194 A HALF CENTURY. 



We need the Pentecostal fire 



To purge away our dross, 

 To quicken every pure desire, 



And keep us near the cross. 



Soon shall the precious word divine 



Be preached the wide world o'er ; 

 Through all the earth Christ's light shall shine, 



And darkness be no more. 



Now may the Church of God arise, 



And to her Lord draw near, 

 Ere trumpet sounds ring through the skies, — 



Jesus, our King, appear ! 



ADDRESSES. 



A striking feature in the evening's entertainment was the 

 bright and felicitous speeches of the Hon. Valentine B. Cham- 

 berlain, of the First Church, and Noah Cornwell Rogers, Esq., of 

 New York city. 



Judge Chamberlain spoke for the " Daughters of the Church." 

 He pleaded guilty to the charge preferred against him, viz. : 

 that he had stolen his wife from the South Church. He ad- 

 mitted the facts which had been recited by Dr. Cooper. 

 '^ But," said he, " it was not under the cover of the darkness. 

 I well remember the time. It was a beautiful afternoon in 

 May, twenty-one years ago. The bright sun was shining, the . 

 birds were singing, and all nature was av/ake with joy, when I 

 led my young bride from this church where we had received 

 the benediction of the Rev. Mr. Goodell. She was good and 

 lovely then, and she looks no less lovely to me to-day." He 

 thought, therefore, that he ought to be pardoned for the theft, 

 and so, in his opinion, ought every young man who looks cov- 

 etuously upon the fair daughters of the South Church. 



The Judge then recalled his own intimate relations with this 

 church during the past thirty-five years. His three cherished 

 friends, Oliver Stanley, Theodore Stanley, and William Corbin, 

 were all members of the South Church. Mr. Corbin died in 

 1860. Lieutenant Stanley died during the Civil War at Wash- 

 ington from wounds received at Fredericksburg, and Oliver 



