The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-05-13
Religious News and Notes.


The Congregational church in Keene, N. H.,
has appointed three deaconesses.
Mr.. III. o. Wilson of the Bangor Seminary
| will supply the pulpit of the new church in
North Brookfield, Mass.
The union between the Reformed .Presby ter
| ian church and the Free Church of Scotland,
| takes place May 25th.
Rev. j. E. Hall of Rockland has been invit-
ed to church in New Bedford at a salary of
| $780,
The Rev. James T. Bixby has been unani-
mously retained as the pastor of the Belfast
Unitarian society.
Mr.. Talmage's Tabernacle church has re-
| ceived 991 new members within two years
past
The Rev. G. A. Tewksbury, recently of Cor
| ham, N. H., has accepted call to the pas
torate of the Congregational church in Ly-
man.
The 21st annual convention of the Young
Mems Christian Association of the United
States and British Provinces will be held in
Toronto, Canada, Jnly 12-16.
The heirs of the late George T. Cobb of New
Jersey have endowed the chair of New Tesla
ment Exegess in the Drew Theological Semin-
airy, by the gift of $4,000.
Rev. David Foster Ester of Manchester, VT. !:
has accepted a call to Belfast in this state He
begins his labors in the new field rext Sab.
BATH
At the Winthrop street Universalist church,
Augusta, last Sunday, six persons were bap.
tized, and these with one other were received
into the church.
Rev. A. II. Heath, formerly of Auburn, has
resigned the passionate of the Roger civilians
ohurnb prouidopao 70 falya T,1.
account of ill-health.
On Sunday last II persons were. baptized by
Rev. II. A. Loring, and received into the Cong.
church of Dover and Foxcroft, all by confess
sion of faith. The ceremonies were very beau
tiful and impressive.
Eli Jones of China, the eminent friend
preacher, is expected to sail from Queenstown
May 10th, in the steamer China, and will ar
rive in Boston about the Goth. He is in most
excellent health.
Warming up to his subject, and DESTROYS Of
giving as nearly as possible practical llustra.
ton of his ideas, an English revivalst slid
down the balustrade of his pulpit to show how
easy it was to backslide.
The Methodsts at Belgrade will hereafter
have preaching every Sunday, one-half of the
time at Belgrade Mills, and the other half at
the depot. This town has formally been class
ed with Mt. Vernon, but will now support
minister itself.
Mr.. Spurgeon stated at recent meeting at
the Pastors College connected with his church,
that the institution began 20 years ago with
one student, and that since that time three
hundred and fifty students had been educated,
who are now preaching.
The interesting relig ious awakening at South
Bridgton continues undated. Six persons
were added to the church last Sabbath, and
more are soonito follow. Rev. Mr. Brownville
is an earnest and faithful labarer in the Mas
ter's Vineyard.
The Morning Star, in its recent trip to Mi
cronesa, sailed II 200 miles, anchored thirty
times, and attended to missionary work on
twenty islands. The delegates who went out
in her addressed forty-seven audiences num-
bering in all SAG persons
Special lectures will be given at Yale Theo-
logical Seminary the coming year by Rev. Phil
lips Brooks on Preaching, by Rev John Hall,
D. D., on Religious Life in Great Britain, by
DIR. Leonard j. Sanford on Health.
A religious paper, The Methodist, marks
contrast between the fact that in a recent tour
of four weeks popular actor made over $780,,
900, while the aggregate salary of eighty pas
600 for whole year, their parishes covering
the ground where the actor made his $50 900.
A Boston Methodist sends the following sta
tistics of church property belonging to different
denominations according to the most recently
gathered statistics: Methodist, $66,854 ,121;
Roman Catholic, $50, 1885,, sos; Presbyterian,
$53, 265, 256; Baptist, $41 COS, 1873; Epscopaian,
S36, 514 649; Cong egatonalist, $25 069 sos: Re-
formed church, SIG, 134, ITO; Lutheran, $l4.-
917,746
The prize offered by Baptist minister in
Brooklyn, the Rev. S. s. Cutting, d. D., for
hymn Suitable to beisung in Baptist Sunday
schools, and in meetings held to promote the
centennial commemoration now in progress
among the Baptists of the United States.'
called forth about 100 hymns. All have, how.
ever. been rejected by the committee selected
for their examination, on the ground that none
meet the conditions imposed.
One of the singular customs whichsstill pre-
vail in England was observed upon Good Fri
day, in the oldest churchyard Of London city,
namely, that of the church of st. Bartholomew
the-Great Smithfield. Twenty-one! sixpences
were laid upon gravestone for the same num-
Der of poor widows to pick up. This curious
legacy was left by lady who bequeathed a
sum Of money to pay for the annual sermon on
sixpences from her tombstone
The two latest critics in Germany who have
discussed the question Of St. Peters being in
Rome, Drs. Hilgenfeld and Zeller, come to OBJ
posite conclusions-the former favoring the be-
lief that the apostle suffered martyrdom in
Rome, and the latter denying that there is any
evidence of the fact, while both agree that
there is no historical basis for the Roman Cath
olc dogma that Peter was ever Bishop of
Rome. In reply to the question of cores
pondent as to whether Peter was ever in Rome,
the New York Evangelist writes: mot prov
en-
One OF the Baptist anniversaries shortly to
be held at Buffalo, is that of the American
Baptist Publication Society upon May %. The
following order of exercises is officially an
nounced for the occasion: In the morning the
general business will be transacted and the an
nual report presented; addresses will also be
delivered by the Rev. G. johnson of Illinois on
THE Work of the Society in and beyond the
Mississippi Valley" and by the Rev. H. G.
Weston of Pennsylvania upon 1.-THE Necessity
Of Enlarging the Society's Operations" in the
afternoon there will be addresses upon 1.-THE
Work of the Society in Rome" by the Rev.
Wayland Hoyt OF Massachusetts, and the Rev.
W. O. Van Meter Of Rome; in the evening the
Rev. E. M. Brawley of South Carolina, the
Rev. John A. Broadus of the same state, and
the Rev. G. G. Lorimer of Massachusetts, will
| speak upon Sunday schools. the great and i'm
mediate necessity for Freedmen"
Maine Business Notes.
The boot and shoe manufacturing establish
l ment OF Miller A. Randall of Auburn, having
| all orders filled, has shut down until next
I month. Nearly all the factar;as orc onat and