The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1871-08-26

william A. Cram has, at bis own re-
onast been relieved from his engagement as
actor of Christ Church society. in Augusta.
There will be a camp meeting about four and
=, half miles from Fryeburg Corner, on the road
leading to Lowell, commencing, Sept. 4tb.
The Rev. j. II. Ward, of Thomaston, held
service of the Episcopal Church for the first
time in Glover Hall, Warren, last Sunday
morning, with congregation of one hundred.
Inc Congregational Church, in Rockland,
has Tor several weeks been undergoing repairs
and Improvements, during which the Rev. DR..
Gutter has enjoyed vacation. The work of
renovation is now completed.
The Universalist society, of Dexter, have ne
gotiated for the purchase of the house on Grove
street, now occupied by Hiram Stafford, the
same to be used as a parsonage. aAssz.ss
We learn that over twelve thousand people
Were present at Wesleyan Grove camp meet
ing, Northport, Thursday, fully one-thrd more
than ever before attended on one day.
The Maine Central Free Baptist Yearly
Meeting will be held in Auburn, commencing
September 9Th The M. 9. Y. M. Ministers
Conference will be held in Auburn in cOnnec
ton with the Yearly Meeting, September 5th
MIR. Berry, the agent for the Somerset Bible
society, reports that he has visited since the
annual meeting in June, five hundred and
eighty-niue families. He found forty-three
families without the bible (; has gwen away
forty-six copies, and sold one hundred and
eleven. The towns, in this report, are Emblem
Concord, Lexington, and part of Madison,
and Highland, Dead River, Bigelow and Flag
staff Plantations. In Lexington and Flagstaff
Plantation he found neither Sabbath School
nor stated meetings, in some of the remaining
localities there are meetings but oue-fourth of
the time.
Rev. William Crowell, D. D., formerly. and
for several years editor of the Waterman &
| Reflector, died at Flanders, N. j., of disease of
the heart, this week.
The Rev. f. F. Hambett, of Concord, is the
| thirty-second candidate whom the Unitarian
congregation in West Bridgeport, Mass, have
heard since the first of April, and now they are
cow looking around for new victim.
DR.. George L. Prentiss, of New York will
accept the Chair of Theology in the Presby te-
rian Theological Seminary of the North West,
at Chicago, to which he was elected by the
Presbyterian General Assembly in May last.
Are not some of the ultra serious as eager
after a new preacher" asks Thackeray, 4" as
the ultra. worldly for a new dancer? Don't
they talk and gossip about him as much?"
Rev. w. l.. Gage, OF Hartford. Conn.,, step
ped, Sunday evening, in the dark from a piazza
OF the Gosport House, Isles OF Shoals, and fell
with his whole weight a distance of five feet
upon the ledge. Fortunately he broke no
| limbs, but is suffering severely from the great
strain of his fall, and the jar OF the whole sys-
TEN.
John Wesley has had the credit OF originat-
ing the saying, Cleanliness is next to godli-
ness" 1t seems he oaIy appropriated it. DIR.
Bettelkeim, a Rabbi, of Richmond, claims it
for the Talmudists -
This maxim appears frst in a Beratha as
he last Misbna OF Sofa, chapter TX. (; Talmud
ierus., Shakalim, chapter Ill, page 6 (; Tai
uud babl., Alb sarah, page ~, b. JaIkut, Sh.
Isaiah, No. 263 and Aliassi Alb sarah ibid
oc. Here IL reads AS follows Pbinehas ben
var, says fne doctrines OF religion are re-
solved into Tor are next to) carefuluess. Care
iuiDess INTO nervousness. NERVOUSNESS into
guiltlessness. GuIltlessness into absiemious-
uess. Abstemousness into cleanliness. Clean
iIness Into godliness lrqual to holiness, etc,
etc. Literally next 10 goodness.
Unitarians generally believe in the divinity
but not in tho deity OF Christ. 1t is said that
on one occasion a couple OF Evangelical laiIes
| went to labor with the Rev. Samuel j. May on
his heresy in that particular. He met them
very kindly, and his beaning lace and cordial
manner quite confused them. At last one OF
them said, 1--WE have come to you with a mes
sage from the Lordi" He blandly replied,
There is no one from whom L should be SO
glad TO hear. Do tell me what it isl After a
long pause, one of them began with, Mr..
May. have heard that you do not believe in
the Divinity of Jesus Christ" Mr.. May i'm
mediately responded, I" You never heard that
from the Lord, for the Lord kcows do" The
excellent ladies found they had mistaken their
mission.
There is a minister in Vermont who, as one
| old lady said of him, is particularly meat at
| funerals" 1t is not unusual for people in
neighboriDg towns to send Tor him for such oc-
| casons. In one instance he went several
| miles on all uncomfortable day to attend the
funeral of the wife OF a man of some proml-
hence. AS he was about starting for home
the bereaved husband took him by the hand
and SAID: !" am very grateful to you for this
days service, and hope may be able to do as
much for you" One day, in passing along the
street, the same minister overlook a Quaker
lady, and politely assisted her in opening a
gate. AS she was comparative stranger in
town, he said You do not know me, per-
maps; l am Mr.. -. Haven't you heard me
preach?' I" L have heard thee try p was her
quick and witty rejolnder. [Congregationallst.
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