Norwich bulletin., 1920-04-15
EWETT CITY

The conference of churches was held "Wednesday at the Congregational churches, over one hundred being present Easter lilies, begonias and ferns with beautiful basket of stock were arranged upon the platform. While a large rustic basket of pussy willows was on the communion table. Rev. William J. Reynolds. of Lisbon was the presiding officer and arranged the program. After the opening exer- cises, Mir. Reynolds read the Scrip ture. A chorus chair with Mrs. G. H. Prior, Miss Evelyn Reid and Miss Helen Hull as sopranos, Mrs. C.. D. Wolf, Mrs. F. E. Robinson, Mrs. Frank Goring and Mrs. F. H. HiscoX, altos, k. F. Burleson, tenor and G. H. Prior bass, with F. $. Leonard as organist sang the anthem, The Earth is the l Lords, by Marie Hine. Prayer was offered by Rev. J. P.., Richardson of Pachaug. Miss Evelyn Reid sang In the Garden, by Wilson. as a response. Miss Reid has a sweet powerful voice of unusual range, singing both so- l prano and alto with equal facility.
 The sermon was by Rev. Boynton | Merrill, pastor of the Second Con- gregational church in Putnam. The l topic was, God Our Present Help and his text was, Hath the Lord Spoken only with Moses-hath he not also spoken with us?
 He said it is the glory and curse of religion that it is so firmly in the past.
 The men of the Bible saw visions of God and all through the centuries which have followed men have had visions of Him.. God has always spoken to men of high vision. To teach men that there is more In the past than in. the present is mis- take. The trouble is that the concep- tions of God do not grip men and that is why we fail. God is not a religion Of the past.
 Men felt God very close during the last few years. while we were in danger. But with the danger remov-
 ed men arose from their knees and
 turned their backs on God. Temporal
 has too much crowded out the eternal
 The religious solution is the only so-
 lution of. these troublous times. The
 burden is squarely on preachers and
 churches. There must be the power
 of God speaking to the hearts of men
 When it comes to risking all for the
 sake of His divine and holy purpose Ehow many fail The children of Is-
 rael were not alone in kneeling before
 calf of gold. If God is still in the
 world then it rests upon us the glor-
 ious burden of cooperation with Him
 Yesterday and today has no power We light our torch at the sun of to-
 morrow. We have a glorious obliga-
 tion.
 At the close of the morning service
 dinner was served in the vestry under
 the direction of Mrs. F. b. Balou
 president Of the Ladies society, as.
 sisted by the directresses. With here
 were Mrs. H. E. Paul, Mrs. s. F. Wat
 CTS, Mrs E. A. Faust and Mrs. L. M Carpenter. The waitresses were iI charge of Mrs. E. H. HiscoX and were
 Mrs. J. T. Stewart. Miss Reid. Mis-; . Lizzie Heidelberg, Mrs. John r. Pos and Mrs. Frank 'Goring, Mrs. Franl T Wilcox, Mrs. Alex McNicol, Mrs. Wal ter Marshall, Mrs. Norman Parkhurst : Mrs. F. L. Kanahan. Miss Helen Hull and Mrs. R. K Cheney. Mrs. L. c Buckinham was in charge of the dec l orations. Pussy willows were the ta, 7 ble decorations
 The afternoon session opened witt , a half hour of special music. Tn, choir sang an Easter choral, Our Iort is Risen. John MacEaren sang Opel Wide the Gates, an Easter solo whicl he sang at the Baptist church. I :. caused such favorable comment tha
 he consented. to repeat it for this con ference with the same result Tn 3 choir sang for the third number : part of the Halleiujah chorus, Mrs. G H. Prior singing the solo in. powerful ; rich tones. The minutes of the las \ meeting were read by Rev Arthu Barwick of Plainfield. The collection
 was received by Deacon Lee of Han