Howard Arnold Walter Gives Easter Sermon at Asylum Hill Congregational Church

The church held an informal reception for Walter and his wife on May 26, 1916.

The church would hold a memorial service for Walter on November 24, 1918.

From Walter’s sermon:  “With more of us it is the fear of ultimate defeat that makes a man crowd the days and years full of experiences and achievements against the time when the invariable slowing-up of the body and mind forces a man to top off a number of pet ambitions of youth, never to be fulfilled, and brings the poignant dread that in the light of early hope and ambition one’s life may be marked down at last a failure.”

1. This was the second time Walter had preached at Asylum Hill Congregational Church since his return from India on leave.
2. Unfortunately, the print quality on this article wasn’t very good, and so most of the end of Walter’s sermon is illegible.

Unattributed, “Fear of death is vanishing,” Hartford Courant, April 9, 1917, page 2.