Joseph Twichell Installed as Pastor at Asylum Hill Congregational Church

12/13/1865 |

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Joseph Twichell was installed as pastor in the Asylum Hill Congregational chapel this afternoon.

 

The event proceeded as follows:

  1. Examination of the candidate
  2. Invocation and reading Scripture: L. L. Paine of Farmington
  3. Sermon and charge to pastor: E. C. Jones of Southington
  4. Installation prayer: Leonard Bacon of New Haven
  5. Giving the right hand of fellowship: George Gould, Center Church, Hartford
  6. Charge to the people: Horace Bushnell
  7. Benediction: Joseph Twichell

The reading was 2nd Corinthians 4.  The sermon was from Luke 24:49.  Joel Hawes also participated in the event.

The participants on the examination council included all of the ministers (except Twichell) who participated in the installation service plus Joel Hawes.  Also participating was the pastor from the Congregational church in Franklin and the pastors “of the five Congregational churches in Hartford.”  Since Asylum Hill Congregational was the seventh, one church is missing from this calculation.

Twichell accepted the church’s call on August 8, 1865.

“In the latter [Bushnell] took occasion to congratulate the church on having a young pastor with whom they could grow up.”

Swartz, Melva J., “Hill Church Will Observe Anniversary,” Hartford Courant, March 18, 1940, page 1.

Unattributed, “Fiftieth Anniversary of the Asylum Hill Congregational Church,” Hartford Courant, February 14, 1915, page X5

Unattributed, “History of the Hill Church – F. Irvin Davis Gives It in Brief,” Hartford Courant, March 2, 1908, page 4.

Unattributed, “Installation,” Hartford Daily Courant, December 14, 1865, page 2.

Unattributed, “Rev. Dr. Joseph H. Twichell Honored at Anniversary of His Church,” Hartford Courant, March 24, 1915, page 16.

Joseph Twichell
Asylum Hill Congregational Church

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