Norwich bulletin., 1916-11-11
WESTERLY TO HEAR MISSIONARY
Rev. Y Shahbaz Narrate Experiences in PersaFive
 Admitted to Membership in Historical Society - Giuseppe Lalna Released ed-Hrnters Get Red Fox.

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 Rev. r. H. shahbaz, a native of Per- sia, independent missionary for 20 years in Urmia, Persia, the ancient UT of Chaldees. the home of Abraham. the father of the Jewish race, will speak in the Seventh Day Baptist church Saturday morning, in the Cal vary Baptist church Sunday morning and in the First Baptist church Sum- day evening. The subject of his ad- dress will be Back from the War Zone, or Held Captive by the Turks. MT: Shahbaz was educated In the United States and is a graduate of Colgate university. Ills missionary work has the approval of the American Baptist Foreign Missionary society. The pres- ent is his second visit to Westerly. Fourteen years ago he delivered an address in the Calvary Baptist church when Rev. William J. Sholes was pas tor.
 The visit Of Rev. Shahbaz has no connection with the religious awaken ing in Westerly, which may terminate with general revival, led by some noted evangelist. As preliminary, three union cottage meetings are be- ing held Tuesday evening and union meeting of the churches once month. That this preliminary work i9, success full is indicated by the unusually large attendance at the union meetings held | in the churches.
 In this connection quotation is here made from Westerly and Witnesses, l the historical volume of the town, of | the revival of 1888. often referred to as | The Religious Awakening, which is to 1 Westerly what Tine Night of the Big Wind is to Ireland, to marked de- 1 gree, which is adopted as the guide to l dates of other events. Rev. Dr. John 1 D. Potter, Congregationalist, and a noted evangelist, was invited to labor | in Westerly for one week. The l churches united in hiring Armory hall
 the largest in town and capable of
 meeting, Jan. 16, the hall was packed;
 hundreds returned home without hear | ing the preacher. During the hours | of public service, morning, afternoon
 and evening, the stores, shops and l mills were closed, save few controlled i by utterly irrelisious men.
 | Before leaving on the evening of II Jan. "A, Rev. Potter addressed over l two hundred converts and inquirers. After his departure the work went
 steadily forward. The meetings were | continued in the hall for three weeks,
 and two mass union meetings were held each week; also daily prayer | meeting for business men in the yes try of the First Baptist church. As | an outgrowth of this work a Young II Mems Christian association was form l ed, made up of members from the six 1 evangelical ch1rches.
 Rev. J.. P. Hubbard, Episcopalian. | proposed to Rev. F. Denison. pastor G1 1 the First Baptist church, an exchange | of pulpits on the basis of generous | courtesy, each minister to observe the order of services preferred by the re- 1 spective congrC CgationS. The proposi- i tion was accepted. Rt. Rev. T. M. 1 Clark, bishop of the Episcopal dio- cese of Rhode Island, sent to Rev. i Hubbard an interdic. of the proposed | pXph9npn rThp ran1i6H ir, i knoWledgment that in harmony with | the Christian scope of the church can | ons and the principles of the gospel
 he had ventured upon the steps of lib- l erty and brotherly love; in short, he was not a ch@ghs chHrehmani but aa1ow
 churchman, and contended for aspure II episcopacy. The Eardens and vestry of the church stood with the rector. | The exchange of pulpits was made on l the 18th of February MT Hubba I'd | of the Episcopal diocese and after a long trial, verdict of not guilty was | rendered,
 membership in the Westerly Historical
 society at the regular meeting and a vote of thanks was extended to Dea- con Cyrus II. Brown for his excellent
 paper on Days and Recollections of
 North Stonington. AS an outcome of
 
 meeting on Rev. Joseph Park by a great granddaughter Eunice Park
 Detweiler, of Philadelphia, a tablet is
 to mark the site of the Joseph Park
 church on the Post road. This was
 at the suggestion of President Ethan Wilcox, who was authorized to appoint a committee to secure the tablet and
 to arrange fer the dedication in con-
 nection with the annual outing of the
 society. a --- In May, l7ss, under the direction of
 the New England society for the pro
 pagation of the gospel, Rev. Joseph
 Park, born March F, 1705, and grad
 uated at Cambridge college, was sent
 'as missionary to the Indians an6
 such English as would attend ir Westerly The meeting house stood "on lot of land given by George Ninigret, chief sachem of the Indians The original lot consisted of "twenty acres," laid out, at the special request of. King Ninigret, by civil order ir 1735, though it had previously beer donated, and the house had been bull several years. The commissioners ap pointed to lay out the lot were Col. onel Joseph Stanton and Captain Oli. kver Babcock.
 The meeting house stood near tn, present Post road. in the eastern par
 of the town, on what has been knowl as the James Ross estate; the spot ! with only a4cluster of graves to dis tinguish 1t, lying between the estate known as William $. Gavitt and Chris topher Rathbun. The house wa