The Portland daily press., 1871-04-22
DAILY PRESS.
SATURDAY, APRIL %, 1871.
Religious Department. .
PORTLAND.


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The Cumberland County Bible Association
"ou tneir annual meeting next Wednesday
new v. w. Small's church Cumberland
Center, 8 o'clock, p. m.
a. westorook Rev. Fl. B. Mitchell writes
W Tue lions Herald: "Please tel, the wor,5
tnat the Lord is still at work among The Mo-
pie on Saccarrappa charge. and for ~.
years past there has been constant intere.t in
the church for the salvation of souls. Goa
has added to their number, almost eyerv va.L
Of such as shall be saved. And still sinner.
are coming to Christ. The Church Is one OF
the best in the Maine Conference, both to
labor in spiritual things, and also to pay their
pastor, and cheer him aud his family by do
nations from time TO time. Last evening
many of these good people met in their YES
try tor sociable, at which time they present.
ed their pastor and his wife with number
OF very valuable articles, for which we wish TO
make public acknowledgment of our prati-
tude."
heV. Dr. Warren Of Gorham, District Sec
retary OF A. b. c. F. M. commences series of
missionary conventions in Vermont and Nev
Hampshire this week. The First Bantist
Church in Maine was constituted In 1852 AT
Kittery.
AT Waldoboro there is an unusual relipious
interest existing in the Baptist and Conere.
gationalist churches. Many are seeking and
finding Christ. DR.. Charles H. Whitney, the
evangelist from Cambridgeport, is laboripg
there. At Harland and Lyman interest Is re-
ported, also.
The inscription on the Eddystone tower,
which for more than a century has gladdened
the eye of the sailor on the rough shores of
Cornwall, is: "To give light, to save lfe.n Fit
emblem of true Christian.
A Methodist minister, Rev. c. K. True. it
is claimed, when an undergraduate, made the
wittiest pun ever perpetrated in Harvard
College. The hostess at the Hasty- Pudding
Club was tried in mock court for her ill.pre-
pared viands, and was condemned TO have
her eye tooth knocked out, he delivered her
from her fate by pleading the too great bar
baIity of the punishment, in that it would de.
stroy her identify.
The Watchman, speaking of Baptist semi
naries, says Newton found the denomination
with, in the main, an uneducated ministry,
and even extensively prejudiced against min
isterial education, and went quietly and eau
tiously at work and kept at 1t. At present
our educational structure is weakest in its
foundations. Our Congregationalist breth-
rem are able to have so many colleges and
theological semiLaries in New England only
because they have such grand feeders at An
dover, Exeter, Meriden and East Hampton,
with not one-of which have we as vet any
thing to compare. Maine has very thor
ough school at Wsterville, but wholly inade-
quate, we suppose, to the wants of our de-
nomination in that State" 1t gives this week
list OF salaries increased; proper measure,
in keeping with the steadily increasing de-
mands made on ministers by their people and
the public; Pastor Tower, Amherst 5000;
Baldwin, Chelsea $500; Foljambe, Maiden
$25O0 to $4,000; Gordon of Boston $4,000 to
$1,000; and Lorrimer of Boston $4,000 to
$6O00 Other denominations are doing the
same.
The original Beecher family used but two
instead of three es in spelling their name. -
They are mentioned Chron. 7 % as 'sMighty
men OF valor 10000 in number" Henry
Ward will be fifty eight years old in June
Once when school boy, the teacher drilling
him in the use Of the definite article, remark
ed that it was proper to say man but not
men. "Yes, can Father always says Amen
at the end of his prayers" was his ready an
swer. The disconnected teacher passed to
the possessive case, you can say "his book
but not shin book" eyes can and do saw
Hymn Book" "But seriously, Henry, lust
attend to the passive voice, II strike Is active,
but 1 am struck is passive, because you do
nothing" "Yes do, strike back againp
According to the Independent, Rev. Wash
ington GLADDEN. thinks that if Paul had lived
in our day he would have printed a paper,
writing editorials instead of epistles. Mr.,
might have made worse guess.
The stockholders, chief contributors and
employees of the Christian Register, with
representatives of the religious and secular
press, celebrated the fitieth anniversary Of
its publication by gathering at the Common
wealth Hotel, Boston, the Goth inst.
Father Taylor, provoked at bit of tattIe
that came to his ears at the table, before grace.
refused 10 pray but while stirring his coffee
burst out with:"O Lord, save us from deceit.
conceit, and tattlingp One of his daughters
has these words hanging in her room.
What world of gossip vould be prevented
If it was only remembered that person who
tells yeu of the faults of others intends to tell
others Of your faults.
am much more disturbed In society by the
little impression made by real merit, than by
the so-often-lamented tolerance Of vica.-Ma-
~ Berry.
DIR. Adams, formerly of Brunswick, once
SAID that intellectualism would kill prayer
meeting. Perhaps so, if emotion be wholly
absent but DR.. Todd says that the social con
ference meeting SHOULD be an hour of in
struction, a kind Of Theological School, where
such teaching is given as is suited to lead
Christians to think, feel and act correctly"
DIR. Hall Of the Edwards Church Northamp-
ton, has added much to the interest Of his
weekly prayer-meetings by a Biblical exer-
else, in which all present are desired to Join
A certain passage of Scripture is given out the
week before; the church bring their Bibles,
and questions by the pastor are asked In a.
miliar way, and, so far as possible, answered
in Scripture language by those present.
About half an hou- Is thus taken, when anv
one is at liberty TO make remarks. This Is
incomparaby better than the frigid and mo-
notonOus round of exhortatiQn or stale expe-
rience of "forty years ago" which too often
spoils the social meeting.
Henry Ward Beecher thus sketches the peo-
pie who are forever lamenting over their cold
State and that of the church. 'Nothing Is
more disagreeable to me than 10 hear Of
mans ailments. II person has sore,
don't want to hear about it. don't care to
be regaled with the state of mans stomach
or liver. have ills enough of my own. Yet
some people will get together and Groom and
Groom, and talk about each others sicknesses,
and about corpses, and how many they have
laid out, and have la regular graveyard ban
quet. 1t is the same with spiritual ailments.
There are times when men should make
confession of specific sins. If a man has been
carving on the liquor business, and Ia con-
verted, it is quite proper that he should con.
fess that he has been doing the devils work.
If he has been engaged in any wickeGness
that has been open to the whole Community.
his repentance should be open. 1t IL not
necessary to give an inventory of all ONES
faults, put IL we cay anything it is better to be
specific than generic"
youthful speaker at Gorham In a recen.