Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-11-25
Summary Of Religious intelligence.

SShooi' w pecoHe their pastor. lie mas &C
cepted and will enter on the duties of that
position the first of July next. The ladies
Aid society held Fair last week, from which
they realized, after all expenses were paid,
about $40. The ladies have raised during
the year upwards of $500.
There are in the State % Methodist par
ishes, with 20 clergymen, exclusive of the
Bishop, and two candidates for orders. The
total number of communicates is 1884; num-
Der of baptisms, 34l confirmed, III mar
riages, 73; burials, l54; value of church
property, $349, $50; sttings in churches and
chapels, 1862; total revenue, $50, 1913. 80, all
OF which is voluntary, the system of volun
tary offerings being generally observed in the
State. The three churches in Portland raised
for al purposes during the Convention year,
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The Maine Baptist Missionary Board meets
in this city Monday afternoon at o'clock
The Secretary, Rev. DR.. Kicker, is hoping
for full attendance.
Rev. Mr.. Jordan, formerly settled at Cum
berland, has been engaged to supply the Con-
gregational church at B ethel during the
winter
Last Sunday quite a number of persons
were baptised in the river at Midtown. The
Baptists, Methodists and Adventists each
baptised several persons-in all about
Dozen On Saturday ten persons were bap-
tised by Rev. Mr. Porter at Princeton.
| Last Sunday, in the New Jerusalem Tenn
pie in Portland, Rev. VIM. B. Hayden de-
livered discourse on the question, Chow
shall we be employed in Heaven" in which
he said that 1.-THE trade or profession in which
we are engaged on earth, will, if we sincerely
| like 1t, become in a purified and more glori-
| Gus sense, our occupation in the world to
come" Josiah Thomas used to say, when
| tugging away at an old Tufts press, that if
| there was any presswork to be done in
Heaven he'd ''be hanged if he'd stand it,
unanimous call has been extended to
Rev. DR.. c. c. Parker, late of Gorham. from
the First Presbyterian Church in Andover,
| n. j., and also from the Congregationalist
Church in Orient, Long Island.
Rev Daniel Dyer has been engaged for the
next year by the Free Baptist society of Lin
neus. Several have recently been received
into the church by baptism and letter.
The Universalist Church at Hiram-the
| munifcunt gift of Miss Susan Spring of
Brownfield-is nearly or quite completed
outside, and plastered two chimneys erected,
and it hoped that it will be dedicated on
Christmas.
The Methodist Church in Auburn is re-
lieved from the embarrassing debt that has
hung upon it since its erection, and the So
ciety is prospecting finely Under the efficient
pastorate of Rev. J. Roscoe Day.
Rev. E. S. Fish reports a glorious revival
in Winslow, among the old and young.
Rev. Edwin A. Harlow, late of Wysndotte,
Kansas, was installed Tuesday evening over
the North Congregational church, Cape
Elizabeth, where Rev. Henry NJ. Vail
labored upwards of six years.
Rev. G. F. Stearns of the New Jerusalem
Church, will preach tomorrow morning and
afternoon, at the Universalist Church in
Gardiner.
Free street church in Portland is to have
a new organ to cost $1,000. Their old one
has been sold tie a society in Buxton.
There is talk of moving the Free Baptist
church at Lisbon from the lot it now occu-
pies to another near by. This church stands
near the site of the new dam and adjacent to
the site of new cotton mill, proposed to be
erected by N. W. Farwell, Esq.
Work on the new Catholic church edifce
in VIM, is being rapidly pushed forward.
The Y. NJ. C. Association of Portland have
just celebrated their 18th anniversary. Dur
ing the year 200 new books have been received
for the library, increasing the number to 800
volumes, and 200 volumes for mission purpo-
SEES. The receipts have been 1882 So; ex-
penditures, 81 1892 leaving a small balance
and considerable unliquidated debt.
Rev. Mr.. Mckinney, Universalist, of
Bridgton, exchanged on the last Sabbath with
Rev. Mr.. Howe, Free Baptist, of Harrison.
The Park street Methodist Society in Lew
iston, have purchased of Messrs. Miller &
Smith, for $4,000, new two story house on
Ash street,-to be used as a parsonage.
the cost.
Rev. Mr.. Goucher (Baptis) of kendus-
keag has recently been preaching at Lincoln
Centre, South VIM, and Vim.
A correspondent who devotes much time to
| ''reading up" the religious weekles, thinks
| the reason these journals afford so much
| space to quack medicine announcements is
that the objects Of religion and quackery are
similar, because both prepare for another and
better world.
The Methodist Church in Buxton have re-
Gently greatly improved their parsonage
property. The pastor, Rev. Ii. f. A. Patter-
son, states that the society in North Gorham
are about to erect a new parsonage near the
new church recently erected in that place.
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