The Portland daily press., 1870-05-28
Religious EnteEIigence,

HHscsttSence.
The next Androscoggin Baptist Quarterly
meeting will be held with the church in Jaw.
Rev. Mr.. Howard will resume his labors
with his church and congregation next Sab
BATH at Farmlneton.
AT the Memorial Congregational Couyen-
ton in Chicago, Rev. II. B. Howard, of Farm
instou, was the member of the Business Com.
mttee from New England.
The Franklin Conference of Concreooton-
al Churches will meet with the church in viii.
ton Tuesday and Wednesday, June 9TH and
Sth Meeting on Tuesday to commence at 10
A. NJ.
On Sunday Rev Mr.. Heath of Auburp,
Court street f. b. Church, baptized eleven
persons at the usual place at the river Twenty
persons were admitted to the church.
Rev. f. w. Tolman was ordained to the
| Gospel ministry, and installed as pastor of the
| Baptist church in Pennington, Wednesday.
| 18th inst, by an ecclesiastical council of the
| Kennebec Association.
| Rev. John w. Chickering, Jr., has tender
ed his resignation of the pastorate of the Con-
| gregatonal church in Exeter, having received
an appointment as Professor in the Columbia
Institution for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind To-
Gated about mile out of Washington, d. c.
The Rt. Rev. Bishop Nicely will make his
visitation in Rockland and vicinity next week,
as follows: Tuesday, P. NJ, St. Peters
church, Rockland. Tuesday, 71-2 p. NJ, St.
John Baptist's church, Thomaston. In each
place he will preach and administer the rite OF
confirmation. On Wednesday he will visit st.
Marks Parish, Rockport, consecrating the
church, and preaching and administering con-
firmation at St. Thomas's Church, Camden, in
the evening.
Rev. A. A. Smith, pastor of the Free Bap.
fist church in Topsham, a few weeks ago. had
unanimous call from the church and society
in Lawrence Mass at a salary OF $500 year
But as the church in Topsham is intending tt
enlarge aud remodel their meeting house, il
which Mr.. s has taken deep interest, and a.
his people chung TO him in affection, he fount
the bonds that bound both pastor and peopl,
together, too strong to he severed he therefor,
declined, though at Il sacrifice of at least $50
a year in salary.
The Union (CongregationaD Conferenc,
will meet with the Church in Albany June III
and Sth. ~
:. "
some of the churches in Biddeford Anon.
recent converts is Hon. I. Fl. Hubbard, a prom
inent lawyer of York county, and brother Q
the Rev. Mr.. Hubbard of Biddeford, who die
50 suddenly.
The Oxford Conference OF Congregations
Churches will meet in the Rumford Church Of
Tuesday and Wednesday, June 14th and 18th
at 10 o'clock.
, The Piscataquis Quarterly Meeting il
South Dover will commence June Sd.
, Rev. DR.. Plckney of Washington has bee
elected Assistant Bishop of the Episcopal Dio
: cese of Maryland.
The Protestant Episcopal Theological Sem
mary at Westchester, N. Y, will expent
$3O0,000 in buildings upon the land given it b
Andrew Wilson, Jr.
!, In the Episcopal Convention at Dover o
Thursday, a petition from the Episcopal Churc
, at North Conway which is supported chief
by summer visitors-for admission to the Die
, cese, was rejected after an extended dscussio
I. by the Committee on Parishes, owing to til
petition not having been sent from an author
! lied meeting of the Parish 1t was voted t
establish the Bishops salary at $500 per yea
$3.50 to be assessed on the parishes, and til
balance was guaranteed by individual subscr
:. bers. The next annual session of the CONVEX
{ ton will be held at st. Lukes Church Charlie.
! town, N. H., on the last Wednesday of May
RAILROAD CoNsoLJDATION-The Bosto
Advertiser, referring to the proposed connet
: ton between the Maine Central and the Por1
|, land and Kennebec railroads, and the meetin
ings at Reception Hall, says:
To be sure, those who oppose the consolida
ton have really no control of the matter, bu
e they speak with the air of persons who are t
S be defrauded of some right. They declare tina
: the road is not wholly private corporation
!, | and tn the people have some rights in con
i necton with its management-al of which i
perfectly true But when they interpret thi
| theory to mean that the people OF Portlan
have right to a change of guage in that cit
I which they cannot stop rnere 90 be trausship
G | ed, the argument loses part of its weight Gel
Q tainly. 1t is significant that nearly the Who'll
| opposition comes from persons more or less in
, | terested in the Grand Trunk road, which has
direct pecuniary interest against consolidation
Very few unparalleled persons will see any
thing but good in the new arrangement, bot
in the increased freedom of intercourse to al
, the people in the interior of Maine, and to til
S merchants of Portland particularly, since the
!, will gain new line of communication wit
| the interior