The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1871-02-25

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sga The interest awakened in the discussion Of
the Bondage of the Pulpit" at the last pas
tors meeting led to a continuation of the
same topic for next Monday. Twenty one
ministers were present. ,,.g....-.l,, .
Almost forty years ago, at the College FAST
: in the Second Church, Westbrook, a mother
desired prayers for her son In college. Ear
nest prayers followed in his behalf Very
soon letter announcing his conservation to
Christ was received. He entered the minis
Z try and is known on both sides the Atlantic
as the eminent scholar and preacher, Rev.
Prof. H. B. Smith, D. D., of New York city.
Four hundred and forty conversions are re-
ported in thirty-two colleges during the past
year. .a-... ..-... a,. ,.s e..a.f IA. ,.
The F. w. Baptist church at Gardner, re-
port twenty conversions and the return o.
several blacksliders. 80 --''. -'i
Of Quarterly meeting at Lewiston, beginning
March Z. sdAa.N E t 9g4a
sec Rev. c. Parker accepts the call TO North
Livermore.
There are but four of the sixteen Baptist
churches in Kennebec Association that have
pastors. FL" fa " s"" 'ri
The repairs on Colby University Chapel
cost $4,000. Work on the new laboratory and
Cabinet building begins in the spring.
= The Adventists hold conference March
End at Richmond, to continue three days.
,e Lee 6 Shepard are about to publish the
long expected biography of Rev. Baron Stowe
d. D., late Of Boston. 80 agL a.- a
The revivalist Knapp has 800 at prayer
meeting in fremont Temple. Shawmut Ave-
nue., Harvard St. and Clarendon st. Baptist
churches are having unusual religious inter-
est. f3,s ao. .5 J..a.....s n45i .sr n
One hundred join Rev. Mr.. Dunn's church,
Presbyterian, Boston, week from tomorrow.
The pastor breaches five evenings week. He
has broken down in health once Within a
year, but is at it again with true Scotch per-
sistency 5.. ............
Beecher's church numbers 1856, Murray's
975, Pres. Finney's 932, DR.. Goodwin's, Chi
cA.o, TOP and DR.. Storrs 979.
The three large Sunday schools which the
Congregationalists report are Beecher's, poll /;
Clinton Avenue, Brooklyn, Rev. DR.. Budding
tons, 1900; Rev. Mr.. Williamss, Chicago,
1000. -,.... VI 80 ,l....t ..,....s,
- Henry Hoyt has published fine edition
on tinted paper of ESTHER Ried" by the ad-
mired author Of "Tip Lewis" which is at
tracing many Sunday school readers as vol
j ume above the ordinory level of books for the
Young. While there are no dull pages, there
is no lack of religious truth and personal e1-
, perence to instruct. Its binding aud print
ing are in superior style. For still younger
eyes Mrs c. E. r. Davis, remembered by her
"Squire's Daughter" has written the story of
"Jenny Rust's Christmas" which if not liter.
J. ally true in every particular is full of substan-
d, tlal truth and narrative. ....,r.. .s.,
Profanity as we'll as drunkenness is getting
/, to be great nulsance on our railroads. The
law recently made in Connecticut is said to
produce "a marvellous effect" It makes each
Z conductor police officer. Noisy, splitting,
swearing travellers who will not yield to re-
= quest are locked up and finally handed over
Ito municipal police. 15,4sd 81 ig-
4 A peddler, two hundred years ago, gave a
boy tract called "Tfe Bruised Reed,n which
Baxter. Baxter's writings led Doddridge to
Christianity The "Rise and Progress" BY
Doddridge was the means of converting VIII
berforce. practical Christianity" written
by Wilberforce, led Leigh Richmond to be-
come Christian. The latter wrote "The
Dairyman's Daughter" which has been the
means of bringing thousands to Christ. The
records of the Tract Society for 1855 alone
state that 1900 attribute their conversion to
that tract. a+.l
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS gathered at An.
dover from 81 colleges give the following sum-
mary: 1913 students, of whom 1852 are
church members and s74 studying to be min
listers. Harvard University has 127 stu.
dents; 1S9 freshmen; II scholarship, from
500 or less to $3.50 each. Bowdoin ba. but
4 five students preparing for the ministry. or
one in twenty-iour, while Harvard has 40
or one in fifteen, Dartmouth about one in sew
en-, Amherst one in four and Wabash one in
three.
Last year there were $500 teachers TO
100000 pupils employed by the Freedmen's
Bureau.
The normal and 81 common schools amonp
the Karens use the Bible as daily textbook. |!
Perhaps some day they will be innoculated |
with the notion prevalent in some political
sircies in Christian lands that the Bible is
s-alian book and should be banished from
: common schools.
n So. ~ attendance recently introduced
a,aot | ,Io - working well. II parents ne
s'ec' 'he education of their ehildren the sr.te
may assume the work and separate them
from their parents if need be. IT, .ns