New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 8, 1915, Page 4

'She is & woman of high and noble r'D. Andrews, Oldest Living Member of First — |moo o The “old Baptist church,” which ctood on the corner where the Na- | tional bank stands now was dedicated . A j ; . ls ] | on March 16, 1870 and the last ser- , S lg ; | vice was held on March 4{ 1906, |r}.‘ a strong constitution v bered by hundreds of people i . = ity i Or Pevrusry (OALOt RN 'h““'; mervous symptoms, lan- | same vear the lot at the corner of guor ‘romuvd colds. V bl 1 | West Main and High streets was pur- msco'n;s gm,dl;suzn is helping ene C H Rounded Out M T If f v | | ko ey s r e was broken o yril 23, 1907 oil-food enriches the blood, : able Communicants Have Rounded Out More Than Half Century of i i ol £ || s iy Raptist church house of worship, was ;:::nml;n :l:::i‘u‘flm::v‘;:nlc ity and During Coming Twelve Months Seven More Will Celebrate Jubilee- o i ) S October 25, 1908, The Hon A. J hr B t. t Ch h E d D 1 L.f f M Sloper was chairman of the building i a s clerk wa M ee bapts urches LKrecte uring Life of Present embers committee and hi clerk was s i e Wightman. Other members were: | © o John Coats, Joseph R, Andrews, W. L. |7 S | Damon, M Parker. orge First Congregational Chupch me the First Bap- | Rapelye. William S Judd, H. W At 7:45 o'clock Thursday eveniy the oldest Protes- as; Dwight A Parsons, R. | the annual meeting of the New Brit Al ; e o . : ) N o = | Moore, George P. Spear, George B. | ain City Mission will be held in the e city, has seven 4 L K 5 . . 3 . S L | Germond and Joseph F. Lamb. The | chapel of the church when Mrs . Who joined the - 3 architect was Charles B, Dunham of [ B W. La vill gitve & TEView Bk fury or more ago | Poston and the general contract was | her work s city and will intro drs. Julia B. An-| K | . ; T8 \ ‘1"' jont 'a:‘w B. H. Hibbard company | quce Miss Caroline Bartlett, her sue eph R. Andrews, . 5 3 & - . § . . 3 S . | 2 : cessor, who is to have charge of the he church, who L . & B : : 2 | 01a Clerks and Superintendents. mission work in thiz city from now years of age, | by letter in Au- | during the 107 years this church has | of the mission staff, will sing, as will Bhty vears azo. . L R " - . been in existence are the following |a class of children from one of the o - ‘ B P 3 : T > | clerks: John Osgood, & W, Steele, E. | sewing classes The public wel. B Gridley is the B. Lewis, K. D. Babcock, J. H. An-|come to attend this meeting B e | drews, A. W. Beach, H. Griswold, E Other events of the week follow He was bap. | B0 . : i i — . L | B. Wetmore, A. Rapelve, J. A Gridley, Monday-—3:456 p, m. The Armenian 1850, sixty-five : b . 3 : . " A. E. Tavlor, L. M. Guernsev, J. E.|children for singing and sewing. 4:00 B ity tol | Wightman, A. G. Nourse, A. 8. Bacon, | p. m. Junior Endeavor meeting, sub B iire. Augusta I W, F. Walker, W. 8 Judd and . M. | ject: “Things That Brave Boys and llen M. Wooster. | Wightman. The Bible school superin- | Girls Wil Do Duet, 31:6 Mrs B Dccember 1, | tendents from the earliest days to the | Clapp will take charge of the suh B onths of three | present time have heen Nathan F.|ject. Junfor Leader. Elsle Dehm B inbership. | Shaller, Samuel Steele, A. D. Watrous 00 p. m, Meeting of Boy Scouts B i bocn ¢ = B o s ‘ 3 . Lo | Willlam Hall. BE. A. Parker, Hezekiah | ~ Wednesday—3:50 p. m. ~Young o | ; e 3 " i iy B . : - it e | Griswold.” Willlam Hart, H. Sheldon, | Women's Foreign Missionary society L e b 5 3 & 5 i e ¥ . & e | Erwin Steele, E. B, Wetmore, Henry | meets at Mrs, Charles Mitchell's, 17¢ e L i ) - 3 o - e 1R i 3 | Alling, A. T. Brooks, James McLaugh- | Lincoln street. A larke attendance it B i out : L . : . L S o . | in. B. B. Judd. J. A. Gridley, W. F. | desired. 7:45 p the New Britalr B bcianis on | 0 E 3 T o | - 2 S 5 | SR { Walker. W. & Judd, A. G Nourse, A, | Institute for Sunday School Worker U i . . o | i . < 3 § S L P s t J. Sloper. 1. 1. Gardner, G. L. Rey- | begins its spring session in the Meth et i L ‘ ; : 5 S S . | polds, TLyman S. Johnson, FE. M.|dist church. Classes for primar; i LY : . | b 'S . = S - - . | Wightman and E. R. Hitcheock junior and Intermediate workers, A - 1 : LR g | ! . = i el . Al . 3 | S It 8:30 Mr. Maler will begin a series of Jubilee Soon, | HEEN . L dA 3 . . o il i i ¢ ‘ s lectures on “The Rible in the Mal e il reach s i i A ] . R - it L 3 | tures open to all 1 5 3 | Thursday—2:30 p Armer are Jeremiah O. I R . : > e | e 5. 1865, y : i : &b R : | Women's Bible class fiker, baptized on B D LB v ¢ i A .~ i . . \ 3 R i Friday—2:30 p, m.. meeting of the gy Tliza . An- : ArR Y » j 8 ; d o, i | Home Missionery department to sew TR : ; et 05 " Ny : \ 3 X ) | 8:00 p. m., wocial meeting for all men Jarch s 1865; fer, admitted by of the church and congregation | Among the officers who have served | on Miss Marie Nowak. a member B; Mrs. Elizabeth —_— There will be an interesting discus sion on the question SBhall the e a member : e ST, o x sed X 3 Y : N RS & b e T i ; A ) n May 14, 1863; 3 $ 3 T e el ! i0R I ua] United States increase her army and o was vintiea | SECOND HOUSE OF WORSHIP, RAZED IN L B FELL a7 : jmw Brtam C[,y M"“_" Ao RNy I Bromorion 1 het posiion’; §ena xois, il MARCH, 1869, o e il Al . BMRE Thursday Evening, ai First CRUGR | =atoraniiyo o conier oo as members of | president of this country was Thomas| were discharged because of the Mill- | 3 g ¢ [T 5 i - free $5 p. m. Choir rehearsal | There will be a Valentine party for nerable people | Jefferson and the governor of the old ! crite agitation of the Second Advent | ; R b o : Christian Endeavor Sunday was | ges in the order | Nutmeg state was Johnathan Trum- | of Christ - : : ; > observed hy the various Protestant | 310" % peopla under the auspices of e been two new | bull The minister of the New Brit- I en iV ey . S g & o L 2 i 3 the P. B C. E. Monda ected and since |ain parish was Rev. John Smalley o ‘;"‘A“’" AT '"". 4 < L & churches in the city yvesterday and | February 15 e church he has | \With this historieal setting the First] e ¢ “‘_“:‘ ‘?.}””'";'j". “‘;‘]‘.‘ "'P R L L LR last evening a special union service First Baptist Church pastors make | Baptist church in New Britain de-| “,‘H‘:"““!f‘”; {“ L "'“1'1‘-‘\4 “M‘T‘ BE o: thc New |veloped and grew with the country, | WNCl8 ELNE LA OL BN SIHOTEL then go away, |state and city. In 1808 the parish I‘” e _n‘n‘\ t 2 “,‘l"_]“jl"‘f:: -m:;,'\‘{\ b other fields of | of New Britain had only about et et Shehman was held at inhe South Cougregational Follewing are the ever church at which the Rev. Dr. George | week ncheduled at the First Baptist W. C. Hill, pastor, delivered an ap- | church propriate address on “A Discoverer, The Every Land league will me or Andrew Three Times.” There was | this evening at 7 o'clock. Members The ninth min- | souls and the total fortune of the (% oo 500 e on 2 : B Hiien atood on the fax|fon came here from the Southinston [ PHIRDI SANCTUARY OF THE BAPTISTS, RAZED faisc an extra musical program at thia | arc requested to bring their old bi | church in 1847 and it was to his ps psent incumbent, |lists for .1"“ $ u: 8. There Were | grate that living memories run hacl IN MARLH 1906 | rvice ture postal carde Brown. These [no factories, no railroads, no libraries,! 7= A (pidley hegan to take an active ? | Christian Endeaver societies r There wili be a meeting f e have watched |theaters, or newspape B e[ e e P e R Tohl Guring Bist] | the South, First Congregational, visiting committee at the home of Mrs lon the growth |any telephones of tclograph SyStems.| torate and has followed it actively | biggest church event of (he decade [ hers of the pafent church withdrew | Baptist, Stanley Memorial and other | D. A. Nivin on Wednesday afternoos the old white | At "that time the total number of | oyep since, Robert J. Wilson was pas- | took place in the erection of a new jand organized the FElim Baptist churches and also the FEpworth 3:30 t the ‘corner of | Baptists in the United States was les$ ' {or {n 1851 and the next year . P.| church, About $11.000 had been sub- | church Leaguers from Trinity Methodist Thursday——Junior Endeavor meets B S 0t00 and Gonnoeticltll Hadrocedl a sradlste ot Browr university | serihedi whienithe inastor helita spes i ReviDr T, T stidham, who died | church attended the sveniug service, | ing At 4:00 p, m. Church night sete low stands and |only about thirty churches and few | and of the Hamilton Theological| cial meeting and under his orator ! only last winter, who w the father | illing the center of the church audi- | vice omitted th It will give [d only by the!of these had a paid or educated min- geminary, succeeded him. Rev. Mr.|the amount was doubled in less than | of Mrs, M. D, Stanley of Maple astreet, | torium which was reserved for them. | piace to the annual meeting of the to the present | ister. | Bona was pastor until tén minutes. On Mavch, 1889, the h:cimse to the church in Miy, 1888, and | The rest of ihe shurch wis aleo well | City Mission p, attractive in Oldest Church at Groton. Three “Soldier Pastors” Serve. e R Al o Td |y muincdiiberelin 1 90 e Tr s panal| il ed ARt AN ADPYeCIATVE SRONNTORE S Friday—A Valenting every respect, Both religiously and patriotically | church and was attended by about all | $10,000 legacy left by Mrs. I . | tion, both young and old. jparty has Leen arran RO P 5 1. | DeCtloutiisiat wroton, ac theiye t.,(‘:;;|§Fi:‘|‘>‘q’|‘;‘((lr.f|2:::‘d\':\'o;1::’:x"‘.'?-' per-| of those who are mentioned In the | Erwin, lifted the floating debt. ars. e musical program for the even- | Tuary 12. by = the Y from New London. It was founded | ‘ . Sl beginning of this story. While the | Erwin also left $5,000 in trust to buy was unusually pleasing. The pre- [ of the ¢, . society, and '0s8 these four-|. - May of 1865, when the union was v C cae bei 5 R . Inde, in two parts, was Impromptu | people of the church and Sunday Bérs of the Bap. |in 1705 by a Rhode Islander namml, | nev hurch was being built services | Sunday scihool books, e I e D ek, and “Malogy,” | wchool aro (nvited. A short business file the pasc | ¥2lentine Wightiman. The second - | (from a Nocturne) by Chopin. The | meeting will precede the social. Fun to that past church was organized at Waterbury, anthem, “Hark! Hark! My Soul” was | begins at 8:00 p. m yond their mem- The oldest Baptist church in Con- which was then a part of New Lon- rendercd with expression and the of- The Women's Missionary don, the third was at Wallingford and — fortory, “The Homelight,” was an- | will hold its annual meeting, Frid R0y Yenrs Soutin®ion had the fourth. — Bap- o & other beautiful selection. The closing | afternoon at 3:30 o'clock in the par s. | tists were first heard of in New 5 e . 5y vespers, “Now God Be With Us” was [lor of the church. The meeting will years since the | Britain when Jeremiah H. Osgood, the & o S R - i sung with much expression. be in charge of the president, Mrs, G Was organ- first member of the church here, was| 3 NS & 5 S yaty | Dr. Hill's address was an interesting | B. Germond, who has prepared a mis- in New Brit- | baptized by Father Shepard in a smail (38 W e 3 R one and was most appropriate to the | cellaneous program which will be of efforts this | brook next to the old Samuel Smith e s ; ol ; T occasion. irterest. This being the cloge of our nized I a | farm in Stanley Quarter. A year ¥ bt 3 ;. ¥ % S Next Sunday morning the pulpit | year, will all ladies who have not g churches on [later several more members were Lt Sty T & 5 & ! will be occupied by Rev, T Powell | handed in their envelopes please original mem- |added to the Baptist belief. . « A S S e | ot Meriden in exchange with Dr. Hill, | bring or send them to this meeting and many of Church meetings were held in A o 3 : S . B who will preach in the evening All ladies of the church and congre 111 believers in {jath Smith’s old house in the fourth SR L % el o ; On Sunday afternoon next thers | getion are cordially invited i 12 this city, [district school and in the old Hins.| g L B g o g will be a special meeting of the church [ Next Sunday morning the country. dale house at the corner of FEast and AT A S e : 3 : - at 3:30 o'clock for the election of one | Will speak on “A Century of remiah H. Os-|Smalley streets. The preachers were | N T A, A Jogs B e S . W hed | dencon to serve for one year | - Gideon Wil- {itinerant and sometimes the New Lt g : § & ) 2 £ « 3 S | " The board of managers of the I John Osgood, | Britain Baptists visited neighboring e b1 ] B : - : 3 ’ : win Home will hold its annual meet SENSF ABOUT FOOD [Weldon, Daniel [towns to attend the Sunday services. 5 : % ’ % SR L $55. ACIA 3 ing at the home on Thursday at 4:15 | Facts Worth Knowing r, Lydia Os- Pirst Pastor in 1828, et 8 . ] s e I ay £ 2 N p. m. | rah Hinsdale, 3 4 b <4 \ | " There will be a meeting of the It it a seric (uestion sometimen R. Steele, Mary | | cont Baptist church was born was Woodruff club at the home of Rolana | to know just what to cat when a per Jenisha Wel- |}, 14 in the Hinsdale house, owned by Ripple, 49 Walnut street, Thursday | son’s stomach is out of order and mo; vy Warner and { gjijan Hinsdale who was the ma- | evening, at § o'clock foods cause trouble the time these | y.;na) grandfather of Elihu Burritt On Wednesday, at 3 o'clock, the Grape-Nuts food church George | .nq who died in 1797. The first 3 il Material Association of New Britain | any time with the certainty it Ing monarch of ccore of years of the new church saw ; SR S % S 4 3 5 will held a meeting in the chapel of | will digest. Actual experience of peo Bonapart the imyuch tumult in the nation but all B - g ST 5 s i d p this church, to which all mothers are [ ple is valuable to anvone interested France, the,gtorms were weathered and in 1828 | 3 . . | 3 { | . ! . . fnvited A Terre Haute woman writes: 1 - {Seth Highy came here as the fivst B i x . | 1 ¢ 5 ; During the present week Dr. Hill| had suffered wit ligestion for minister. The fi church building I ’ Fe 2 ok g il 23 h i plans to make calls as follows: Tues- | about four years THRUAT LSt Atithe heade e S : * : 3 4 day. Hawkins and Griswold streets: | of typhoid fever, and at times could Main street. just at the foot of Dub- f : s R | Wednesday, West Main street from | eat nothing but the very lightest food lin Hill. It measured twenty by | 3 ; il S — Curtis street, Friday, Prospect street. | and then suffer o with my stomach | n You Apply | thirty feet and was built by the mem- o Shiy e NS » i v and Saturday afternoon | would wish 1 never ha an terole {bers who numbered only twenty- . . Uttt i o 8 : ; Bt AN 2:30 and evening at 7:30 there will | thing . g | four. The next year a church society | : : 2 i LE Y el 4 : s o be held in the First Baptist church in “I was urged to Grape-Nuts and jon’t blister like | was formed and the Sunday school e - S 3 T Hartford mass meetings in the inter- | since using it I do not have to starve d-plaster. Just | department established. Nathan . z “ i S 3 R g P est of prohibition of the liquor trafli myself any more, | fangers. It pen- | Shailer was the pastor from then until e 5 s S i : S lat which men of national reputation | any time and feel nourished and g with a gentle | 1832 and two years later another i b, § _ ok b a s will speak, ex-Governor Hanly of In- | Isfied, dypepsia is a thing of the y stion and draws | tor was secured, Amos D. Watrcus. M ‘ ; i d ; | dlana Rev. Charles M. Sheldon, Dr, | and I am now strong and . e When he took hold !;w church was in I e theand: othsrs “My husband also had an expe Felicf for Sorc | ascabiiahed than ‘sver when he loft PRESENT HOME OF L OCAL BAPTISTS, DEDICATED IN OCTOBER, 1908 | It erk toriict M1 bt meeting o¢ | not attend to his work. 1o was put bnsilitis, Croup, | in 1836. In 1838 Matthew Bolles took " ‘\'.’.“ i, "("“""" meeting of | T er the doctor's eare but medicins leuralgia, Head- ! the pastorate but died the next year tas e it did not seem to do him any good untit y, Rheumatism, | and was succecded by Herman 8. |on the verge of an irreparable breach, were held in Union hall and prayer Rev, Mr. Johnson, mentioned above, Trinity Methodist Church. he began to leave off ordinary food hes of the Bfl‘ < | Havens. he joined the ranks of the northern , meetings in Thompson's hall and [ was assistant pastor of the church This week the Methodist church be- | and use Grape-Nuts. It was surpris uscles, Bruis- Second Church Is Built. ! army as chaplain of the twolfth Con-|on Wednesday, March 16, 1870, the | from 1895 to 1897, and was superin- gins the sending out of the accustomed | ing to see the change in him. ITe y Coldsonthe | 1 1ciy (110 need of a larger church | necticut volunteer infantry with © the | new church was dedicated. {endent of the Sunday school umtil|appeals in behalf of the conference | grew better right off, and naturally !ngnfco‘:-"::‘:ma),f was Imperative and on February 13 | Army of the Potomac. He was idol- In 1871, Rev. Mr. Walker resigned { 1900. Dr. Stidham’s successor Was collections and the co-operation of the [ he has none but words of pralse for T Croupy | Mo tat vear. | which will he seventy- | 1zed by his regiment and was one of [ and Rev, J. . Schofield took his | Rev. John Henry Strong, who ({re- members of the church and congre- | Grape-Nuts four years ago next Saturday, it was [ the most popular men in the army | place, remaining here until he re- | quently returns here on visits, and e | Bation is asked to help swell the fund “Our boy thfnks he cannot eat a decided to build a mew church, and |cOTps. el G ol AT 17e | Faveainad iintl 008 fwhe hellerti for | AL 8:39) Friduy evaning the reNUIAL] meal | WithOUS MBS Nuts, and lhe on January 13 of the next year the tev. Lyman 8. Johnson, the ity [ The next pastor was Rev. George H. | Europe for further study monthly supper will be served in the | jearns so fast at =chool that his teack lot at the corner of Main and West [ probation officer of today, w li- | Minor, who stayed six years, | The present incumbent, the Rev dining room er comments on it. T am satisfied that Main streets, where now stands the | censed as a preacher of the gospel The SpIsRen Y i Friday afternoon the ladies of the| it is because of the great nourishing NAtionall Karic was Hansbtily | thel|loniFebnuary#afSiE6 MR cl holn g at| N GElmANSIAnd Swedes Organize, | Dr, Edwin Brown, took up his [ 000 oy a social afternoon | elements in Grape-Nuts Widoy, Hart for £500. Ground was | Grand Army veteran. | Muen missionary work had been | dutles as pastor in 1904 and since his | together in the larlor. Mrs. Good-! ~This mother is right. Grape-Nuts broken on April 1, 1842, The struc- | From 1865 to INT1 the Rev. Wil-| . 1i0q on amongst the Swedes and | advent into this city about eleven | rich has something of interest to pre-| food is a certain and remarkable re- ture was of wood, and painted white, | liam . Walker was pastor of the . vears ago he has won a lasting place | sent at this time. All ladies are | bullder of body, nerves and brain Forey o sixty feet in size, with a tow. | First Baptist church. He was also | Germans and in 1880 a German Bap- |y Bl0 tions of his congregation, | cordially invited to come and bring | “There's & Resson. er and bell, and was dedicated on the [ a =oldier and served with the { tist church was recognized here, the ! 5,4 his wife, who has aleo interested |their sewing. Ever read the above letter? A new twelfth of the following August. Forty- ghteenth Connecticnt Volunteer | first pastor being . . Schmidt, wWho | 1areels in her husband's work. is al The W. H. M will meet at the | one appears from time to time. They four new members were taken in in | regimeni for eighteen months as | was ordained on July 1883. In and loved by all who [church Monday afternoon at 3 a'clock, | are genuine, troe, and foll of hume 1843 but the following year several | chaplain. During his pastorate the | March, 1892, fifty-six Swedish mem- contact with her, | Mrs. Carrington of Bristol will speak. | interest. The council meeting at which the er sinee an attack PS¢ and 50c jars, tal size for $2.50. enuine MUS- tions—get what erole Company, well known have come into