The Portland daily press., 1871-04-08
DAILY PRESS
Religious Department..
PORTLAND.
SATURDAY, APRIL s, 1871.

EiOuS Departme en6.
be wecomsda ana missionary enterprises OF Maine will
serted in n rom clergymen and others and in
Saturday. 'ofm In this column every
4 large portion of the Christian
"orid VIII celebrate the grand festival Of F...
'sr' I'D "hich the church commemora,as in
an especial manner the resurrection 80 -
Lord and Saviour. Its observance ia No, H..
tied by local circumstances or restrained bv
the proclamation of civil authority, but Is
yearly growing more and more in favor as
festival by all classes and bodies of men @wbo
| profess and call themselves christians - and
in the spirit of religious progress and enlight-
eminent which makes the present age, the day
is not far off when there will be no such
anomaly as Church without an Easter.
Ihere were seven baptisms and five con-
nrmatlons at the Swedenborgian temple in
this city last Sunday.
heV' Fred. oxnard has returned from Mas
sachusetts to Portland.
hev. G. II. Rowe formerly pastor of the
Baptist church in Augusta, but for several
years past of the Stoughten Street Baptist
Church, Boston, has accepted the call of the
Baptist church of Weymouth, Mass.
Mr.. James Gregg, of Deering, who receatlv
died, left an estate valued at $4,000. He be-
queathed the sum of s23, 900 to the American
Bible. Society. The rest of the property was
given to his relatives. He was a bachelor.
Ihe First Baptist Society OF Manchester
has bought for $1,000 a lot OF land at the cor
ner of Union and Concord streets, containing
5000 feet, for new church edifice.
Anew Universalist Church ofI45 members
was organized last Sunday at Skowbeeap.
Kew. Geo. Bicknell preached the sermon.
There were twelve baptized by sprinkling BY
the pastor, Rev Mr.. Nutting.
Rev. G. 81. Munsen is invited to supnlv an.
other year at Turner but has not decided
whether or not to remain.
The Boston Daily News now says that Rev.
Mr.. Bolies has accepted the call to Salem,
Mass.
Rev. E. NJ. Haynes received five member,
to his church at Lewiston last Sunday. Two
were baptised the same day at the Methodist
church Auburn. A marked religious intel-
estis noticeable.
A subscription is started fer the building of
Universalist church edifice at Hiram.
Rev. w. 81. Clarke reports religious interest
at Mount Vernon.
Rev. Charles Guild engages for one year at
Ferry, and P. B. Wilcox at Bluehill.
The phrase Sol lueet omnibus expresses a
notable fact that fine weather has not little
to do with the quality of personal criticism.
We heard of minister the other day. who
owed his call to church, in the judgment of
a theological professor, mainly to the fine
weather he enjoyed on the trial Sunday
Some one has said "Given a sufficient
amount of sunshine and humanity, all over
the world are, as rule, ready to laugh, to
dance and sing in the SUM-
A Bangor minister Rev. Mr.. Maltby now
deceased, once preached in town near Wor-
cester, Mass, at "a funeral, from the words:
set thy house in order" An honest farmer
present, through deficiency of intellect or at
tention, or both, retired offended, saying that
it was "too bad to t,cit on facts" He knew
he said, that his house was in bad condition
but he meant to fix up and had already got
some shingles stored in the barn.
The death of Father Taylor recalls to his
friends not a few of his faithful sermons and
their wonderful results. An abandoned girl
on North street, sick of life had once stepped
up into chair, it is said, to adjust the rope
by which she was to hang herself, when she
caught glimpse OF the light in his church,
strange impulse led her to follow "the
light in the window" and she heard sermon
on tho love Of Jesus in dying for man, which
was the means OF her conversion. A Port.
land journalist with several friends entered
the Bethel one evening and took seats which
the sailors usually had. In his brusque way
Father Taylor shouted, "I don't want land.
lubbers therep adding, as his eyes met one of
them, in subdued tone, "just as good seats
this way"
New York liquor dealers placard in their sa-
looms Duryea's Expedient," sitirical refer
ence to The sermon on wine drinking recently
preached by Rev. DIR. Duryea of Brooklyn.
DIR. Cuyler has an antidote in his discourse
just published by the National Society on the
moral duty of total abstinence.
The fastidious caprice of modern parishes
in their coquetry with Candidates. is Illus
trated by the remark of Boston daily that
the Congregational Society in East Abingdon,
sinceathe retirement Of Rev. Ii. D. Walker,
from the pastorate, have listened TO s4 candi-
dates before deciding to give Rev. Mr.. Bixby
OF neighboring town, call.
Rev. DIR. Fulton of Boston is preaching
every evening. Tuesday night he declaimed
against the Theatre as a feeder of immortality
shown in the performances, the performers
and their patrons. There were "a persons
admitted to Dr. FPS church last Sabbath; 273
baptisms were reported at the last monthly
Baptist ministers meeting in Boston.
Rev. Mr.. Kelley Of the Congregational
Church, Robbinston, is spending his vacation
IN this city, and may be addressed No. Ste
vens place, Park st.
There were five baptisms last Sabbath at
Chestnut street Church.
The author of "Portland Pulpiis" 10 the
Transcript this week pays deserved compli-
ment to the ability of the honored pastor OF
the second Church.
SIS. NoTEs-A valuable help 10 teachers
and others will be found in Whitney's new
"Hand Book of Bible Geography" with full
and fresh information on sacred geography
and history, a table of dates, an Arabic Clos
sary and about 140-engravings and maps. j.
P. MCGEE 50 Brownfeld, street Boston has it;
also volume Of in ncident illustrative of the
Prince of Pulpit orators" Whitfield which
contain about 400 pages of material useful in
the work of teaching truth by living example
and every day life Bishop Kingsley "Round
the World" is the record of what a Christian
saw and felt in foreign travel. This lament
ed man who died before his journey home
ward was completed welded a facile pen and
has impaired much of information that will
delight the student OF oriental life. Teach
ers ofInfant classes will gain useful ideas from
little book from the press Of Adams, Black
man & Lyon Chicago called "Infant Classo