Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-09-02
His church and society in this city will part
with him with regret.

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with him with regret.
The Universalist church in Gardiner will
be reopened for public worship tomorrow.
Service at AS. The pastor, Rev. J. NJ.
Paine will odiciate. Sunday School at l3O
Z. M.
The Methodist State Campmeeting will be
holden at Portland October 10 and IL.
The Universalist church in Hallowell will
be opened for religious service tomorrow.
During the past quarter of a century the In
itarian church in Maine has made slow pro-
gress, but recently there has been quite re-
vival in the denomination. Rev. DIR.
| Wheeler has charge of the missionary work
in the State, and conducts it with energy and
| wisdom. The churches in Castine and Els
worth have been greatly revived, the church
| in IIoulton strengthened, and new society
is about to be established in Dover. In Els
worth and vicinity, Rev. Mr.. Savory has as
sisted DR.. Wheeler in opening places for Uni
tartan preaching at Bucksport, Franklin,
| Sullivan, Lamoine, Gouldsboro, Bar Harbor,
| and Trenton. The laborers in this new field
during July and August, are Messrs. Wilson,
Tindall and Peabody, Of the Cambridge The
| illogical School, Faoto, of Boston, Knapp of
Providence, and others.
The Cumberland Baptist Association, COM
| prising the Baptist churches of Cumberland,
Sagadahoc and Androscoggn counties, met
| with the church in Lewiston on Tuesday,
| Wednesday and Thursday. The meetings
were very interesting and profitable.
An association has been formed in the town
| of Phillips, which promises good success. 1t
embraces Christians of all denominations
The grand object of the association is the
| moral and intellectual improvement of the
people of Phillips and vicinity. Sunday
school and temperance work is to be promi
nent feature of the association.
"Mother Winslow" Of Canton, Me-, aged
one hundred and five years, is claimed as the
oldest Methodist in the country, if not in the
world.
An Advent camp-meeting is in operation on
the east side of the river in Belfast.
Rev. John p Cole will preach on the top
of Mt. Abram, Tuesday, Sept. 10Th, if pleasant
If not, the first fair day following-and ex-
tends a general invitation. A good theme for
| the discourse would be "Come up higher
For singing exercises, we would suggest the
hymn "On the mountain tops appearing"
A good religious interest is new prevailing
| in the Methodist church in East Readfeld
Rev. j. X. Masterman, pastor. Several have
recently united with the church.
We are perfectly willing that clergymen
should get as large salaries as they can; for
| generally, they have fine talent for every
| thing except for making money, and frequent
ly they show great ability in spending it
And when this is done for good purpose
they should have enough of the needful.
| Rev. J. w. II. Baker was be installed pas
tor of the First Congregational Church in
Brewer on Thursday last; sermon by Prof.
| Herrick of the Theological Seminary.
Rev. II. r. Nye of Springfield, Mass, has
been. supplying the Universalist church in
| Bath for few Sabbaths.
Rev. II. V. Dexter, for reasons sufficient to
his own mind, feels compelled to decline the
call to the pastorate of the Baptist church in
Ellsworth.
| The Sunday school of the Methodist Church
in Wayne had a very interesting picnic excur-
sion to Kent's Hill, last Saturday. The picnic
was served in the Seminary Chapel, and the
occasion was one of general interest. Rev.
H. P. Torsey, the popular President of the
Seminary, interested. the school very much
by some exhibitions in chemistry and cleo
tricity.
| The Bowdoinham Baptist Association will
meet at Bowdoinham, on the afternoon of
Sept. 18th, at 2 o'clock. Annual sermon by
Rev. A. II. Gould.
| At the session of the Penobscot Free Will
Baptist yearly meeting at East Corinth, the
Maine Central Institute was presented to the
meeting by the agent, Rev. G. W. Bean, and
the sum of $4,000 was raised towards meeting
its liabilities, Mr.. j. C. Conner of Pittsfeld,
proposing to give $1,000 if 81 900 more could
be made up on the ground. The condition
was met and the $4,000 secured
| Rev. n. Gunnison, who died at West
|
State as gentleman of agreeable manners
and a Universalist minister of no mean abili-
ty. He was the father of Rev. Almon Gun
nison, late the pastor of the Universalist So
ciety in Bath, now of Brooklyn, N. Y.
A quiet religious work is being enjoyed
| at North Livermore.
The Sunday-school of the Methodist
Church in Winthrop had most delightful
excursion to Monmouth last week. Every
thing passed off finely. Good speaking, good
singing, and good cheer generally enlivened
the occasion. The school is fourishng.
Mr.. Ayers, who has been supplying the
pulpit of the First Congregational Church in
Bethel, for the last four months, with much
acceptance, closed his labors last Sabbath
He returns to the Union Theological Semi
nary of New York to complete his studies.