The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-06-08
Religious Intelligence.

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| The Baptist Convention of the State O
Maine will hold its 43d annual meeting will
the First Baptist Church, Rockland, on Tues
day, June IS, 1877, commencing at o'clock
A. M. Annual sermon by Rev. A. r. Crane
| The Maine Western Free Baptist yearly
meeting will commence at South Limington
June 18TH ""' -it ''
"A Union Congregational Conference of &
large proportion of the churches of Oxford
county and Northern Cumberland, will hold
its annual meeting with the church at NORTH
Waterford on the 18th and 18th of this month
| The Penobscot Congregational Conference
will hold its annual meeting with the church
in Dedham, on Tuesday and Wednesday june
18th and 18th; the Piscataquis Conference will
meet in Dexter on Tuesday and Wednesday
the 18 and 10Th of June; and the Washington
Conference will be held at Machias June 18th
and 18th
REV. L. S. Trip, of North Sedgwick, has
/ accepted unanimous call to the pastorate OF
the Baptist church at Lunenburgh, Vermont
The Machias Republican is very doubtful
of the truth of the report that the so-called
Church of the Disciples, composed of the fol-
lowers of Adams Of Joppa, is increasing in
that vicinity.
,f Rev. Henry A. Sawtele has organized in
San Francisco a Free Communion Baptist
church, which holds, theologically, what is
called the New Hampshire Confession of
Faith. In a private letter to DR.. Graham,
of the Christian freeman, he says, There are
many Calvanistic Baptists who favor free COM
mInion, and there are even several ministers
who would prefer it. The leaven of truth
is working and will work." ' ''
e. Rev. Sebastian Streeter, whose death was
announced few days since in our columns,
was installed as pastor of the First Universalist
Church, in Boston, in 1894, and remained cen
nected with that society until its dissolution a
few years since. He lived to reach tho ripe
age of eighty-four, and for long time was
known as Father Streeter-a name applied to
him out of respect and affection. Prominent
among the clergy of his denomination, active
and sympathetic as a pastor, a good citizen,
with kindly and genial manners, he has left as
legacy to those who knew him the remem-
brance of walk and conversation that had in
them much of Christian grace, and character
for faithful uprghtness.
Maj. Gen. o. o. Howard writing the Inde-
pendent and calling for aid to build COngre-
gatlonal Church in Washington adds "Just
alongside OF us new church is 10 be erected
by another denomination, bearing the MANS of
christians" To this church one hundred
thousand dollars has already been subscribed
though it came into the field a year later than
ours. 1t is to be built of stone. The Metropol-
itan Methodist church is going straight for
ward to completion, at a cost of hundred and
fifty thousand dollars, or thereabouts. Now,
may confess to you that l feel little disap-
pointed that the amount necessary to COM
plete Congregational Church has not vet
been contributed from the numerous friends of
this truly catholic division of the Lord
work." -' f
"A great struggle is,now agitatinc the state
church in Prussia, in consequence of the ac-
| QUESTION of the new countries, thus enlaroiuo
boundaries The Prussan national church
was so-called united church, combining in
one the Lutheran and the Reformed. But the
Lutheran portion entered into this union very
reluctantly, many Lutherans refusing to do so
a' all anu separating themselves from the
| state church entirely. A strong effort is now
| being made by Lutherans, both within and
| without the state church, to explode the union
utterly; and, inasmuch as in Hanover and
| Hesse Lutheran and Reformed Churches ora
ing great efforts entirely to dissolve the state
church as united body. What the result will
| be We must wait to see.