The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1871-04-29
DAILY PRESS,
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SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 1871,
Religious Department..

Religious Department..
@Items of intelligence from the churches su,.
day schools and missionary enterprises OF Maine viii
be welcomed from clergymen and Others and i'm.
serted in an abbreviated form in this column every
Saturday.
Rev. Il. d. Abbott, formerly of Portland
has charge of new church in Lewiston
with which over hundred have recently
Joined. Rev. Mr.. King baptized 1S in that
city at last Sabbath.
The church at Oak Ridge and the parson-
age have been greatly improved aud the soci-
ETY. is now free from debt.
lions Advocate reports the revival intsrest
al Harrington and Damariscotta still contin-
uing.
Inc State s. s. Convention meets at Gardi.
ner, Tuesday, May 10, 1871, at 8 O'Clock p NJ
and continues its session two days. Onen;nr
address by Rev. George w. Gardiner, n N
Of Charlestown Mass. Return tickets froa -
Rev. Messrs. Small of this city, Allen and
Chase of Bangor, Penney of Augusta. Ger.
rish of Pittsfield and Harris of Lewiston are
announced as speakers. :
/ Rev. A. II. Wright and family of this citv
are spending a week in Cambridge, Mass. :,
IAN evil beast hath devoured him" is tbe
text of powerful temperance sermon bv
Talmadge just published BY the National Soci-
ety. Rev. DR.. Willoughby and his Winen is
anotner excellont work nom the same press,
by Mrs. Walker, who is strong, vivid nara,
tive well buttressed with facts. pictures tba
perils Of social example in wine drinking. es.
pecially on the part of people of proiessed
morality and religion. 1t deserves a careful
reading by all good people. -
The Rev. DR.. Walker, formerly of State
street Church of this city, has a church in
New Haven that gave the past year $243l4.
included In this sum, however, is a legacy of
$9,4OO from Hervey Sanford to the Am.
cong. Union. Twenty-six different objects
are mentioned, the smallest amount beino
$llo. The Ladies' Home Missionary Society
connected with this church is a most efficient
organization, the average attendance at thir.
ty-two weekly meetings the past year being
forty-nine.
If rumors can be relied on the man vvacan-
cies at the Methodist Church Bench Of Bisb-
ops is leading to lively canvass It is gen.
orally supposed that there is something yery
attractive in the lawn sleeves, and that it is a
position OF aftiuence, distinguished honor and
courtly ease; but the statistics of the Episco-
pal Church show that the average lite of a
Bishop is but fifteen gears. They are literal
~ worked to death. Bishop Whittle of Min
nesota was in New York short time since. a
correspondent says, and though he has been
IN tne Eplscopate but short season, he looks
as II he was two thirds in the grave. In such
a Diocese as Long Island the work is enor.
nous. Bishop Littlejohn does the work of
ten men. Whatever the honors are thew are
purchased at great price.
Rev. Mr.. Pepper of Eastport, has been en-
gagged by the Baptist Society in Groveland,
Mass, and is about to remove his family TO
that town, and next week Rev. Mr. Pierce of
Winterport commences his labors with the
congregational church of Esstport.
An Easter offering of $500 was made in the
Roman Catholic Church in Calais.
There were 21 baptisms at Eastport April
The old South Church at Augusta have
paid the debt of $4,000 on their edifice,
Rev. Charles B. Smith, formerly of Maine,
was installed over the church at Mattapoisett.
April 13. This indian word has been spelt
Mishtypoorsett
The Observer Year Book does not inclnde
the names of the Methodist ministry in the
list it furnishes, because continual changes
in location render it impossible to ascertain
the addresses with accuracy" Without To-
cal naDltatlon, therefore without a name
might be predicated of the ministry of lother
denominations in this changeful age.
Rev. j. P. Bixby declines the call to East
Abingdon. ne was the S5th candidate.
The Congregationalists reports that $4,000
are subscribed as Jubilee offering toward re-
modelling the Second Church at Biddeford and
the work will begin at once-Rev. William A.
Merrill, late of Lyman,is engaged to supply at
Kennebunkport. - -
The funeral of Rev. DR.. Eaton of Gal ,eston
who was stricken with death while pronounc-
ing the benediction, was very affecting The
good man was buried in the place which was
was prepared at his own direction when the
church was built, under the chancel floor.
-Four hundred Sunday school children filed
the galleries-all robed in white with black
scarfs. When one of them threw flower
upon the coffin, there was instantly a shower
Of blossoms, and the grave was filled with
flowers. When the officiating minister COM
miited the body to the tomb, tears choked his
ntterance, and the vast assembly wept aloud.
The choir sang sobbing. The whole church
was draped, the chancel windows covered, all
business in the city suspended, and the bells
of all the churches toiled.
Statistics show that in five years the Con-
gregationalsts have gained but two new
churches as against a, gain of three for the
Baptist, six for the Methodsts, and eleven for
the Episcopalians. -
Nasts caricature Of the Pope costs the Har
pers, it is said, $4,000 all their books having
dropped from the list used in the New York
schools. Fortunately the firm can pay such
penalty without embarrassment and will do
SO again, before bowling their neck to an alien
| power.
The most effective sermon on peace we
have had presented for long time is Rother-
mePs Gettysburg" On a canvas of 512
square feet, WHICH seems almost to smoke
with the breath of battle, is painted the bril-
iiant yet sickening slaughter that marked the
cnmax GIN G of the tragedy. Twenty acres and
HW'ovv men stone wall a bayonet struggle
ai anu neaPs OF ghastly corpses; sulphurous
clouds above, rent by bursting bombs and
bloodstained sOds below, stained with the
gore OF men and horses, these are some of the
materials out Of which the picture is compos-
ed. No wonder that Generals Meade and
Sherman both remarked in closing their ad-
dresses at its unveiling at Philadelphia that
such scene taught "the evil and the horror
Of war;" If no more is gained the $25,OO0
expended on the painting will not be wholly
lost.
Religion is said to be the impulse to seek
God and Culture, mans impulse to seek his
own highest perfection. Both are from God
/
lent powers. He is the great educator and in
a "many-chambered" school we are taught
and called to be conscious workers with Him
With these as central thoughts j, G, Shairp
has written and Hurd & Houshton have pub.
lished timely little volume on Culture and
| Rshgion, which shows the inconsistency OF
the theories OF Huxley, which contradict at
once the best aspirations and the most indubi-
| table facts of mans higher nature. 1t is a
candid review of living issues and cannot fail
to do good. 16mo. 197pp. SIPS.
| The Universalists of Guilford have secured
the services of Rev. d. T. Stevens. The Au-
burn parish have enlarged and improved their
chapel.
At Whitneyville 100 inquirers and 30 con-
verts are reported.
Rev. E. Payson Hammond, the celebrated
revvalst, is spending few days in Roches.
ter. He has recently been holding series o.
meetings at Prattsburg.
Rev. DR.. Bolles, formerly rector of Trinit,
Church, in Boston, and subsequently of thu
Church of the Advent, is said to have had ;
very liberal offer to settle in San Francisco.
The many friends in this city of Rev. Alex
ander Burgess, d. D., will no doubt be pleased
to learn that Christ church. in Springfield
Mass, over which he is rector, is in a yer,
fourshng condition. A fine rectory is con
nected with the church. The Sunday schoo
work of this parish is distributed through the
whole city. To this church two chapels ant
five Sunday schools owe their guidance, max.
ing it a centre Of church influence. The
Easter offerings of these schools amounted tC
$500. 1t gives us pleasure to state that DIR
Burgess is very much beloved by his people
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