Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1854-05-25
Religious Items.

Religious Items
The Rev. Mr.. Fletcher, now IO6 years old. |
lately preached to large congregation in the
Primitive Methodist Chapel in Grammar,
England.
The census of 1850. shows that in Penn. is
one clergyman to every $50 inhabitants.
The Free Church Society in Cazenovia, n
Y, have invited the Rev. Miss Antoinette
Brown to become their Pastor.
A writer in Zion's Advocate inquiries if
" so many pastoral removals are the work Of
God or man 90 He adds" in Worcester,
Mass, and vicinity, five churches or more are
destitute. All three of the Baptist churches
in that city are now without Pastors In New
York city there are several churches in the
same situation SO also in this city, (Phila-
delphia J and it is intimated that some in
Maine must become destitute if their Pastors
can be enticed westward
The Rev. DIR. Nichols of the Stone Church,
(Unitarian,) in Portland, has resigned the
Passionate of that church and society, after
sustaining the relation Of Pastor nearly fifty
years. In more than $50 years, this church
has had but three Pastors; Smith, Deane and
Nichols.
The first church in Chicago, ILL.,, was the
Presbyterian, constituted June 26, 1888. It
has now "a, among which are Methodist
Episcopal; Presbyterian and Episcopal, 6
each; congregational, and Baptist.
The Pastor of one of the churches in this
city, has, in less than eleven months, officiated
at the marriage Of sixty-eight persons.
The Pine ST., M. E. Church, Portland, has
increased more than SO per cent. during the
two years pastorate Of Rev. ]. G. Aspinwall.
1t now numbers more than 300 members.
DIR. Wayland, in his memoir of Judson,
tells US A." He seems to have believed most full
| ly, that the world was to be converted by the
simple process Of telling man after man, that
God SO loved the world that he gave his only
| begotten son, that whosoever believeth on him
should not perish, but have everlasting life
always relying on the Holy Spirit with earn
est prayer, to make the truth effectual to the
regeneration Of man."
! The Sabbath School children of the M. f..
Church in the city and county Of Philadelphia,
have prepared and sent on to Washington, a
beautiful block of marble suitably sculptured,
for the National Monument.
Rev. A. Ii. Granger has resigned the pas
toral charge Of the church in Warren, which
he has held for the past ten years. Sabbath
after next he commences his labors as pastor
Of the Fourth Baptist church in Providence,
R. /.
y" We have heard many democrats ex-
press regret and surprise that certain papers
considered democratic, in this State, should
find it convenient or compatible with their
feelings principles, 10 fight side by side
and in unison with the whig and neutral
! whig papers on the Nebraska question. The
democrat who easily chimes in with wing out
cries, we suspect. Whatever his motive may
be, this fact tells against him. Our opinion is,
I that The sober, second thought Of the democrats
| Of Maine is 10 agreement with the principles Of
the Nebraska bill. We know that the annex
alton of Texas was even more loudly cried out
against here than The Nebraska bill Some Of
the democrats Of Maine who took the ''back-
track on Texas, are placing themselves in a
capital situation TO go through the same man
euvre on Nebraska.