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CELEBRATION OF 200TH ANNIVERSARY
SUB-COMMITTEES.
INVITATIONS.
Mary B. Noyes, Chairman; Mrs. Augustus P. Morse, Celestia S. Goldsmith, Mrs. Arthur H. Wilcomb, Mrs. George E. Gillingham, Mrs. Samuel E. Ray.
RECEPTION.
John M. Webster, Chairman; John A. Weeks, Charles H. Edwards, Luther H. Roberts, Charles F. True, Preston E. Good- rich, Mrs. Elizabeth S. Hooke, Mrs. Fred E. Boyles, Mrs. Albert L. Warren, Ruth N. Webster, Rachel A. Mackintosh.
PROGRAM AND SPEAKERS.
Arthur H. Wilcomb, Chairman; Leroy D. Morse, Col. George A. Hosley, Rev. Silas N. Adams, Carlos W. Noyes, Emma M. Moore, Helen E. Melvin, Mrs. John F. Green, Mrs. William B. Underhill, Mrs. Arthur H. Wilcomb, Charles H. Greene, Percy S. Stowe, Albert F. B. Edwards, J. Frank Couch, Mr. and Mrs. Farish G. Lewis.
FINANCE.
Augustus P. Morse, Chairman; George D. Rand, John C. Ramsdell, Martin Mills, Dwight M. Mitchell, Robert H. Hazelton.
HISTORICAL.
Jennie P. Hazelton, Chairman ; Arthur H. Wilcomb, Martha T. Learnard, Celestia S. Goldsmith, Mrs. Emma F. Lane, Emma L. Jenness, Alice L. Tenney.
HISTORICAL EXHIBITS.
Eleanor J. Locke, Chairman ; Mrs. Augustus P. Morse, Mrs. Albert L. Warren, Mrs. Edward T. Morse, Mrs. George E. Gillingham, Mrs. William P. Nichols, Mrs. Martin Mills, Mrs. Adelbert A. Coates, Mrs. William B. Wason, Mrs. Charles H. Greene, Sarah P. Webster, Mary A. Owen.
SUNDAY SERVICES.
Rev. Silas N. Adams, Chairman ; Robert H. Hazelton, Rev. Mary E. Morse, Lester W. Mitchell, Chester P. Hunt, Mrs. George L. Fitts, William T. Owen.
PAGEANT.
Rev. Silas N. Adams, Chairman; Mr. and Mrs. Walter P. Tenney, Mr. and Mrs. Walter W. Lane, Mrs. Arthur V. Allen.
PRESS AND PUBLICITY.
Isabelle H. Fitz, Chairman; Mrs. Edwin P. Jones, Mrs. Walter W. Lane, George D. Rand, Emma L. Jenness, Clarence A. Wetherbee, Josephine S. Fitz, Carlos W. Noyes, Charles F. Hill, Edward Wilcox, Mrs. William C. Hall, Mrs. William P. Nichols.
DECORATIONS.
William B. Underhill, Chairman; Mr. and Mrs. Nathan W. Goldsmith, Mr. and Mrs. Edwin P. Jones, Mrs. William B. Un- derhill, George L. Fitts, Howard B. Fitts, Leon I. Richardson.
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PARADE.
Col. George A. Hosley, Chairman; Arthur H. Wilcomb, James A. Edwards, Herbert H. True, George L. Fitts, Edwin P. Jones, Warren F. Robinson, Leon I. Richardson, George E. Gillingham, Wilson S. Wells, Leon G. Simonds.
MUSIC.
Nathan W. Goldsmith, Chairman; Rev. Silas N. Adams, Walter I. Martin, Walter W. Lane, Mrs. William N. Colby, Mrs. Nathan W. Goldsmith, Mrs. Luther B. Lane, Leon I. Richardson.
TENTS.
George E. Gillingham, Chairman; George E. Rand, George S. Whittemore, James E. McCannon, Edward A. Towle, Wilson S. Wells, Stephen A. Steele, William H. West, William H. West 2d, James A. Edwards, Leon G. Simonds, Harry Roberts, Albert F. Healey, William M. Butterfield, Clarence A. Wetherbee, Loyal E. Stanley, Harry C. Edwards, William A. Healey, Morris Poor, Bernard M. Sanborn, Charles H. Smith, George Pettigrew, William B. Wason, Leroy D. Morse, Herbert W. Ray, William N. Colby, Edwin P. Jones, Edward C. Chase, Wayland S. Berry, Oscar B. Lovering, Leon B. Richardson.
GROUNDS.
John H. Robie, Chairman; Farish G. Lewis, William N. Colby, Samuel E. Ray, George S. Whittemore, James E. McCannon.
SPORTS.
William T. Owen, Chairman; H. Wallace Fitts, Byron D. Mills, David M. Mills, Henry D. Mills, Arthur H. Wilcomb, Wilson S. Wells, Clarence M. McCully, Charles A. Goldsmith, Loren P. Rand, Leon G. Simonds, Leroy D. Morse, Leon I. Richardson.
INFORMATION.
George D. Rand, Chairman; John A. Weeks, Joseph F. Edwards, Mrs. George S. Whittemore, Mrs. Hannah M. Sawyer, Cora E. Hills, Mrs. Perle C. McCully, William E. Jones, Mildred S. Robie, Mrs. John M. Parker, William N. Colby.
ENTERTAINMENT.
Walter P. Tenney, Chairman; Rev. Silas N. Adams, Leroy D. Morse, Walter W. Lane, Mrs. William C. Hall, Leon I. Richardson, Dr. Joseph C. Tappan.
BANQUET.
Herbert W. Ray, Chairman ; George E. Gillingham, Herbert H. True, Edwin P. Jones.
MEDICAL AND PUBLIC COMFORT.
Martin Mills, Chairman; Dr. Joseph C. Tappan, Clarence A. Wetherbee, Charles E. Cook, Willard R. Stowe, Austin C. Hunt, Mrs. George L. Noyes, Mrs. Alice M. Purington, Mrs. John D.
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Fiske, Rachel A. Mackintosh, Lillian Mackintosh, Frederick F. Church.
PRINTING.
George S. West, Chairman; Wilson S. Wells, William E. Jones, Walter I. Martin, Leroy D. Morse, Charles A. Goldsmith.
ACCOMODATIONS.
Edwin P. Jones, Chairman; Mrs. Edwin P. Jones, Almira E. Crawford, Margaret C. Adams, William B. Underhill, Charles A. Goldsmith.
IMPROVEMENTS.
Clarence O. Morse, Chairman; Leon B. Richardson, Mr. and Mrs. John C. Ramsdell, Charles A. Nichols, Walter W. Lane, Roland A. Nichols, Herbert W. Ray, Charles E. Cook, William B. Underhill, Mary B. Noyes, Jennie P. Hazelton, Mrs. John F. Green, Mrs. William B. Underhill, Mrs. Arthur H. Wilcomb.
SEATS.
William B. Wason, Chairman; Chester P. Hunt, Roland A. Nichols, Arthur E. Leighton, Leroy D. Carpenter, Clarence A. Wetherbee, Lester W. Mitchell.
REVIEWING STAND.
Edward C. Chase, Chairman; George E. Rand, Farish G. Lewis, Frank M. Morse, William H. Lewis, Roger P. Edwards.
CONVEYANCES.
Walter W. Lane, Chairman; James A. Edwards, Leon I. Richardson, Henry D. Mills, Victor D. Spollett, Herbert W. Ray.
PARKING.
John D. Fiske, Chairman; William N. Colby, Willard R. Stowe, Frank M. Morse, Roger P. Edwards, Lester W. Mitchell.
REGISTRATION.
William C. Hall, Chairman; William H. West, 2d, Leon G. Simonds, Mrs. William C. Hall, Almira E. Crawford.
BADGES.
Edward T. Morse, Chairman; Mrs. John F. Green, John C. Ramsdell, Mrs. Edward T. Morse, Wilson S. Wells.
MEMORIAL TO THE SPANISH AND WORLD WAR VETERANS.
Albert F. B. Edwards, Representing the Civil War Veterans. Charles E. Cook, Representing the Spanish War Veterans. Percy S. Stowe, Representing the World War Veterans.
At a meeting held July 25, 1922, the following named officers for the celebration were elected : President, John Carroll Chase, Esq., Derry; Vice Presidents, Augustus P. Morse, George D. Rand, William B. Underhill, Dwight M. Mitchell, Robert H. Hazelton, and William E. Jones; Honorary Vice Presidents, Amos Tuck French, Tuxedo Park, N. Y., Louis Bell, Ph. D., West Newton, Mass., George W. Stevens, Everett, Mass., Charles
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D. Tenney, Palo Alto, Cal., Charles A. Wilcomb, Fullerton, Cal., and John B. Gordon, Haverhill, Mass.
There were held in all 28 well attended meetings and every one worked with enthusiasm to make the celebration a success.
THE CELEBRATION.
On Sunday morning, August 27, the celebration of the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the settlement of Chester began with religious exercises held in the Congregational and Baptist churches, good-sized congregations being present.
At the Congregational Church the pastor, Rev. Silas N. Adams, conducted the services, the sermon being preached by Rev. Samuel H. Dana, D. D., of Exeter, whose text was taken from Second Corinthians, 1:12. "In simplicity and Godly sin- cerity we have had our conversation in the world." Revised ver- sion, "we behaved ourselves in the world."
He said in part :
With a certain class of minds, they whom we are wont to speak of as our Forefathers have often been, if not subjects of derision, at least objects of ridicule. Their manners, their views, their dress, the austerity of their life, the paucity of their pleasures, the rigidity of their customs, the severity of their piety, the barrenness of their homes, their lack of color, their stilted phraseology, have been con- spicuous objects of scoff or merriment.
If one regards only the superficialities and not the realities, the accidents and not the essentials, the dress and not the man within: if one has no sense of perspective or locality, if one values fiction more than fact, no matter how great the fact, then he may smile his super- cilious smile and laugh his hollow laugh. There is enough to amuse him.
But if one be a thinking man, clothed with ordinary intelligence, if fair-minded and open-minded, if he be a maker of history, or acquainted but lightly with literature, if he can recognize a man when he sees him, if he knows aught of the making of this nation, or values what is best worth having in it, his smile will quickly vanish before profound reverence and highest homage. For he will be in the presence of a body of men who have more largely changed the history of the world for good than any other that ever existed, and who did so because they were worthy to accomplish so colossal an achievement : who, having the highest ideals possible to humanity, suffered nought to lower or dim those ideals, but were strong enough to accomplish them; who, costly as was the price, hesitated not to pay it; whom love of country, of home, of ease, of all that made life attractive, could not wean from it; for whom no sacrifice was too great, no burden too heavy, no danger too threatening; who were not afraid because de- votion to principle was stronger than sense of fear.
They made possible the United States of America. But for them it would never have been. Our real worth they gave. The best in this nation today is a heritage from them. "The Mayflower carried in her freight," says Leonard Bacon, "the future of the world's history." "We have a right to consider," said the late Senator Hoar, "the compact
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on board the Mayflower the most important political transaction that has ever taken place on the face of the earth."
They knew what they wanted to build, but what they did build was beyond their highest conception. Only God could foresee so much and the future reveal it.
Their prophets could express their hopes and aims, but the vision of no prophet was wide enough to take in the realization.
If by the term Forefather we mean the Pilgrim, there need be no note of apology in our eulogy. There is nought to qualify in character, aim or conduct. This earth was never walked by higher or by purer man. He provokes no smile, and we can find nought to censure, or in any way to wish different in him. We revere him and we love him. All the beatitudes of the Sermon on the Mount met together in him- the "pure in heart," who "hungered and thirsted after righteousness," the "merciful," the "peacemaker," the "persecuted for righteousness sake," the "meek who should inherit the earth"- these he was, the "salt of the earth," whose savor was never lost. He belonged to the Kingdom of Heaven. That was the only kingdom he recognized, and his loyalty to that was supreme. That made him a Pilgrim, exiled him in Holland, and bore him to America, and that, so far as it could be established on earth, he planted to the glory of God and the salvation of man here in New England.
Or, if by "Forefather" we mean the Puritan of England, though strictly speaking he is our Fore-grandfather,- we may qualify our encomiums. We must admit his weaknesses, his inconsistencies, his narrowness, his affectations, all that was unlovely in him. But, with every witness heard and credited, with every odious or ridiculous trait admitted, with all the blemishes of his character asknowledged, he still stands out the strongest, the greatest, the purest and the best man of his times, animated with higher purposes, stronger faith in God and man, greater zeal for righteousness, than the world and the church around him had any conception of or appreciation for.
His faults were largely reactions against the customs and vices of the time. If he practiced total abstinence in pleasures rather than the more Christian virtue of temperance, it was because, seeing de- moralization around him, he felt that thus only could he keep his manhood.
He may not have engrossed the graces, but he did engross the virtues. His faults were largely superficial and temporary; his vir- tues had their roots in his inmost being and were eternal. We will put Cromwell, Hamden and Milton side by side with Stuart King, rich cavalier or the satirist drivellers, who wrote their licentious plays. We will recall Macaulay's words of the Puritans :- "This most remarkable body of men, perhaps, which the world has ever produced" and the historian Green's "The whole history of English progress since the Restoration, in its moral and spiritual sides, has been the history of Puritanism."
Or if by Forefathers we mean, as we more generally do, the Pilgrim and the Puritan of this land-the Puritan after he had crossed the ocean, after he had lost in the depths of the sea his hatred of Independency, after a freer air had given him stronger taste for liberty, after the Pilgrim by example, by the nobility of his character, the purity of his religion and the charity of his life had softened and sweetened and broadened the Puritan, the men of Plymouth and Salem and Massachusetts Bay, the Connecticut Colony, Rhode Island and New Hampshire, the makers of New England, no words shall seem
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too strong as we "sing of arms and the man"- of what he did and what he was.
After every last criticism is made, and every just censure is passed, he stands forth as true a man, with as great accomplishment of purpose as the story of humanity records. It was a second example of "when the fulness of time had come," a free government, a free church, free schools,- thus are we wont to classify his achievements. The "government of the people, by the people, for the people," a church untrammeled by priest, prelate or ruler, wherein all were alike before God; schools-schools everywhere-for all, good enough for the richest, cheap enough for the poorest-how much is covered by this brief statement ! What a history is condensed into it! It is the heading only of the best chapter in the history of the race-a chapter of heroism, of struggle, of patience, of courage, of fidelity, of self- denial, of sacrifice, of persistence. Its setting makes it a romance, its action make it a tragedy, its accomplishment makes it a triumphant processional. Our national songs should be not for what we are, but for what they were.
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Their spirit, their courage, their love of liberty, invited others of like mold, who believed as they believed and desired what they had attained, and so from the Highlands of Scotland and the North of Ireland they came, especially to this part of New Hampshire, and helped to build not only one town but the state and the nation.
These were the men and women who founded Chester. You may well celebrate not that event today but remember and celebrate them. Your history since has shown whence you sprang. "Lest we forget ?" You have not forgotten. What you were and what you did in colonial days, in the War of the Revolution, in 1812, in 1861, in the recent World's War, declares that you still run "true to form."
Your ancestors were great, but you have not rested content to say, "We have Abraham for our Father." Pride of ancestry is right, but if that be all it is mockery. The race is running out unless the heritage is guarded and preserved. Unless still there is loyalty to the principles of righteousness, justice and liberty.
This should be a day not only of commemoration, though chiefly that, but of inspiration and consecration.
"Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget-lest we forget !"
Dr. Dana was followed by Rev. James G. Robertson of South Strafford, Vt., pastor of the church from 1889 to 1915. He said :
One who has been pastor of a church for twenty-six years deeply appreciates the privilege of meeting his people after some years of service in other fields. One is grateful, too, for the opportunity on such an occasion as this of speaking to his old congregation which, alas! is not the same congregation-for many to whom he ministered are no longer here-but have gone to the better country-
"Where congregations ne're break up And Sabbaths have no end."
Since the year of our Lord 1731 there has been a congregational church in Chester. Meetings were held in town before that time, but it was in 1731 that the church was organized and Rev. Moses Hale became its first minister. The pastorate of Mr. Hale was brief owing to bodily and mental ills. Evidently the burden was too heavy; after something over three years Mr. Hale was dismissed.
Gw. E. Gillingham
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In 1736 the notable pastorate of Rev. Ebenezer Flagg began. Would that we knew more of the man and the details of his sixty years of service in this his only parish! In 1796 the faithful servant of God passed to his reward, having out-lived all who were active in the church when his work began. He died at the age of 93.
When Parson Flagg's powers were no longer equal to the task, Rev. Nathan Bradstreet was called. At the memorial service held in the church for President George Washington in 1800, Mr. Bradstreet delivered the address. He built a good parsonage, still occupied, in which one of the first temperance societies in America was organized. The waters were rough in those days. It was the time the wave of French skepticism swept over the land. In 1800 only two students in Yale College called themselves Christians. Doubtless more than one church was affected unfavorably by wide spread unbelief. The church in Chester for some reason was divided and the work was hindered. Truly in those days "there was sorrow on the sea." In 1820 came Rev. Joel Arnold, and the church took on new life. Temperance societies were formed in many towns, and Chester was no exception. Mr. Arnold was deeply interested in this work, and as a consequence made some enemies.
Some of those present will remember Miss Charlotte Moore who lived to a good old age, and died not far from the year 1890. She was a girl in her teens when Mr. Arnold became pastor. She lived at that time in the house now occupied by Mr. George Hook. One day as she was on some errand, she chanced to meet the minister who was, if I remember her story correctly, on the other side of the street. He did not speak, but simply looked at her, as if to say: "Why are you not a Christian?" at least-such was the interpretation she gave to the pastor's look, and expression of concern for her deepest need. Her thoughts became busy, and she was not long in deciding to be a Christian. It usually takes more than a look from the minister to give one an impulse which results in conversion.
Mention was made of Mr. Arnold's interest in temperance work. This was intensified by the sad occurrence of finding a man dead on the edge of the road with a jug of rum by his side. It was an object lesson on the evils of intemperance which the community evidently took to heart. Many "signed the pledge" and were given strength to keep it.
In 1830 Mr. Arnold was succeeded by Rev. Jonathan Clement, D. D., who was pastor for fifteen years. In the pastorates of Mr. Arnold and Dr. Clement there were revivals and many conversions. It was while the latter was minister that the church edifice was altered into its present shape. It was my privilege to read the sermon which was delivered by Dr. Clement, at the funeral of Judge William M. Richardson of Chester. It impressed me as being a helpful and uplifting discourse. After reading it one could not help thinking that there were giants in those days, and that Judge Richardson was one of them.
Next came Rev. Lauren Armsby, a loveable man-a friend of the people, and a most useful guide. The church in his day was prosperous, and after he went to other fields he was held in loving remembrance. Rev. Harrison O. Howland followed Mr. Armsby, in the days preceding the Civil War. This man greatly loved his Bible,- and it was his desire to have the young commit choice selections from the Bible to memory. His work was faithfully done.
While we are speaking of ministers, how often do we think of the part which the minister's wife plays in making his work successful ?
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How much do we hear of Mrs. Flagg, or Mrs. Bradstreet, or Mrs. Arnold, or Mrs. Clement? Let me read you this biographical note concerning Mrs. Howland :-
HANNAH ORDWAY BAILEY
BORN in Amesbury, Massachusetts, March 25, 1813, third daughter of William and Elizabeth Bailey.
A PUPIL of Mary Lyon at Ipswich, and one of the earliest graduates of Mount Holyoke College, where she went with Mary Lyon at its beginning.
A TEACHER in her native village, at the Female Seminary in Gran- ville, Ohio, and at Mount Holyoke College.
MARRIED in 1845 to Rev. Harrison Otis Howland, with whom she spent twenty-eight busy, happy and useful years.
"Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on thee, because he trusteth in thee."
HANNAH (BAILEY) HOWLAND.
A PASTOR'S WIFE in Warner and Chester, New Hampshire: Honesdale and Girard, Pennsylvania; Ashland and Ellington, New York. Always a friend to all, an earnest helper in every good work.
FIVE CHILDREN filled her home, and were taught and guided by her in paths that lead to light.
EVENING TIME. Since 1872 she made her pilgrimage without the companion of her earlier years, resting happily in the home of her children, in perfect health of body and mind.
SHE FELL ASLEEP at De Mille College, St. Catherine's, Ontario, on Monday, January 23, 1899, with loving daughters and friends about her, after a brief illness, and two days later was laid to rest beside her husband in the cemetery at Kinderhook, New York.
"At evening time it shall be light."
We add this note concerning Mr. Howland :
"If in his religious life, he had any one trait which was more prominent than any other, it was his peculiar love for the Bible. Just before the close of his life when in the room of a sick daughter, he pointed to the "Silent Comforter" upon the wall, opened to these words of Job :- "I have esteemed the words of His mouth more than my necessary food," and with an expressive look, (he was almost wholly voiceless) he signified that such were his feelings."
In the instruction of his family he was so thorough and faithful that one was reminded of the record of Abraham: "For I know him that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord to do justice and judgment." Mr. Howland entered into rest at his home in Kinderhook, N. Y., Feb. 13, 1872.
Rev. J. Logan Tomlinson was the next pastor. He was leader of the church during the Civil War. Mr. Tomlinson was a good ser- monizer and a picturesque character withal. He was tall of stature, wore his hair long, and carried a carpet bag as he went from place to place. He was sometimes called a second Henry Ward Beecher. He exchanged pulpits occasionally with Dr. Wm. Jewett Tucker, later president of Dartmouth College, when Dr. Tucker was pastor of the Franklin St. Church in Manchester. Mr. Tomlinson preached a memorial sermon on Lincoln, after the assassination of that great and good man, a discourse well worth reading.
Many here present remember Rev. Charles Tenney, a gentle and friendly man. A revival took place during his ministry of seventeen
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years in which Allan Folger, and some Dartmouth students took part and there were numerous conversions. The church was in good con- dition when the present speaker became its pastor.
We leave it to others to write the record of the pastors who are still living, and speak for a moment of some who formed the rank and file of the church. Many of you recall the good men and women who years ago worshipped here, and who have fallen asleep in Christ. Many of you will remember Judith Morse, born in 1802. In her childhood she would meet many soldiers who served in the Revolution- ary War. She would also, now and then, meet some one who served the English King in the French and Indian War,-which lasted from 1755 to 1762, and would listen to their tales of hardship and adventure. Her brother Parker Morse, born 1807, was a pillar in this church for many years. Then there was Dea. William Tenney, the brother of Charles, Sewall and Daniel. They labored in the ministry-he worked on the farm, set out a splendid orchard, and raised a splendid family of children-all of them deeply interested in religion and the work of the church. One hesitates to mention names, for he is sure to leave unmentioned some who are worthy to be spoken of in the highest terms. I will, however, undertake to mention two who were dear to one another, and to everyone else who knew them. I refer to Miss Harriette A. Melvin and Miss Emma L. Jenness. Each different from the other, and each had rare beauty of character. Each had learned the fine art of teaching, and each was a power for good. They were no strangers to suffering, but they were most patient, "enduring as seeing Him who is invisible." They believed in prayer, and they helped to bring about the answer to their prayers. If all men could have, along with other gifts, the simple piety and rugged honesty of the two laymen I have mentioned, and if all women could have the "manners of the sky," that something which reminds one of Galilee, on the part of the women referred to, this would be a better world than it it; human life would be safer, and there would be more hap- piness and less woe. Of them we may say that they "rest from their labors and their works do follow them."
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