Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-04-29

| -~"ess enu JUy which Gomez to the true
preacher As he devotes his life to the service
Oh the Lord Strive that you may say at last
win the great Apostle to the GenriIes. Il
nave fought good fight; I have kept the
1aith henceforth there is laid up for me
crown OF righteousness which the Lord, the
righteous judge, will give to me in that dav,
and not to me only but also to ali them who
love his appearing"
The usual Disciplinary questions were sat-
lsfactorily answered
Session terminated by singing Praise God
from whom all blessings flow
AFTKRxoox.
| Memorial services were held in the after
noon. for the members of the Maine Con-
ference who have been transferred to the
heavenly Conference during the past year.
Rev w. S. Mcintyre read the opening hymn
Rev X. Atkinson read appropriate selections
from the Scriptures. PRAYER wa. offered bv
the venerable c. Fuller of Hallowell. Bishop
Andrews gave an interesting biographical
account of his colleague in the Episeopacv,
the past year. He paid very just and dis
| eliminating tribute to the sterling worth and
solid attainments of the deceased.
Some rivers. after refreshing the fertile plains
through which they flow, suddenly disappear
beneath the surface, only to emerge beyond
and glide on to the ocean with their musical
murmur. So may i; be with our lives.
"There is no death;
What seems is Illusion:
This life is but the entrance 70 the life elysian
Whose portals We call DEATH
A short biographical sketch of Rev c. C.
Mason of Hallowell, late presiding elder of the
Lewiston district, who died March 22d, was
read by Rev. X. Atkinson. Rev F. Martin
and w. S. Jones testified to the sweet Chris
tan character of the departed brother, his
sublime faith in Christ and heaven. and his
triumph over death.
Rev. T. p. Adams read a biographical &C
count of Rev. Geo r. Wilkins, who departed
this life last November, aged "a years Rev
f. T. Adams also united in eulogizing the
deceased
The eulogy upon Mrs. Harriet l.. Foster,
wife of Rev. W. ii. Foster, was pronounced
by the Rev. Messrs. Chase and Colby.
Closed with the-doxnlogy
EVENING.
Long before 80 o'clock, ehe hour assign.
ed for Chaplain C. c. McCabe to lecture on
Church Extension the sidewalks in the
vicinity of the Methodist church were throng-
ed with groups of people hurrying to that
edfce. Every inch of SPACE in the audito-
rum and gallery was occupied, and at least
five hundred persons found it impossible to
obtain admission. The singing. led b, the
choir, was superb, Chaplain McCabe's mag
nifcent voice swelling out of the ocean of
sound like a mighty wave breaking over
broad beach. Rev. John Cobb read a short
extract from the Word of God and made the
invocation. Rev. E. Martin introduced the
speaker. Chaplain McCabe is man of me-
dunn size, of nervous temperament, well-knit
frame and a man of extraordinary activity.
Energy and indominitable will are stamped
all over him. His raven black hair is be-
coming slightly streaked with threads of grey
His face is closely shaven. with the excep-
ton of small English side-whiskers. Sharp,
piercing ewes, surrounded by dark circles
which enhance their brilliancy. light up his
mobile face. ImpIessionable, enthusiastic,
with dash of fiery Celtic blood, and a voice
that thrills one through and through Chap
lain McCabe is a man who can move an au-
J;apna ntb in no
Stern must be the nature that does not melt
under the witchery of his oratory; tightly
drawn the purse-strngs that do not unloose
as he speaks. No repertorial pen could do
Justice to the lecture. He relat ed what the
Church Extension Society has done during
the past II years to capture the country for
Christ. Last Sunday morning more
than one million people came together to
worship God in churches we have helped to
build The Society now builds one church
for every day in the year, and we want to
double this number. He referred to the
tremendous influx of foreigners, and stated
that to save the country these people must
be reached by Christian influences. During
the past IL years, ObVO CHuICuts udNS peeu
erected by the society. Give us four times
as much money as we now have, and we will
settle the future of this country for you.
There is only one great West; there will
never be another. The rest Of the world is
full. We can take possession of that West
in ten years for Christ The lecturer referred
to the power of the Methodist church in the
matter of building up temperance sentiment.
We have put l25 churches in Kansas during
the past two years next year we want to put
100 there Every Methodist minister's
missionary for temperance. Chaplain Nc
Cabe dwelt upon his favorite theme with his
customary earnestness and eloquence, and as
the result of his pleading nearly 5000 was
pledged by the audience for the cause of
church extension.