Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-05-30
The Boston Anniversaries

The religious anniversaries opened in Bos-
ton, Sunday evening. Monday, the Massa.
chusets Bible Society held their annual
meeting. The Society for Promoting Chris
tan knowledge held a business meeting
The annual address before the Ministerial
Union was delivered by Rev. Cyrus A. Bar
tol, ID. d., on "The Logic of Union" The
Evangelical Tract Society and the Massa-
chusetts Congregational Charitable Society
also held their annual meetings.
The annual business meeting of the Ameri-
can Peace Society was held in the afternoon.
the Hon. Amos Walker in the chair. Rev.
Howard Malcolm, LII. d., of Philadelphia.
was reelected president. A series of reso-
buttons was presented by the secretary hail
ing the Peace Jubilee as an important aid to
the cause; urging the necessity of an inter-
national peace congress; appealing for finan.
cial aid to the society, and thanking the
Senate for its action on the supplemental
treaty.
The American Education Society held its
ffty-sixth annual meeting and elected Off.
GERS. The Boston Seaman's Friend Society
and the Massachusetts, Society for aiding dis.
charged conyicts also held their annual
meetings. Speeches were made before the
latter by Rev. Daniel z. Noyes. Frank b.
Sanborn and Wendell Phillips. The latter
in the course Of his remarks said that when
man was shut up in prison the church prac-
ucaily deserted him. convict, said he, is
living proof that civilization has failed, and
we have in Massachusetts eleven thousand
proofs that her churches are the synapopues
Of the dead and her schools sham. It was
voted that Mrs. Julia Ward Howe be appoint
ed to represent the Society at the coming
prison congress at London.
The New England Womans Suffrage As
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Temple Tuesday. William LLOYD Garrison
presided and made brief speech. The
Young Mems Christian Association, Uniyer-
salist Sabbath School Union and Handel and
Hayden Society also held meetings.
The Uniyersalist festival was held at Fan
euil Hall. Tuesday, Gov. Perham of Maine
presiding. The chairman made few re-
marks, when the assemblage proceeded to
dinner. After the collation. an address was
made by the chairman, the singing of pymn
and the recitation of poem by b. P. Shilla.
bar. Addresses were also made by Bev. c.
A. skinner Of Hartford, Rev. ]. G. Adams of
Lowell, Rev. +. c. Bodies of Salem, Rev. W.
II. Ryder of Arlington, and Mrs. NJ. A.
Livermore of Boston. The festival closed
with music and the singing of a hymn.
The annual meeting of the Unitarian So
ciety was held Tuesday, Henry Chaplin of
Worcester, in the chair. The treasurer's re-
port is very encouraging, showing that more
churches have contributed this year than ever
in one year before, and with a result twenty
seven times larger than thirteen years ago.
Among events specially noted has been the
erection of a building in North Carolina by
Mrs. Aug. Hemenway of Boston, at an ex-
pense of $4,000, for the use of schools at
the South. The report speaks of generous
outpourng of practical sympathy for Chica.
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for Mr. Collyers church in money and
pledges. $500 for general missionary pur-
poses, with liberal contributions for other
Christian work