The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . - fire, several companies were separated from the advanceportion of the troops, and the colonel desired them to be brought up atonce. He called Lieutenant Benchley, and directed him to recross the riverand carry orders to the battalion and company commanders to bringtheir commands forward at once. He started at once on this importantand dangerous duty, and gave the orders to some of the officers indi-cated. He had just given it to one commander when he received abullet through the heart, killing him instantly. His military
The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . - fire, several companies were separated from the advanceportion of the troops, and the colonel desired them to be brought up atonce. He called Lieutenant Benchley, and directed him to recross the riverand carry orders to the battalion and company commanders to bringtheir commands forward at once. He started at once on this importantand dangerous duty, and gave the orders to some of the officers indi-cated. He had just given it to one commander when he received abullet through the heart, killing him instantly. His military career was brief, brave and glorious. He was cool andbrave under one of the severest fires ever known, and he performed hisduty nobly and gallantly. Had he lived he would have been brevettedfor gallantry in action.* •Letter of Captain L. \V. V. Kennon, Company E, Sixth Infantry, U. -S. A., to thefather of Lieutenant REVEREND A. Z. CONRAD. PROTESTANT CHURCHES. By Reverend A. Z. Conrad, Ph. D., D. D.* |HE relation of religion to political, social and industrial prosperityand progress is vital. Eminence and ethics are wedded. What-ever elevates the morale of a community is a distinctively productiveforce. The debt of the State to the church is incalculably great. Civicrighteousness depends on piiblic sentiment. Public sentiment is aproduct, The church is the chief procuring and producing cause ofexalted civic ideals. The true civic ideal is a clean citizen in a cleancity. New England histor}- is in evidence that a vigorous tj-pe ofChristianity insures a heroic type of citizens and progressive common-wealths. The earl} history of Worcester is indissolubly linked with theactivities of the church. Did the limits of this sketch permit, itwould be intensely interesting to introduce historic witnesses in thenature of epoch-making incidents and events in demonstration of theproposition that Worcester churc
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