. Farmington, Connecticut, the village of beautiful homes. caped. How we shnuld loveto have helped! .\ow we ha\e nofurious galloping, no secret signals andm\sterious hiding |il,ices .-itteuding of sl,-i\es. me lies a curious sheet ofpa|ier, a bit of \ literature.\ bl,-ick kneels, his imploring hands andenokei! ankles chained together. hnn is uioiin: .Xm I nota .uiil ,1 brother. Then follows,-[ piiein, the Tirsi \erse of which Iipiote : Torcd from home .-mil all its pleasures \frics coast I lefl. forlorn ;III increase a strangers treasures, (
. Farmington, Connecticut, the village of beautiful homes. caped. How we shnuld loveto have helped! .\ow we ha\e nofurious galloping, no secret signals andm\sterious hiding |il,ices .-itteuding of sl,-i\es. me lies a curious sheet ofpa|ier, a bit of \ literature.\ bl,-ick kneels, his imploring hands andenokei! ankles chained together. hnn is uioiin: .Xm I nota .uiil ,1 brother. Then follows,-[ piiein, the Tirsi \erse of which Iipiote : Torcd from home .-mil all its pleasures \frics coast I lefl. forlorn ;III increase a strangers treasures, ( Ier the r,-iging billows from Tngland bought and sold me. Raid m\ price ill ]iaUr>- gold ; ihongh shoe the> ha\e enrolTd me Minds .ire ne\er lo he sold. ,\iid llieii .1 note; ,s!oo,iMio sl,-i\es ;iiiil she has miide themloni-:. .\ has _>,_>5o, and TiiKM T.\si I ! !.!•;. IT .1. in /(iniiiir^liit Mttiiiiciiic. Sept.,tool. THE VILLAGE OF BEAUTIFUL HOMES. 123 8« St. James l|>aiisb. mm. ST. .I.\MES I\ci\ H. Gordon Miiiiro. Rector. ST JAMES PARISH owes its bcginniiiH In the zeal and labor of tlie Rev. luKvanl R Broun and of CharlesLoring Whitman, lawman. It was in tliis way. Mr. Whitmans agi-d father, lying at the point of death, desiredto be baptized in the faith of the cliurch. This sacrament was administered by the Rev Mr. Brown and it was then de-termined by those present that a mission should be established in Farmington. Immediately after, October 3, 1873,the first service was held in tlie district house. In the \car the chapel over the Post Office wasprepared and services were held there for upwards of twenty-three years. The Rev. Edward R. Brown continued his ministrations until October. 1878, an<l Charles Loring Whitman diedMarch o, 1886. He had a worthy successor in Charles Stanley Mason, as warden of the Mission and afterwardsof the church, which office he has he
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