The Press., 1911-03-08
WELLINGTON.

John Bartlett is again in the em- ploy of the Stafford Floral company.
 Mrs. Samuel Gardner of New Haven is with Mrs. Gardner and Miss Gard ner, who are bearing up as well as could be expected after their long strain of anxiety and sorrow
 The removal from our midst of Rev. Austin Gardner. who at the age of 94 years and 8 months, was called to his heavenly home March Sd, will be a loss that will be more and more felt as time goes on His was such a kindly spirit. meeting him was in deed benediction. He was a large man in spiritual and in intellectual attaiBments. A touching incident the day after his death was message from a well-known clergyman in
 Brooklyn, N. Y who was converted and took his first communion in hiE church. He said, Tomorrow is com munion in my church, and at that
 time shall remember my first oom- munion.'' A teacher in Massacbu. setts came to comfort the family and attend the funeral, being one of his saved ones, and said, "If all those MT. Gardner had led to 8 higher life could have attended the funeral ser- vice, what 8 number there would have been present. " MT. Gardner was bhe son of Connections farmer and one of 12 children When he grew up he learned the trade of painting, but having Q desire for an education he made struggle for it, and after study. ing at East Greenwich academy and Wesleyan university he went south to teach, where he met Emily J Baker of Vermont, 8 graduate of Castleton seminary, who was teaching in the south. They were married in June, 1854, and then located in South Manchester, Conn where Mr. Gard ner taught in the academy at Man. chester Center. From there he en- tered the Hartford Theological semi- nary, from which he graduated in 1860. He was always intensely active in the various duties of his ministry. He was especially inter ested in educational mat ters, and in that line was the means of helping many person to larger usefulness in life. In his home he was ideal, being 8 very devotad husband, and for his children no sacrifice was too great for him to make. He chose the country for his field of work; he to sit with him on PnIs lawn in a summer evening and hear him talk on astronomy, history, etc. A Oongre- gational pastor of large city church said one day, t'We ministers call him Father Gardner. '' A learned pro. lessor and doctor of divinity said, "He surprises us all with his bursts of knowledge" His pastorates have been unusually long ones. aud iu his over 50 years of work he was not without 'pastorate and virtually died in the "harness," as he often said he hoped to. He had to give up the last Sunday in January on account of hard cold, which developed into bronchial pneumonia. The physician in attendance gave him devoted care; the pastor of the Baptist church and neighbors were ready to aseit in car ing for him day or night during the Eve wet ks of suffering The funeral services were held in the Oorgrega- tional church, in charge of Rev. E
 W. Darrow of the Wilmington Baptist church Rev Wm E B Moore of Scotland and Rev Edgaf Q Rullar of. Brooklyn, N. Y assis scr vice, which was very imp eesive The singing was by the Misses Robbins and Rev and Mrs Darrow, the SC. lectioDs being favorites for which he often asked at the Union Endeavor