Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1854-02-02

~ VIC dIO Bldu " lodIh that Rev. nj. w.
Willis, of the Summer St. (Unitarian) church.
has SO far recovered his health as to be able TO
resume his pastoral kbors. we learn that
Mr.. w. has received an unanimous call from
the Unitarian church in Nashua, N. H., to
become its pastor.
- Rev. |. G. Knowlton has accepted an
Invitation to settle with the Universalist So
clety in Oldtown.
= Rev. Robert S. Hitchcock, late Of East
Boston, has been called to the Fifth Presby-
terrain church of Baltimore. at
rev. " IN Jay, Of Bath, Eng, long and faSrr
vorably known to the christian world, died
Dec. 27th, aged IS years. Mr.. Jaw COM
menced preaching at the age of l6 years.
The British Parliament elects no Chapluin
in the House of Commons, the Speaker own
Chaplain, always Of the Episcopal Church.
reads prayers, and the Junior Bishop performs
the same service in the House Of Lords.
The Pewterers Company in London, hold
an estate on condition that they shall, out of
its rents, PrOride yfaggOts for the burning Of
heretics. n M r4.F
Rev. DR.. left, formerly OF this State, and
late President Of Genesee College, n. Y, has
resigned his position in that institution on ac-
count of failing health.
Rev. VIM. III. Smaller, of BrOokline, Mass,
has been invited TO the pastoral charge of the
Federal St. Baptist church in Portland he
has been pastor OF a church in the former
place seventeen years.
The Orthodox Cougregationalists in New
England number 1877 churches; 1880 minis
ters; and l64 600 members. The additions
during the last year were 1904.
lions Advocate Of last week contains
several revival notices, in which the baptism
of more than 100 persons is reported in adj
ditlon to which, it states that in PASSPORT,
religious interest mas prevailed in the Baptist
church during the whole of last year Nine
\ ty-nine have been baptized, and I22 have
been added to the church. Of these, 81 were
heads Of families, and A were members ofthe
Sunday School isug
A revival of religion has occurred in tho
Kentucky State Prison. On Christmas day,
seven were baptized in pool, within the pris-
on walls, by a Baptist clergyman
About 600 conversions are reported, in the
"Chrstian Advocate and Journal Of the 26th
ult. .f."n..
Rev. j. Cummings, native of Maine. and
now pastor of Bromfeld St. church, Boston,
has been elected Professor in the Methodist
General Biblical Institute at Concord. N. HI.
The Georgia and Alabama Conferences of
of the M. f.. church, South, have contributed
during the last year $4,000 for missionary
purposes.
Collections were taken up in the Winter
St. church last Sabbath and in the Central
the Sabbath previous, in aid Of the American
Board Of Commissioners for Foreign Mis-
sions. $64l, so were raised in the former.
and $278,0O in the latter. ..
Tho Gospel Banner says the universities
Society at Gardiner is one Of the wealthiest
societies in this State, of that denomination.
1t pays the salary Of its pastor in advance, and
gives him more than It agreed to i
Last Sunday and Monday mornings were as
cold as Greenland. What never froze before,
CONCEALED then and cavities and corners sup
posed proof against frost, opened doors to the
ice king. Reports from. localities in the Ken
nebec valley, vary in fixing upon the precise
degree to which the mercury ran down. In
some localities the cold is quoted at l8, others
25, and others still at 33 degrees, below zero.
Some of the thermometers were not long
enough to guage the cold-ah, it was dreary
and Pitiless weather to the children of poverty.
COLD IN BosroN. The Post of Monday
says the harbor Sunday morning was skinned
over, though not hard enough to offer any
great opposition to the passage of water craft.
The docks and flats we're frozen quite firmly.
1t was on all hands admitted to be pretty cold.
Two prominent politicians came nigh freezing
to death on Washington street in an interest
ing debate on the Nebraska bill. df
Fun Mr.. MALONE RAYMOND, the cele-
brated humorist, and illustrator of Irish life
and manners, is to give our citizens rare en-
tertainment Thursday evening, at the City
Hall. The Montreal Pilot gives Mr.. r. the
following fattering notice o7 '1t
GO 1t is long since we attended Lecture
which passed off with such brilliancy as that
Of Mr.. Malone Raymond. He is the complete
impersonati6n Of the genius, w.t. humor, and
fun-loving character Of his cOuntrymen-
Alike irresistible in his lively and in his pa
theiic de scrintinns he nntrnncnS aud -cnrrinr