The Portland daily press., 1871-01-21
Religious Department !.


serted in abbreviated torn in this column every
Saturday.
The Park Street Association recently organ
lied in this city, contenp'ates the employment
of Comu,itte es of Hospitality, Benevolent Ac-
ton, Missionary Work and the Young, with
monthly meetings, assessments, public enter
tainment, and other methods of developing
the moral forces Of the members of the Park
street Society. President, T. c. Hersey: Vice
President, James Fl. Baker; Sec'y, George F.
Talbot.
Welsh student in Bangor Seminary is
preaching to the Welsh quarrymen in the
State quarries and also supplies the Brown
vile church
The Universalist churches in this State re-
port for the past year nine new preachers re-
ceived, one removed, a net gain of eight. The
Register for 1871 is very valuable for reference.
Sunday, April 30 is to be observed by the de-
nomination as the Tooth anniversary of the
birth of the Rev. Hosea Ballou.
Clergymen have been well represented in
the choice of lecturers the past season in this
city, those of joking and sporting proclivities
particularly The latter class have been most
severely handled by our city contemporaries
The Transcript laments the decadence of the
lecture system, and says that "as whole, the
lectures this season have been the poorest for
twenty three years, and Mr.. Smiths the least
profitable of them all.'
Rev. A. A. Miner is the President and Ben
ton Smith the agent Of the Universalist Pub.
fishing House, Boston. Their last issue is an
"Ofering" by Rev. N. q. Hodgdon, reviewing
the literature of the denomination, its progress,
position and claims: a contribution to polemic
theology, valuable to all who are interested in
its discussion.
Another breakfast, under the auspices of
"The Provisional Council of the American and
International Moral Science Association was
given at Providence on the 11th inst. If Dr.
Gathers bill of fare is in keeping with the pom
derous title of this body, it must be grand
one.
Scribners Monthly for February has the
conclusion OF the long and somewhat oracular
rebIke to the clergy on 'The Bondage of the
Pulpit" by W. G. Wilkinson. Who is he?
Rev. DR.. Seiss, of Philadelphia, whose ser
mons at State street church. some months
since, awakened such deep interest has writ
ten six di courses on the "Ten Virgins to
which series another is appended, on the
"Judgeship of the Saints" The themes,
the original view taken, and the vgor and
beauty of style, render them valuable help
to Bible readers Smith, English s. Co., Phil
adelphia, 12 mo-, cloth 80 cents.
Rev. George Trask of Fitchturg, the un.
has published, by request, an photographed
IL al 4 I;c H.
tract, and with others, can be had of him at
your own price. He was educated at Gorham
Academy and Bowdoin College One Of the
Brunswick professors said, "Trask is to be the
useful man of his Glass; and for forty-five
years the remark has been an inspiration. His
battles with Frank Pierce on anti-slavery, his
discussions with j. p. Hale and Jonathan
Cilleyr and his valiant advocacy of reforms
when the opposing arguments were brickbats
-"weighty, but not conclusve''-whep like
Matthew Byles, he was guarded, regarded and
style, as well as his later fights with tobacco
Heaven send him many years!
Lawyer Durant of Boston, who for several
years has devoted his talents to revival labors
has been laboring at Pepperell, Mass. success
fully, and now has gone to Bristol, N. H. A
revival is in progress.
THE PASTOR AND PEOPLE, dollar paper,
unsectarian, published fy B. b. Russell, Bos-
ton, is closing its first year with circulation
of twelve thousand, INDUCES in little excusa-
bic pride in saying that il has not only paid
expenses, but netted a handsome monthly div
idend. 1t adds the fact stated BY the Independ-
that that af MI \,
for its fist ten years, but lost $4,000 1t is
stated the Chicago Advance the first two years
sunk $50 COO, tie capital with which it set out.
The lions ADVOCATE OF this city, is pub
fishing series Of suggestive papers on Par
sonages, the possession of which by parishes,
would materially aid in securing more per-
manent ministry. Itgives this week the case
of feeble Baptist church in Maine, two years
ago, with little old fashioned box of a meet.
ing house, no parsonage and paying but $500
salary, the members not worth on an average
$4OO each. yet by long pull, strong pull and
pull altogether they have doubled the salary,
built comfortable parsonage, and helped by
others, now completed tasteful church edifice,
carpeted, cushioned, frescoed and finished in
chestnut and black walnut, dedicated free OF
debt. A revival, which adds So new members
is very natural and expected concomitant of
this work.
THE MANsE AND THE MINISTER, the Recto
ry and Rector. the Parsonage aud Parson
Vicar and Vicarage, Dean ard Deanery and
how many more associated words we cannot
tell, have long expressed the pract cal interest
parishes used to feel in the comfort of minis
ter's family. The revival of this interest, sho wn
in the building of houses to be leased perma-
nently to the minister, is an encouraging fact
So long as he is subject to the caprice of a
landlord. or to the contingencies arising from
change of ownership, he is not really settled.
clergyman few months after his instalIa-
tion, remarked that he was living nowhere,
only staying" He had hired residence,
bought new furniture, cut and fitted new car
pets at considerable expense and got things to
rights, When he was coolly told that he must
leave, as the house was sold. Sickness in his
family had added its burden also, and driven
from pillar % post he soon after resigned and
left. Another remarked that he removed his
family six times in six years. The expense is
great, but the loss of time, interruption of pas
toral labor and mental harrassment suffered is
more, where the voice so often breaks in on his
domestic privacy, "Arisc this is not your rest"
Reyivals in the Baptist churches of Dexter
and East Dixfeld are reported and at the
Methodist churches in Wayne and Cutler-
At Bucksport, West Lubec, Castine and Sur
ry, religious interest is enjoyed in marked
degree.
The call of our State Prison for chaplain,
whose time shall wholly be given TO tie 1nsti-
tuition, should be at once needed. The expense
is ofsmall moment.
A lady rebukes the habit of ''Sunday Din
ners," which keep servants and others from
church TO prepare and makes heavy those who
eat. II believe that if Christians would deny
their appetites more and be satisfied with cole
meats and puddings, or still palmer food, on
the Lords day, that the sanctuaries would be
better filled by wide awake, attentive hearers
of the gospel" 1t was Rev. J. II. Langwor-
thy of Chelsea, Mass, who once told his people
that he did not care to preach to three bushels
of baked beans every Sabbath.
A writer in last weeks Baptist Union says,
vouch for this fact myself. Mr.. Murray of
Park Street lately used this expression in his
prayer, "God bless all, my friends But a
few steps from Park street in another meeting,
we once noted down these words ostensibly
addressed to God, "This is the most enterpris-
ing nation that ever existed in the world! On
ly 244 years ago the wild Indian dwelt where
~ Borrowed from political orators.