The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-11-30


his connection with the Second Parish church,
Is one of the Oldest and best known preachers
of the Congregational denomination in Maine.
He is native of Scotland and his father was
for many years pastor of the Third Congrega-
tlonal church 10 this city. The son entered the
University of Edinburgh when thirteen years
OF age and spent six years there 10 the collegi
ate and theological courses. After graduation
ne spent some time in Liverpool and then
labored six years as missionary to the Crimea
or until the policy Of the Russian government
became hostile TO the missionaries and COM
PEELED him to withdraw, after suffering much
persecution. His first child died there and the
natives refusing to assist in tie burial CT the
body he was compelled to prepare the coffin
with his own hands and bury the child unaid-
ed. From the Crimea he went to Gosport,
England, where he was settled over church
for some time. He next went to Liverpool and
was settled over Tsxteth for seven years, when
he was appointed agent of the London Mis-
sionary Society and came to Montreal under its
auspices. There he remained five years and
established Congregational church. In 1916
he succeeded Dr. Payson as pastor of the
Second Parish church in this city and continued
in charge of this church until about year ago,
when he condsionally resigned the pastorate.
DR.. Carruthers has been known not 81 a ply as q
pastor As editorof and contributor to religious
paper, he has secured wider hearing than was
possible from his Lulpit. Early in life he
wrote for the "Christian Teacher" Glasgow
magazine, and later was editor of tile "Har-
binger," monthly paper published in Mon
treal Readers Of the Christian Mirror have
long been familiar with his writings Papers
entitled the "Palpit aud Per-" "Life in other
Lands," "Fifteen Years in Eogland,' ''The
Scottish Student" and "The Scottish Pastor Of
the Olden Time have from time to time ap.
peared In that journal from his pen. From
whatever stand point we view him, DR.. Car
ruthers is remarkable ian. Though he has
passed the age OF three score years and ten, his
form is still unbant aud his eye undimmed.
He is still splendid specimen of physical
manhood. The qualities which distinguish his
intellectual and moral nature are clearly indi-
GATED by his physical characteristics. They are
strength, solidity and frmness A rigid
Orthodox in belief, his life and teachings have
been thoroughly consistent with it. AS a
preacher, he is noted for his strength and prac-
teal common sense. His style is clear and
simple, with few of the adornments of rhetoric.
His presence in the pulpit is i'm posing, and his
delivery very impressive.
Rev. Joseph Cook rightly gives to Prof.
Cyrus Hamlin Of the Bangor Theological Semi
nary, formerly president of Rlbsrt College,
Constantinople, the credit Of introducing edu-
cation into Turkey in Europe. When Dr.
Hamlin went to Constantinople, there was not
school book in the language spoken by the
people Of Turkey. Now there is long list,
no. only of tex books on grammar, rhetoric,
logic. chemistry, surveying, history. zoology,
mental and moral philosophy, political econo
my, anatomy, physiology and nedicine, but
also of the best English works on distiuctively
Christian truth, and these in the Armenian
the Tarkish and the Asiatc torgeus. There are
11,000 pupils 10 Turkish common schools,
which owe their origin to American influence.
Robert College is fourishing institution, with
as many students as Williams in this country
has. Its founder, who recently died, left it a
large endowment fund.
Does presching pss from pecnnary stand
point? Mr.. Bsecher would reply in the sffirma-
tive and 80 would Mr.. SDurgeon who is to
receive present of $4,000 from his congrega.
ton on the close Of his twenty h year in the
ministry. The pastor of colored Baptist
church in Maryland whose congregation
reported to the Baptist Union Association of
that state that they had bsen abs to pay their
pastor during the year $2.75, must have very
different ideas on the subject.
Stealing sermons like other kinds of thieving
is dangerou, business. A young man who
presented himself to the presbytery of Scot
land for ordination recently found himself in
rather awkward predicament on account of
this kind Of larceny. After the candidate bad
preached and retired the moderator addressed
the council as follows: 81 eel compelled to
say tina. the sermon which the young mas has
preached is not his OWE. 1t is taken from
volume of sermons long out of print. Whe-e
he found it do not know, supposed the only
copy of the volume to be found was in nov
library, and the candidate has had no access to
that" The young man was called in and
frankly acknowledged that the sermon was not
his but that he wrote it out from notes of
sermon he had heard preached by Princi pal
Robinson (the. moderator of the council
many years before. Perhaps the candidates
truthfalness was due to the fact that the
evidences against him was overwhelming.
The dedication of the new Unitarian church
in Brunswick will take place next Wednesday.
Rev. G. G. Everett of Cambridge will preach
the sermon. Several Of the most prominent
of the clergy of the Unitariad denomination
will be present and take part in the exercises
The Baptists in accol dance with a suggestion
of 'The Watchman' are going to hold:a
special thanksgiving tomorrow for the success
of their mission to the Teloogoos in India The
success of their work has bsen without
parallel. Between the 18th of last June and
the 18th of September nine thousand one
hundred and forty-seven Teloogoos were
baptized and received into the church, and
thousands more arewaiti ng opportunity.
The New York Observer has been gathering
the opinions Of public men Of this state on the
workings of the prohibitoIy law. With one
voice the Governor and all the Representatives
to Congress attest the satisfactory results of
the law DR.. Warren, the editor Of the Christ
ian Mirror, who was also appealed to, shows
that the enlightened public sentiment which
makes the law effective has not been secured
WiLuOut eIori, uub tuat tno mOSt earnest ana
persistent endeavors have been put forth from
pulpit, platform and press, and the whole COM
munity-adults and children-has baen reach
ed, and, as far as possible, Individually pledged
against the use of alcoholic beverages.
Qaite discussion has sprung up concerning
the attitude Of the Maine Methodist confer
ence before the war on the slavery question.
The controversy had its origin in passage in q
recently published obituary notice Of the late
Rev. E. Robinson, in which it was stated that
he was deposed from the office of presiding
elder because he was an abolitionist. A cor
respondent of Zioh's Herald con tradicts this
statement aud gives soma intera sting reminis-
cences of the history of this question among
the Maine Methodists. In 1888 the Maine
Methodists in their annual conference adopted
resolution reprobating abolitionism and adj
vising their ministers and members to wholly
abstain from this agitating subject. But the
resolution instead of calming the agitation only
increased it, In less than three years after
not only the Maine Conference but also those
throughout New England became 50 thorough.
ly abolitionized that the entire delegations
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