. An account of the celebration by the First parish of Weston, Massachusetts of its two hundredth anniversary on Sunday, the nineteenth of June and Sunday, the twenty-sixth of June, MDCCCXCVIII, also sundry addresses and other papers therewith connected, 1698-1898 . sting and significant occa-sion emboldens me to attempt even the impossible. My attention was fascinated by the word De-velopment; it is so nearly synonymous with theterm evolution ; that trade-mark of much of cheap-est jugglery, though also the expression of the cen-turys greatest thought. Professor Le Contes defi-nition furnishes
. An account of the celebration by the First parish of Weston, Massachusetts of its two hundredth anniversary on Sunday, the nineteenth of June and Sunday, the twenty-sixth of June, MDCCCXCVIII, also sundry addresses and other papers therewith connected, 1698-1898 . sting and significant occa-sion emboldens me to attempt even the impossible. My attention was fascinated by the word De-velopment; it is so nearly synonymous with theterm evolution ; that trade-mark of much of cheap-est jugglery, though also the expression of the cen-turys greatest thought. Professor Le Contes defi-nition furnishes the outline of my thought. Hesaid: Evolution is a continuous, progressive change,according to certain laws, by means of residentforces. Surely that is the story of The Develop-ment of Congregational Polity, and may I speakto you a little while, using this definition as a text? First, a change. In seeking the simple form fromwhich to trace our modern system, it will not benecessary for us to go back to the protoplasmic germof New Testament church organization, nor to seekthe living among the dead of the Middle us, instead, go with the traveller to a littletown in old England, with an eye for the thingsof to-day. Tis a commonplace village, rather 2IO. Reverend Hobart Clark. The First Parish of Weston disheartening to the seeker of romance. Theloungers on the streets are stoHd, heavy people,typical north countrymen, with no faintest linger-ing tradition among them of that which we narrow pursuits of the ploughman and thereaper, the flat, naked, depressing landscape, theabsence of historic response from the inhabitantsbeset us with the old scepticism about the com-ing of anything good out of this Nazareth. Butthis simple town is old Scrooby; and the Pilgrims concerning whom poems have been written, andin whose honor orations without number havebeen made, were just such common country-folksas these, trudging through wheat-fields and alongthe clay highways in the d
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