The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-09-18
Religious Intelligence.

The Kennebeo Baptist Conference was
held in Starks Friday
The Universalists of Eflingham and Par
sonsHeld are about to build church.
The last number of lions Herald con-
tains an able defence of Mrs Stoves article
on Lord Byron.
The Methodist Church in WAYNE, as we
are informed by the Rev. j. Mitchell, is being
quckened, and souls are being converted to
Christ.
The Universalist society of Augusta, as
we learn from the Gospel Banner, raised $500
to aid in repairing the Free Baptist church in
that city, which suffered serious damage from
the great gale.
The Rev. Mr.. Hill, of Elm Street Baptist
Church in Bath, has received call to settle
over q church in GAINESVILLE, Ohio. Mr.. Hill
has been visiting Ohio and other Western
States for a few weeks past.
Miles Grant, Advent preacher, eschews
meat, butter, tea, coffee, kerosene, tobacco,
nitro-glycerine, and pies, and lives on Graham
bread, dried apples, and popcorn. OF course
he is LOG years old, with the prospect of long
life before him.
The Rev. DR.. Hague, of Boston, has ac-
cepted the call to the pastorate of the Univer-
sity Place Church, Chicago, and a professor
ship in the Theological Seminary, and will
soon remove to his new field.
The Rev. John Todd, late pastor of the
Central Congregational Church in Boston,
was installed over the Chapel Street Copgre-
gational Church in New Haven on Wednes-
day evening
Professor Charles Carroll Everett, lately
elected to chair in the Cambridge Divinity
School, is quite young, and is one of the most
eloquent Unitarian clergymen in the country
The Oxford Association of Universalsts
will hold its next session in Turner, Wednes,
day and Thursday, Sept. 20 and 80 The
Council will meet at clock A. NJ, Wednes
day.
-Crabb Robinson, in his recently published
Diary, tells Of German who believed in the
| pre.existence of all human beings and held
that we all had part in the great rebellion
| against Heaven.
The Portland M. E. District Association,
which has been holding its session with the End
NJ. E. Church, of Kittery, during the week
closing Wednesday evening, has been well at
tended. Some very able essays have been list
ened to, and the discussions have been interest.
ing. Rev. Mr.. Colby, Presiding Elder, gave 6
very interesting discourse on the personality Of
| the Devil
The Methodist Camp Meeting at Charles
ton, Maine, commenced on Monday morning
last. The Piscataquis Observer learns from
private sources that trees which had beer
weakened by the terrible hurricane last week
several of them, fell, smashing tents and do
| ing other damage, and that Dover camp wa
literally torn to pieces, but fortunately no on,
was injured. Had the meeting been appoint
| ed last week instead of this the consequence
must have been terrible to record-as undonbt
eddy several persons would have been killed.
| The Minutes of the General Confererenc,
of the Congregational Churches in Maine, ant
the report and sermon before the Maine Mis-
sionary Society, at the annual meeting held il
Bangor lastJune, are published in neat form
| by B. Thurston s. Co., Portland. 1t is com
prised in liz pages, octave, and contains re
| port of the annual State meeting and of sever
al County Conferences; the Neurology of Min
listers deceased; the report of Churches, and o
the Visiting Committee to Seminary; list o
| the churches and ministers with their Pos
Office addresses; the constitution, rules, repor
of Trustees of the Maine Missionary Society
and the annual sermon by A. E. Ives of Gas
tine. A valuable manual for reference.
"A meeting of the f. B. Educational So
| Ciotv wa hold in III or III To-
to decide the question of the location of thu
Free Baptist Theological School. The ques
ton is referred to a committee of five-Rev
E. Knowlton and Prof. Hayes, Maine; Rev. A
K. Moulton, N. H.; L. B. Tasker, VT, and
Rev. DR.. Colder, of Penn. This committee i.
to confer with the Trustees of Bates College
of Hillsdale College, Mich, of New Hampton
Institution, N. H., and friends of education in
Providence, r. l., and report to an adjourned
meeting of the F. B. Educational Society to be
held in Lowell in October. The points pro
posed for the location are as above named.
The Bowdoinham Baptist Association held
Its eighty-third anniversary with the Eas
Winthrop Church on Sept. 18th, 18th and 10th
This is the Oldest Baptist Ass ocation in the
State. 1t was first organized on May oath
1887, representing three churches with mem
bership of 1888. Now there are twenty three
churches with membership of above 1900
There were churches in the western part of the
State, but they were connected with New
Hampshire Association. 1t was in the Bow
doinham Association at East Winthrop that
the Maine Baptist State Missionary Society
was formed and the first pl ans adopted to start
the Zion's ADVOCATE, now in its forty first year
of existence. On Tuesday afternoon the fol.
lowing officers were elected: Moderator, Rev
A. r. Crane, of Hallowell; Clerk, Rev. S. D.
Richardson, of Manchester. Treasurer, Rev
]. E. Brainerd. Able and eloquent sermons
were preached by the Rev. w. T. Sargent, of
Greene, the Rev. A. K. P. Small, of Portland.
the Rev, DIR. s. F. Smith, of Boston, the Rev.
DIR. Kicker, of Augusta, the Rev. R. j. Lam
gridge, of Mechanic Falls. The association
closed with sermon by the Rev. DR.. Smith.
Adjourned to meet in Augusta in 1870, Rev
c. M. Herring to preach the Assocational SER
mon and the Rev. A. Bryant to preach the
doctrinal sermon.