The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1899-06-07


walk out on the Pacific ocean and that
was the end Of his professional work.
Mn siers should bs Of some intsllsct able
20 Instruct and lend and impart thu.
fundamental principles OF the church.
Trey should be leaders in the pulpit ana
the community in which they lire and
interested In all things Of vital interest
to the committees In which they labor.
They should devote their timo TO the prep.
ara,ion of sermons visiting parishior-
ers, attending to the sick, etc. They
should proclaim temperance, but they
are not expected to go outside Us prose-
outing officers to enforce the laws Of the
state in which they live Ministers
should not get Jealous Of one another,
nor speak lightly Of each other. They
should not only preach. but practice,
The honest layman expects his minister
to be an honest. manly man 10 be
man and talk what he thinxs in poll
tics. LET the minister cate, 20 no cne,"
said Mr.. Mckinney. "Yol ere a citizen
and every honest laymGn will respect
you IL you exercise that right"
The speakers summary of the subject
was that the minister should so act that
when In the pulpit his hearers would
wish that he might always stay there
and when out Of it wish that he might
remain so forever.
Mr.. McKinney's able address was list
sned TO with thu closest attention and at
its conclusion, Rev. O. A. Knickerbocker
spoke on the Minister'S Idsn Of the Peo-
ple." He referred to the invigorating
speech Of Mr.. Mckinney which made
him feel his bitterness, because II had
knocked out good deal of the conceit
which the minister was apt to DO ssess.
DE did not feel like a daisy. He then
that there IL a gulf between the PEG pie
in and out II the church. We must avoid
Pharaseeism and rather cultivate more
the spirit Of the Publican. We Rrs all
plain folks. The church Is a divine in.
stitution and SO Is society, but the latter
iaoks the dennite motive which gives In
telligent expression. These are saving
influences outside of the church and the
Lord is uplifting many who have not yet
learned to call on the Savior. The key
note Of the speakers thought VAST "Seek
ye first the Kingdom Of God and His
righteousness and all these things shall
tians yet, only struggling. incipient, very
budding, but we have learned the value
or unification and OF work along def
mite lines. The time ispast when every
religious systetlswas q short cut to heav-
en-, It's purPose-is lifting humanity nearer
to God. We must sacrifice ourselves for
the purpose Of making divine life OF
man. nsaa u fe
Rev. DIR. Atwood, bishop Of the Univer-
salist churches, made the closing address
Of the evening. He said this was his
FIRST visit to a convention since 1866 and
ig Is just rs hot here now as IL was then.
He was then literally in a stew at Au-
burn and Lewiston. He remarked that
II We are to have hot time as Univsr-
salists they were going TO take 1t oil to.
gether. he brought greetings to the Uni
versalist In Maine from brothers all over
the United States and was glad to see SO
many Universalists left In Maine, enough
surely to bear transplanting before the
stock was expended. The UniyersaIists
are great folk. They stretch from
sea TO sea, from tho lakes to the Gulf,
They are excellent to live with and 90 to
heaven with. He thought saints were
q little tedious, good In their way, but
be did not want them for a strict diet.
DE wanted to be side by side with his
brothers and sisters of the Uniyersalist
church on earth and in heaven. After
speaking rather facetiously, DR.. Atwood
exhorted his hearers to stand by the fiav
az holAct AOT bHo &DUu Oiu cause OF Oll-
versalism in the good old State of Maine.
He besought them not to lower the flag
but keep 1t flying ON all the hills and In
all thesvalleys He compared Universal
ism to the Gulf stream and urged the
ministers to use little more dynamits
in their sermons and preach more FIRE.
quently the Lord and Master.
TODAY'S PROGRAMME.
500 q. m.-Praise and Prayer meeting,
led by Rev. W. F. Small, Richmond and
Bowdoinham.
$50 a. m.-Praise and Prayer nesting.
led by Rev. A. A s. mith, Belfast.
$50 a. ni,-Business.
(Afternoon.)
Woman's Missionary Society.
400 p. m.-Businsss meeting.
$50 p. m.-Publio meeting to which
all are cordially invited. Addresses by
Rev. Gertrude Earle Of Gorham, N. h;
Kew. O. A. Hayden, Mrs. %. A. Quinby,
president of the W.. g. A.. Rev. blanche
A; Wright, the state president, win pre-
side.
4.s0p. m.-Businsss session, If needed.
(Evening.
Z45 p. m.-Address by Rev. Henry
Blanchard, d. D.. on personal Respon-
sibility."
Address by Rev. h. r. Pember Of Ban.
gor, on "Denominationsl Dignity"
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