Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-12-23
Summary of Religious Intelligence.

| glad to learn.
good revival interest still continues in
several of the settlements Of the Dead River.
Several have been awakened, and others bap-
| tised.
AT the December session Of the Anson
Quarterly Meeting Mr.. Brice Edwards was
licensed to preach the gospel, and was SO
| recommended to the churches.
There has been revival in the Universal
list Society at Denmark corner. They have
repaired and reprinted their church and have
preaching once fortnight.
Rev. DR.. Smaller, pastor of the Second Bap-
| fist church, in Portland, recently baptised
seven persons, and admitted thirteen to MEM
bershp.
The Congregational church at Gorham, is
still without pastor. The pulpit is at pres
ent supplied by Rev. Mr. Perkins, of Gorham,
who has been for some years past engaged in
teaching select school for boys.
The friends of Rev. d. II. Sherman and
| family of Corinna made them donation visit
Tuesday evening, leaving with them more
| than fifty dollars in cash and valuables. The
students of Corinna Academy, of which Mr..
Sherman is principal, presented him an over
coat, hat and outfit, a few days since.
Rev. J. II. Amies, pastor of the Lewiston
Universalist Society, will spend the last two
Sabbaths of this month with his society,
| which services will close his labors in Lewis
ton.
Rev. NJ. Timer writes that he has COM
| menced preaching and gathering Free Bap-
fist church in Calais, an important locality and
one in which it seems desirable to establish a
church. Money is needed to defray the ex-
pense of purchasing house Of worship.
Any one esteeming it privilege to help so
worthy a cause, may remit to L. r. Burlin-
H., l.. L. Harmon, Portsmouth, n. H., or
Rev. NJ. Ulmer, Calais. Me.
The India Street Universalst church in
Portland was dedicated on Thursday evening,
the pastor elect Rev. George w. Bicknell,
preaching the sermon. On Friday evening
Mr.. Bicknell was installed as pastor, the Rev.
w. Z. Gibbs of Portland, preaching the SER
mon.
The friends Of Rev. George Briggs of West
Paris, to the number of one hundred and fifty,
made him friendly visit on the 10Th inst,
and after pleasant interview during the af-
ternoon and evening they returned home,
leaving behind them tokens of their kind re-
CARDS amounting to rising sixty dollars.
Df tha T
the last Sabbath, on "Genesis and Geology"
and urged that Geology confirms the truth of
the Biblical statement of Creation. Referring
to the now exploded notion that the "days"
alluded to in Genesis were our solar days, the
pastor remarked that it seems to have been
overlooked by the adherents of the notion of
solar days, that the sun was not created at all
till the fourth day.
Rev. S. J. Evans of Danvers, Mass, who
died in that place on Tuesday of last week,
was for several years rector of Trinity church,
Saco, where he was highly esteemed. He
was 81 years old.
The Cumberland Association met with the
India Street Universaist church in Portland
sermon was preached by Rev. J. C. Snow of
Westbrook Seminary.
A revival interest is reported in the vicinity
of the Shaw school house, Minot, under the
labors of Rev. N. W. Plummer.
The Baptist Fair last week in Machias was
success. The net proceeds of over 500
goes to help pay the expenses of building
their church.
At the annual meeting of the Gardiner Y.
NJ. C. Association for the choice of officers
last Monday evening, the following were
chosen: President, j. M. Larrabee; Vice
Presidents, A. Baker, SSE. johnson, N. w.
Cross, John f. Brann, Chas. Z. Parsons and
VIM. Whitney; Corresponding Secretary. 1.
A. Stanwood; Recording Secretary and Lii
brarian, l. S. Mitchell; Collector and Treas
Robert Douglass; Directors, James Williams,
j. c. Aver, Chas. Bridge, Robert Douglass
and d. Larrabee.
Rev. A. ID. Wheeler, d. d., celebrated his
sixty-eighth birthday at his residence in Tops
ham, last Wednesday evening There was a
gathering of friends and neighbors who con-
graduated him on his long lite of success and
continued good health. 1t was a pleasant &C.
casion.
The Sunday School connected with the
Universalist Society at Mechanic Falls num-
bers l72.
The new Baptist church in Harrison is to
be dedicated on Christmas day.
The Young Mems Progressive Christian
Union in Lewiston is again opening gratui-
tous evening school for such children as are
obliged to work in the mills during the day.
The Rev. b. +. Shaw of Watervlle, has
declined for the present to accept the unani-
nous and earnest call of the First Baptist
church and society of this city to become
their pastor, as he is reluctant to leave the
church at Dexter where he is now laboring.
The Augusta society, however, are not alto
gether without hope that he may possibly de-
eide to come during the next summer.
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