The Portland daily press., 1876-10-21
ReIisious No,es and New.

Mr.. Q. G. Tiley was ordained pastor of the
Baptist church in Nobleboro, Wednesday.
The New (Swedenborgian) Church in this
country comprises ten associations, with on
hundred and one pastors.
Rev. Mr.. Merrill of Waterville, accompanied
by several young men of Colby University, has
been holding religious meetings in the Baptist
church in North Sidney, with good success.
Rev. J. j. Blair has accepted the call of the
Congregational church in Rockland to become
their pastor for year. and will begin his labors
the first Sunday in November.
Rev. L. E. Grant, late pastor of the Baptist
church in Bowdoinham, has accepted call to
the pastorate of the Baptist church at South
Vassalboro.
Waldo Conference of Congregational churches
held its second annual session in Rockport. DR..
]. X. Mason of Thomaston, preached the con-
ference sermon.
Rev. Mr. Whitmarsh of East Winthrop,
preached his farewell sermon at the Baptist
church on Sunday last, the 18th inst 1t was
pronounced one of the abest sermons preached
in that house for several years.
The Y. M. G. A. state canvass will probably
begin in week or two. There is proposition
to open the first weeks meetings in Auburn.
vass are coming in generously. Mr.. Chandler
of New Gloucester, sutscribes liberal sum.
Rev. j. f. Norris has received and accepted
a call to the pastorate of the Baptist church in
Presque ISLE Mr.. Norris not long ago spent
several weeks with his people, under the drec-
ton of the Missionary Convention, and very
much endeared himself to them.
The Anti Mission-vulgarly known as the
''hard shelp'-Baptists are no longer reported
with other Baptists in the Year ok issued by
the Baptist Publication Society. Their number
is still considerable in the South; in the whole
United States it is Al, 454.
The new Congregational church at Abbott
Village, was dedicated Thursday, October 10th.
The dedication sermon was preached by Rev.
Smith Baker of Lowell, Mass. Revs G. Da-
wilson of Greenville, Thayer of Garland, Mich
OILS of Brownville Loring of Dover, and others
participated.
DIR. Dacher describes his dilemma in the
Evangelical Messenger. He is Christian, and
therefore he feels Like attending to the souls of
dying patients; but frequently physical welfare
seems that he should deceive them by inspiring
mind what man, under such circumstances,
ought to do.
President Smith of Dartmouth College, in i.
address at the recent Y. M. c. A. Convention
at Keene N. e., observed that it was the prac-
tice of many pastor in the prayer meeting to
extract all that there was 10 the text and then
ask the brethren to continue the subject; thus
squeezing the orange and throwing the peel to
them.
The Chicago papers report that as great sue
cess as ever follows the preaching of Mr.. Moody
| Two thirds of the entire audience attended the
| first inquiry meeting which he held. The
strength of Mr.. Sankey's voice does not appear
| to be diminished, and his singing produces a
marked effect. In connection with these SER
vices, Thursday, Co.. II, was observed as day
of prayer in many churches in the Northwest.
my friends,' said a returned missionary at
one Of the late anniversary meetings, ''let us
avoid sectarian bitterness. The inhabitants of
Hindoostan, where L have been laboring for
many years, have proverb that, though you
battle d dogs tail in oil and bind it in splnts.
| yet you cannot get the crook out of it Now,
| mans sectarian bias is simply the crook in
| the dogs tail which cannot be eradicated, and
L hold that every one should be allowed to Wae
his own popularity in peace"
| Westdale, little parish in England, has The
smallest church in that country, and it is a very
diminutive affair. 1t has but eight pews, and gel
is capable of accommodating double the popu
lation of the district. The rector opens the
church himself and rings the bell; then he dons
his ecclesiastical robes in the presence of his
| congregation There is no musical instrument
| in:the church, and the minister LEADS the sing
| ing. His sermons are very short-a recent one
occupying only seven and half minutes in its
| delivery. Two services ale held every Sunday,
| and the rector, clerk, precentor, sexton, bell
ringer and church-warden, all combined in one
receives for the performance of his varied du.
ties modest little salary of about $780,