R. D. Hitchcock lectured at the Asylum Hill Chapel

1. The audience was large “notwithstanding the disagreeable weather.”
2. The lecture was the first in a planned “lecture course,” but the next lecture had not yet been announced.

On December 13, 1865, Asylum Hill Congregational Church will install Joseph Twichell as pastor.

1. “The lecture was, in all respects, one of the ablest ever delivered here, and was listened to with the most marked interest and attention.”
2. “The course has opened auspiciously, and will undoubtedly be very successful.”

1. Roswell Dwight Hitchcock (1817-1887) was a Congregational minister who was a professor at Union Theological Seminary in New York.
2. “Articulation,” following the Civil War and during Reconstruction, referred to the effort to reintegrate the Southern states into the United States. It also referred to restructuring political and social relationships between the states and among citizens, in particular among whites and blacks in the South.

Unattributed.  “Asylum Hill lecture,” Hartford Daily Courant, December 5, 1865, page 2.