Some old time meeting houses of the Connecticut Valley . , gave rise to a somewhatprolonged and heated theological controversy insouthern New England and New York. Dr. Parkershistoric pastorate of more then half a century over theSecond Church is ample proof of the wisdom of thecouncil of 1860 in approving and installing him aspastor of the church. The Rev. Rockwell Harmon Potter, D. D., ministerof the First Church of Christ of Hartford, in aninformal communication addressed to the writer,January 25,1911, referring to the edifice of the SecondChurch, generously says: Our meeting house, built i
Some old time meeting houses of the Connecticut Valley . , gave rise to a somewhatprolonged and heated theological controversy insouthern New England and New York. Dr. Parkershistoric pastorate of more then half a century over theSecond Church is ample proof of the wisdom of thecouncil of 1860 in approving and installing him aspastor of the church. The Rev. Rockwell Harmon Potter, D. D., ministerof the First Church of Christ of Hartford, in aninformal communication addressed to the writer,January 25,1911, referring to the edifice of the SecondChurch, generously says: Our meeting house, built in1807, is not so fine as the meeting house of the SecondChurch built in 1820, but with this one exception Iconsider it the finest house of its type in NewEngland. It is probably just to state that the twofinest houses of worship built in New Englandbetween 1800 and 1850 are the meeting houses of theFirst and Second Churches of Christ in structures with their noble towers are indeedworthy of their builders, testifying as they do to the 54. love of the beautiful, the excellent taste, a propersense of the dignity belonging to things devoted to theworship of God, and the heavenly aspirations, possessedby the men and women who composed the congre-gations of these historic churches when the presenthouses of worship were erected. 55 The Church in Hadley, Massachusetts SUMMER time in New England knows nomore bewitching spot tlian tlie broad street ofHadley, wliere stand the old church and townhall clothed in their handsome Colonial garb. The veryweathercock, perched on the steeple of the church,seems to swell with pride, as he looks down upon thebeautiful scene below and meditates upon the richhistorical associations of the more than two hundredand fifty years that have passed since the men fromHartford and Wethersfield built their homes atNorwottuck, afterwards by order of the General Courtdenominated Hadley. Mrs. F. H. Smith of Hadley, Massachusetts, in anarticle writt
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