The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-01-10
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Lockwood De Forest G775-1SiS). the
son of Nehemiah the keeper Of the
nm on the windy summit Of Moose
Hill. was the first Of the family t. see
beyond the country life. lie 1t was who
became deputy sheriff and thus was
brought into contact with a broader
word than passed along the back roads
OF this wholly agricultural settlement.
Perhaps his start was in the inn Of his
childhood, for there is a record that the
Duo de Lauzun. Nthat gay and wholly
French Hussar, passed on night AT
Moose Hin and gave his name to Lock-
woods brother. born that same night.
Whatever the source of the movement
back to towns and away from the
pioneering Of several earlier genera
Tons Of his family we find an interest
in following the progress If this De
Forest from the county seat of Fair
field to New Haven and ultimately to
New York and To a commanding posi-
tion in the business world There Is
little evidence Of capital whercwith TO
make these successive commercial adj
vances, there is abundant proof Of enor-
nous Industry. lie was a merchant Of
the type which has argosies at sea, who
takes the toll of the American export
and the foreign import and an added
profit because his are the means Of
communication. There was then an
American merchant marine, the mar
kets Of the world We're open to our
shippers and such now somnolent sea-
| ports as New Haven and Middetown.
up the Connecticut, were, as thriving
ports Of entry as could he wshel. The
move to New York from New Haven was
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wider field for the prosecution of n
business already established. and a
view of South street looking south from
Maiden lane awakens regret that IT
has long since ceased 10 he raftered
over with flying jibbooms which have
bowed to distant seas We should find
pleasure in culling from this record Of
commercial growth save that W. have
other accounts of the advancement Of
Other individuals advancing the port
'and there lacks no material bearing
upon the business life of the mctrOp-
oils
We turn rather to the overhauing of
the religious lie of Lockwood De Forest
the merchant prince yet singllarly anN-
lous about the affairs Of his soul This
great factor In our community life in the
last century prior to the social upheaVa
Of the war * poorly doCumented 1t Is
in our power to approach the problem
from the mass Of theological work, tC
pore over great stores II sermons di
rected more or less pontedly at civic
and social conditions, rather less thar
more pOintedly at individual sinners
: But because this good De Fores' was
fighting man, he might even be ClasseC
: az ltigious, he has preserved II
= pamphlet manifestos and in a Consid
! cradle mass Of CORRESPONDENCE The fun
est possible record Of the case at issu
r between himself and the old Centr,
> Church in New Haven, We know OF n,
set OF documents which bear so peril
nently upon the social life Of the tim
! and community, and for that reasol
We shall note at such length as shal
r serve to draw attention TO Mrs. De For
Z est's judicial yet sympathetic nara
/. tive the main points NJ issue, an in
e teresting litigation over the fee ~
human soul quite after the manner q
c Bunyan,
$ As an essential condition precoden
< we should refresh our memories 20 tn
Q point Of recognizing that both Connect
= cut and the New Haven colony wcr
q founded as theocraCics, and that afte
n the temporlzing rather than the adjust
70 ment Of their purely civic controver
n sizes they united in theocracy as IN
= only possible civic unit in "A world wher
o Church and State were never to h
n dvisihe In such a community, there
@ fore the Sayhrook Platform, adopted /
8 l70s 10y n synod Of Connecticut churchc
o less frequently but with greater nc
g curacy cited az the "SaybroOk Article
p, Of Discipline" took rank as superiC
y 70 any merely royal patent providin
:, for the administration of the PROVING
o and persisted as a dispensation OF Prov
i den"e underlying and conditioning IN
q constitution with which the state
s Connecticut was later provided Tn
n Sayhrook Platform contained the 70
d" lowing provision: "Admonit!on Is
e csfe of private offences TO he performC
y according to Matt, xviii, Is, is, II, an
Is in case Of public offences openly befoi