Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-09-29
CHURCH AND PASTOR.
Items Of Interest in Maine Religious
Circles.

Rev Air Nichols of Brunswick, has
accepted the call to become pastor OF
the Free Baptist church Of Atkinson.
The Waldo County Advent Christian
Conference viii be held at Evans Cor
ner. Waldo. beginning. Thursday, oct.
4, ana continuing over Sunday
The Union church in East Dixmont
has been presented with a communion
table and flower stand Of quartered
oak. by Mrs. l.. W. Starbird "
Chicago.
The plans for the new Central church
chapel. Bath. call for a building. the
front III which viii i'll architecture re-
semble the church. 1t will be built on
the south side of the church and will
cost about $1,000.
Rev A. J. Haynes. former pastor at
Southwest Harbor of the Methodist
Episcopal church. but now pastor Of
the Plymouth Congregational church
Of Chicago has resigned the pastOrate
on account Of i'll health.
Extensive repairs and Improvements
are being made both in the exterior
and interior Of the Free Baptist church
at Houlton. Some very handsome
stained glass windows have arrived
ana Will be placed in the church at
once.
At the annual meeting Of the Andres
coggin Sunday school Institute held at
Livermore Falls recently, the follow
ing officers We're elected: President
Dr.. Horace Tilden; president, Rev.
j. r. Clifford; secretary and treasurer,
George Chandler.
The First Baptist church. Biddeford,
voted. last Sunday, to increase the
salary Of the pastor, Rev. &. X. Elan
ders. by 500. Sufficient funds were
also raised to make the church indie
pendent Of the State convention.
1t is finally decided that DR.. Y. NJ.
Hardy. who has received call To be
come the pastor Of the Dover and Fox
croft congregational church will come,
for he has been released by the church
in Randolph. Vt. He will take up his
work iii those communities the first
Sunday in October.
The Methodist society at Newport
has about decided upon the plans for
as a suitable lot is secured work Will
be commenced upon The structure.
When the new church is completed.
the society will sell its present prop
erty.
Rev. c. V. Parsons. former pastor of
the Free Baptist church in Fort Fair
field, Who has the past year or more
been located il Rochester. n. Y, has
decided to move his family TO Fort
Fairfield again in a few weeks. the
change being necessary owing to Mr..
Parsons health.
For the past two seasons Rev. II. F.
Moulton of the First Universalist
church, Biddeford, has arranged a
series of ''laymen's vesper services for
the fail and winter. These services
win be continued the present season,
the subjects for the first month being
as follows: Sept 30.-'Men and the
Church" Rev. W. r. Skerrye. Saco;
Oct. 7.-"Some Things Young Men
Should Do" Charles r. Pollard, Port
land: oct. tour City Mission
Work" F. r. Wakefield. the Biddeford
city missionary; Oct. 21.-"Jesus Christ
dS OH <AIIitIICdli lAlLtilt I'LL - IL
Perry, president of Westbrook Semi
nary. Deering; Oct. 2S.-"Good Citizen
ship" Hon. Augustus F. Moulton,
Portland.
Scattered about the audience room
of the Congress Square Universalist
church, Portland. last week, lay three
carloads of intricate mechanism. the
parts of the new organ re-
Gently built for the church by the
Austin Organ Company of Hartford,
Conn, the largest in Maine and one Of
the three largest in New England. The
great mass of material weighs Sc tons
and in its voiced perfection has a cost
Of $4,000. IT will contain over 5000
speaking pipes and 100 stops. counting
all combinations of pistons, pedals,
etc. It's most expensive stop
is the NOx Humane. built to order by
Thomas Lewis, the famous London eX-
pert. The other reeds are impOrted1
from France, of the finest quality. A
possessed by no other organ
east of Boston, will be the great 81
foot pedal stop. The wind chest is
room capable Of containing 125 men.
To supply the wind there will be a two
horse power electric motor.