The Portland daily press., 1898-09-22

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General Vice Presidenb-Mrs. "A. fred
arick Dunnels, Bath.
Sec-etary-Mrs. 5. W. Chaplin, Deer
Isle.
bertrand Centre. Wy
REYNOLDS. Woodfords; Mrs. f. B. Denio,
Bangor; Mrs b. 2. Fuller, Auburn.
Vice residents-Aroostook,M Mrs. George
r Page. Houlton; Northern Aroostook,
Mrs. <. s. knight, Fort Fairfield; Cum
berland, hirs. Mary Webb, Portland; North
Cumberland, Mrs. Carl 5. Patton ,5 au'
worth; Kennebec, Mis-. Helen Z. Wilder,
Augusta; Lincoln. Mrs. b. A; VIZ
Damariscotta; Oxford, Mrs. L. Il. G. -
man, Bethel; Penobscot, Mrs. j. +.
Tewkesbury, Bangor; Pisoataquis. MRS.
E. j. Mayo, F'oxcroft; Somerset, Mrs.
L ". Weston, Skowhegan; Union, Mrs:
q. W. Rounds, Bridgbon; Waldo, Mrs.
]. q. Pendleton, Searsport; Washington;
Miss Id. L. Cotes, Machias; York, Miss
NJ o. Darrell. York.
THE CHARITABLE SOCIETY.
The meeting of the Congregational
Charitable society was conducted by the
president, Rev. DR.. E. B. Mason, who
said that this association while small.
had the distinction of having no debt.
This society as did the Maine College and
Educational society, reelected its old
board of officers
President Hyde of Bowdoin. who was to
have made report of the 1nterdenomi-
national comfy committee. was not pres
ent and in his absence the Rev. DIR. j.
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the work which received much encourage
ment by the triennial council of Congre.
gational churches recently held at Port
land, Ore.
woMAN'S BOARD MEETING.
Mrs. William 81. Fem of Portland,
presided at the semi-annual meeting Of
the woman's board of missions held at
eleven O'Clock in the Main street Baptist
yestry. There was large Attendance of
ladies sufficient to tll the vestry.
The chief matter discussed was the con-
dition of the treasury and how best to In
crease the fund at the command OF the
society for the coming year. Among those
who took part in this discussion were
Mrs j. W. D. Carter, the secretary, Mrs.
G. c. Chapman, the treasurer, Miss erie,
and Mrs. John F. Thompson all of Port.
land.
Miss Woodbury. brought greetings from
the woman's board of Boston,
Mrs. Greene of Baltimore spoke inter-
estingly ON the work of the Presbyterian
board of missions.
Miss Marion, q student at Dwight l..
Moody's school, told of her work for
prize offered, to enable her to do mission
work in a foreign field.
BOWDOIN AND BANGOR SEMINARY
The report of the committee to visit
Bowdoin college described the recent
addition to the equipment of the.college,
and said that no educational Institution
of Maine was mere entitled to support
than this, its Oldest college. The COM
mittee was not able to speak definitely as
to the state of religion in the college, but
was sure that the students must be in
fuenced for good by the earnest, moral
atmosphere with which they were sur
rounded.
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port of the committee to visit Bangor
seminary. The committee spoke in
| praise of the excellent work of the in
stitution and commended the recent
change in the course of instruction. At
tention was called to the fact that of 3S
students, only four were from Maine,
eighteen being from other states and six
teen from England, Scotland and the
provinces The report asked if this did
not indicate lack of effort on the part of
the ministers in Maine in behalf of this
home school.
COLLEGE AND EDUCATION
SOCIETY.
| Rev. DR.. J. G. Merrill of Portland, the
president, conducted the meeting of the
Maine College and Education society, and
introduced Rev. DR.. William r. Barton,
secretary of the parent society. who de.
livered the earnest and eloquent address
which follows:
Among the six corporate agenc les
through which our Congregational
churches carry on their federated work OF
beneyolence, the Congregational Educa-
ton Society STANDS next to the American
Board in order of age, and hardly less
than that. in the Importance of it's varied
work. Organized in the beginning to
educate pious youth in the gospel ministry
it's spirit has been, and is that which in
no small degree has given to our denomi-
nation its distinctive glory. In the front
of the new Congregational House are four
tablets IN high relief, representing law,
religion, philanthropy and education.
These are believed to be the cardinal Pill
grim principles. The one devoted to edu-
cetion represents the founding of Harvard
College, and the hope expressed in its
founding and craven now upon the col
lege gates that there might not fail an
educated ministry in the new common
wealth established by the Puritans That
spirit first incarnate in the single institu
ton of learning this Society endeavored
to embody in the lives of individual men,
Looking back upon its more than eighty
years of history, its record in this regard
is not one to be ashamed Of. Nearly 5000
Young men aided from its treasury have
found their way into the Congregational
ministry. Two hundred years ago Cotton
Mather made list of 1923 Congregational
churches having at that time 116 pastors,