The Portland daily press., 1869-10-04
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said, will give an instrumental concers In City
Hall the middle of the month.-The Grand
Army lecture season will commence October
2sth.-Gen. Neal Dow has reconstructed the
substantial mansion house of his late father.
Friend Joshua Dow, on Congress street, near
Mellen street, for Mr.. Frederick N. Dow.
washington Libby, Esq., has supervised the
Improvements. "A new barque building at
Westbrook for r. Lewis & Co., and of 700 tons
burden, will be launched on the 7th inst. She
VIII be commanded by Capt Lewis and will be
employed in the South American trade.-Sev-
en- convicts sentenced at the present term of
the Superior Court left for Thomaston Friday
night.-The Advertiser tells how a tame crow
tried to make the acquaintance of some doves
on Fluents Block on Friday evening and how
they refused to accept his overtures.-There
was fine display of the. aurora boreaiis on
Saturday night.-A beautiful day saturday.
Sunday the air was soft and damp, with rain at
noop.-Tbere is great excitement among the fair
sex in regard to the Hop tonight. We under
stand the ladies will not appear in full dress
A seizure of about three quarts of liquor was
made by the police at Margaret Gray's Satur
day.-In the match game Of base ball played
between the Dirigo Club OF Falmouth and the
Resolutes of this city, the latter won by score
of SO to o. Only eight innings were Played
We understand that in the removal of some
bodies from the Eastern Cemetery last week tn
the Evergreen Cemetery one coffin was found
so heavy that suspicious were entertained that
it contained something beside corpse. On
opening it the body, which had been buried
many years, was found to be completely petri-
he'd, and presented the appearance of perfect
cast in marble.-Col. Inman has been trans
ferred from Salt Lake City to Fort Fred Steele,
wyoming Territory, where he will build a
new fort-Gen. r. b. Ayers left town Satur-
day afternoon for Washington and from thence
will proceed to New Orleans.-The delegates
to the Oswego Convention who did not leave
last week, will probably start this morning.
The light rain which fell at noon yesterday
changed to heavy one in the afternoon, and
the wind shifted to the north east.
STATE STREET CHURCH Rev. G. G. Need
ham, the Irish Evangelist, preached at the
State street Church yesterday morning, from
the 17th chapter of John. He remarked that
expository preaching was unpopular at the
present day, but that he had confidence in it
for the reason that God has promised that his
word shall be successful, and that this method
of preaching was the method of Christ, and his
diciples. Apparently in vindication of this
method, he remarked that we are likely to fall
into three errors in the study of the Bible, viz:
of misconception of its meaning, of misappli-
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integral parts. Almost any doctrine may be
gathered from isolated texts, and so the Scrip
lures be perverted. We only gather the true
import Of James stress upol good aoorks when
we remember that his letter was addressed to
Christians and not to those needing regenera-
tion through faith. The character of Christ is
set forth in the Psalms, but only partial and
perverted idea is obtained when only one of
these Psalms are considered apart from the
others.
He next entered upon the exegesis of the
chapter, after showing its connection with the
preceding chapters, stating that he considered
this chapter should more properly be called
''the Lords Prayer it being the prayer that
no mortal can fully utter, and the prayer in
Matthew should moro properly be called
the Apostles Prayer" it being the prayer
that they were taught to utter. He showed
that the chapter consists of seven confessions,
not of sin, but of Gods gifts to him, and of his
works, and of six petitions for the glory of God
through himself and for his people.
The sermon was a very poetical one and the
speaker seemed to be very enthusiastic and
devoted to his work. He seemed to believe in
preachers who teach rather than in teachers
who preach. If this method should be adopted
we should not find so much just occasion for
the half day Sunday Schools as we now do,
We bespeak for him earnest listeners during
the meetings to be held each evening during
the week at the State street Chapel.
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CONGRESS SQUAUE UNIvERsALIsT CHURCH
The usual Saturdays notice having been omit