Twichell Pitches the Need for a Parish House from the Pulpit

03/16/1902 |

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Joseph Twichell gave a sermon titled “The Religious Assemblage: the Function and Benefit of It” in which he urged the members of the church to fund the construction of an annex for use of the various church organizations.

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The text for Twichell’s sermon was Luke 4:16.
Twichell announced that the Young People’s Federation had inaugurated a project to expand the church facility.
He gave an estimate of the cost of the project, which was $35,000.
A design for the proposed annex had been prepared.
The design would be released to the congregation at the end of the service.

The past recalled

The clock was installed in the steeple on September 23, 1897.

The future foretold

Fundraising for the proposed annex was completed on April 12, 1903.

Caught my eye

“You who were brought up as I was, in a country farming town, will recall the exhilarating effect of the animated scene of the arrival and departure of the Sunday congregation, and the change when the last wagon had rumbled out of hearing and all fell into slumber again.”
“The development that requires what is now deemed a competent outfit of conveniences for the doing of the work of a church is recent.”
“At the time of its dedication this church was said to be the most beautiful in the state of Connecticut, but in its planning, the provision of this, that and the other thing, of which in consequence of recent development, was not thought of. It has grown incomplete.”

For the record

The annex, with revisions to its proposed design, would become the parish house.

Sources

Unattributed, “Parish House Needed,” Hartford Courant, March 17, 1902, page 2.

Joseph Twichell
Asylum Hill Congregational Church

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