Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-07-12

come five strong chapters upon Disturbing
Questions These are made to include
Ministerial Education, Note Preaching,
Liberty of Testimony, Temperance Re-
form, Anti-Slavery Reform, Foreign Mis-
sions, and the Antinomian Heresy. Fol-
lowing the chapters upon Disturbing
Influences" is q chapter devoted largely
to the personal recollections Of the
author pertaining to his student lite NJ
WatervilIe College, now Colby University
Speaking of the student life of one Who
later, attained national distinction DR..
Kicker says:
"Benjamin F. Butler wrought at chair
making, and, if rumor spoke truly, quite to
the advantage of his purse. Though his
future could not then have been foreseen
with certainty, all who remember him at
that stage of his career. will agree that the
boy was father to the man. The colossal
audacity of his nature, and his keen insight
as to methods and foresight as to results
were quite beyond their germ state, even in
his student days. Neither his oracular
Word (and, as it turned out, his decisive
word az to the proper treatment of negroes
escaping to the Union lines, nor his hang
ing of Mountfort in New Orleans, was
any surprise to his old college mates. They
were but the natural outcome of his known
and wonderful fertility of resource, aud the
merciless tenacity of his will. How differ
ent his earthly destiny from that of many
others who wrought with him at the same
bench!"
An interesting chapter is devoted to the
UNCONVENTIONAL press, as represented by
lions Advocate of which sterling old paper
DR.. Kicker had charge more than fifty years
ago. The Maine Baptist Missionary Con-
vention, forms the subject of a chapter that
is replete with interesting "reminiscences. DR..
Kicker closes his personal RecollectiOns"
with chapter entitled, "a Look Forward. "
In this he urges firm adherence to the old
beliefs that shave a history" and "have
figured in the world to some purpose" He
has no sympathy with the advocates of the
s'higher cri,icism," who talk "0f the new
religion, and the old religion" He thinks
this suggestive of revolution rather than
evolution. 1t leads whittier we cannot fol-
low. Having tasted the old wine, we de-
sire not the new, inasmuch as the old is
better. What nourished our fathers into
such spiritual yigor and health will nourish
us Also"
IdIt VI Tue fOluuc ucdio Vieh shS
biographies of men who have been promi-
nent in the councils of the Baptist de-
nomination in this State. Interes-
ting and valuable sketches are Civ
en- of Adam Wilson, Caleb Bailey
Davis, Zabdiel Bradford, Handel Gershom
Mott, George Knox, James Tiff Champlin.
William Hosmer Smaller. Samuel Lunt
Caldwell, Byron Greenough. Gardner
Colby, Amarlah Kalloch, Martin Brewer
Anderson, Abner Coburn, Stephen Coburn,
George Washington Keely, Charles Edward
Hamlin, Chaplin Humphrey, George White
field Bosworth, James McWhinnie, George
Pendleton Mathews. Oakman Sprague
Stearns and James Hobbs Hanson. DIR.
Ricker's work is an exceedingly valuable
one and will fill an important place
in the literature of his denomination.
1t will also possess an interest for
the members of other churches in this
State. 1t shows the results of arduous and
careful work and is in all respects a credit
to its author. 1t was printed at the JOUR
NAL office, in good sized clear type, and
upon an excellent quality of paper. 1t is
neatly and substantially bound in a fine
quality of English cloth and will be an Or
nament, as well as valuable addition to
any library.