Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-08-29
GENERAL CONFERENCE.
Of the Congregation Churches OF Maine
Provisional Programme.

provisional programme of the sew
entieth annual meeting of the General
Conference of the CONGREGATIONAL
churches of Maine, and eighty ninth
anniversary of the Maine Missionary
society,-with the Fort Fairfield Con-
aregational church, September %, -.
"a, 1896
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER %
Afternoon,-2. Devotional service; 3o1.
organization ana business; $50. conference
sermon.-Rev. l.. ID. Evans; communion
service neurology.
Evening,-IOo. praise service 40, report
stow; c. H. NJ. S.-Address-Rev. W. e.
Puddefoot; S.45 address Christian En-
deavor Today and Tomorrow.-Miss Char
lotte T. Sibcy.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER %.
Mornthg.-6.30, sunrise prayer meeting:
Me Miss. Soc.-Hon. G. c. Moses. Pres. :;
report of secretary,-Rev. ID. p. Hatch ;
report of treaSurer,-Hon. J. l.. Crosby
business: addresses.
Afternoon.-2.00 90. devotional service; 2l5
report OF committee to visit Bowdoin col
lege; 30, report of committee to visit Ban
gor Seminary; 200, annual meeting of NJ.
Charitable society. Rev f. Is. Mason. d.
D.. Pres 3.3o address Congregational
Church Building society, Rev q. A. HOOD :
lis, address.--A. y. c. T. NJ. Congrega-
tionalism in Japan. Rev. j. l.. Barton
ID. ID.
Evening-7.0o praise service; collection
for Maine Charitable society; 80 aG-
dresses, christianity in the Closing
Decade Of the Nineteenth Century,-1
From the Standpoint of d Business Man
w. p. Hubbard, Esq. 2. From the Stand
point Of Professional Man,-Hon. f. w.
Woodbury.. 9. From the Standpoint of an
Iducator.-Prof. G. c. burlington: $50. adj
drees,A Modern Congregationalist in the
Modern World. Rev J. l.. Jenkins. ID. d,
THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER "a
Morning.-630, Sunrise prayer meeting
500. devotional service: annual meeting
Maine College and Educational society
Rev j. G. Merrill, -. D., pres. business
address. Rev. +. l.. Ferguson; 90. re
port of representatives. of lnterdenoml-
national Comfy Commission,-Prcs Vii
liam Dewitt Hyde. chairman-dlscussion
1000 Congregational Forward Movement
in Maine-Are We an Aggressive Denoini-
nation? Conducted by Prof l.. l.. Paine
ID. d. Brief statement of an aggressive
work by representative from each cour-
ty conference.
Afternoon Devotional service: Is
reports of committees and business; 10
addresses. The Church and Sociology
t. The Relation of the Church to the
Present Revival of the Civic Sprit,-Rev
William Forsyth. :. The Place of the
church Relative to the Enforcement OF
the Maine Liquor L.aw-ReS. r. r. Hack.
Discussion: 4l5 address. The Christ of the
Gospes.-the Christ of Today,-Prof. G.
a. Beckwith.
ports of visitors to corresponding bodies
reception of delegates from correspond
inc bodies; 500 addresses,-Wh hat Issues
Confronting the Church To-Day do yol
Consider Most Important?-Re j. ;.
Williamson. Rev. r. 9. Harbutt. Rev. G.
S Mills. Rev. W. g. Mann. Closing eXer-
ciSes.
NOMEN'S AUXILIARY MISSIONARY
BOARDS
Wednesday Morning.-S,00. Twenty-third
annual meeting Woman Auxiliary to the
A. y. C. T. MINIS. w. r. Fem, Pres
Wednesday Afternoon.-2.00. Sixteenth
annual meeting Womans Aid to the A.
NJ Mrs. t. V Woodbury.. Pres.
Thursday morning.-S30. sixteenth an
,,lIai meeting Woman's Aid to the Maine
Missionary society, Mrs. II, d. Lewis
Pres.
Pastors and delegates and all who IN
tend to be present are earnestly re
cuested to send their names to Mr.. h.
n Goodhue, chairman of committee On
entertainment, as early as possible, and
not later than the 18th of September
in order that they may be assigned
ulaces of entertainment and receive
rotice of the same before starting for
conference.
q. Kaler, former superintendent OF
q plumbago mine in India and thor
c,1gh expert. and w. K. Anthorne,