It happened one day – Sunday in the churches

Graded school at Trinity Episcopal Church.

Service at the Farmington Avenue Congregational Church. Sherrod Soule of the Missionary Society of Connecticut gave a sermon titled “The Kingdom of God and the Commonwealth of Connecticut.”  Order of music for the service:

• Prelude: “Reverie,” Barnes
• Anthem: “Fear Not, O Israel,” Spicker
• Offertory: “Melody in C,” West
• Anthem: “O Thou That Hearest Prayer,” Brewer
• Postlude: Allegro Maestoso, Gilmant

1. Service with communion at Asylum Hill Congregational Church. Joseph Twichell gave the sermon.
2. Litany, sermon, and Holy Communion at Trinity Episcopal Church. Order of music for the service:

• Introit: “God So Loved the World,” Moore
• Offertory: “O Saviour of the World,” Moore

3. Morning service at the Church of the Redeemer, conducted by J. Coleman Adams.
4. Morning service at Asylum Avenue Baptist Church. William G. Fennell gave the sermon, “Meeting Narrowness with Magnanimity.”

Men’s class in Christian history at the Church of the Redeemer.

1. Sunday school and adult Bible class at Asylum Hill Congregational Church.
2. Sunday school at Farmington Avenue Congregational Church.
3. Bible school at Asylum Avenue Baptist Church

Sunday school at the Church of the Redeemer.

Sunday school at Trinity Episcopal Church.

Choral vesper service at Asylum Hill Congregational Church.

Men’s Fireside Meeting at Trinity Episcopal Church.  W. H. Morrell of the Hartford Theological Seminary gave an address, “The Primitive Religious Ideas of the Arabs.”

Young People’s Christian Union at the Church of the Redeemer.

Young People’s meeting at Asylum Avenue Baptist Church.

1. Christian Endeavor meeting at Farmington Avenue Congregational Church.
2. Communion service and welcome of new members at Asylum Avenue Baptist Church.

Service at the Church of the Redeemer.  John Coleman Adams preached the second sermon in the series “Ancient Men as Modern Types.”  This evening’s topic was “Moses the Leader.”  Order of music for the service:

• Prelude: Mediation, Allen
• Anthem: O Lord Most Holy, Browald
• Offertory: Bizet
• Postlude: prelude in C sharp Minor, Rachmaninoff.

Communion service was observed.

Young People’s Meeting at Asylum Hill Congregational Church.  The meeting was led by R. E. Phyfe.  Marguerite B. Lovewell sang.

1. Union service for Asylum Avenue Baptist Church, Asylum Hill Congregational Church, Church of the Redeemer, Farmington Avenue Congregational Church, and Park Congregational Church to be held at Park Congregational Church. Brief addresses were to be given by Alfred T. Richards (“As Guardian of Ideals”) and John Coleman Adams (“In Meeting Changing Conditions”).
2. Service at Trinity Episcopal Church. Ernest Miel preached the second in his series of sermons, “A Life of Obedience.”  Order of music for the service:

• Canticles: Gregorian
• Motet: Hear My Prayer, Mendelssohn
• Offertory: Pour Out They Heart, Molique
• There would also be a tenor solo from the oratorio “Abraham”.

Tonight’s union service was the first union service scheduled for the month of March.  More would follow.

1. The information for these services was published in the Courant on March 2, 1912.
2. No time was given for the Evening service at the Church of the Redeemer, but the item concluded with “the congregation will unite in the union service in the Park Congregational Church.” The assumption, then, is that the evening service concluded prior to the union service.

The first drophead in the article was “Churches of Wet End will have union services.”  Since the only union services mentioned were those being held by Asylum Avenue Baptist Church, Asylum Hill Congregational Church, Church of the Redeemer, Farmington Avenue Congregational Church, and Park Congregational Church, the Courant considered these churches to be in the “West End.”

1. The Church of the Redeemer was on Asylum Avenue, at what today is the intersection with Cogswell Street.
2. Park Congregational Church was at the corner of Asylum and High Streets, across the street from Bushnell Park. It’s the outlier in the group of churches holding the union services.

The main article cited for this entry covered some of the details about tomorrow’s services, but it was not a schedule of services in Hartford.  A separate column on the same page, “Sunday services in local churches,” listed the times of services for churches as well as who would be in the pulpit.  The following denominations were included:

• Congregational (7 total)
• Universalist (1)
• Presbyterian (1)
• Baptist (3)
• Episcopal (3, plus 1 in West Hartford)
• Methodist Episcopal (1)
• Unitarian (1)
• Christian Science (2)
• Adventist (1)
• Spiritualist (1)

Unattributed.  “In churches and Sunday school,” Hartford Courant, March 2, 1912, page 12.

Unattributed.  “Sunday services in local churches,” Hartford Courant, March 2, 1912, page 12.