Norwich bulletin., 1915-11-12

REV. J. ELDRED BROWN.
Arehdeacon
thu seieetion Come Where Ny Love
Lies Dreaming. Their music was q
feature Of the evening particularly en-
Joyed and their selections were finely
rendered.
Mayor Murphy,s Wsleoms.
Mayor T. c. Murphy, was given rous-
ing applause as he was introduced as
the next speaker. He expressed the
honor and pleasure he felt at being
present at the banquet and he extend
cd, on behalf OF the city, a hearty well
come to the elergyrnen and the laymen,
speaking OF the churchmen as repre-
sentative of the best and most sub
stsntiai citizens that any community
could wish for.
Welcome From Laity.
Judge Gardiner Greene Of the SUI
perior court gave the welcome from
the laity Of the archdeaconry, being
vigorously applauded as he voiced the
warm regard which the church mem
bers felt for the new sufrragan bishop.
He also gave many instructive his
.torical facts regarding Episcopal
church affairs in Eastern Connecticut
as he spoke as follows:
Mr.. Chairman: It is my privilege
to say few words Of welcome to our
old friend and new suffragan bishop
on behalf Of the laity Of Eastern Con-
necticut.
The ONCE to which he was conse-
Grated only last week Is a new one
to our church. having been author
lied by the general convention with
in few years and our own diocesan
convention has wisely made use of II
In order that tho Episcopal work of
the diocese may be efficiently per-
formed without overtaxing our bishop.
or resorting to the sad expedient of
dividing the oldest of American di-
oceses,
If the new arrangement tends to d.
minish the visits to US of Bishop
Brewster, we shall greatly regret such
result, but even that would not be
so bad as to wear him out with over
work, or to lose him altogether by a
division of the diocese.
AS Bishop Acheson is for the pres
emit to have the supervision of the
Eastern part of the diocese 1t is most
fitting that one of his earliest appear
ances as bishop should be among us
We, Eastern Connecticut laymen,
most HEARTILY welcome you among us
Bishop Acheson. ard offer you our
confidence and support You see there
are a number of us present, but many
! more would have been here. had the
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We could have welcomed and SUD-
ported any good clergyman whom the
wisdom OF our convention might have
selected for US, but our duty Is made
a pleasure when we receive a man
whom we know so well. who. in these
times Of change. has spent twenty
three useful and successful years in
one parish. and who is loved every
where he is known and loved most
where Is known best.
Western Connecticut is near TO New
York. where the Puritans never ruled
and where. from the time when the
English took the colony from the
Dutch. the Church of England was es-
tablished. The New York churchmen
in early times supported and encour-
aged the growth of the English
church in that part of Connecticut
did missionary work in Connecticut
even when, like Colonel Heathcote.
the vestrymen of Trinity chuch, New
York. in his trip with the Rev. Mr.
Muwson to Stafford. they had to
escort their missionary fully armed
Eastern Connecticut, however, was
too far from New York to receive
much aid from it and the church here
too kroot later, Frew slower, and has
never attained a strength comparable
with its strength in the western part
of the diocese.
Some of our oldest parishes in East
ern Connecticut are New London, Nor
witch, Poquetanucf. Hebron and
Brooklyn.
The New London parish was found
ed about 1725. The Rev. Samuel Sea-
burg, the father Of our first bishop
New London. and he also held services
in Norwich till 1874, when the Rev
Ebenezer Punderson began to regu-
larly oficiate here as well as at sew
eral neighboring places. Mr.. Pun
derson was succeeded IN Norwich in
1863 by the Rev. John Tyler, who was
rector Of Christ Church parish for If
ty years, and whose great-greatgrand-
son Is now a member Of its vestry.
Mr.. Punderson also began oul
church work at North Groton, now
the Poquetannock parish, in 1884,
Messrs. Seabury and Punderson were
both Congregational ministers settled
in Eactern Connecticut, who left thei,
Congregational ministry, conforme6
to the Church of England and went to
England for Episcopal ordination
In Hebron the founding. OF the par
ish was due to a quarrel among the
Congregationalists. The church build
ing was begun in 1875. and the peo-
pie were at first under the pastora.
care of the Rev. Mr.. Seabury of New
London. The Rev. Samuel A. Pc
tiers was rector. OF Hebron from 1885
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driven out Of the country by the re-
voting coionists. He went to Eng
land, ana there published a remark
able history, containing some curious
facts about the Connecticut Puritans
and some statements little beyond
the facts, both about them, and the
wonders OF nature in the new world
For instance. he tells his readers thai
| there is a place in Connecticut river
at Bellows Falls, where, by the ex-
treme pressure of the river through
a narrow gorge, the water Is so con-
densed that an iron crowbar viii stand
upright In II without sinking.
| The parish Of Trinity church, al
Brooklyn, was founded In ITO by
Colonel Malbone. a churchman and
landed proprietor there, who built
the church to avoid paying in taxes
large proportion Of a new Congrega-
| tional meeting house. He secured some
twenty heads Of families 10 start q
congregation. and, while the church
was building, conducted services for
them in his own house. and reported
of them that, when he began his in
structions. most Of them were a. fg-
norant Of the church service as &c
many Proquois. The church, 4sx3f
feet. meat. plain and elegant" as he
described IT was formally opened April