New Britain herald., 1915-10-25
DR. DAVIS GREETS
 OLD PARISHIONERS
South Church Crowded to Doors at Yesterday Mornings Services

By a congreRation which crowded the pews and iss. Rev. pr. ozora S. Davis was given a royal welcome by his old parishioners at the South church yesterday morning. With one exception it was the first opportunity he had had to meet them for oyer six Wears and the reunion was one in which the former pastor took as much delight as did his flock. Rev. Dr. G. W c. Hill, the present pastor, spoke
 Fn behalf of the congregation in well
 coming Dr. Davis to his old pulpit innd said that the esteem in which he
 was held, as evidenced by the large, Congregation, was very gratifying to
 hln1. Dr. Davis always a spontaneous speaker, was in his best vein and it was evident to all within the church that the occasion was one of the greatest pleasure and delight to him. He said the supreme and precious R9nE ln life is love, and it was in the sacred meaning of these truths that kie dared use the words My friends t1e thanked them all from the bot tom Of his heart for the privilege of returning to Q place dearer to him than any other he knew, the pulpit of this church.
 For the past eighteen months from the Christian pulpits there has been Pllt one message, he said. We are solemnized and staggered. but not #ulscouraged by the European carnage snu ploodshed. With. 8 new chal- flenge, the skeptic, the pagan and scof s1 fnr11 oA
 that Christianity has broken down. and the answer to this is the com polling continuous interest of the church today. eH AsiiHave in you this mind which was also in Jesus Christi were the words SoI ms text. At q meeting in Chi cago not long ago, General Booths daughter in describing the motive Which prompted the work of the Sai- walton Army on the streets of Paris. # put her hand to her heart and said.
 lt burns Some thought she WAS ( etcmperamental and full of sentiment con oncern1ng her religion, but she had x descr1bed the sentiment of Chris 3lanlty in full scinetific terms William IJames, the eminent psychologist, re- Iferred to Christianity as that set of motives from which we act, the heart. the place of consciousness.
 NF Christianity, he said in ifs insti- tutional form, has proven inadeouate to represent its Lord, but Christianity as represented bytJesus Christ has not 1alled. So we come again to reaffrn1 FOur belief in the triumph of that faith | in a personal Christ. Whenever all | 9individual, a race, nation, or the | sons of God, take the motives of l Jesus Christ and place them at the 2 burning center of action they become | Christian, and Christianity of that | kind has not broken down, but will conquer the world, declared pr. Davis. +#... ..
 At the close of the services. -Dr. Davis gave an informal reception to his old friends and parishioners and was busy for half an hour extending hand grasps and greeting many whom ] he had not seen in years. Tn the af- ternoon he went to New Haven where he delivered the council sermon of the national council of Congregational { churches in Woolsey Hall, where he < preached on a theme similar in though to that in the morning at the local church.
 Pastor Reviews Mission.
 Rev. John T. Winters, pastor of St. Marys church, at the various masses yesterday reviewed the recent mission ars4he church. He commented favor ably on the fact that during the two
 weeks 2,S00 women, 2,30O men and
 800 children had received holy com
 munion during the services.
 In the future communion will be
 held for men on every second Sum-
 day each month under the auspices of
 the Holy Name society. Instructions
 for those confirmed during the mis-
 sion and also for non- Catholics will
 be held on every Tuesday night.
 Glasses in embroidery, cooking and
 physical culture will be formed for the
 women of the parish. s
 Novena at St. Peters Church.
 A novena for the soldiers in the | European conflict was commenced ! yesterday at St. Peter's German Cath
 olic church and will be continued ~every evening until next Tuesday of next week.
 South Congregational Church. There will be a special meeting for \ the young people of the church tonight at 7:30 o'clock to discuss matters
 Which pertain to their work in the