Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-08-12
Summary OF Religious Intelligence.

| Summary OF Religious Intelligence.
| The Sunday schools throughout the State
are now enjoying their annual excursions,
| some going by rail and others taking days
sail. We hear of no effort on the part of
the Sunday schools in this city in that di-
rection.
There has been very gracious revival Of
| religion progressing in the Methodist church
| in Ilampden for some months past. On the
| two last Sabbaths, Rev. Ammi Prince,
preacher in charge, baptised thirty adults,
many of them heads of families also, two
young children.
| A universalist church is to be commenced
next week at Hiram Bridge. Mr.. Christopher
Allen is to do the wood work, and John II.
55x53 feet. A beautiful lot has been Sc
lected few rods above the Cutter House,
extending from the street to the Saco river.
Mrs. James Pratt, wife of Rev. DIR. Pratt
of Portland, has left for California.
The Congregational church of Thomaston,
have decidee to build new church.
Rev. A. C. Nickerson of Belfast, has re-
ceived a call from the Unitarian society at
Beverly, Mass, but has not yet accepted it.
The Gardiner Methodist society is largely
represented at the State Camp Meeting, as
are the societies of Hallowell, Augusta, Skow-
hogan, Waterville, Kendall's Mills, and the
| river towns in general. Portland also, is we'll
| represented.
During the past two months, Mf. George
Ii. McKechnie has read Universalist ser
mon each Sabbath at the Good Templars Hall
in Alton.
The Unitarians of Belfast will make an ex-
cursion to Waterville on Wednesday of next
week.
The quarterly meeting of the Lincoln Bap-
| fist Association has just closed one of its most
interesting sessions at So. Thomaston. The
fact that this is the old mother church, to
which half a score or more of the Baptist
churches in that vicinity point as their birth
place, was often feelingly alluded to, and
many earnest prayers assembled for blessings
| on the loved parent. Faithful gospel SER
mons were preached by Revs. c. Tbbets,
Rockland; c. M. Emery, Thomaston; J.
Kallock, Rockland; G. L. Tucker, Durham !;
C. Richardson, Warren; B. A. Patten, Cam
den; followed again by G. f. Tucker. Ear
nest exhortations, prayers, with many a re-
| membrance of olden times, filled the long
| sessions, and the presence of the Highest
| cheered hearts and hopes.
Rev. DIR. Dexter has settled over the Bap-
| fist church in Ellsworth.
on the 22d. Already some new houses have
been erected upon the grounds, and others
will be built previous to the meeting.
Rev. w. f. Palmer, pastor of the Free
Baptist church in Atkinson, baptised twenty
four persons July 9th, and admitted them to
| the church.
| Maine is the great feeder for the pulpits of
other States.
| Here is something for those ministers to
think about whose calls upon the people are
flew and far between A Methodist minis
ter called upon family in the town of Indus
| try one day last week. He had been there
but a short time when the woman of the house
said to her husband Fifteen years ago, you
remember, we laid by one dollar which was
to be given to the first minister who called
upon us. This is the first minister who has
stepped over our threshold since then. Get
the dollar and give it to him."
The additions to the Congregational
churches in Maine the past year we've III re-
movals, 1913; increase of membership, 49,
| Two persons were baRtised and admitted to
the NJ ethodist Church in Gorham last Sab
bath.
| At New Sweden, on a recent Sabbath the
sacrament of the Lords Supper was admins
tered by the Rev. Mr.. Nugent (Baptist of
Presque Isle, assisted by Dea. Bugbee of
Washburn, and Dea. OLSON of New Sweden.
About twenty persons were received into the
| Church by letter, and seven more handed in
their letters ofdismission and Recommendation
from Churches in Sweden. The Church
numbers over fifty members. Among the
most prominent of the Baptist Church men,
bers there, is lady who sung in the Opera in
Goteborg for several years. She is said to be
a very fine singer.
Rev. Father Murphy has been relieved
from his duties in Portland and sent to New
Hampshire. Rev. Father Callahan will ocu-
Ply the place vacated by Father Murphy.
The Uniyersalist Society of Dexter have
secured the services of Rev. Mr.. Weston,
formerly of Belfast, for one year.
The Rev. Mr.. Moses of Lubec reports tina,
he visited the Christian church at Marion last
week, and on Thursday baptised three con.