The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1895-09-26
The Churches.

l 40 O04GOn0Ds
Services at the Universalist church sun
day. Sept. q, will be - follows: 1O.45 y. NJ,
A Journey into the wilderness and q day on
the Mountain-top. st. Mark I.-12; st. Luke
vs.. s. s. u M. Quarterly Review. Y. p.
c. o. s p. M. Charity. Cor. XIII.
In the Second Parish church yesterday
Rev. Rollin T. Hack preached stirring SER
| mon on the subject OF the enforcement Of the
| liquor law. He condemned the officials for
not enforcing the law more effectively, and
| also condemned the church people for not
being vigilant and uncompromising in the
use of the ballot as are the liquor element.
Portland Press, Sept. %.
| Rev. S. L. Hanscom Of the Methodist
church will exchange for quarterly meetings
next Sunday with Rev. d. B. Phelan Of
Waldoboro. There will be q love feast at
$50 O'Clock, a. m. preaching at 10 As a. M.
and p. M, with the Sunday school and
other services as usual. The quarterly CON
ference will be held next Monday at 80
p. IN.
The First Baptist choral ASSOCIATE on o
Rockland has elected the following officers:
Mrs. A. B. Butler, pres. E. s. Montgomery,
vice pres; Miss Sarah NJ. Hall, sec. K; Miss
Nellie Knowlton, treas. A, B. Butler, F. B.
Whitcomb, Miss Lottie Skinner, executive
committee II. NJ. Lord, director; Miss N. T.
Sleeper, assistant director; Mrs. H. NJ. Lord,
pianist and organist.
Rev. Geo. S. Mills will return from his
vacation this week and will occupy the pull
pit at the North church next Sunday. There
will be preaching at 10 45 a. NJ; Sunday
school at u M. Christian Endeavor conse-
Grafton meeting at $50, and lecture at
7.30. The monthly envelope collection will
be taken at the morning service.
The Maine Baptist anniversaries will be
held with the Baptist church at Old Town,
Sept.3 ,Oct.1 and 2. All who expect to attend
the meetings and desire free entertainment
are requested to communicate with Rev. E.
A. Davis, of the Old Town church. in order
that assignments may be made. There will
be room for all who can attend The Maine
Central r. r. win sell round trip tickets at
one fare.
Rev. W. "a. Newcombe Of Thomaston will
occupy the Baptist pulpit in this city next
Sunday morning and evening, in exchange
with the pastor. The following music is an
| nounced:
! Anthem, Snow the Shades Of Night are
Gone" Greene
Solo, "The Lost Chord" Sullivan
| Mrs. Pitcher.
| EVENING.
| Selection, "a Hymn of the Homeland,''
Sullivan
Chorus.
| Quartette, "Holy Spirit, Come" Kaschat
The Goth annual meeting Of the General
Conference Of the Congregational churches
of Maine will close its sessions at Westbrook
to-day. The corresponding secretary's re-
port shows that the additions to the churches
in 1894 We're 617 by confession and 400 by
letter. the deaths and removals were such
as to make the present membership q 453,
about the same as last year. The benevo-
| lences were over S1O5, 900 which was $50 900
more than the previous year, most of the in
crease being due to two large gifts. The
home expenditures We're nearly 100000.
There has been gain Of ten pastors, so that
the churches are more fully and strongly
manned than ever, 1893 ministers in all. The
| Sunday schools and Christian Endeavor So
| cieties have done good work. There il in
vested in church buildings 81 ,532 $50, and in
parsonages, 100000.
The 18th annual meeting Of the Maine Free
Baptist society in Auburn closed last Thurs
day evening, the principal feature being an
address on "The Denomination; its Mis-
sons, Plans, Needs, and Heroic History e
by Rev. Fl. NJ. Ford. In the afternoon part
OF the programme was carried out in the
new Cobb Divinity School building, Lewis
ton. with addresses by President Chase and
Prof. Howe, Of Bates College; Rev. g. G..
Wilson, State superintendent of the Bible
society; Rev. W. NJ. Davis and Rev E. NJ
Fernald. These officers We're elected: Presi-
dent, 3. E. Davis, Augusta; First Vice-Presi-
dent, Rev. G. F. Penney, Auburn; Second
Vice-President, Rev. A. G.. Hill, Fairfield !;
Third Vice-President, o. W. Fulam, Port
land; Clerk, Miss Dora Jordan, Alfred !;
Corresponding Secretary, Rev j. B. Jor-
dan, Pawtucket, r. L.; Treasurer, Geo. HI.
Brown, Auburn; Auditor, Hon Hiram
Knowlton, Portland; Executive Board,
Hon. Benjamin F. Hinckley, Georgetown
B. G. Jordan, Alfred; H. J. Preble, Bangor.
At the annual business meeting Of the Wo-
mans Missionary Society the following Of
| ficers were reelected: President Mrs. Mary
r. Wade, Dover; Recording Secretary, Mrs
a. B. Weber, North Berwick Correspond
| ing Secretary, Mrs. Carrie J. burlington.
| Lewiston; Treasurer, Mrs. Nellie B. Jordan