The Portland daily press., 1872-02-10
RELIGIONS InteIligenee.

Rev. Mr.. Wilcox of Bluehill is supplying the
pulpit of the Centre Street Church at Machias
Rev. w. H. HI. Pillsbury, of the Maine Con-
ference who has been pastor of the Congress
Street Methodist Episcopal Church, Portland,
for the past year and half, has been transfer
red to the Iowa Conference, and stationed at
Burlington.
The Cumberland Association will meet in
Portland with Rev. DIR. Carruthers, Feb, 18th.
The town of Stockton has no settled minister
at the present time, Rev. Mr. Thurston of Sears
port, supplies the pulpit for the Congregation
alists at Sandy Point, and Rev. Mr.. Reed has
been preaching for the Unversalists at Stock
ton Village.
The late Robert Waterston of Boston, was for
merly resident of Kennebunk. Charles Dean
and George c. Lord-executors of his will, re-
Gently gave $1,000 from his estate, to the First
(Uuitarian) Parish in that town, for the benefit
of its library.
Rev. Mr.. Hall of Tuftonborough, N. H., is
supplying the pulpit of the Baptist church, in
York, during the temporary absence of the pas
tor, Rev. Joel Wilson
Rev. Elias Chapman of North Reading Mass
supplies the Congregational church in Sanford
Rufus Deering, A. L. sGerrish, Charles f
Penney, j. s. Burgess, E. w. Porter, w, Ii.
Bowen, w. T. Eaton, G. w. Howe A. Red
lon, c. burlington, L. Given and c. o. Libbey,
| are the corporators of the Free Baptist Maine
Home Missionary Society, for the purpose OF
| aiding Free Baptist churches in this State in
need of assistance, with the usual appropriate
corporate rights, privileges and immunities,
/ o,,I ,r;t f,II 70 hold ond
! vey real and personal property, and to use, ap-
propriate and dispose of the same in promoting
and securing the aforesaid objects and purpos-
es of their Incorporation
A religious revival of unusual interest has re-
Gently been in progress in the Free Baptist So
| ciety in Lyman, under fine minstrations of Rev.
VIM. j. Twart.
| An excellent interest prevails in the Congre-
| gational church in Eliot, under the ministra-
tions of Rev. Mr.. Sanborn.
| The Universalists of Milo are endeavoring to
raise the means to erect church edifce the
coming season.
The old Westinghouse of the LIST Congrega-
| tional Society in Westbrook, where Parson
Bradley preached so long, has been repaired,
| principally by the Ladies' Circle aided by a
few gentlemen of that vicinity, and there is
now regular preaching there. The Society is
composed of all denominations but Mr.. M. L.
Stevens, Baptist, has been preaching there fol
four or five months to great acceptance, and
the audiences have been gradually increasing
| under his ministration.
The Congregational Society in Brunswick
raised $500 for the support of the Gospel and
for contingent expenses of the ensuing year.
| An effort is to be made to secure the amount
by subscription, without taxing the pews.
| A Young Mems Christian Association is to
be organized in Bridgton on Friday evening,
Feb. 10th.
There is good deal Of religious interest in
the North Livermore Baptist Church. Twenty
persons have been baptized and added to the
church within few months. The church edi-
flee has been repaired by an expenditure OF
500. A nice chandelier has been presented to
the church by Mr.. Erastus Thompson, of Hop
kinton, Mass, and Dea. Arad Thompson, OF
Bangor.
The Arlington Street Church, Boston, uni
tarian) have invited Rev. j. +. w. Ware OF
Baltimore to become their pastor. On an i'll
formal ballot of the propretors he received
thirty out of sixty-three votes cast. Upon a
| formal ballot Mr.. Ware received thirty votes O
| fifty-eight
The trial of Rev. Dr. Theodore L. Cuyler OF
Brooklyn, N. Y, for admitting Miss Smiley OF
Vassalboro, into his pulpit to preach on Sun.
day, closed last Tuesday evening. The trial
lasted several days, and has produced intense
excitement Ostensibly Mr.. Cuyler's church
was arraigned for allow ing an unordained and
unbaptized person to preach and a woman to
| Officiate contrary to the standards. Really the
| trial is between the Old School and the New
Although the two bodies are organically one,
yet in their doctrine, discipline, modes of
thought and measures they are as diverse as
they were when DR.. Wilson and DIR. Beecher
had their first tilt in Cincinnati. Indeed, Ex-
mayor Lambert, one of Mr.. Cuyler's session,
| openly charged the Old School men in that
Presbytery with bringing ON this prosecution
from sectarian motives, and said that the at
tack had commenced "sooner than was expect
| ed" In the trial on one side stood Mr.. Cuyler,
and on the other DR.. Van Dyck They have
long been antagonistic, and this antagonism
was very bitter during the war. In his defence
| Mr.. Cuyler brought this out in the statement
that during our national struggle our flag had
| fioated from the ba Elements of his church
| till it was blown to FINDERS hit on DR.. Van
Dyck, who would not have the flag raised on
his church at all. The whole thing was settled
by resolution opposing woman preaching, and
| gingerly passing over Mr.. Cuyler's offence.
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