The Portland daily press., 1899-11-18

that his son had been called as minister
to this church whsrs he bad preached .
generation ago and he said he believed
that his son would preach the good
tidings. live up 20 what he preached ssd
establish here the visible expression and
image Of God.
Miss Hawss and Mr.. Rowdoin then fine-
Iy rendered Schuecer's "Rejoice In the
Lord" after which Rev. DIR. Henry
blanchard delivered the charge to the
pastor and the parish. This duty he per-
formed Ia his usual impressive manner.
he charged the pastor to remember that
he was a servant Of God, an ambe sador OF
Christ, q miuittT 20 men and preacher
In the Universaiist church. DIR. Blan-
chard then went on to enlarge uroa the
rss possibilities Of the pastor In thsss
positions. He said during the course of
hts charge that he believed tie time was
not far of when the Christian churches
OF all creeds and denominations would
recognize ss their brothers those who try
to do the Will of the Master and live up 10
the teachings of Christ, be he Romanist
or n Protestant. In the course OF the
charge TO the parish DR.. Blanchard dwslt
NJ on the fact that 1t wss the duty OF The
people to se responsive and TO cooperate
with their pastor. In the course OF this
charge he said: ''I want to sse the day
come when churches shall not find IL
necessary to support themselves by means
OF fairs. / know that this will offend
many people, but lido not bslieve In fairs
excepting foi their social side. IL is bet
tel to give OF your means outright than
10 give In this circuituous fashion. Men
who are 60 mean that they win not do
anything to help the churches and who
claim to bs Universslists are not Univer-
salists and never can be-"
DIR. Blanchard closed his charge by
strongly commencing the parish for Its
v oTk in the pass and finpress'ng upon 1t
the necessity of renewed activity In the
future.
Tho welcome to the city OF Portland
was delivered In most graceful manner
by Rev. John Carroll Perkins who said
among other things that it had been his
privilege to perform the same duty to Mr..
Atwood's predecessor and ne said: 81
can express a hope that the mantle of re-
spsct, Of esteem and Of love of your pre-
decessor may fall uron you"
Mr.. Perkins then went on to welcome
Mr. Ats GOD In the name of the Liberal
MiniEt :rs' Association of Portland and In
the course of his remarks SPOKE Of the
great good which had been accomplished
by the work OF this asso,iat on Of Univer-
sslists. Sweden borgian and Unitarian
ministers. He then said that Portland
was n most conservative city, but one of
high standard in Its educational and re-
liglous work. In closing he referred to
the fact that not far from the sIot where
the church Of the Messiah stands was
erected the first church In the city and be
said: "here where we meet the past and
all Of Its experiences and face the future
with our hopes and expectations may our
welcome to you, brother. encourage you
In the work you have been called upon to
perform"
The Welcome to the State OF Maine was
made by Rev. w. W. Ii, oyer, tie state
missionary. He was very happy In what
he had to say and In praising the state
tie said. among other things that "Meine
was stats which had raised good deal
of presidential timber In the past II the
country had only been wise enough to
recognize itas such ond that 1t had
raised one man WHO was far too great a
man to become the President Of the
United States He said that there never
was time when the men Of literal belief
had as great opportunities for doing good
as they have today. that the old preiudices
are fast disappearing and the liberal
oh urch ia row assured at least a fair
hearing everywhere.
The exercises came to an end with the
pronounoing of the bened.ction by the
few pastor. Rev. John Murray Atwood.