10 this was temporarily out in Michigan in the employ and under the commits sion Of this very Missionary Society of Connecticut.
 Jonathan Edwards philosopher and preacher par excellence of irtsliectu- al giant grasp who first saw the light in East Windsor. and last and per haps largest of all Horace Bushnell the seer born in Bantam il the own of Litchfieid and as youth saw wis ions of truth on the shores of beauti- ful Lake Waramaug in Washington of Litchfleld County and as an old man dreamed dreams in the historic capital Of our Common wealth. vis- ions that have come srealnies and dreams that have come true.
 Is not tAh glory and grandeur enough to sufice- Not unless we preserve tain part and push 1t far into the future For those worthies of the past without U of the present are not made perfect
 The afternoon session vas called to order as two o'clock. It was voted to hold the next annual fcpuSesence st Danb0Sy, the time to be left to the e0mMittee and to be printed in she minutes-
 Dr. Phillips commended the Seport ef the conmitsre on moral leaislaiion, but said he thought there vas one e. ssnsiai lcn ont. He then called at- teostna e the esaaty commissiones