The Portland daily press., 1900-09-20
THE BAPTIST CONTENTION.
Final Session Was Held Yester.
day.
Business Meeting and Addresses nv
Missionaries.

The sessions of the Cum berland Rant5st
Association were resumed Wednesday
forenoon.
The devotional services were led bv Rav
r. l.. Krumreig, OF ShapIeigh. Follow
ing this the business OF the association
was taken up A report of the committee
on place and preacher was submitted
leaving the selection OF the place to Clerk
e. b. DoIan of South WATERFORD. and
selecting as preacher Rev. William Glenn
ents, of Buxton Center, with Rev. j. r.
Cochrane. of SpringvaIe.
The following COMM tee were selected
for the ensuing year.
Arrangements-Past of entertaining
church, e. B. Dolan, Judge George W.
Hanson, of springvaIe.
Resolutions-Rsv. G. N. Stilphen. of
Sanford, Rev. j. b Bryant, of Port
land, L r.. Cook, of Yarmouth.
Obituaries-Rev. David Webster. of
Lebanon, Rev. E. L. Krumreig of Shap-
leigh, W. K. Neal, of Portland.
Weak Churches-Rev. e b. Dolan
Rev. David Webster, Rev. J. E. Cooh.
ans.
Rev. DR.. J. K. Wilson OF Portland
was renominated IS representative on
the Executive committee of the Board of
the State Convention.
The hand of fellowship to the Associa-
ton was extended to the following new
pastors: Rev.J Il. Cochrane. Rev.E. II.
Gilman of Effingham, n. H, Rev. E.
L. Krumreig and Rev. BowIey Green, OF
Portland.
Rev. E. B. Dolan reported total of
81 baptlsIns in the association for the
year, a gain of % over last year. Th ere
were 80 deaths, tive less than last year.
The total membership Is 2O48, a gain OF
70. The total of benevolent offering was
$4855; gain of $3.50. The total Sunday
school membership was 1879, a loss of
201. This loss is apparent rather than
real, as several large churches have
revised their rolls.
Rev. J. K, Wilson reported for the Ex-
ecutive committee Of the State Conven-
ton In regard to the fund of $1,000 which
was to be raised by the churches of the
State for missionary work within the
State. Or this sum $500 was apportioned
to the Cumberland Association, and Mr..
Wilson reported that this had nearly been
raised. In the afternoon a contribution
was taken which completed the sum.
Rev. DR.. A. Il. Dunn addressed the
meeting in behalf Of the state convention.
Rev. MI. Dutton, who IS in charge of
tie movements to raise SO, 900 for Colby
college by getting $4,000 a year for five
years from the churches, spoke during
the forenoon of the interests OF the col
legs and its academies.
At noon a dinner was served to the
delegates in the yestry Of the church
In the afternoon the resolutions were
presented and adopted They were the
usual formal resolutions except one rec
ommending more attention to Bible
study in the Sunday schools
The devotional service was led by Rev.
j. E Gould of Waterboro. After that the
session was devoted to addresses by re-
turned missionaries. Mrs. DOwnie, wife
of DR.. Downie of the mission in India,
spoke at length of famine conditions In
that country, where not only the crops
are failing, but even the wells are drying
up so that water sells at the rate of six
quarts of water for rupee She appealed
for funds to be distributed through
missionary channels, which were prefera-
| BILE to government channels.
Miss Sarah e. BaIrOWs of the Burmah
mission, spoke next of work in that
country. Then Miss OrIssa Gould OF
the India mission, spoke generally Of the
recent terrible events in the Eastern
world, the famine in India and the mas
: sacres in China. She believed they were
in accordance with God s plan to draw
attention and relief to the Eastern world.
She referred to the widespread interest
and grief in Portland over the two mis-
sfonaries who had devoted their lives to
the cause in China.
| The convention closed with a cOnsecra-
tion service lei by the moderator, Rev.
| j. K. Wilson.