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Le diagramme suivant illustre la mdthode : 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 ^i ^ THE ■ FIFTIETH IINNIYERSSRY OF THE FORMATION OF THE CfiRLETON Baptist Church ,/ < IN cTiRDE^FON, m\w WK MAY IB, 1841, SUNDAY, MAY 17, IBBl, SAINT JOHN, N. B. ; PRINTED HY CEp. W. IMY, NORTH sri)K KING SQUARK, 1891. The Historical Sketch, Sermon, and Addresses contained in this volume were given on the occasion of the Fiftieth An- niversary of the Carleton Baptist Church, May 17th, 1 89 1. The Historical Sketch was given in the morning, the Addresses in the afternoon, and the Jubilee Sermon in the evening. A few changes have been made in printing, and somri new facts introduced, but the matter is substantially the same as delivered. Owing to the fact that all the written records of the Church, extending over nearly the entire period of fifty years, were lost, the difficulty of compiling a correct history was greatly augmented. For many of the statistics the writer is indebted to Dr. Hopper, and Dr. Bill, of Saint Martins, and to Mrs. Millicent Colwell, Mrs. I. O. Beatteay, and Mrs. Catherine Robinson, for many important incidents. J. A. F. y'^ HISTORICAL SKETCH By Rev. J. A. Ford, B. A. The life of a Church for half a cencury presents a variety of interesting and instructive features. It is no small privilege to be permitted to enjoy a continuous existence of fifty years. Add to this a large degree of influence in moulding public opinion, in uplifting and strengthening^ the lives of men, in fostering goodness and truth, and putting down error and evil, and there is presented a history too stimulating and sacred to be hastily passed over and forgotten. 'We should study the past, not live in it. The former days are not better than these, but they are full of instruction. There are storied lives and fragrant memories within the scope of fifty years that afford needed inspiration. A' we pa'' ie to-day, to look into the records of the past, may it be \.ith the prayer that the forces which steadied and exalted the lives of the fathers and mothers of this Church may be gathered into our own lives, developing in us a zeal and purpose even greater than their's. The Carleton Baptist Church was org?«nized on the six- teenth of May, 1 84 1, with a membership of twenty-nine. The first officers were : Deacons — John Christopher Treasurer and Clerk — I. O. The following is a list of the John Christopher, Sr., William Colv/ell, Samuel Godfrey, Elijah Spragg, John Christopher, Jr., John Kindred, Jacob Christopher, • •. E3ward Toole, Elijah Crabb, Jacob Richard, E. J. Crawford, and William Colwell. Beatteay, riginal members : Millicent Colwell, Mary Christopher, Mary Godfrey, Mary Baker, Rebecca Pratt, Margaret Compton, Phoebe Kindred, Mary A. Wiley, Catherine Christopher, Susan Theall, Catherine Hampton, HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE Jer'h Savage, Jane Clark, Angelina Christopher, Sarah Wood worth, Elizabeth James, Eunice Cunnabell, Christian na Tool. Rev. Samuel Robinson, then pastor of the Germain Street Baptist Church, under whose devoted labor the Carleton branch was established and organized into a separate Church, for a time, gave the new interest the benefit of his wise over- sight. • . Tbr Carleton Church is the second oldest of the Baptist Churches now in St. John, Germain Screet being older by thirty-one years — the latter being organized in i8[0; Port- land in 1842; Brussels Street in 1850; and Leinster Street in 1858. The first Association Report from the new Church is dated September, 1841. This report gives a total membership of thirty-five up to that date, being an increase of six since the time of organization. The Church met for public worship for about ten years in the " Old Meeting House" at the head of King street, now occupied by the Carleton Y. M. C. A. This old building is closely identified with the early religious life of the community. It was the scene of many cherished memo- ries. It \vas repeatedly the centre of extensive revivals of religion. Its walls echoed the voices of Robinson, Harding, Francis, Macdonald, and Harris, as they preached Christ and Him crucified to eager multitudes. It was there that the fathers and mothers of this Church — an earnest pioneer group — ^solemnly covenanted together, as a New Testament Church, to support the Gospel and maintain the ordinances as the Lord had given them. Of the original ii^embers Mrs. William Colwell, widow of the late Deacon Colwell, is the only living representative. And of those who were baptized in 1841, after the formation of the Church, Mrs. Phoebe Beatteay, Mrs. Catherine Robert- son, and John Belyea are the only survivors. 1842 witnessed a gracious revival, in which the member- ship of the Church was more than doubled, thirty-nine being added by baptism and ten by letter. Not one of these thirty- nine are now living. In 1843 the Church called their first pastor. Rev. John Mann. He served but a single year ; during that time twen- ty persons were baptized, and several united by ..letter. 1 \\ rJ al eJ Icj ol Cf\RLETON BAPTIST CflURCn. 6 The work, however, as a whole, did not seem to be healthful. Influences were in operation that appeared hostile to per- manent progress, and affected the growth of the Church for some time. In 1844 Rev. S. Robinson is again found caring for the Church. For some unexplaitied cause the membership this year decreased to 71, according to Association reports. Rev. J. Francis assumed the pastorate in 1845-46. This was a prosperous year. Twelve persons were baptized, and four received by letter ; total membership eighty-six. The Association met at Canning, Nova Scotia. Delegates from Carleton, Rev, J. Francis, I. O. Heatteay, and j; S. Clark. Bro. Francis resigned the pastorate in 1846 to accept emplo)-- ment as agent for the Sabbath School Union. In 1850 he was appointed Home Missionary and agent for the Christian Visitor. In 1856 he was appointed agent for the Bible Union, in the interests of which he travelled extensively in the Provinces and the United States. He afterwards made his home in California, where he labored among the Chinese. Having married a wealthy lady he had ample means at his disposal to carry out his benevolent schemes. But he was called away in the midst of his beloved work. While cross- ing the ferry from Oakland to San Francisco, he was seized with a sudden dizziness and instantly expired. Strong men, who knew his large and generous heart, and poor men, who had enjoyed the bounty of his hand, wept as they lifted him up and bore him tenderly to his home. 1846 — 1849. Rev. Alexander McDonald. These were years of few additions, but permanent foundation work. The Church was much weakened by removals ; seventeen persons being dismissed to other churches in 1847. ^^o* McD. was a rigid disciplinarian. Sinners in Zion learned to respect and fear him. He was a forcible w 'ter and an able preacher.* The Christian Visitor, first published in 1848, was frequently enriched by productions from his pen. He was a member of the first graduating class of Acadia College. He resigned the pastorate at Carleton in 1849, to take charge of a new field at Hampton, where he labored till he died, at the early age of thirty-seven. His death was a denominational loss. He was a man of deep piety and high intellectual at- tainments. He was naturally conservative, an ardent lover of the Bible, and unwavering in his loyalty to its teachings. From 1849 to 1852 occur the short pastorates of Rev. E. HISTORICAL SKETCH OP THE N. Harris, and his father, Rev. David Harris. Elder David Harris was a man of superior endowments. " His was the eloquence of the heart more than of the tongue." He was mighty in prayer; and he was eminently qualified to break up and cultivate new ground. He delighted to dwell upon- the cardinal doctrines of the Bible. His work still lives, and his name is still held in loving remembrance by those who knew him. Rev. E. N. Harris was richly blessed in his work. He writes to the Visitor '\x\ 1850: — " "f^he Lord has increased us in Carleton an hundred fold. We have moved into the vestry of the new meeting house.' Elder Harris afterwards took charge of the " Mariner's Home^" in Saint John, where for many years he labored in the interests of seamen. 1852 — 1854. — Rev. Edwin Clay began one of the most important pastorates in the history of the Church in 1852, which extended, with one year's interruption, till 1859. The Visitor of December, 1852, says: — " We are happy to hear that our brethren in Carleton will have their meeting house completed at an early day. The pastor Bro. Clay, was very active and useful in urging forward the work." The new building was opened for divine worship on Sunday, Feb. 6, 1853, Rev. I. E. Bill preached in the morning, from Zech. vi : 13. Rev. S. Robinson preached in the afternoon ; text, 2 Cor. iii : 11; and Rev. E. Clay in the evening ; text, Luke xxi : 36. The services were numerously attended, and the occasion was one of deep interest Elder Clay, vvriting March 29, 1853, reports as follows: — "For the last five weeks we have held meetings every night. Last Suno^y I baptized ten converts in the presence of an immense mul- titude." It was a joyous season for the Church. A re- vival spirit was kindled that revealed itself at intervals for several y^ars. Elder Clay left Carleton in July, 18,53, i" quest of health. He spent some time in P. E. L Return- ing he left St. John in October, for New York, to pursue a medical course. During his absence the pulpit was occu- pied by Rev. J. Francis (1853-1855). In July, 1853, the Salem Chapel, Sand Cove, was opened for worship. On the following day the Carleton Sabbath School held a pic- nic at the same place. The children walked in procession from the school-i'oom, Carleton, to Sand Cove. Addresses were delivered 01 the occasion by Revs. E. N. Harris, J. Francis, and Mr. White, a converted Roman Catholic. Dea- con John Christopher was at that time Superintendent of CAKLETON BAPTIST CHURCH. T the school. The Church at Sand Point was organized May 15, 1854. Rev. J. Davis, of Yarmouth, preached the opening sermon. Bro. George Seely (lie.) had charge of the interest there at that time. The meetings were held in Mrs. Bond's Chapel. These infant Churches are mentioned be- cause their history is identified more or less closely with the large/ interest in Carleton. For a time they displayed a good deal of life, but circumstances existed that prevented perma- nent growth, and to-day they exist only in name. The Sand Point Church has, connected with its history, the name of Mrs. Bond, a Christian lady of more than ordinary ability and strength of character. She was a native of Devon- shire, England, and emigrated to Saint John in 18 19. She zealously devoted herself to the interests of experimental re- ligion. She was liberal to the poor and needy. The Bethel, known as " Mrs. Bond's Chapel," was originally built by the munificence of herself and her husband, and consecrated by her earnest efforts to bring souls to Christ. She died July 28, 1854. The funeral took place from the Bethel. The services were deeply impressive, and were participated in by Revs. I. E. Bill, J. Francis, S. Robinson, W. Burton, G. Seely, McKay, and McLeod. The Western Association held its annual session in Carle- ton, September ist, 1855 ; Rev. G. Miles. Moderator ; Intro- ductory Sermon, Rev, E. N. Harris ; Circular Letter, Rev. Mr. Thompson. The session was said to have been one of "delightful harmony and unusual interest." In 1855, Rev. E, Clay, M. D., returned from New York. Revival blessings were enjoyed by the Church in the winters of 1856 and '57. He tendered his resignation at the close of 1858, but did not retire from the field. In March, 1859, a revival of unusual power commenced in the Church. In a letter to the Christian Visitor, Dr. Clay thus referred to the work : , " On my return home I found the brethren very anxious for me to remain a few days and preach, as they felt assured that the Lord was about to bless the Church in answer to prayer. On the Sabbath it was evident that the power of God was in the place, and that the Spirit was about bringing many sinners to a knowledge of Jesus' saving love. Since my return I have baptized twenty-four; sixteen of that number being hsads of families, I think I never witnessed a more powerful work of grace ; strong men have been seen with the tears of heart-felt compunction streaming from their eyes, crying, * God be merciful to us sinners' ; while backsliders of many years . !*• « HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE HtiiD'ling ha\'e bt-eii hrouj^ht bac^k to their Fiithor's house cryinj^ for men y, and thu work is ntill going on. Yesterday was a day of ro- freshing from the presence of the Lord at the Baptism." The Visitor of F'ebruary, 1859, makes the followinfj com- ment : . , • , . " Kkvival in Carleton. — We rejoice to hear that a blessed work of religio'18 revival is in progros.M in Carletou. Our Frt'c Baptist brethren liave been holding speciul service.s for some time pa.st, and they have been atteudt'd with much good. Our esteemed Bro. Clay returned some ton dayn ago, and commenced holding meetings in the Uiiptist Church, and very soon it was evident that God was in their midst. The Chi^eh ww?, aroused to duty, wanderers returned in penitence, and the unconverted were arrested by the convicting l)uwer of the tj'uth. The meetings increased in interest and in slaving ])0wer during the last week, and on the Sabbath Dr. Clay had the privilege of immor.-^ing eleven candidates in obedience to the Divine command. Rev. Mr. Hartley, (Free Baptist,) baptized nine. It is said that the prospect for a large increase is vej:y favorable. Bru. Clay expected to leave last week, but he has not been able tu get away, and we sincerely pray that the good work may detain him for many weeks to come." . ' , Baptisms are reported for March, April and May of i860. In July, i860, Dr. Clay finally severed his connection with the Church, but it was not till December that he removed his family to Pugwash. His departure was regretted by a very large circle of friends of all denominations. " His warm and genial nature and ready utterance made him an effective speaker on any subject which he chose ; and when the love of God in Christ was his theme, few could listen to him un- moved.'" He died on the 14th of March, 1884, aged 63. 1 860- 186 1. Rev. Isaiah Wallace, M. A., came to Carleton from Miramichi. He was on his way to Digby, but was in- tercepted by the Carleton brethren and induced to enter upon the work there. During his pa.storate a place of worship was commenced in Brooks Ward. Mrs. Bond bequeathed ^50 for that purpose, and the City Council granted an eligible, site, but circumstances prevented the success of the work, and it was abandoned. In January, 1861, Bro. Wallace was presented with a com- plete set of Olshausen's Commentaries, by the Church, as a mark of affection. Revs. E. B. DeMill and E. C. Cady, de- livered addresses on the occasion. In March '61, the following item appeared in the Visitor'. . " At the Pastors' meeting, on Monday, Bro. Wallace informed us CARLETON BAPTIST CHURCH. eton in- apon was gible. , and \tor'. led us that the intcreat was hopeful ; old stuuding difficulties which had luDg been a stumbliug block were reraove.t. Times and circumstances have changed, and these changes impose new labor, but no time can rob us of our Living Head, or "dim the deathless Presence that burns on through all the ages." Such, in a general and somewhat fragmentary way, is our history. Part of it is unknown, part unwritten. Enough is related to show an unbroken existence for fifty years. The pastorates are not all its history ; they but mark its periods, and give it unity ; the events are not all given ; no history gives them. The important point is, that the Church has lived ; now weak, now strong, now glowing with spiritual life, now afflicted with dearth and division. It seems little amid the crowding events of contemporary history ; but such as it is, it is gone beyond recall. The past is past. We com- memorate it to-day. May we hand down to our children memories as fragrant as our fathers. IsrOTES, Extensive revivals, followed by periods of dearth and de- clension, marked the early history of the Church. Quiet pro- gressive work, in which growth in character ]r^s a prominent place, distinguishpj a later stage. Financial difficulties, which hindered progress, and unset- tled pastors, was a common experience in the history of the Church for many years. Since the Weekly Offering plan has been adopted the finances of the Church have been in a much more satisfactory state. - ' -.. ^ ^ *' The old files of the Visitor indicate that 'bazaars,' 'teas,, and 'soirees' were freely resorted to in the past, to meet finan- cial exigenj^s and yet during all that time the Church was in debt, and the pastor inadequately and irregularly paid, . le HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE Recently voluntary contributions for all Church purposes have been introduced. Result — no debt — on deficit. Mis. Cobham, of Fort Dufiferin. one of the oldest members of the Church, was baptized by the late Dr. Cramp's father. Dr. Cramp himself, then a young man, preached the sermon on the occasion. Dv Cramp, after coming out to this coun- try, baptized Rev. E. Ilickson, pastor of Carleton Church, 1 872- 1 882, and Rev. E. Hickson in turn baptized Mrs. Cob- ham's husband. They were connected with the Church at different times, either as supplies or worshippers, Revs. G. E. Day, D. D., C. Goodspeed, D. D., R. H. Bish )p. M. A., I. W. Corey, B. A., Walter Barss, B. A., S. Richardson, J. H. Saunders, J. S. Denovan, Alexander McArthur. The Church has sent out the following ministers from its ranks : Revs. C. Vincent, W. Vincent, and J. H. King. jPLlDOPg-KSS, BY REVEREND EDWARD HICKSON, M. A. I am the only representative present of the iormer Pastors of this Church at this Jubilee. Several of them have been called home to their reward. I do not claim to be the " sur- vival of the fittest," but I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus." It is my glory and joy to have been a co-worker with those men of God, the majority of whom I know personally, Pastors Robinson, Clay, Blakney, Seely, Bill, Cahill, and others — men of prayer, piety and power. , For fifty years this Church has been exerting an influence in this place. Personal influence may be illustrated by the case of a clergyman and his little son. The father was verj' busy in his study when the child entered ; and the father said, " Son, what do you want ! " The child replied, " Nothing, papa, only to he with your The son was made welcome. You may remember the friend in whose presence you were happy. This Church has had a personal presence, animated by the Spirit of Christ. It has been spiritually attractive and sanc- tifying. Why the consecutive months of prdtracted meetings and the familiar faces all aglow with glory ? Surely it was because God was in this place, and we knew it " In Thy presence is fullness of joy." During my ten years pastorate here I received 1 50 mem- CARLETOS BAPTIST CHURCH. 17 bers, 138 of whom I baptized, and four of whom are misisters of the gospel. , My own Christian experience runs parallel with the exis- tence of this Church, having been converted about the date of its organization ; but while pastors are removed the Church lives on to witness for Christ. Now while Sabbaths and Ju- bilees of the former dispensation taught the people that time and lands were the Lord's, the Gospel ordinances teach us that we are wholly Christ's, The Apostles, in writing to the Churches which they planted, gave them their benediction, and I am sure, were you to-day to hear from your late pastors, they would say, " The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen." ADDRESS BY REV. G. O. GATES. Germain Street sends greetings to CarletQn, her eHest daughter, and congratulates her on this joyful celebration of her fiftieth birth-day. Although the mother Church is sur- rounded by such a healthy group of daughters as Carleton, Portland, Brussels Street, and Leinster Street, and has even hailed the advent of a vigorous grand daughter, yet she feels no abatement of energy, but bears her eighty-one years with a vigor that gives promise of being long spared to watch over the destinies of her growing children. We share your joy to- day, not alone on length of years, for that were doubtful ground for congratulation ; we rejoice rather that you have not lived in vain, that over your past there lingers the glory of many a well-spent life. Yet while some rejoice, it may be that there are others whose hearts are saddened by touching memories. There is no joy without its note of pain, and while the young rejoice to-day, perhaps, as on the day when the Second Temple was completed, the old men may weep. The flying years have not left your ranks unbroken, nor spared your best loved idols. Faces and forms are absent to-day that once occupied familiar places. Fifty years have not come and gone without calling the toilers from your side, and touching your hearts with many a sorrow. Fifty years ! How much they bring ; how much they take away ! How changed and un- familiar is the present to the patriarch who has passed through the light and shadow of fifty years. Fifty years ago the Bap- tists of these Provifices were a struggling band, without organization, without educational advantages. To-day our 18 HISTORWAL SKETCH OF THE denominational enterprises, both missionary and educational, are unequalled in these Provinces, and our numbers increased to nearly 50,000 church members! Fifty years ago Austin Smith was just entering upon his devoted life work. Fifty years ago Hudd DoMill was a boy of twelve, playing on the streets of Saint John, wi:h small thought of the brilliant ca- reer before him. Fifty years ago Richard Burpee, the first missionary from these Provinces to the heathen, was a student at Acadia College, Times have changed ; the history of the past is full of encouragement ; it points to a still more pros- perous future. If sin is increasing the means to grapple with it are also increasing a thousand fold. No one can correctly forecast the future. You should strive, in faith and prayer, to use the advantages to which you have fallen heirs so that your centennial may find the cause you love away in advance of your most extravagant hopes and highest ideals. Rev. William Allen, of the Methodist Church, in a speech filled with tender reminiscences, conveyed his hearty sympathy and good will to the Carleton Church and pastor, on the oc- casion of their fiftieth anniversary. JUBILEE SEK.lxIOIISr, BY THE PASTOR, REV. J. A. FORD. " And they continued steadfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fel- lowship, and in breaking 01 bread, and in prayers." — Acts ii : 42. "The church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth."— 1 Tim. 3 : 15. There are three institutions in existence among men which . are justly held to be of divine origin, viz., the Family, the State, and the Church. Each occupies a particular sphere, and each is designed to meet and satisfy a special requirement in the nature of man. Man knows no legitimate need, but dver against that need there stands a supply, or the possibility of supply. Is he conscious of domestic and social afifinities .-* The family at once presents the one field where these come into proper and healthful relation. Does he possess instincts that would provide against injury to person or property ^ Government in some form or other best meets the case. Does r'--^.__J,J ational, creased Austin Fifty on the iant ca- :he first student y of the re pros- pie with lorrectly ayer, to lat your I'ance of speech mpathy the oc- aud fel- 42. d of the n which lily, the sphere, irement ied, but ssibility ifinities ? se come nstincts operty ? I, Does CARLETON BAPTIST CHURCH. n his spiritual nature seek strentjth and poise under the most healt' ful conditions ? The Christian Church is the divinely appointed home where this result cari be most happily secured. To this latte*- institution we vvill confine our thoughts, as it is the first in importance, though the last in order of establish- ment. Our English word Church is the equivalent to the Greek Ekklcsia, as the Greek Ekklesia is the equivalent in Sep- tuagent of t^he Hebrew Kahal. Ekklcsh. was used among the Greeks to denote an assembly of citizens, summoned for some special object. A gathering of slaves or aliens was never dignified by such a term. Its corresponding verb means to call out, to convoke. Ekklesia therefore llcerally signifies the called out, the convocation. The Greeks who had settled in the Roman Empire introduced the word into common life, and applied it to secular societies organized for literary, finan- cial and commercial purposes. A modern Church historian says :— " The large number of secular organizations called Ekklesia demanded special government legislation, defining their powers as safeguards to public weal." We are thus put into possession of two important facts: (i) that Ekklesia was used with a religious meaning two hundred and fifty years before Christ and his apostles applied it to an association of baptized believers ; (2) that it was extensively employed in common life with a secular meaning in the time of Christ ; hence, when a word was required to designate His followers as an organized body, our Lord found this one, ready at hand, with a meaning well understood by the people, and He at once appropriated it as the one suitable word among all col- lective Greek terms, to express the idea of a religious organi- zation, with deliberative and executive powers. Ekklesia is found in the New Testament, with three slightly varying shades of meaning. It is twice applied to a tumult- uous assembly: Acts xix : 32-41. It is twice used in the Jewish sense of congregation: Acts vii : 38; Heb. ii: 12. In all other cases — one hundred and ten in all — it is applied to Xh^ followers of Christ. In the latter case it carries di gen- eral as well as restricted meaning. Its natural New Testa- ment idea is a local, independent body of disciples : as the church at Jerusalem, the church at Antioch. In its general signification it embraces the whole body of disciples wherever they may be found ; as the *' Church of the First Born," the "Church of the Living God," "The Head of the Body, the 2() HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE I. Church," "Christ the Head of the Church." The word Ekklcsia was twice used by Christ, once in its local and once in its collective sense. Mat. xviii : 17, and Mat. xvi : iS. While X}i\ii primitive Church was a local, independent body, exercising free suffrage, electing their own pastors, managing their own internal affairs, succeeding ages witnessed strange and startling departures from the apostolic usage. The New Testament pattern was ignored. The simple pastors and elders became great church dignitaries, and the Church itself was transformed into a powerful establishment, with mitred priests, and a gorgeous ritual. Indeed the change in five hundred years was so radical that an angel from heaven could hardly discover in the wealthy hierarchy that aimed at temporal sov- ereignty, a single trace of the- New testament model. And yet the New Testament model is the only one to follow: for Christ not only instituted the Christian Church, but left abundant directions with regard to its membership, ordi- nances and polity. Probably a complete model may not be found in any one place in the New Testament, but the model exists nevertheless. Fragments of it are distributed through the Gospels, in the Acts and the Epistles. These may be easily discovered and brought together. A ship- builder is directed to build a ship after a certain prescribed pattern ; and is told where the pattern may be found. After dilligent search he finds a single section of it ; but he is too wise to build his ship by that section, A further search discovers another and another section, till at length he is re- warded by holding in his hand a beautiful model ; and with this as his guide he proceeds to fashion his ship. Now the New Testament contains a model of a Church as Christ would have it. No one book contains all the sections, but a little patient study is all that is needed, to collect all the scattered fragments into one complete pattern. In pursuing this inquiry the New Testament is our only guide and authority. What it teaches we should follow ; what it does not teach is not binding on our conscience. Whatever it contains, be it little or much, it is all the early Christians had, and it is all that modern Christians need expect. It is, in short, a complete rule of faith and practice. Let us examine it, to find some of the characteristics of a New Testament Church. We cannot go far in the search till we find that an important and unfailing characteristic of a New Testament Church is a regenerate membership. The new birth VAHLETON lUl'TIST CfiriWH. 21 is emphasized by Christ and his discipU;s with a frequency that of itself praiies its import.ince. The Church is not for the unsaved : it is not for the world : it is for those who, de- nying all un<^odliness and worldly lusts, live soberly, right- eously, and piously in the present evil world. The Church of Jesus Christ is designed as a spiritual home for His chil- dren, where their spiritual power may unfold under the mo>t kindly influences. An unregenerate man in a church is a living contradiction. He is out of harmony with his surround- ings ; he has not complied with the first condition of church life ; he moves amid strange and uncongenial relations ; in a measure he may adapt himself, externally at least, to his en- vironments, but such adaptation, however honestly attempted, is a continual strain. To such a man the Church will be little more than a human society. He has omitted the first require- ment, and without it all else is mechanical. If he comes into the Church for the purpose of getting better, he has reversed the order, and confusion is sure to follow. A thistle may be transplanted into a rose-bed, but it will still remain a thistle. No process known to the most scientific gardener can trans- form it into a fruitful and valuable plant. Care and attention may make a more luxuriant thistle of it, but a thistle it will always remain. There is nothing gained by opening the doors of the Church for unsaved men. Their natures are not changed ; their relations to God are not changed ; they are unconverted men still. The mere process of driving goats into a sheepfold does not effect the creatures' character, how- ever it may effect the harmony of the fold. The Church is not a reformatory, but a place where men who have already reformed are assisted in character-building. Neither is it an asylum for the blind, but a place where the newly imparted spiritual perception is quickened and enlarged. Such a thing as an unconverted world flocking into the Church of Christ was never contemplated by the gospel plan. The doors of the primitive Church were never thrown open to the unsaved. If they found their w^iy within it was in spite of abundant safeguards, and in the face of solemn warnings. The Mosaic law decreed that the leper should remain without the camp ; the law of Christ provides that the spiritually unclean shall remain without the Church. But is not all this narrow and illiberal, you say. Surely it would be a desirable thing to have men come into the Churches, whether converted or not. Does not this doctrine of regeneration exclude a great many • •>•> rrrsTORfCAL sketch of the H excellent people from the Churches whose influence would give them standinpf and respectability ? Perhaps so. Hut what standing, pray, could an unconverted man possibly give to a body whose foundation principle he would ignore at the out- set ? Hesides, how can a man give standing to a Church by acting an untruth to get into it ? Hut cannot the Church, as a body, break down this barrier ? True, they might, but then they would cease to be a New Testament Church, and descend to the level of a human society, and your excellent sinner would be no better off than before ; he would not be a mem- ber of a New Testament Church. Christ is responsible for the New Testament order, and He places regeneration at the very opening of the Christian life. If anybody desires to pursue a different course, it is at his own personal risk. He should not hastily charge those who adopt Christ's methods with narrowness. Besides, what have we to do with chang- ing divine methods ? It is our business to carry them out, let the result be what it will. We may safely conclude, that a New Testament Church was composed of those who "gladly received the word," who were "born from above," " begotten of God," once aliens, but now brought nigh " by the blood of the cross." This is one section of the New Tes- tament model, and any Church that ignores this, ceases to that extent to represent a true Church of Christ. On further examination we discover a second characteristic of a New Testament Church, viz, : — They were baptised on a profession of their faith. Whatever difference of opinion ex- ists among evangelical Christians as to ih^form of baptism, there is practically no disagreement as to its being an absolute prerequisite to Church membership, in some form. Baptism is a duty that lies right across the believer's path ; he cannot honorably escape from it, and if he is loyal to Christ he would not if he could. The cavilling that exists to-day with regard to this ordinance was unknown among primitive Christians. Our Lord's Commission is a plain ,and positive statement in this regard : " Go disciple all nations, baptising them into the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit." Here regenera- tion of the heart and obedience in the life are linked together absolutely, and to separate what God has joined together is doing violence to a divine arrangement, which will meet with its own reward. Surely it will not be claimed that the exi- gencies of modern timcj-^ demand other methods. This would be a direct attack upon the wisdom and foresight of Jesus. CAR L Eros- BAPTIST CHURCH. Kaptism is a positive command. It is ou..s simply to obey. We have nothing to do with results. The one who instituted that ordinance will take care of these. Hut here is an oH'^c- , tion : — Would you not gather a larger number into n.c Churches, thereby increasing your strength and influence, if baptism were not insisted on ? Probably ; but when did it ever appear that a crowd of unbaptized and disobedient persons brought strength to a church ? If they seek to evade the laws of Christ at the outset, little but weakness and capriciousness can be expected of them all the way through. You say you believe in " progressive Christianity." Very well ; but how can that religion be considered progres- sive which dishonors its Founder by teaching disobedience to his commands ? Are we to obey Christ or some standard that varies with the changing tastes and opinions of men. O sirs, be not deceived ; the love of a regenerate heart will express itself in an obedient and loyal life, " If ye love me keep my commandments." "Those that gladly received the word were baptized," This is another section of the New Testament model. Hut a third characteristic immediately appears. The New Testament Church met togetnei to celebrate the Lord's Sup- per. "They continued steadfast in the breaking of bread." The Lord's Supper is a church ordinance, an'^ is elo- quent with spiritual significance. As baptism is an emblem of the New Birth, so the Lord's Supper symbolizes the fact that the new born soul is deriving its nourishment from Christ, who is the Hread of Life. It is a memorial service in which the disciples lovingly remember their absent Lord, the Church her absent Head. That it has been unduly exalted and bur- dened with spiritual efficacy on the one hand, and despised and ignored on the other, need not hinder us from giving this ordinance its legitimate place. It was faithfully observed in New Testament times, and we cannot neglect it without posi- tive danger. The New Testament plan confines the second ordinance to those, and those only, who have complied with the first. Haptized believers are the only persons qualified to partake of the Lord's Supper. This point is conceded by the vast majority of evangelical Christians. The learned and pious Doddridge says : ' It is certain, so far as our knowledge of primitive antiquity extends, that no unbaptized person was ever received at the Lord's table." Dr. Adam Clark says : " As nobody could partake of the Paschal Lamb before he ;:i 24 HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE ■ J3 was circumcised, so among the early followers of Christ, none were permitted to come to the Lord's Supper who had not been baptized." Dr. Hall (Ep.) declares that " Among all the absurdities that ever was held, none ever maintained the absurdity that any person should partake of the communion before he was baptized." The teaching and practice of Bap- tist Churches has, with very few exceptions, always been in harmony with this view. They hold that, as the Lord's Sup- per is for the Church, nobody should be invited to partake of it who could not become a member of the Church without a change of views ; in a word, that nobody is qualified to par- take of the second ordinance who has not scripturally com- plied with the first. A further characteristic of a New Testament Church was benevolence. The primitive Christians were not only Iiearers of the word, but doers as well. The model Church did not ne- glect the " contributiony The word koinonia, vaguely rendered fiUowship in the authorized version, finds a more complete equivalent in the term contribution. It carries this meaning unmistakably in Rom. xvi : 26 ; 2 Cor. viii : 4 ; Heb. xiii : 16. Although the characteristic is not lost, it is sadly neglected. Individual Christians are often fearfully remiss in this parti- cular. There is money for almost everything but the gospel. Men will toil early and late to maintain a comfortable home for their families, but too often there is not a dollar for the support of a Church home. Men will complacently enjov the blessings which the gospel has placed within their reach, and yet feel under no obligation to support or extend it. Their own homes are very beautiful, but the " house of the Lord may go to waste." There is always money for personal grat- ification, but none to sustain the cause for which Christ died. O sirs, if the Church of Christ, with all her uplifting and conserving influences, were removed from this fair city to-day, it would require no seer to predict the speedy blight that would fall upon the homes you love, and upon the busiiiess in which you are engaged. Shall the gospel of Christ do everything for you, and receive nothing from you ? Are you satisfied with merely holding membership in the Father's fam- ily, but contribute nothing toward the support of the house- hold ? What is true of the individual Chsistian is equally true of the Christian body. The truly apostolic Church will not be lacking in the grace of giving. For a Church to be illiberal is to forfeit its claim to the divine model, and render CARL ETON PAPTIST CHURCH. 25 its existence a doubtful good. Generous benevolence, of all things, should be a prominent feature in an institution whose very life depends upon the infinite bounty of Him who, though He was rich, yet for our sakes became poor. liut a fourth mark of a New Testament Church is at hand. "The disciples were of one heart and one soul." A Church may be rigidly orthodox in respect to ordinances and form"-, and yet err widely in respect to mutual affection. While we do well to emphasize the commands of Jesus regarding bap- ' tism and the Lord's Supper, we must not overlook that other command to " love one another." This is the unifying prin- ciple, and that principle is divine. In inorganic nature, we find the separate molecules of all material bodies held to- gether by cohesion. This is the force that gives strength to the material. Each particle has an affinity for every other par- ticle, and the aggregation of particles make up the whole. In animate nature, certain natural characteristics, habits, and affinities, bring birds and animals together in herds and flocks and families. Among men the samepiinciple operates. Hence we have families, societies and organic forms of social government. In all these cases there is found some one thing in common, some special cohesive force that binds the dif- ferent individuals into a mass. A New Testament Church is no exception to this principle. The different elements are drawn together, impelled by common aims and purposes, and united, not by a natural, but by a spiritual law, and that law is Love. External force may hold together a mass of diver- gent and even hostile elements ; but no external requirement, nor human creed, can give to a New Testament Church the necessary solidity and oneness. Something better is wanted, ^and Love meets the demand. Creeds may bind, but Love unites. A cask is bound together by external cooperage, but it is only a hollow vessel after all. Atoms of rock or iron are united by a force that pervades them, and acts on every part, and their solidity has become a proverb. Love is the indwell- ing force that gives unity and firmness to the Church of Christ, and without it they are not copies of the New Testament model. This is essential to unity and solidity ; it is also necessary to activity. It was only when the sunlight fell upon the stony lips of Memnon that the statue gave forth its harp-like sound. It is only when the light of love fills the soul, fires the heart, touches the lips and nerves the hand, that labor is sweetened and life sweeps onward like a M' HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE holy psalm. The Chufch of Christ should be a paradise of love. We come now to the function of the Church. What is a Church for ? What place does it fill in the Christian sys- tem ? " It is the pillar and the Ground of Truth." The idea that the Church is the repository of Truth, tihat she gives force and authority to it, is not a New Testament doctrine at all. The Church adds nothing to Truth, but she gets every- thing from it. The figure in the text is very significant. In ancient times the pillar was set up in the Forum or market place, and the royal proclamation affixed to it. The pillar contributed no authority to the proclamation. The announce- , ment in the proclamation would be T»-uth even if the pillar were removed. The function of the pillar was simply to hold up the proclamation to the passers-by. The function of the Church is to hold up the divine proclamation — to be Christ's bulletin board. It keeps the facts of the gospel before the world ; and in so far as it does this it is carrying out the Divine intention. The Church that does not hold up, with loyal and devoted hands, the Lord's last message, is not the pillar and Ground of Truth, but a dark and silent monument that marks the grave where Truth lies entombed. Our Lord 's Commission to the C'hurch is her marching orders. When she declines to fulfill the commission, she ceases to be of any real service. She may be ornamental, but her usefulness has de- parted. She has entered upon decrepitude and decay, and henceforward her best services will consist in hastening her^ ow»i exit, and relieving the world from the dispiriting specta- cle of an institution with the loftiest design but with no effort to attain to it. While there are many sad departures from the faith once delivered to the saints, there are still loyal and de- voted Churches that are endeavoring to carry out the intention of the Gi*eat Founder. The voices that "cry in the wilderness" to-day are the voices of men and women sent out by Christian Churches to save the lost ; the hands that are reached out to lift up the fallen and relieve the distressed, are the hands of Church- es with the missionary spirit. The Churches are filling a larger and larger place in the world's history. They have come to stay. For eighteen hundred years the watchfires of an unbroken line of New Testament Churches glittered along the path of the world's progress. They are all around us to-day. O sirs, what is your attitude towards them } Friendly, sympathetic, and helpful } Thank God for that. Sneering and critical, CARLETON BATTIST GHUHCU. 27 their open*enemy? Beware. You are striving to wound your best friend. While you are railing at the Church of Jesus Christ the protecting aegis of a civilization that she has puri- fied is around your home and fireside, guarding the honor of your wife and the lives of your little ones. Like her Founder, she overlooks unkind ness and blesses the hand that smites her. We meet men daily who owe everything to Christian fathers and mothers, who will yet desecrate their memory, and shock the Christian sentiment of their friends by casting reflections on the Church of Christ. There are men who owe their positions to the patronage of a Christian community, who delight to belittle the religion that has given that community whatever character it po.- senses. To have a fling at the Churches is a very conmion pastime ; but it is a business that is branded with littleness, and has afforded congenial employment to the devil for many a cen- tury. No man who respects himself, or who hopes to win respect from others, will stoop to insult the religious sentiment of his friends by sitting in the scorner's seat and railing at what they hold dear. Let this diversion be abandoned to over-clever youths and professional blasphemers, but men of sense will find other employment than besmirching the char- acter of an institution which, more than all other agencies combined, has helped to lift the world from a moral sepulchre, and girded humanity with glory and strength. To acquire a reputation for manliness in the minds of a set of coarse com- panions, a mean-spirited school-boy will sometimes speak loftily and contemptuously of his mother and sisters, but his reputation is his reproach. As he ascends in the estimation of the vicious, he falls in the minds of the good. So the man who would acquire distinction by belittling Christian Churches degrades himself in the eyes of people of character, and only wins the fictitious reward of cheap applause from a class whose standard of honor is similar to his own. The Church is the "pillar and ground of Truth," and "the gates of hell shall not prevail against her." , How does all this apply to the Church whose fiftieth anni- versary we celebrate to-night ? Very intimately. Its founders and builders started with the New Testament model. They believe in a regenerate Church membership. They baptized candidates on a profession of their faith. They believed, as we do, that no one had any right to the ordinances of the gospel but those saved by its power. They believed that 28 EISTORIGAL SKETCH OF THE the Lord's Supper was a church ordinance, and could not be scripturally riceived except by baptized believers ; and they \ held that a baptized believer was one who had accepted Christ as his personal Saviour, and had gone down, of his own free will into the baptismal waters, and been buried with Christ in baptism. They believed that half-hearted loyalty was little better than treason. They believed in the law of Love ; and amid many failures, doubtless, strovfe to exemplify it in their lives. Their history cannot be studied without profit. They had many excellencies, they made many mistakes ; those we should copy and these avoid. They are with us to-night ; their forms are absent, but their spirits touch ours, and awe us with " invisible sanctities." They come from yonder ceme- tery, where the grass lies close and green upon many a well- remembered grave ; they come from other lands, where for- eign stars smile upon their last sleeping place ; and beneath this roof, often hallowed by their sacred ministries they meet again. Fades the present into dim perspective ; slowly the past, from a dream-like memory, rises into view, There they stand, with the calm light of a fresh May sun falling full upon them. The kindly face of Samuel Robinson beams upon them a loving benediction. His words are grave and weighty, "his prayer is solemn and tender. At length it is over ; the infant Church is launched, like an adventurous bark, upon the troublous sea of life. Here and there a member drops by the way, but the others pass on. Like the father and son, who fought side by side in battle ; when the son was stricken down, the father stooped, printed a kiss upon his brow, ' breathed a tender farewell and hurried on. No time for re- grets. Often the little Church gathered around the grave to bury a fallen comrade, print the kiss, whisper the farewell, and up again to mingle in the strife. Let the Church be true to her past, and at the centenary other hands will write a grander record, and other tongues preach a more inspiring discourse. ! , ' -, At the close of the sermon the pastor read the names of all who had contributed to the jubilee fund, together with the accompanying scripture texts. As many of the jubilee en- velopes were placed on the contribution plate, and were not, therefore, opened till next day, the names enclosed could not CARLETON- BAPTIST CHURCH. 29 be announced. The entire offering for the day was upwards of $100. The roll-call of those members who united with the Church during the first twenty years of its existence was read, and quite a number responded. The music for the day was of a high order. The choir was assisted in the afternoon by Mr. L. Titus, who sang the solo " Abide with me," with good effect The duet, " Some Day," by Miss Mullin and Mr. Titus, was also finely rendered. There were some special features to the music of the evening, concerning which the Telegraph says: ., . , " 1p the evening appropriate hymns were chosen, and a quartette, cjmposied of Mr. T. H. Hall, Miss Hall, Mrs, Stewart, and Mr. Jamie- son, giive a fine selection. Mr. G. R. Craigie sang a tenor solo, which wa? very enjoyable, and the singing of the choir made up an excel leni programme of sacred song for the occasion." AT HOME. On Monday evening, May i8, the Church and congregation gathered in the, vestry of the church, where a most enjoyable evening was spent. The vestry, which has been thoroughly renovated was converted into a temporary parlor. The win- dows were draped with curtains, the floors covered with rugs and carpeting ; pictures were suspended on the walls, while easels, and centre-tables, adorned with paintings and curios, were distributed about the room. The following extracts were taken from the daily press : Carleton Baptist Church At-Homb.— The best feature of the celebration of the fiftieth anniversar}' of the Carleton Baptist Church was an " At-Home," to which the congregation and their friends were invited. Last evening about three hundred people filled the vestry of the church to pass a few hours in social converse. The room was furnished as a parlor, and Rev. Mr. Ford and Mrs. Ford made the most attentive host and hostess possible. The proceedings were in charge of a reception committee, which did its work thoroughly. After a short preliminary chat among the friends, the programme opened by a chorus from the choir, " Men of Arlie," after \yhich Winnie Rctallick gave an excellent recitation. This was followed by a dramatic recital by Miss June Estey ; duet, Mr. arid ^liss ^ Craigie ; solo, Mrs. Warnock ; reading, Mrs. Ford ; and reading by Hattie Sheldon. Rev. Messrs. William Allen A. E. Ingram, and ' I - ■' ■ I 30 HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE E. Hickson were present. The pleasure of the evening was much enhanced by the liberal supply of refreshments distributed by the committee of ladies in charge Sm». The " At-home," held in the West End Baptist Church last even- ing, was a very pleasant affair indeed. A large number of the mem- bers of the church and congregation met in the vestry, which haci been tastefully arranged as a parlor, and into a very handsome parlor it had been transformed by the ladies of the church. Beautiful flow- ers decked the platform, and with the handsome pictures and other ornaments, the room presented a decidedly home-like appearance An obliging Committee of ladies were on hand to receive the guests. An informal programme, consisting of solos and readings, together with music by the choir, and social conversation, made the evening pass most enjoyably. Readings were given by Miss Hattie Sheldon,. Miss Winnie Retallick, Mr«. Ford, and Miss Estey. The opening chorus, by the choir, " The Man of Arlie," was finely rendered. A duet, by Mr. G. R. Craigie and Miss Craigie, was greatly appreciated. Mrs. Warnock sang a charming solo. The clergymen present were Rev. Messrs. Wm. Allen, A. E. Ingram, E. Hickson j and the pastor. During the evening some refreshments, which had been prepared by the ladies, were served, and everything possible was done to make the gathering a success. Tfie "At-Horae" was a very pleasant and fit- ting close to the jubilee services." — Telegraph. - , . SUNDAY SCHOOL ' The history of the Sunday School runs parallel with that of the Church. The school was organized in June, 1841. Elijah Sprague was the first Superintendent, and I. O. Beat- teay Secretary-Treasurer. . The actual number of pupils at the time did not exceed 30. Deacon John Christopher was at the head of the school for about fifteen years. Lewis Denett and George Davis succeeded, from i860 to 1865. John Strange, filled the office till about 1870; Dr. John Robinson, 1870 to 1871 ; John F. Ring, 1871 to 1875 ; Isaac Sharp, 1876 to 1877 ; G. U. Hay, 1877 to 1882 ; G. W. Lyon, 1882 to 1884; Rev. J. A. Cahill, 1884 to 1887; W. H. Col- well, 1887 to 1890; Rev. C. Goodspeed. Jan. 1890, to Sept.. 1890 ; H. S. Young, (Acting Supt.) 1890 to 1891. The following tabular statement is made up from the As- sociational Records. For several years the Records contain no Sabbath School statistics : CARLETON BAPTIST CHURCH. 31 Year. Teachers in Scftool 1841. 1848. 14 ' 1861. 18 186:i. . 11 1865. 12 1806. 12 1867. U 1868. 21 1869. 23 1870. 22 1871 16 1872. 22 1873. 15 1874. 20 , 1875. 18 1876. n 1879. If 1891. u Sch6Iai\s enrolled. m 100 90 75 117 96 70 180 175 140 154 142 129 150 ;170 150 170 240 Vols, in Lib. • • • 250 225 285 400 400 300 340 400 200 250 300 300 400 500 332 450 The largest attendance (October, 1891,) 180. OFFICERS OF THE CHURCH. 1891. Rev. J. A. Ford. B. A., /'^.r/^r. Deacons: :, Mr. James Belyea, Mr. Isaac Sharp, '. " WilHam H. Colwell, - John Mckinnon. Edwin L. Strange, Clerk, Samuel S. Mayes, Treasurer ^ Trustees : ■' JamesEHamm, J. White Peters, ' John B. Wilmot. ; John Toole. :K'H SUNDAY SCHOOL OFFICERS 1 89 1. Mr. H. S. Young, Acting Superintendent, " Milton Beatteay, Secretary, " Gilbert Ring. Assistant Secretary II D. J Hatfield. Treasurer. E. L. itrange, Librariati. Mrs. Warnock, Organist. -: V,-'-', If -if -1. ! 32 HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE Teachers : Rev. J. A. Ford, Miss H. C. Mu'Iin, Mr. John McKinnon, " Bertha Wiimot, " Everett Ring, *' Louisa Tool. •* LeBaron Vaughan. •• TilleyTool. " Arthur VanBuren, " Lottie Ring, " D. J. Hatfield, ' Mrs. Arthur Lingley, Miss Hattie Mayes, " J. A. Ford, " Lizzie Tibbetts, •• George Price, FINANCE COMMITTEE. Rev. J. H. Saunders, Mr. E. Hickson, _ , . Mr. John McKinnon, •' G. S. Mayes, ' , " William H. Cohvell, " Samuel S. Mayes. MITE SOCIETY. Mrs. James Wright, President. Mrs. D. Wallace, Treasurer. Mrs. E. L. S\.x3ingQy Secretary. MISSIONARY SOCIETY. Mrs. Arthur Lingley, Presid't. Mrs. J. H. Crossley, Vice Pres. Mrs. J. A. Ford, Secretary-Treasurer . CHOIR. . •, Miss M. 'c.. Mullin, Organist and Leader. Soprano : \ ■ Miss Lizzie Colwell, Miss Edith Robinson, Mrs. Warnock. ■ . .. ■ Alto : '■' -.■' - ■ . ^" 'v ■"•' ■: ;v^: Mrs. James Stewart, Miss Susie Wells. /:.,,' • Tenor : . ;„-■ >.,•>■•■,.;; ■ <% .'■• .:■ ■ T. H. Hall, :•.- ^■■' • ■^-;-^'--y:.K ■ ;■ Bass: H. S. Young, ■ William H. Perkins, George Jamieson, Edward J. Sheldon, James Belyea. USHERS. D. J. Hatfield, Charles Belyea, Edwin L. Strange, J. White Peters. lii CARLETON BAPTIST CHURCH. 33 \ r ■ LIST OF MEMBERS OF KARLETON BAPTIST gHURgfl. MAY I6th, 1891 : • n, *A(lains, Mip John Anderson Mis. Allaby, Mrs. Kva U. liillcuUl, Miss lif'Stiie *Bt'atteay. Mra. Plin-bi! lirutteay, Mrs. Albeiiia Jieckford, William 8. *I>tilyea, Johii *r>tl3C'a, Mrs. Juh" *r>elyea, James *lVlyea. Mrs. Janii's *])('lv('a, Mrs. Sam r, el *l)elvea, Mrs. William Kelyea, Miss Martha Hi'lyea, SHmnel jr. llelyeM, Charles E. Belyea, Mrs. Charles E. l^elyea, Mrs. Herbert B. Eeek-r, Mrs. E. J. Brittaiu, Mrs. Brunswick !'•. Brittain, F. Albert Brown, David Brown, Mr.»<. John l^rowning, Miss Amelia Buclianan, Miss Kate ■ *Cameron, Mrs. Camel on, Miss Lilly ■ -; ' Carr, liobert Carr, Mrf^. Robert Christopher, ^Irs. John Christopher, John M. Clark, Mrs. Mary A. Clark, Timothy ♦Clark, Mrs. Timothv *Clark, William L. \ Clark, Mrs. Amelia Clark, Mrs. Lucy Clark, E. Clay Clark, Albert Clark, Christianna Clark, I'aruahas Colwell, Mrs. Millioent Colwell, Mi.sa Lizzie Colwell, Ernest Colwell, Miss Annie Colwell, ^[is. Louisa Colwell, William H. Colwell, Mrs. William H. Colwell, Miss Nettie Colwell, Miss Bessie Colwell, Miss Emma Cobham, Mrs. James *Cralt, William H. *Craft. Mrs. William H. Craft, Mrs. George W. Craig, 8amuel CraiiDy, Mrs. Hannah Crossley, Miss Liicella Crossley, James H. Crcssley, Mrs. James H. Curry. Mrs. Robert ♦Davis, Mrs. Daniel ' Dow, Mrs. George Duke, Mrs. William Duke, Charles Dunham, James Dunham, Miss Edna Dunham, Miss Leila ♦Eagles, Mrs. Frank Eagles, James H. Eagles, Miss Bertha *Earl, Mrs. Samuel Earl, Thomas . Ervin, Frederic Finlay, Wilmot ■ ,■,' V^ ' I w \ 34 HISTORICAL SKETCfl OF THE ii( ♦Flewolling. Mrs. M. E jr. Foiil, R«v. J. A. Fonl, Mrs, J. A. Freeze, Mrs. Kobe it ♦Green, Mrs. Catherine Green, Miss Nellie Grey. JanicH Grey, Mrs. James Gross, Albert Haium, Mrs. Robert Hanim, .lanies E. Hanmi, Mrs, James E. *Harnard, Mrs. Susan Harnard, Andrew Haruard, Mrs. Andrew Harnard, Mrs. William Hatfield, Frank HatHeld, David J. Hatfield, Mrs. David .). HatPeld, Mrs. Deborah Hatfield, Miss Edna Hatfield. Mi.s3 Willa Hatton, Miss Hattie Harding, Mrs. William Hickson, Edward (J. Hickson, James Hickson, Miss Rachel Hodges Ralph Hodges, Mrs. Ralph Jones, Mrs. Charles Jones, Miss Josephine *King. Mrs. Henry King, Rev. John H. King. Miss Maitha Landers, Miss Emma *Lemereaux, David *Lemereaux, Mrs David *Letenay, Mrs. Millicent *Lilly, James *Lilly, Mrs. James Lingley, Mrs. Arthur Lockett, Albert Lockett, Mrs. Albert Lord, Mrs. Henry Lyons, George W. Mayes, Samuel S. ♦Mayes, Mrs. Samuel S. Mayes, Gershon S. Mayes, Miss Hattie E. Magnussou, Axle Marshall, Israel Marshall, Mrs. Israel Miles, Miss Jaiie Moffatt, George ♦Mollatt, Mrs. (ieorgo Mullin, Miss Mary ' Mullin, Mi.% Henrietta Mundeo, Mrs. Jiartlett McGinuiss, Miss Atnaiida McGillveray, Mrs. Hugh McGowan, Mrs. Henry ♦McGuire, Mrs. Saiiuul McGuire, MisH Helen McDougall, Mrs. McKinnon, .rohn McKinnon, Mrs. John ♦McMillan, Mrs. Phoebe McMillan, Gideon McLaren. Mrs James Neally, Tobias G. Neally, Mrs. Tobias G. Nice, Miss Georgie Nice. Miss Ida Noble, Mrs. John Northrup, Miss Eugenie Northrup, Miss Amelia Norton, Mrs. John H. Parker, Mrs. Mary Parker, Daniel Perkins, Mrs. Ida I'erkins Mi.'-':t^