Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-05-11
Church and Pastor.

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Miss Lucy Milton of Tufts will preach
at Albion this summer
Six new members were received re-
Gently into the Universalist church at
Paris.
1t is reported that the Friends will
build a church at Winthrop before next
winter sets in.
Rev. s. L. Mitchell of Jonesport has
accepted a call from the Episcopal
church at PASSPORT.
Rev. B. NJ Webster of East Lebanon
has accepted a call to the Baptist
church in Limerick.
Rev. Joseph E. Cross has been en-
gagged as pastor of the Advent chapel at
Porter for one year.
Rev. r. Fl. Aldrch has been engaged
by the Universalist society of Sanger
vile to preach another year.
The First Baptist society of Noble
boro is contemplating repairing the
parsonage at an autlay of $500.
The Universalists of Woodstock have
engaged Rev. F. E. Barton of Bethel 10
preach during the summer months.
The next session of the MontVille
quarterly meeting will be held with
the Halldale church June Is, IL, ~.
Rev. H. H. Churchill of the Middle
Street church, Bath, has sent IN ms
resignation, to take effect in June.
DR.. A. B. Hervey of the Bath Univer-
salist church is arranging for TWO
months trip to Europe this summer
The city of Ellsworth has voted an
appropriation of $50 for the King
Daughters reading room of that city
Residents of vinalhaven West Dis
trict are raising funds to build church
on land donated by Mr.. and Mrs. J. T.
Young.
A choir of boys, trained by the Chris
tian Brothers, sings at the O'CLOCK
mass in ST. Mary's Catholic church
Bangor.
Bishop Healy will administer the ritz
Of confirmation in st. Mary's Catholic
church. Bangor, on Trinity Sunday
June 49,
According to a Berwick correspondent
$4,000 will be expended on the NJ. e
church of that town. "all of which has
been secured
The resignation of Rev. ]. H. Thomas
pastor of the Free Baptist church
Brunswick, was not accepted, and h
will remain another year.
The Rev Mr.. Tucker, pastor of th'
Advent church at Brdgton, has re
ceived call to the pastorate of an AID
vent church in Cotton, Cal.
Rev. L. E. Carter has resigned tn
pastorate of the Washburn and Per
ham churches, to take effect at the en'
of his second year, May 80.
An opera will be given in Fort Fair
field in about a month for the benefi
of the Episcopal church. There will b.
a chorus of about 400 voices.
Ithas been ascertained that during tn
Gale meetings held in Pressure Isle re
Gently, 300 persons signed cards indicat
ing a purpose to lead Christian lives.
Rev. F. c. Haddock, formerly paste
at the Methodist church in Gardiner
has accepted a call to the Eighteenth
Street Methodist church in Brooklyn
N. Y.
The Free Baptist Sunday school a
Island Falls, which has been organizes
less than one year has an attendant
of nearly 140. 1t also has a library o
about $50 volumes.
The Methodist church at South Port
land raised. the past year, for curren
expenses and liquidation of its debt
$500, and began the new year with
clean balance sheet.
Rev. Seth Benson has resigned tn
pastorate of the Baptist church at AID
Olson Point, his resignation to tax
effect after the 18th inst He has beer
with the church three years.
1t is said that the Rev. DR.. Boles o
Brooklyn, N. Y. has resigned his pas
torate in Brooklyn on account of i'm
paired health, and will come to Yves
Paris to spend some months.
Rev. j. A. Harding, pastor of tn
Baptist church society at Norway, ha
resigned, to take effect this month, an
will take a course of study at the New
ton. Mass, Theological school.
Rev. George N. Musgrove has tend
cred his resignation as pastor of tn
jefferson Street Free Baptist church
Biddeford, to take effect July /. RI
has been with the church almost fly
years.
Work has been commenced on tn
Friends church at st. Adams. Whicl
is to be built this season. The founda
ton was put in last fall. The work viii
now be pushed until the church is com
pleted
Rev. Arthur Marley, pastor of tn
Congregational church. oxford, has re
considered his resignation and has con
scented to remain until September. whe
he wishes to leave to further pursu
his studies.
Rev. II. NJ. Haywood, who closed hi
labors with the Baptist church in Ken
nebunk at the close of March, has re
ceived and accepted a unanimous ca
10 the pastorate of the Baptist churc
in Monson, as the successor of the lat
Rev. S. C. Fletcher.
Rev. J. f. Whitmore the recent pas
tor of the Rockand Free Baptis
church. has written that it will be i'm
possible for him to resume his pastor
ate very soon, on account of the con
tinued illness of himself and wife, an
his advice that the church decide o
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