Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-05-23
Summary of Religious Intelligence.

Rev. J. 7. Carr has accepted on invitation
to settle over the Universalist churches in
Lagrange and Milo, and has entered upon
the duties of that position.
Last Sunday at the Congregational church
in Ellsworth, Rev. Mr.. Garretson, four per-
sons were received into the membership of
the church.
At the Methodist church in Friendship, an
interesting revival has been taking place, I'M
der the preaching of Rev. George Knowles.
Some ten persons were baptized recently
The church has been undergoing repairs.
At Richmond, Rev. Mr.. Curtis received one
person into the Congregational church, by
profession, the first Sunday in May. Rev.
Mr.. Kicker received four into the Free Bap-
fist church, two by profession, two by letter,
the third Sunday in May.
Rev. L. Reynolds, who soon graduates at
the Bangor Theological Seminary, is engaged
to preach for the Congregational churches at
North New Portland, New Vineyard and
South Anson. Rev. O. II. johnson has been
engaged to preach one third of the time for
the coming year, for the Universalists at the
West village.
The new Baptist church at Patten village
will be dedicated on Sunday, the 2Sth of June
next. The quarterly session of the South
Aroostook Quarterly Meeting will be held at
the same time and place, icing on Fri
day afternoon, June 10Th.
Rev. Mr.. Pottle, pastor of the Methodist
church in Waterville, administered the rite of
baptism to several candidates last Sunday.
Chas. Tenney of Norway. will enter the
Theological department of Tufts College at
the beginning of next term.
The pews are being placed in the new
Catholic church at VIM.
Rev. A. L. Lane, pastor of the Baptist
church in Biddeford, has baptised eleven as
a part of the fruits OF the recent revival. four
on the 10th ult., and seven on the 10th inst.
Others it is expected will follow soon.
Rev. Selden Gilbert, formerly pastor of
the Universalist church of Norway and Hal
lowell, accepts call, and begins his labors at
East Boston, on salary of $1,000, May 10th.
Prof J. A. Howe of Bates College. Lewis
ton, will supply the pulpit at Casco street
| church in Portland, for the present.
The representatives of twelve Of the Bap.
fist churches and congregations in western
Maine, have organized Social Union in
Portland.
The State Convention of Universalists
meets at Calais, June 20. A large attendance
is anticipated, and the Society hope to afford
visitors.
The union meeting house at West Camden
is to be remodeled and renovated, at a cost of
some seven hundred dollars.
The forty-eighth annual meeting of the
general conference of the Congregational
churches in Maine, will be held with the Sec
ond Congregational church in Newcastle,
commencing on Tuesday, June %.
-, ,l,,,r Ioo IL,
enjoyed refreshing from the presence of the
Lord. On Sunday, May 10, Rev. G. p.
Mathews, the pastor, baptised eight recent
converts. 1t was his seventeenth baptismal
season during the period of his service with
this church.
Rev. A. Lovejoy, of South Berwick, has
accepted call from the Free Baptist church
at Pasoag, r. l., and will enter upon his la
bors in his new field at an early day.
Quite religious feeling has been awakened
| which resulted in the baptism of thirty one
persons, on Sunday last at Pishon's Ferry, in
Clinton.
Through the extensive eXertions of Rev. q.
w. Bicknell, of the India street Universalist
| church in Portland, more than ten thousand
dollars have been secured towards reducing
the debt of the church, partly by sale ofpews,
and partly by subscriptions. This sum will
diminish the debt about one half.
Rev. J. II. Amies, late of the Bates street
Universalist church in Lewiston, has accepted
call from the Universalst society of Water
bury, Conn.
| There is some talk among the Universaists
in Skowhegan, about building church.
The old Catholic church on Lincoln street,
Lewiston, is undergoing thorough repairs, and
when renovated, a new Catholic congregation
is to be gathered in.
Rev. j. W. Carr writes of prosperity en-
joyed in the Free Baptist Mission, Aroostook
County.
There were twelve converts baptised at Ft.
Fairfield last Sabbath, and more are intending
to be baptised, four weeks hence. Thirteen
united with the church, making eighteen ad-
ded to this church since January. The Lord
is with his people in the east part of Presque
| Isle.