The examination council and ordination service had been postponed from yesterday.
Hartford churches represented on the council were the South Congregational, the Park Congregational, the Talcott Street Congregational, the Windsor Avenue Congregational, the Farmington Avenue Congregational, the Danish church, and the Glenwood church.
Churches outside of Hartford represented on the council were from Brookfield Center, Plantsville, and Windham.
There was no ordination during the ordination service – it was supposed to have been given by Arthur McGifferet, but he was unable to attend due to the funeral of William McKinley.
Many of Ware’s friends in Hartford were present at the ordination service.
Ware was following in the footsteps of his father, Edmund Asa Ware, as he headed off to be minister at Atlanta University, a historically Black university now known as Clark Atlanta University.
After Ware’s father died, he was raised in Hartford at Joseph Twichell’s house. He graduated from Hartford Public High School in 1893, Yale University in 1897, and Union Theological Seminary in 1901.
In 1907, Edward became the third president of Atlanta University, and he served in that role until 1922.
From Twichell’s charge to Ware: “It is for the minister to bring to them the things unseen, and he is to be a sign, like the sanctuary, the sacrament of the Lord’s Day, a visible fact of the very presence of his truth, and is to operate with all his effort to pull men around to the truth as presented.”
Also from Twichell’s charge: “The Christian minister is the representative in person of Christ and when he visits the sick room he carries the message of cheer from Christ so far as in his limitation he can carry it.”
