Farewell service for Daniel Trumbull Huntington

1. Other ministers present for this service were

• S. J. Horton
• George M. Stanley
• J. D. Ewing

2. There was also a collection taken for mission work in China.

There was no mention of Ernest Miel, the current rector.

Samuel Schereschewsky was an Episcopal bishop who would be on the same steamer to China as Huntington would be.  He was heading to China to “take charge of the printing and publication of his great translation of the Scriptures in the Christian language.”

1. Huntington was due to sail from Vancouver to China on August 26, 1895.
2. He would then travel Hankou, Hubei Province, where he would be under the charge of Frederick Graves.

Daniel Trumbull Huntington’s grandfather was Samuel H. Huntington, who was a founder of Trinity Episcopal Church.

1. Kirkby “spoke of the incentives to missions in the Lord’s command, the abundant opportunities and the certainty of success, and he closed with an exhortation based on thse words: ‘Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free course and be glorified, and that we may be delivered from unreasonable men.’”
2. From Hart’s address:

• “I know, and remember with thankfulness, to-day, the special calls to duty that have come to you, to devote yourself to the service of the Master in a godly life, to undertake the blessed responsibility of the ministry of the church, to accept the grace of preaching among the Gentiles who as yet know not His name, the unsearchable riches of Christ.”
• “Every true disciple of the Lord must lament the fact that there are not more young men, of the kind that we know He would have, who are willing to become laborers in His fields already whitening to the harvest; and it is a grief which one hardly dares to try to express in words, to know that the Lord’s great command that His church should at least bear witness to Him among all nations, calls forth so little willing service, so little of enthusiasm, of manliness, or of energy.”
• “And yet men can tell of the noble ambitions that lead so many youths along unattractive and difficult ways, that they may lay the foundations of useful and successful life-work in professional or scientific or mercantile life.”
• “We are not ashamed to-day to have a special joy in that of which we confess that it ought to be no extraordinary thing, as we pray that your devotion and your obedience may bring forth fruit unto God, not only in your own life and in the lives of those whom you may bring to the knowledge of His grace and to faith in Him, but also in the example that it shall furnish and the encouragement that it shall give to others here.”
• “And for you, my brother, we joy that you have seen a heavenly vision which some of our eyes have been too dim to see, and that to that vision you are rendering an obedience which some of our hearts have been too sluggish to give.”
• “You are going, by brother, to what we deem a far-off land and a strange people; and we, the moderns of this western world, are at a loss as to what their place shall be in that perfection of manhood which can only come when the Son of Man shall, in the fulfillment of His great work, have brought all nations and all men to be summed up in Himself, the one Head of all. But that He has a place for them in His Kingdom, you shall not doubt; and you must not be surprised if you find that it is not exactly the same place as that which He has assigned to us.”
• “We feel to-day that as we, who tarry in the easier places, send you forth to the harder work, we dare hope for ourselves little more than that we may try to obey, while there is offered to you the crown of those who suffer for truth’s sake.”

1. Storrs O. Seymour had been rector of Trinity Episcopal Church, until 1893. He was currently in Litchfield.
2. Jared Starr was minister in Newington.
3. F. W. Harriman was minister in Windsor.
4. W. W. Kirkby was minister in Rye, NY. He had been an Episcopal missionary in the “territory of the Hudson Bay Company” for 27 years.
5. Samuel Hart was, at this point, a professor of Latin at Trinity College.
6. Hankou is now part of Wuhan, which is the capital of Hubei Province. In this article, the city was transcribed as “Han Kow, in the province of Hupeh.”
7. Frederick Graves was the Anglican Bishop of Shanghai.