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V«IV:tee.osti-ovelpo-a on al-ouldideravyfeet/all,ertos — rom ble.hat,theThey are looking around among their old friends,Then they'll pick up all the odds and the ends.I They are most of them poor and and hard working people.So perhaps they’ll not want a very high steeple, j And yet there are some whose minds may be set On having high things if they do go in debt.:ka.;on-?or-far-Byisain-avy . It foreseour*ds.to11 think they can do it if they follow this plan;Let everyone give just as much as he canAnd then if they do lag a littlebehind,They can soon make it up if they bear it in mind.There is one poor old man, fromEngland he came,But I shall forbear now to mention his name.He has been a great smoker for fifty years past,And will find it a trial to give up at last.iap-aslltsry.sorthena-br-Ac-hy•r*ich7enar-re-ewticib-■aranlut5tS, Now he is old and draws near to the grave,He has little chance any money to save.But he thinks if he leaves the tobacco and puff.Perhaps it may help toward making enough.He has no other means any money to make,Unless he the pipe and tobacco forsake,So he thinks, tho’ the sum won’t be very muchIt will help just a little toward building the church.It is ten cents a week, or five dollars a year,If you reckon it up, I think it is clear.With twenty cents brought into the account,Then five dollars twenty, is the total amount.ofThe giving it up ill be a greattrial,From old self-indulgence to new self-denialTo break off a habit is not easily done,But it has been accomplished byhere and there one.”There were no large subscriptions toward the fund for the new church. There were thee subscriptions of one thousand dollars each, given by Mrs. M. A. Corwin, Mr. W. R. Little and Mr. George Houghton. Thelast named had come into the church during the great revival. Other subscriptions followed. Children paid for one or more bricks. Tnruugh much self-denial thePerhaps his most effective work was among the young people with whom he was very popular and whom he enlisted in large numbers in Christian work. An organization which he was first to form prospered to such a degree that from , forty to sixty were present at each i of their semi-monthly meetings I held at private homes. These young people are scattered wide in the world's great vineyard, and all, so far as we know, are working Christians.”The organization referred to was called the “Young People’s Liter-) ary Society”. The membership was by no means confined to this church. A course of Art lecturesII was arranged for, and given by a young woman from New York City, who had studied in Europe. Numerous other lecturers were brv^0 J here by this Society, and a “Play”' with good music was given by the Society in Whittlesey Hall.The Encyclopedia Brittiania in the Public Library was “Presented to the Youn Men’s Library and Reading Room by the Young Peoples Literary Society, June 1879.”, In the pews were found many families that are now gone from among us. Many are gone forever. Many have removed to other pla-j ces. As I read these family names some of you will recall the aspect of the congregation of the time.Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Sherman, Mr. and Mrs. James Knapp, Mr. and Mrs Theron Kellogg, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Thorley, Dr. Smith, Dr. J. W. Peasley, Mr. and Mrs. Milton Laylin, Mr. Mrs. S. K. Bartley, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Bell, Miss Ella Henderson. Mrs. i Wm, Bailey, Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Elliot, Mr. and Mrs. George Butt, Mr and Mrs. Isaac Underhill. Miss Sophia Rowland. Mr. and Mrs. Moses Yale, Mrs. L. B. Dennis, Miss Sara Edsali, Mr. and Mes. Remington, W. D. McVitty, J. R. Miller, Mr. and Mrs. Chamberlain, Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Green, Miss Belle Peebles, Mrs. Pendelton, Mr. and Mrs. Rhinemiller, Mr. and Mrs E G. Boughton, Mrs. F. Close, Mr. and Mrs. Forman, Mrs. Annis Jacobs, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Jacobs. Mr. and Mrs. Sanborn, Mrs. Elvira Spear, Mrs. Lucy Fuller, Mr. and Mrs. Brimson, Mrs. Francos Armstrong. Mr. and Mrs. Gager, Mrs. Gilbert, Mr. and Mrs. Eli Hoyt, Mr. and Mrs. Daniel, Wheaton, Mr. Mitchell Harrison, Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Harrison, Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Hoyt; Mr. and Mrs. George Houghton, Mr. and Mrs.O. G. Carter, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Baker, Mr and Mrs. Carleton Baker, Mr. and Mrs. Asher Rowland, Rev. and Mrs. Ira Corwin, Mr. and Mrs. Ben Smith, Mrs. Hen-ti!UcuIMscwBcaarFipc10toBlt;neto14Jc$1K$3Dd$!.lt;Ct10tolirellGinetlrvuto86SttoNcHu
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Norwalk Reflector Herald
Norwalk, Ohio, US
Sat, Apr 01, 1944
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