The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-02-23
RELIGIOUS.

REV >. IltcOmb tor twelve years pastor of
the Congregational church in Weld, has ten
dered his resignation which has been accepted.
Some of Mr.. Titcomb's parlshioners presented
this retiring pastor with substantial token of
esteem in the form of a title deed to the par
sonage house, and lot which he occupies.
The Calvinist Baptist Society at Fayette
Corner have just re-occupied their house of
worship. 1t has been remodeled, painted and
carpeted, at an expense of some $780, and is
now every way comfortable and attractive
The pastor, Rev. @. f.. Weston has received
twenty five into Church membership the mast
year,
Sir Moses Montefiore is about erecting
another hospice at Jerusalem, as the residence
of several Israe litish families. .'4v
ha DIR. Pond, formerly professor of Systematic
Theology in the Bangor Theological Seminary,
has recently prepared for the pre- IS his lectures
seventh in number, and the work has been is
sued by the Congregational Board of Publica-
ton.
ID Aubigne, the Genevan historian, has
written letter in reference to the dissensions
in the established church of England He
thinks the chief remedy for them is to be found
in giving the laity more influence in the gov
ernment of the church. He says: "In the mid
die ages the government of the church be-
longed to the clergy; since the Reformation
1T has been in the hands OF the crown. Such
an exclusive system does not suit our time
The supreme direction OF the church should
after God, reside in the hands of the most intel
hgent the most pious, the wisest of the pre-
lates, clergy and laymen of the Church of Eng
land. An assembly of such men, all profess
ing the taith of the church, as embodied in the
articles. supported by public opinion, would re-
move with steady hand the evils which now
menace the church, and would give it renewed
vitality. The bishops, supported and encour-
aged by this body, and in conjunction with it,
would be enabled to act without the expense
and delay Of continual litigation. The liberal.
principles which constitute much of the pros
perity of the English nation should be imprint
ed ON her church, and like the rays of the sun,
they would dspel the unhealthy mists of the
middle ages. There are in convocation men of
superior talent: but is not that body generally
considered a relic of the middle ages-respecta-
BILE, indeed, but unsuited to the present times?
This is the old house that should be pulled
down to make way for building fit to shelter
principles and the liberties of the Reformed
Church in England"
Sir Robert Peel has been addressing his
neighbOrs in Tamworth on 1.-THE Church" as
by law established, and the best means of max
ing it useful to the people. 4Eo9
70 The young jew Mortara, whose abduction
some years back caused such excitement in
Europe, has just entered the Church of St Pc
ter's at Rome, as novice, before joining the
order Of regular eanons of st. Jean-de-Leiran,
at Rome. He is now fifteen years old.
The Tribune says that some Baptist eler-
gymen in New, York have the design in view
OF bringing the Rev. Mr. Spurgeon there dur
ing anniversary week 1t is also said that the
High Church party among the Episeopalians
have similar design with no less notabihty
than the Rev, DIR. Pusey,
Rev. Norman Mcleod, organizer and pas
tor of the Congregational Church, at Salt
Lake City, is now in New England. His
mission in the East is to inform and interest
our people as to the peculiar social and religi-
GUS struggle in Utah, and to strengthen,
through contributions to his church move
ment and through influence upon the govern
ment at Washington, the cause of the "Gen-
tiles" $3.50 I'D Dol 1,I7svai 90 W. a. f.-
Rev. William GOodell, ID. D., for many
years one of the Missionaries of the American
Board In Turkey, died at Philadelphia on the
18th inst, at the age of 75. DIR. Goodell was a
native OF templeton Mass, graduate of Dart
mouth Coll1ge in 1917, and Andover Theologi-
cal Seminary in 1920. He took up his resi-
dence in constantinople in 1881, where he re-
manned for the most part of the time until his
ra. IN. in
visited his home but once. The translation of
the Old Testament into the Armeno- Turkish
language, published at Symrna in 1912, reoeiy
ed his undivided attention for many years. In
1ei3 he finished the revision of the New Testa-
ment in the same language Of this il ia said.
1T is impossible to estimate the value of this
work to the Reformation" Tie length of the
time served by DR.. Gooden in the foreign
missionary service has only been exceeded by
that of the late DR. Judson.
rev. .. w. Keyes was installed as the pas
tor OF the Universalist Church in West Cam
bridge ON Sunday evening, Feb. 10th.
Ihe members of the Shawmut Church,
Boston, have given their pastor, Rev. L. b.
webb formerly d Augusta, leave of absence
for eight months, and will continue his salaiy
and supply his pulpit while he is away. III
understood that DIR. Webb, whose heaith Is iii'-
paired, will make a foraign tour.
The York County Christian ooh'en'ion VI
all religious denominations, will commence Its
t;rst session in Biddeford, next Wednesday, at
~ oclock A. NJ, and continue day and evening
for two days.
A Raptist paper, the Christian Press,
speaking of The open communion question,
saws: "Morc than two hundred years have
passed since the first Baptist church was or
ganized on these shores, at Providence, by
Roger Williams, and since that time open
communion churches have been brought into
existence. The Second Baptist church at
Newport, r. l., for the present, practices IN
that way, and one small church has jnst been
organized at San Fransisco, and on the same
plan. Ifit takes two hundred years toproduce
two such churches, how many will it take 70
complete the work Of open communion9"