The Portland daily press., 1875-12-25
Religious News and Notes.

dedicated a new church.
Rev. Mri Lyon, Unitarian, and Rev. Mr.
Mitchell, Methodist, of Ellsworth, exchanged
pulpits Sunday the 10Th.
The Rev. L. Given of Woolwich has accepted
a cali to the pastorate of the Lisbon Factory
village f. B. church.
The Ellsworth Unitarian Society realized 1925
from recent fair which was held through two
evenings.
The new and elegant vestry Of the Skowhe-
gan Congregational church was opened with
appropriate religious services last Wednesday.
1t has cost almost $780,
A new class of fifteen persons has been
formed in Baldwin by Rev. Mr.. De Hughes,
pastor of the NJ. E. church, the first of re-
vival under his labors.
A revival is in progress in the Methodist
church at Newfeld, Rev. J. A. Strout, pastor
The Y. M. G. A. have rendered efficient sery
ice in the meetings.
A religious revival is going on at Damar-
iscotta Mills under the labor of Rev. A. S.
Townsend The Rev. j. P. Simonton of Wal
doboro baptised four converts on a recent Sun
day.
There is quite religious interest in the
Methodist church at Boothbay Harbcr, under
the earnest labors of Rev. G. E. Kuowlton
The church has been quickened, some fifteen
have been reclaimed, several converted.
The Whig says 9hat the Sunday-school Asso-
citation of Dixmont, Plymouth, jackson, New
bury, and Unity, will hold a convention at
East Dixmont, Jan. 4th, 1876. Sunday y-school
workers outside of the association will be pres.
ent to assist in the exercises.
Rev. w. o. White, of Keene, has preached
to his own church upon the last twenty-five
Thanksgiving days, except in 1869. He has
also conducted separate service in his own
church twenty three of the last twenty-four
Fast days.-BoSton Herald
In lecture before the High street (Congre-
gationaD church in this city, Rev. DR.. Hill said
that the Untarians maintained that the Bible
is the Word OF God, but they do not accept the
theory of full inspiration, but hold that the
writers expressed themselves in their own lau-
guage and style.
The Rev. Mr. Gurney has rendered his resig-
nation of the pastorate of the Baptist society
in Corinth, to take effect the first day of JAN
uary. The resignation was entirely unex-
pected, and at very full meeting of the
society it was voted to invite him to continue
his labors with them.
There has been quite revival of religion in
the eastern part of Wayne. Meetings were
held every evening of last week by Rev. b.
Sylvester, assisted by A. r. Dickinson, a lay
man from New Jersey. Some fifteen souls
have been reclaimed or converted, aud the
work is still going on.
The Methodist and Congregationalists of
Winthrop have been holding series of meet
ings in their vestries for the past two weeks
Some conversions have occurred, quite re-
ligious interest prevails. They propose to con-
tinue them at some length if the interest is
maintained.
There is considerable religious interest in the
Congregational church at Waldoboro.
VIM. Forsyth, Congregational, of Bucksport,
breaches in Orland Sabbath afternoons.-
Rev. N. w. Grover, Congregational, lately of
Bethel, has accepted an invitation to preach
for year in Topsham.
The National Baptist says: "The First Bap
tist Church erected in San Francisco was lately
sold for aChinese opium factory. The old San
som Street Church In Philadelphia is now used
as a stable, and the church on Seventh street,
below Arch, from which DR.. Kane was buried,
is converted into a comic opera house."
One Morgan, Mormon missionary, has been
preaching the Latter Day doctrines of polyga-
my and salvation with great Success in Bloom
ington, ILL.,, close to the great normal school,
from which teachers go to all parts of the state
His converts are said to number one hundred
already.
lions Advocate says of the Main Baptist
churches. :. Oxford Baptist Quarterly Meeting
held its December session with the church in
Canton the 18th and 18th. The attendance
good. The introductory sermon was preached
by Rev. r. G.. Farley. Other sermons were
preached by Rev. |. Record. II. @. Estes, ID.
d., and S. d. Richardson The Western
Baptist Social Union will be held in Portland,
in the First Baptist church, December 9th.
There is some excitement in Newport, Rhode
Island over the fact that the Catholic priest of
st. Mary's Church refused to officate at or per
NIT the remains of daughter of Manuel De
Fray, who died there few days ago, to be
brought to the church for the purpose of hav-
ing the usual burial service performed. He
also refused to otficiate at the house of the de-
ceased, the reason being that the child was
permitted to attend the Protestant school. In
consequence OF this decision the body of the
child has been placed in the vault OF the Pro-
testant Cemetery to await furthe- develop
ments.
The Catholic Review replies to some strc-
lures of the Interior, on Roman Catholic canon
ization, and then carries the war into Africa.
1--WE observe by the way, IN one OF its obituary
notices, that it is not itself averse to such can
onzation' as lies in its power. For instance
1t chonicles the death in Michigan of mar
ried lady, at the age of ffty-two, and canon.
ICES her, at a cost of five cents a line, in the
following words: This saint Of God should be
known and remembered, not only by the
Church of Christ, but by the world as WE'LL
Doubtless the lumber of Michigan saints could
be easily multiplied, seeing that the cost of
manufacturing them in the Interior Office
is so trfiing."
In accordance with the order of the last gen.
eral conference of the Methodist Episcopal
church, the Board of Bishops has provided
programme of religious services in commemo-
ration of the Centennial. to be held next year
between the first Sabbath in June, and the
Fourth of July. The following is the pro-
gramme: 81. On the day appointed for the SER
vice let there be from $50 a. m. to 10 a. m. a
social meeting with the reading of suitable
Scripture lessons, selected from the Old and
New Testaments, singing and prayer, to be fol
lowed by such remarks as ony present may feel
disposed to make touching national providen-
tial blessings or gracious personal benefits. 2.
At the usual hour for morning service let an
appropriate sermon be preached 8. We furth-
er recommend that at some hour in the after
noon a chidren's meeting be held, with SER
vices calculated to inspire patriotic and relig-
ions spntimentS' -