The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-11-18
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

The harrington ChfOnacte says REV. SAM
uel Wheeler has closed his labors with the
Baptist church at LivermQre Falls. Owing to
removals and other causes that church has be-
come unable to sustain pulpit ministrations.
"A committee of the South Parish in Au-
gusta, consisting of Gov. Cony, Hon. j. w.
Bradbury and Thomas Little, ESQ.,, have re-
monstrated, in behalf of the Parish with Rev.
Mr.. Mckenzie against his removal from that
city to Cambridge, Mass, and the Journal says
Mr.. Mckenzie has not yet made his decision
public, but it is believed that he will remain in
Augusta, notwithstanding the attractions of
the call to Cambridge.
Rev. Moses Mcfarland died Nov. LIST, in
Montville, at the age of "a years. His funeral
took place the Friday following, and the servi-
ces were conducted by Rev. VIM. A. Drew, of
Augusta, Universalist, and Rev. Mr.. Clifford of
the Methodist church. Mr.. Mcfarland had
been in the ministry sixty years-twenty years
as Freewin Baptist, and forty as Universal
list. His praise was in the Churches of all de-
nominations, for his purity of life, amiability of
temper, and evident sincerity won unusual re-
spect. In an obituary in the Banner Mr.. Drew
says I'm person he was the most apostohcal
looking man I ever saw. Tall, erect, with sill
very white long hair flowing over his shoulders
or hanging by the side of a face remarkable for
its mild, pleasant, loving gravity, he made fig
ure that might have been set advantageously
in picture with the beloved St. John in his
old age at Jerusalem. But the good old man
has gone. He wished to go, and his prayer was
that he might have patience to wait Gods time
The Methodist clergyman, who assisted me in
the funeral services, was present with him
when he died, and bore ready and willing testi-
mony that he died as the true Christian dieth,
in peace with God and man."
The first Congregational Church of Wash
ington was organized on Wednesday, under the
auspices of a council composed of pastors and
delegates from nine Congregational Societies
in different sections of the country-among
them Rev. G.. L. Walker and Elbridge Chap
man of Portland. The public exercises were
held the same evening at the Unitarian Church,
Rev. DIR. Leavitt presiding. Rev.. DR.. Foster
offered prayer, and Rev. Mr.. Walker delivere
the address to the church.
The quotation made [by the Press last
week. from remarks of DIR. Adams-in the dis
cussion of substituting Sabbath School exer-
literally cOrrect-does injustice to Dr. Adams
--inasmuch as it carries the impression that he
favored the proposed measure On the contra
~, he spoke and voted against the proposition
as reported by the committee.
Rev. Zenas Hall, who was prominent
minister of the Baptists in Maine some twen-'
ty-eight years in Sangerville and Parkman
died recently in Illinois, at the venerable age
of 80 years.
The Wing says Hammond st. Church and
Parish of Bangor have given call to Rev. John
s. Sewall, of Wenham, Mass, to be their pas
tor.
The Augusta Journal says at a meeting of
the South Parish in that city, it was voted to
raise by loan sufficient funds to furnish the
new church with cushions, carpet, bell and Or
gan. Committees were chosen to raise the
money and the Committees were authorized to
contract for an organ, bell, carpet and uphol-
stery. Cisl t.fEHs1 u I'LL sEsfLs.1 y
In Lowell, Mass, Rev. William E. Stanton,
formerly of New York State, has been ordained
pastor of the First Baptist Church. Rev. G.
w. Bosworth, d. D., of Lawrence, recently of
this city, delivered the ordination sermon.
Rev. L. Holman, from Indiana a brother of
Rev. w. o. Holman, lately settled at Rockland
has come to South Berwick, and their father
has received call to Rockport They are all
Baptist clergymen.
Rev. John G. Adams has removed from
Providence to Lowell, to become pastor of the
Second Universalist Society in that city.
Rev. j. G. Bartholomew has resigned his
Office as pastor of the Roxbury Bniversalist
Society, and accepts call from the Fourth So.
ciety in Brooklyn, N. Y, Church OF the Re-
deemer) which has been without a pastor since
Rev. Mr.. Fletchers removal to Bath, Me-
The Mirror says we Inexperienced Rev
Mr.. Balkans remark at the Lewiston Confer
ence, in which he re-erred to newly ordained
minister who had been told that his ordination
was no ordination. Mr.. Balkan did not refer
to recent affairs in this city, but to what an
Episcopalian had said to Congregationalist
Bangor Theological Seminary has opened
prosperously, with aprOspeet of from twenty to
thirty new students in the several classes.
Rev. W. II. Milburn, known as the Metbo-
dist blind preacher, is about to take EPISCOPAL
orders from Bishop Hopkins, of Vermont.
The seminary church at Andover has dis
banded, and a new church has been organized.
including towns people with the students.
"A writer in the New York Observer says:-
GSome of the more thoughtful of the clergy
and laity of the English Episcopal Church are
at length convinced that the union of Church
and State is an evil and that State aid only fet-
tiers the church" $50 81 ~