Bishop Williams consecrated the elements of the Lord's Supper, and was assisted in the delivery of the same by the Rev. Mr. Baldwin and the Rector. The Communion hymn was:

"Oft in danger, oft in woe,

Onward Christian, onward go,

Bear the toil, maintain the strife,
Strengthened by the Bread of Life."

A large number of communicants united in the Holy Eucharist. The offering was four hundred and sixty-three dollars.

"At three o'clock in the afternoon, after the singing of the seventy-ninth psalm, the Rev. Mr. Moody read the Litany. The sixtieth selection was then sung, and an address was delivered by the Rector. The subject was: The historic spirit of the Christian traveller following the current of the Church, as a river, from its source to the sea. Ezekiel's vision of the holy waters issuing from the gate of the Temple, was taken as the ground of an historical discourse. The Church, under the figure of a river, was traced from its original spring. It was represented as flowing on from the east, branching into the isles of the west, and from thence passing over into the new world-reaching to the ankles in the valleys, rising to the knees around the inland hills, swelling to the loins among the central mountains, deepening and widening in its course from east to west. A river to swim in, having a continuous line of trees flourishing upon its banks, with healing in its living waters. The faithfulness of such noble missionaries as Johnson, Beach, and Marshall, was eulogized. The history of Marshall, the first settled missionary in Woodbury, and the sore trials. he endured, were briefly sketched, and an historical and statistical account of the parish was given to the present time.

"Pleasant are Thy courts above,"

was then sung, and the Benediction pronounced.

Evening service, at 7:40 o'clock, was conducted by the Rev. Messrs. Nelson, Clark, and Peck. The Rev. Dr. Beardsley delivered a sermon from Job, viii. 10. This admirable discourse, by the able historian of the Episcopal Church in Connecticut, was on the mission of the Rev. John Rutgers Marshall, and on the elec tion of Bishop Seabury, in Woodbury, to the Episcopate of Connecticut. He clearly showed the prominent part which Connecti

cut took in settling the framework and in arranging the formularies of the Church, as it is now organized.

The hymn,

"Saviour again to Thy dear Name we raise,

With one accord, our parting hymn of praise,"

was sung. The Bishop then closed the service with prayer and the benediction. The gifts presented on this interesting occasion were: Wall decoration of the chancel in polychrome; four paintings in oil, to fill four panels of the reredos, (the paintings to contain the symbols of the four Gospels, blended with emblems of the Lord's Supper, and texts from the Evangelists); silver flagon and silver paten; prayer-books for the altar; pulpit desk and pulpit frontal, in crimson and gold; two sets of candle branches for the reredos; a set of altar linen, and a pair of crystal vases. These were presented by the descendants of the first Rector, and by the friends of the parish. In addition, several memorial windows have been promised.

"A beautiful collation was provided by the ladies, of which the bishops, clergy, visitors, and parishioners partook with much social enjoyment.

"All the services were attended by full congregations. The responses were rendered with unusual spirit. The singing, led by the choir, with well arranged and appropriate music, was hearty and joyful, and there was a general expression of cordial thankfulness for the privilege of joining in such pleasant commemoration services.

Why should not the Church 'spend the flower of her time happily,' by keeping such pleasant memories with religious joy? The centenary of the consecration of Bishop Seabury is not far distant, which may be pleasantly anticipated by religious memorials of the missionaries who preceded him. If the centenary of the birth of a great literary and poetical genius, who 'roused romance from her mouldering urn,' and awakened historic voices in a mountain land, which have resounded round the world, be widely celebrated, why should not the name and memorial of the heroic servants of God, who have been the heralds of the Gospel and the missionaries of the cross, be worthily kept with psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, by those in whose hearts their memory remains as a tuneful melody? The very dust of the

sacred dead should be honored. At their graves the blushing rose should speak of the cheering hope of the resurrection, and the clustering evergreen vine shadow forth the immortality of saints departed."

Here ends our account of the various societies that have been born and bred in the "old homestead,” and we leave them with a benediction, hoping that at the "Day of final accounts" we shall meet with all of our children "in a general joy.”

CHAPTER XI.

BIOGRAPHIES AND AUTO-BIOGRAPHIES OF NATIVES, RESIDENTS, AND DESCENDANTS OF ANCIENT WOODBURY, IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER.

Land." Singular instances occur in every rank in life. The following is an instance in the clerical profession :

GARRETT GARNSEY BROWN.

Garrett Garnsey Brown, of the class of 1809, Yale College, died in the Woodbury almshouse, on Saturday, October 1st, aged 86 years. He was a native of Bethlehem, and after being graduated at Yale, at the age of twenty-five, went South, where he engaged in teaching in families of wealthy planters in Louisiana He also preached as a Congregational minister, but whether regularly ordained or not, we do not know. Later in life he went to the Sandwich Islands, where he was unfortunate and lost his property. He subsequently returned to Louisiana, remaining there

until shortly before the war, when he came back to his native place. He was provided for a while by a brother, but finally, being unwilling to make any exertion for his own comfort or benefit, was turned upon the town, and boarded at the public expense at the Woodbury almshouse. He retained his faculties to a remarkable degree until the end of his life.

HON. SETH P. BEERS.

A sketch of Mr. Beers appears on page 426. An error occurs in the date in the 11th line. It should be, November, 1812.

He was born at Woodbury, July 1st, 1781, but passed his whole business life at Litchfield, Conn. He attended the "Bi-Centennial" of the town, July 4th and 5th, 1859, and made a most feeling, appropriate, and eloquent address, which included a sketch of his own career. One remark made on that occasion proved prophetic in his own case. It is recorded on page 974. "My coming hither to day seems a completion of the circle of my life. It brings me round to the point whence I started, and connects the termination of the line with the beginning." He was at this time one of the best preserved old men with whom the writer has ever been acquainted, but he died a little more than a year later. All his children are gone, too, except Julia. And thus passed away a Christian gentleman of the "old school," one of the most honored and useful citizens of our county and State.

HON. CHARLES CHAPMAN.

Charles Chapman,' the most brilliant advocate of the Connecticut bar, was a "grandson of Woodbury" by two lines of descent. He died at Hartford, where he resided, on the 7th day of August, 1869, in the 71st year of his age. He was born in Newtown, Conn., June 21st, 1799. His father was Asa Chapman, a Judge of the Supreme Court of the State. He commenced his law studies with his father, pursued them for a time at the Litchfield Law School, and completed them with the late Chief Jus

1 The larger portion of this account of Mr. Chapman is taken from the 35th Vol. of Connecticut Reports.