The Portland daily press., 1876-01-10
SUNDAY SERVICES.
NEW JERUSALEM CHURCH.

NEW JERUSALEM CHURCH.
Rev. Richard Ward again conducted the ser.
vices, preaching from John xi:3, Therefore
| his sisters sent unto him, saying, Lord, behold,
be whom thou lowest is sick" Jesus was al
ways rejected by the Jews; they wished for
King who would destroy all their enemies;
therefore he could not dwell in Jerusalem. The
picture we draw of the household of Martha,
Mary and Lazarus is very beautiful We know
it was the home where Jesus loved to dwell
when he was near Jerusalem. When they
were in troDble we can imagine they must have
longed for the presence Of the Master. 1t was
Lazarus who was sick; but We are not consider
ing material things only. Lazarus signifies
whom the Lord helps" and spiritually it sig
nifes ''whom the Lord loves" The good Jews
were nearly all in gentle state, and ignorant
of what the word required of them. Sickness
corresponds to spiritual disorder, and Lazarus
| represents those who were, and those who are
| to-day, in gentle state, loving the Lord with
| all the little love they have. but spiritually
sick, knowing not that they must be sincere
| before they can be true, that they must love
| and serve their neighbor before they can love
and serve the Lord If we are not blind we
| can see that all good works are not good A
house may be founded upon sand. Does love
of God or love of praise inspire yourscharity?
How much we might understand about Heaven
and the angels, and all the beautiful things
about them, if we could live in state of love
to the Lord here. Our highest duties here lie
not IN distant missionary work, but in the daily
work of life. Lazarus bound in grave clothes
represents those bound in error; dead to men,
but only asleep to the Lord. Divine truth is
the power which breaks their bonds and bids
<1ay,, ia
truth the Lord gives in his second coming, by
opening the interior and spiritual meaning of
the word Where unselfsh love reigns here
there is home like that sweet household at
Bethany, for there the meek and loving Saviour
delights to come and dwell.
ALLEN MISSION.
The chapel was crowded yesterday afternoon
and last evening In the afternoon the SER
vices were of social nature and deeply interest
ing, from the fact of the addresses not only
from men who have been deferred from the
habit of drinking, but from those who have
been selling and have now given up the
traffic. In the evening the preaching by Rev.
Mr.. Webster of Wayne, who was very inter-
esting. The text was "He that converteth a
simmer from the error of his ways saveth
soul from death and covereth multitude of
SINS" There will be a temperance gospel
prayer meeting this evening. The public are
invited.
FREE STREET CHURCH.
Rev. Mr.. McWhnnie preached a sermon in
the morning from the text in Psalm 100, 4:
''But there is forgiveness with Thee, that thou
mayest be feared.'
CAsCo STREET.
Yesterday afternoon Rev. James L. Phillips,
nd q int
account of his labors in that country. Mr..
Phillips was born in India, came to this coun-
try, and at the age of twelve and half years
went to the college at Brunswick. Being the
son of missionary, it might be thought by
some from his being born in the field of his
fathers labors, that he was born missionary.
But he says more reckless boy than he there
was not, yet he was not left uninfuenced by the
spirit that actuated his father, and after con-
version his strongest conviction was that his
fathers work was his work, and from his own
account one cannot doubt but that he has been
divinely called to the labors he has entered
upon. Mr.. Phillips has acted as missionary
for eleven years. Has labored among the Hin
docs and Mohammedans, and the incidents re-
lated by him were of the deepest interest. He
"a
population as compared with cur country, which
is less than half the number of square miles Of
the United States, while, to the 40,0O0,0 900 in
habtants in this country there are 24O, 900 900
in India. His labors have been principally a.
Midnapore-the conviction that his duty was In
this particular locality was that there before
he was old enough to know his mother, she de-
sired that he might pursue this course, and
while thus young she died, and is there buried.
Hence it is the only place like home. His sue
cess and the wonderful incidents of the deepest
interest and most valuable information must
be heard in his apt delivery to be fully appreci-
ated. The Hindoos, though idolaters, are not
so in the sense that many suppose them to be-
They make images of wood and stone, but not
to worship, but to lead the mind to God and
have them placed before them to look at as
mediator to lead them to the Highest, A chief
said you have picture of friend, it is not the
friend you see, and so yeu look at it to carry
your mind to that one; and so do we with our
gods. Mr.. Phillips opportunity is to show
them the Christ who has been sent for this
purpose, and who is the light that is come into
the world. The most striking instance was
that of girl who in her ignorance was so wild
they could hardly do anything with her; she
became true convert, was instrumental in
leading woman a widow of priest, to a
knowledge of the truth. This woman had
travelled the whole country, north, east and
SOUTH was regarded as a wonder, as possessing
healing art and as being holy When found
by this girl she had images before her which
the people would bow to and to her. From
this she was led to the true light They mean
we'll in what they engage but need to be in
structed in what is BETTER to know the real
from the false, and instead of an image real,
live Christ.
SWIFT JUsTIcE.-Yesterday noon Mr.. Chad
bourne, who lives on the Trickery farm near
the Reform School, called at the police station
and stated that his barn was entered Saturday
night and number of robes taken. The barn
on the 'old Broad tavern stand' was also en-
tered and number of hens taken. Deputy
Williams and officer Slower took the matter in
hand at once They tracked the thieves in the
snow from the barns to Libby's Corner and
discovered that there was man and woman
After looking around awhile they called at
house on Grove street, occupied by Charles A.
Dalton. The house appeared to be deserted,
but they soon found one room locked. Deputy
Williams knocked on the door, but as no one
answered he unlocked the door with an axe,
much to the damage of the door. In bed in
the room he found Harriet Prescott, charac-
ter well known in police circles. In closet in
the room he found Dalton covered with the
stolen robes. The hens which had been killed
were also found. The officers took the thieves
to the station with the stolen property. Later
in.the day Dalton confessed the whole affair."
Ihey will both be taken before the grand jury
this morning. In the house on Grove street
the officers found new rubber mat, which
Dalton had stolen from some house in the city.
BOARD OF TRADE.-The annual meeting of
the Board OF Trade for the choice of officers,
&C., takes place at u o'clock this evening.