The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1896-12-31

separates itself from the parish, calls a coun-
Gil, and IS organized into a new and inde-
pendent congregation on the Goth of Nav
1920.
This is the beginning of the religious So
clety In whose place of worship we are met
~ very important sense the beginning of
The church, under whose auspices we are
assembled. At least it enters upon a
new career, 1t starts out upon new and un-
tried path,-a feeble body feeble in numbers
feeble IN wealth, feeble in social positiop-
but full of faith and zeal and hope. For
several years they have no place of worship,
no settled preacher. Occasionally a minis
ter is hired by the aid of the Maine Mission
ary Society to administer the consultations of
MS ofhce; to use the phrase which is still
used IN the records and is still appropriate
In the course OF some three years, in 1928
they are able to put up a small building
called the Conference room, which some Of
the Older persons who hear me must r-lnem-
per, situated on the top of what is now call
ed Primrose Hill, near Mr.. Johnsons house,
and IN the next year QS24 they give call
| TO rev. MI. Soule, man of no marked quail
les, who after brief pastorate of two
years was dismissed to the church of Den
mark Denmark of our State) viii IA church
ne lett soon after on account of feeble health
| TO take up less iaborious work as head of
boarding school in Norway, (NorWay of Our
State.) The record speaks of him az a man
OF amlable character and excellent spirit,
| put whose labors We're interrupted and EN-
barrassed by feeble health.
| He was followed in the next wear 1927 by
rev. Nathaniel Wales, fresh from Bangor
seminary, young man around whom the
a1ectlonS OF the church gathered at once and
very warmly, not only because of tn sweet
ness and excellence of his character, but
also because their affection was called ont
and heightened by sympathy for him under
| that fatal disease, CONSUMPTION, which had
| marked him for its victim from his first ap-
pearance among us, and which in brief
year carried him off, TO the regret of all de
| nominations and all classes.
| Mr.. Wales was followed the next wear hv
Rev Ferris Fitch, the least eminent in mind
or character of ali the ministers who have
been settled over the church. and vet under
| whose administration occurred one of the
| most important events in it's history-the
erecting OF this church editice. 1t shows the
| difference between social usages then and
| now, that the raising of the church with the
use of spirits was thing so extraordinary
| that special notice of the fact was made IN
| the town journal of the next week at the
raising of the older church, twelve Years be-
| tore, solid barrel of punch having been
| provided at the expense of the society.
Mr. Fitch was dismissed in May, 1882, on
account of feebleness of health as the or
| daInlng council says, bnt those who are ac-
quainted with ecclesiastical language know
| that in the usage of councils that phrase
''feebleness of health - has a much broader
significance than it has n ordinary usage,
| and is made to cover a great variety of feeble
ness, besides that OF body.
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