The Portland daily press., 1871-04-15
DAILY PRESS.
PORTLAND.
SATURDAY, APRIL Is, 1871.
Religious Department

9 Items OF intelligence from The churches Su,
day schools and missionary enterprises Of Maine wi
pe wsicomed rom clergymen and others, and II
serted in an abbreviated form In this column ever
Saturday. "
The Cumberland Association of Congreg;
tional clergymenlmeet in this city May o. Pre-,
dent Harris Of Bowdoin College is expected {
preach the public discourse at Hish Stree
Church Tuesday evening. The private liter
ary exercises begin at 10 A. NJ. A resump
tion OF the former plan of associational exer
cises promises new interest at this meeting
Inc Ministers Exchange at Hoyt, Fosg 4
breed's bookstore will be a great convenienc,
10 parishes and preachers. Communication,
can oe made personally or by mail.
Inc intermediate State" is the topic fol
conversation next Monday at the Portland
pastors meeting, at the Y. M. C. A. rooms a,
II A. M. There were twenty pastors presen,
last week.
10 finish the church edfce on India Stree,
simultaneous offering from Uniyersalisl
churches is called for on April 25.
The F. W. Baptists of Westbrook, at tho
Duck Pond neighborhood and at the center
propose to unite ifpossib,e in the support of a
regular preacher. Rev. Mr.. Whitcher OF New
Gloucester has been laboring with them for
some time.
hev. Urah W. Small is soon to conclude
DIS services at Cumberland Center. To-mor.
row he breaches at Saccarappa. He is a
graduate OF 1858, at Andover.
Rev. DR.. j. o. Fisk of Bath, breaches to.
morrow at Cumberland Mills.
The three churches of Westbrook had
un tied services at Warren church Fast Dav.
Ihere were seventy persons present. An
aoie review of"The last six months in Eu
rope" was read by Rev. j. E. Fullerton, stated
supply at Cumberland Mills, in which the
growth of Imperialism was considered in its
relation to free thought, and the need also O
our cultivating unity OF sympathy and purity
ofcharacter as American citizens, tho best
protection against outward assault and ma
tional deterioration. The essay was thought.
iui one and deserved wider hearing. A rep.
itltion of it has been requested.
lions Advocate states that on account of
impaired health, Rev. s. Brown thas resigned
the pastorate ofthe church in Cherryfeld, the
resignation to take effect the goth of this
month.
A religious awakening is reported by Rev.
+. Eveleth at Harrington. His society have
just built new parsonage.
Rev. N. Whitney writes to the Zion's Her.
aid from Fort Fairfield: The two past years
have been years of revival interest, the result
in part, at least-of the seed sown by those
men OF God who Travelled on foot through
these now beautiful towns, when settlements
were few and far between, and laid the foun-
dation OF the Methodist church in this part of
Aroostook, which has more numerical and
financial strength than any other religious de-
nomination here. About sixto have been con-
verted on the charge during the two years
past. A revival never to be forgotten has
cheered Caribou village during the past win
ter. Between twenty and thirty have found
the Saviour to be precious. On the second
Sabbath in February, six were baptized, and
five received into full communion.
Rev. w. E. Noyes writes: "The good peo-
pie OF Guilford Center have shown their love
Tor the cause Of Jesus and interest in their
pastor, by their decision to purchase the prem
ises where he resides, and fit them up for a
convenient parsonage, and also in the gratui-
tous supply Of huge pile Of excellent wood. {"
A good example.
The church at Dexter and that at Liver
more Falls, have also recently purchased fine
parsonases. Rev. ]. M. Woodbury. is pastor
of the latter church.
Rev. II. M. Grout writes vigorous article
in the Boston Congregationast on the
speaking Voice" and asserts that the COM
mon neglect Of voice training on the part OF
ministers is "a great crime, and the great
fault Of some of the ablest."
Looking over the massive volumes of Lip.
piucott's hew dictionary Of Biography one is
led to ask What is Fame? and whence comes
it? The admissions to this portrait gallery
are in some cases as strange as the rejections
The space given to each is queerly graduated
Lucy Stone, Anna Dickinson and "Adron.
dack Murray" are enrolled, but eminent
scholars and divines like DR.. William Adams
and Prot. Shedd of New York, or DR.. Ander.
son of the A. B. c. F. M. or Prof. E. L. Fitch,
thiriy-five years preacher to Yale College, one
OF the most learned men OF his day are left to
oblivion. DR.. Hill is mentioned, but without
title and without reference to his having been
President of the University at Cambridge.
Widow Van Colt, according to Boston
daily, is the only licensed Methodist female
preacher in the United States and "has beer
the means of converting 5000 souls during he
five years ministry" Her engagements il
various places now extend to 1873 Rev
hooert Z. Waters:on reads a poem and Hon
!. w. Edmonds delivers an Grafton at tb
seml-ct ntennial festival of the Boston Enc
lish School, May I'd. Faneuil Hall will b.
open two hours for social greetings. Th,
school Battalion, headed by Gmore's Bant
will then escort the graduates to the Musi,
Hall where the unveiling of Sherwn's bus
and other memorial exercises will take place
The reporters pew is new feature in th,
State Street Methodist church in Troy, New
York.
The National Baptist has note from
minister in Pennsylvania, who says: "a
meeting has been in progress at for owe
five weeks. did all the preaching, other
wise being assisted by the Rev. L. j. Chris
lord Jesus Christ.)" Such irreverence i
almost incredible.
April II, Boston suburban minister, hav-
ing preached Fast day discourse on labol
and capital, fippantly added the benedictior
of "God, the Creator, carpenter and Saviour
Little folks will be interested in Edward
Eggleston's pamphlet story OF "Mr. Blake'
Walking Stick" Henry Hoyt. who means t.
be surpassed by none in the beauty or excel
lence OF his books, has given in "Alice Leigh
mission" record of youthful consecratior
that, in spite of physical infrmities and socia
obscurity won the admiration of man as wei
as the reward of the Master. 'Go Aheado i
the story of selfmale man who climbe,
from cabin boys's berth to position of EN-
nence, by his fidelity to truth and religion
Is mo l44 PIP. I.P. Warren, Boston. Tw
more narratives from the same publisher
"Newlyn House" and "Margaret's Old Home
handsomely illustrated, in tasteful binding
teach the beauty of christian love, adornin,
alike the homes of the high and the humble
the aged and the young. DIR. W. was lonl
connected with the Tract work, and is know1
also as the author Of the Notes on the New
Testament, commended by the Bibliothecs
Sacra and other eminent critics, as very help