Center Church annual manuals: 1870 and 1871 · scan page 93

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side of our church work
can
be
very
nuich more
cultivated;
but
in
'
the church itself,
in our
ineetiutrM
for
conference
and pmyer. in
the
social church gatherini^s and
i:i
tlie tield^
of Christ-an
ialx.r, a
better
knowledge of each other can and oueht
to
be
cultivaied, and
would
undoubtedly
tend
to
mutual
edification.
The
Sabb.itli
School
is
)
another
instrument of
usofulucs.i
to
the
church, whicli may
\)>-
in-
i
creased.
We have said that
it
is now more prosperous than for many
j
years, and so
it
is.
A. baud
of faithful
and
earnest
te-ichers
have
drawn to them nearly two hundred scholars, but
the time
is
remera-
;
bered when twice that uuinbcr were enrolled on the list of the
sciiool.
It might be so now.
The material is not wanting.
Large numbers of
1
young persons are more or less ro:zular attendants on our S ibbath ser-
vices, over whom the church ou^ht to a least attempt to
exert
a more
decided influence.
These form a class of persons
who, by
their pre-
sence with us on the Sabbath, in a manner ask us for our active sym-
pathy
and
friendly
services,
which we
cannot
properly
withhold.
The formation
of additional
Bible
classes from among these
persons,
and from those more
especially
of our own
church, who no
lon^rer
call themselves children, would be a very efficient means of doing good.
If we look
outside of
tlie church we find a very
large numbe r
of
the whole adult population of New Haven, who have no regular place
of worship, while of more
tmnslent persons, the sailors are an
inter-
esting and much neglected class.
There must
be, there
are ways
of
,
reaching
these.
By
the opening of new
places
of worship, by
the
!
establishment of Sabbath Sciiv>ois for neglected children
; by
the
dis-
•
tribution of tracts and religious i»ooks
; by
bible
reading;
by holding
;
prayer meetings in neighborhoods whore
little
religious
influence
is
;
exerted,
it is believed much
u'ood may
be
accomplished
and
tliai
in
!
some or all
of these ways
this church ought
to
let
its
light shine.
\
Perhaps
it
is not too mucli to say that
this church ought
of itself to
j
support a fity niissionary to labor among the destitute of our city. The-e
j
modes of church work are
not new.
Labor
of
tlie
kind
which
has
I
been indicated
is l.irgcly and systematically prosecuted in
other cities
I
and large towns.
It has not lieen entirely unknown or untried among
ourselves.
A single church in the city of New York, through
an
or-
ganization
formed
in
the
church, supports
live
missionary
chapels,
six Sunday
Schools
attended by
1500
scholars, a
dispensary which
affords medical aid to the desdtuto who require
it, six industrial schools*
a school for crippled children ami a Dorcas Society, at an
annual
cost

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Silent Grounds Collective, Church Burial & Death Records, CH-P008-0093. Center Church annual manuals: 1870 and 1871, printed page not verified, PDF page 93. New Haven (Conn.). First Church of Christ; digitized copy contributed by Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center https://archive.org/details/manualoffirstchu00newh_0/page/n93/mode/1up Accessed September 8, 2026.

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