The Portland daily press., 1896-09-19
THE ooNGREGATloNALIsTs.
Annual Meeting to be Held at Fort Fair
field,

ninth anniversary of the Maine Mission
airy Society, will he held with the Fort
Fairfield Congregational church. Sep
TENDER %, 23 and "a. The order OF
exercises will be as follows:
TUESDAY, SEPT. %.
| Afternoon-Devoti Service. Rev.
Salem d. Towne; Organization and
Lewis ID. Evans; Communion Service;
Neurology and Memorial Service.
| Evening-Praise Service, .ModeI ator;
Report of Committee ON Sunday schools,
Rev. T.. e. Barstow.
| Address-Christian Endeavor today
and tomorrow. Miss Charlotte Thorn
,Address-.o. H. NJ. s., Rev. william
g. Puddefoot
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 20.
Sunrise Prayer Meeting, Rev. ". @.
Mann.
devotional service, Rev. E. NJ. Cous-
| ms.
| Annual Meeting of,sthe Maine mission
airy Society, Hon. Galen G. Moses, Presi-
dent.
Opening Services.
Report of Secretary, Rev. David +.
Hatch.
Report of Treasurer, Hon. j. L. Cros-
by.
| Business.
| Addresses.
Afternoon Devotional Service, Rev.
L IS. Bean.
Report of Committee to visiu Bowdoin
College.
Report of Committee to visit Bangor
| Seminary.
Annual Meeting of Maine Charitable
Society, Rev. E. B. Mason. d. D., presi-
dent.
Address, Congregational Church Build
| ing Society, Rev. q. A. Hood.
Address, A. B. g. f. M, Christianity
in Japan. Rev. J. L. Barton. D. D.
Evening-Praise Service. Moderator.
Collection for Maine Charitable ST.
ciety.
| Addresses, Christianity In the Closing
Decade of the Nineteenth Century:
| a. From the Standpoint of Business
Man, W. P. Hubbard, Esq.
(2) From the Standpoint of Profess
ional Man, Hon. E. ". Woodbury..
(3) From the Standpoint of an Educator
Prof. G. @. burlington.
Address, A Modern Congregationalist
in the Modern World; Rev. j. L. Jen-
| ktns, ID. ID.
THURSDAY, SEPT. "a.
Sunrise Prayer Meeting, Kev. H. W.
| Kimball.
Devotional Service, Rev. S. N. Adams.
Annual Meeting of Maine College and
Education Society, Rev. ]. q. Merrill,
d. D., Pres.
Business.
Address, Rev. F. L. Ferguson.
Report OF Representatives. of Interde-
nominational Comfy Commission, Pres
VIM. Dewitt Hyde. Chairman. Discus
sion.
Congregational Forward Movement
Are We an Aggressive Denomination in
Maine? Brief Statement of Aggressive
Work by a Representative from each
County Conference, Summarized by
/ Prof. l.. L. Paine.
Afternoon-Devotio Service, Rev.
II. L. MoCann.
Reports OF Com mittees and Business.
Addressed The Church and Sociology
~ The Relation of the Church to
the Present Revival OF the Civic Spirit,
Rev. William Forsyth.
(2) The Place of the Church Relative
to the enforcement of The Maine Prohibit
| tory Law, Rev. r I. Hack. Discussion.
Address, The Christ of the Gospels the
Evening-Praise Service, Moderator.
Reports Of Visitors to Corresponding
Bodies. Reception of Delegates from
Corresponding Bodies.
Addresses, What Issues Confronting
the Church today do you Consider Most
Important? Rev. W. @. Mann. Rev. g..
S. Mills. Rev. r. g. Harbutt, Rev. j.
Adjournment.
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY MEET
INGS.
Wednesday, 500 a. m.-Twenty- second
Semi Meeting of the Woman IS
Board OF Missions, Mrs. Hannah T..
Fem. President. Address, Miss Child,
Bos ton, Mass
Wednesday, 400 p. m.-Ths Sixteenth
Anniversary of the Womau's Aid to the
American Missionary Association. Mrs.
Ida V. Woodbury., Pres.
Thursday, $500. m.-The Sixteenth
Annual Meeting Of the Woman's Aid to
the Maine Missionary Society, Mrs. K.
B. Lewis, President.
The officers of the Conference are:
Moderator-Rev. George W. Reynolds,
Gorham
Corresponding secretary-Rev. Edgar
M. Cousins, Gray.
Recording Secretary-Rey. Chas. d.
Crane, Machias.
Treasurer-Dea. William p. Hubbard,
Bangor.
Secretary of Sunday schools-Rev.
Thomas E. Barstow, Rockport. RlN
4 Chairman Committee on NOMINATIONS
REV. g. W. Reynolds, Gorham.
The officers OF the Maine Missionary
Society are:
President-Hon. Galen G. Moses, Bath.
Corresponding and Recording Score
tary-Rev. J. E. Adams, D. D., Bangor.
Committee of ArranRements-Rev.
q. B. Hescook, Fort Fairfield; Rev.
Charles Harbutt, Presque Isle; Rev. G.
W. Reynolds, Gorham; Rev. S. N. Adams
Westbrook; Rev. G. L. Parker, Ashland.
Committee on Entertainment-Mr. H.
N. Goodhue. Fort Fairfield.
Committee on Transportation-Rev
Charles Harbutt, Presque Isle.
| The church at Fort Fairfield 10 prepared
to entertain delegates and their wives,
and, as for as possible, all others attend
ing the conference
WESTBROOK SEMINARY.