The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1898-03-17
The Churches.

Services at the Baptist church next Sun
day will be as usual.
There will be no morning service next
Sunday at the Universalist church, but SUM-
day school and the young peoples devotion
al meeting will be held as usual.
The services were omitted last Friday
evening and Sunday morning at the Univer-
salist church on account of the illness of the
pastor, Rev. C. H. Wells, who is improving
but still confined to the house.
Special attention is called to the meeting
tomorrow, Friday, evening at the Univer-
salist church. 1t is expected that the Rev.
j. F. Rhodes of Fairfield, well known to
Belfast people, will speak. The subject is
IA Matter of Doctrine
Meetings will be held as usual in the Peo-
pies Mission every evening this week ex-
cept Monday and Friday evenings, at
o'clock; also on Sunday at 2.30 and p. m.
Bible class at l p. IN. Mrs. M. c. Clapp
has charge Of these meetings, which are un-
UNCONVENTIONAL. All are welcome.
Services at the Methodist Episcopal
Church next Sunday will be as usual, with
sermon at 10 As a. m, Sunday school at u M,
Junior League at 3 80 p. m. Epworth League
at 6; sacred concert at 7. The weekly class
meeting will be this, Thursday, evening
| regular prayer meeting next Tuesday
evening, both at 715 o'clock. The Sunday
evening concert will include choruses,
Duets and solos by Mrs Frost, Mrs Webber
and Miss CHM.
At 7 10 this, Thursday, evening there will
be the usual mid-week prayer meeting at
the North church; topic, "Mary and Martha
as Types of Christian Life,' Luke 10 :3S ~ ;
John II Id The Sunday services will be
follows: Morning worship with sermon by
the pastor, Rev. Geo. S. Mills, at 10 As a. M
subject. SELF Control Sunday school at
| u N, meeting of the G. E. Society at 6 Is
p. NJ. topic, "What is profitable Sab
bath? % Elk. 20:S11; Is. 5S:5-14; lecture by
the pastor in the vestry at 7.15 p. m Sub
ject, The Youth of Jesus.
At a meeting Sunday of the m ,:nbnrs o f
the First Baptist Church, the committee to
which was referred the letter of Rev j. F.
Iilton, resigning the pastorate, reported the
following resolutions, which were unani-
mously adopted
Whereas our pastor, Rev. John F. Tilton,
has decided after prayerful and careful con
slderatlon that he has been called by the
| Great Head OF the Church to labor in an
4 other field,
Resolved, That We the members of the
| 1st Baptist Church, Belfast, Maine, accept
IlIE 1tIfnt1 ft,An
was offered.
gratitude for and our appreciation of his
faithful and efficient labor among us for
more than six years, We have seen with
! JOY the work for God and man in different
| directions prosper under his influence. In
the contributions Of the church both for
home expenses and benevolences and in the
number assembled in it for worship his
! Christian success has been evident
Resolved, That we heartily commend
| him to the church to which he goes. We
| bear witness that as a man he is upright
| and genial; as a citizen, he is loyal to the
public welfare; as preacher, he is instruc-
tive, evangelical and earnest. We look for
ward with confidence to his usefulness in
the larger field to which the Master has
called him. We trust that the Good Shep-
herd will guide both him and us in the fut-
ure even as He has in the past.
Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions
| be presented to our retiring pastor, that
they be placed on our church records, and
| that they be sent to lions Advocate and
our local papers for publication.