The Portland daily press., 1866-11-24
RELIGIOUS.

,ooo,t' nev, Alexander Mckenzie of Augusta has
p'ea sho,ae second invitation to settle over the
bridge Mass. o"uroh III 0ani-
Active revivals of religion. mainly nm
&C. ne.noost auspices are reported from
'uong' "lnsow, West Waterville. and othor
interior towns. 'i'U ''ner
The new Methodist church in Rrnn,,r;o,.
is to be dedicated on the 9Th proxino
Rev. Eliphalet Crafts is SUPPLYING tho ,,,,,
pit of the Unitarian society at Eastnort tTo
is very highly esteemed as scholar and
preacher. I.'.
REV. A. X. Meulton has resigned the pas
torate of the Court street Free Baptist church
IN Auburn, andgoes to Concord, N. Fl, where
he has charge of another society. ~. ...
The Universalist society OF Bath have
adopteda iturgical service.
About fifty ministers were present at the
Maine Baptist Ministerial Institute at Water
vile, last week.
Key Henry A. Neely recently elected to
the oshopric in the diocese of Maine made
vacant by the death of the Iamented Bishon
Burgess, was born in $780, at Fayettyiile. Onou-
daga county, New York, and his father shortly
after removed to Chicago, where he rema;ped
for fifteen or twenty years, a well-knowp com
mission merchant, the family residing most of
the time at Belvidere. He graduated at Gene
eva, now Hobart College, in 1S49, where, for
the next two years ensuing, he studied theolo-
81 under Bishop Delaney. He was first rec
tor at Calvary Church, Utica, and then of
Christ Church, Dorchester, building up both
parishes; and afterward, at the solicitation of
his Bishop, Chaplain of Hobart College.
where he was admired for his scholastic ability
ahd Jealous discharge Of the responsibilities Of
his position. He is now assistant minister Mt
Trinity Chapel in New York. His preaching
is said to be direct, earnest and convincing.
Although he has not yet accepted, he will un-
doubtedly do so. ls..Ira.t a.l...
|, Rev. John d. Gould of Providence, r. l..
has accepted the invitation of the Pine street
M. e, Church in Bangor to become their pas
tor for the remainder of the present Confer
ence year. This invitation was occasioned by
the vacancy consequent upon the resignation
OF Rev. w. o. Holway, retiring on account OF
i'll health ''' l'' 500 i'o A- -H9fi 51ia
The Bangor Whig is informed that tho
Elm. Street church and society of Bucksport,
have renewed their call to the Rev, Smi h Ba-
ker, Jr. of Orono, to labor with them. .
The Advocate says that Alonzo L. Ben
son was ordained and installed as pastor of the
Baptist Church at West Sumner, October path;
also that Rev L. P. Gurney, late of Topsham,
has entered upon his labors with the chuch in
Hebron.
| Tho Catholic bishop of Savannah has lust
Issued letter, suggesting the education of
colored youths for the clerical work at the
South. h
| Rev. George F. Playter, of the Canadian
| Wesleyan Conference, formerly editor of the
|, Christian Guardian, and the author of the
History of Methodism in Canada, died ON the
24th ult. tRtlb- ul.sN ..........
Rev. DR.. Richards retired from the pas
torate of the Olive street Church, Nashua, N.
H., on Thursday last. In his farewell dis
course, DIR. Richards stated that during his
thirty years pastorate he had attended 700 fu-
nerals, had solemnized 800 marriages, and
made 10000 calls Every minister in the coun-
ty but one, who was preaching at the time Of
Dis ordination, had been gathered to his faith
ers. iat'-.
= The Master of the Rolls has given iudg-
nent in the suit brought by Bishop Colenso
against the trustees of the Colonial Bishoprics
Fund for the payment of his salary which
was stopped some Two years ago. His lord
ship decided in favor of tho plaintiff, with