The Republican journal., 1897-10-21
The Churches.

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evening this week also on Sunday at go
and PM. All are welcome.
The next session of the Maine Ministers
Association will be held in Auburn, on
Wednesday, Nov. 10. The session will con-
vene in the High Street Methodist church.
Rev. j. NJ. Leighton will speak on THE
Civic League" at the Unitarian church next
| Sunday forenoon. The discourse will be of
particular interest to men. 1t is the first of
short series on Good Citizenship" The
Sunday school will be held at II m.
The Gospel Banners report of the Univer-
salist Sunday school convention says that
the Belfast schools showed the largest gain
! in membership for the year, 49, also that
two new school have been organized in
| Waldo county, at Stockton Springs and
| Swanville.
| A special program will be presented at
the md-week meeting of the North Church
this evening. The services next Sunday
will be as usual. The weekly teachers
meetings will begin this Thursday evening
and will be held Immediately after the mid
week meeting.
Services at the Universalist chur CHI next
Sunday will be as follows Morning worship
with sermon at 10 10 followed by Sunday
school. Young peoples devotional meeting,
led by Miss Ethel Barr, at six o'clock, Topic,
"The Bible and Liquor License" At the
morning service the following music will be
rendered: Nunc Dimittis, Clare; The Lord
is my Shepherd, Duet, Mrs Frost, Miss Skay.
W. E. Witter, NJ. D., the New England
Secretary of the American Baptist Mission
AIRY Union, will give an address in the Bap-
fist church next Monday evening at $50
o'clock, Dr.. Whittier was formerly a medi-
cal missionary to the Nagas, powerful
tribe occupying port of the country of
Assam, and has story of thrilling interest
to relate. A cordial invitation is extended
to all.
The North church was the only one in the
city that had its regular music last Sunday
morning. Most of the singers in the city
attended the festival in Bangor and very
few returned home Saturday. Among these
We're the members of the North church
GlOll i he greater HUMMER came down on
steamer Castine Sunday morning and were
delayed by the storm until too late for the
morning services.
Services at the Methodist Episcopal
church, Sunday, Oct. 9th, will be as follows:
Sermon by the pastor at 10 10 a. H. Sunday
school at II M. meeting of Junior League at
$50 p. ~. meeting of Epworth League at s
p. III. song and prayer service at 7. PRAYER
| meeting Tuesday evening at 715. Glass
meetings Thursday evening at 10. The
! follow ng music will be given Sunday fore
noon Hear our prayer, Ryder, quartette ;
solo, selected.
| Services at the Baptist church next Sun
| day will be as follows Public worship at
| 1915, with sermon by the pastor, on THE
completeness of the Divine Redemption
Titus 2:14. Sunday school at II m. Gener-
al praise and preaching service at 7 o'clock.
| The subject of the evening sermon will be
''The cost of character" Luke 14:2S. The
musical selections for the daywill include the
| following: Neutrality-suspicious., Guide Me, O
| Thou Great Jehovah, Bruche trio, The Lord
is My Shepherd. Evening-Selection chorus :;
| Solo, selected.
The State Sunday school convention clos.
ed in Bangor, Oct. 14th, after three days
sitting. The business of the day included
the election of officers to till the vacancies
of the year. Rev. j. NJ. Frost of Bangor
was made president; Rev. S. G. Whitcomb
of Bangor, secretary; L. NJ. Douglass of
| Portland and n.r;o of
| Thomaston and D. P. Hatch of Bangor
members of the executive committee for
| three years. The debt of the association
S400, was raised by pledges made in the con-
| vention, and the organization is now free
from ADVERTISEMENTS of financial nature.
| Rev. A. I. Dunn, D. D., Secretary of the
Maine Baptist State Convention, spoke at
the Baptist church last Sunday morning.
He gave an informal talk on the work of the
home missionaries in Maine, showing that
much good is done by the missionary preach
ers, (of which the denomination SUPPORTS
six that Lever gets into the official reports
These men labor in the rural communities
and many persons are converted who never
unite with the church, while the influence
of the work is such that it cannot be esti-
mated, especially in molding the characters
of the young.
The Waldo Quarterly Meeting of the Bap-
list churches convened with the Morrill,
| church Oct. 18th, 10th and 18th The minis
tiers present were Rev. II. W. Abbott of Lib
erty, Rev. A. Leach of China, Rev. H.
Huxley of Palermo, Rev. j. F. Tilton, Bel
fast, Rev A. 7. Dunn of Waterville, secre-
tary of the Maine State Baptist Convention.
large delegation was present from the
churches. The social meetings were meet
ings of great spiritual power and blessing.
Sermons We're preached by Messrs. Abbott
Leach and Hinkey, DR.. Dunn, Rev. c. E.
Harden of Appleton and G. S. Hill. the pas
tor of the church. The congregations were
large and the entertanm emit abundant.
LIBERTY. Mrs. G.. II. Cargill and Mrs. L.
G. Morse attended the musical festival at
Bangor last week. Mrs. A. S. Daniels and
her milliner, Mrs. S. E. Meservy, has re-
turned from the city with d choice stock of
fall and winter millinery and announces an
opening Oct Goth, Dist and 22d. Rev A.
L. Dunn, ID. D., of Waterville preached at