Daily Kennebec journal., 1900-04-28
CHURCH AND PASTOR.
Items Of Interest in Maine Ecclesiastical
Circles.

A Sunday-School has been orSahlzeu
at Parkhurst Siding.
At the Baptist church, Lewiston, sun
day evening, five persons were baptiZeu.
The Montville Free Baptist quarterly
meeting will be held at South Jefferson III
June.
The final service at the old Congress-
tonal church, Gray, was held last sun
day, April 22d.
Rev. Harry Hudson Of Presque Isle,
has just organized an Episcopal church
at Van Buren.
There is a rumor that a Catholc
church will be built in Madison TINS
summer.
At the Universalist church. Bethel,
Easter Sunday evening, six were
taken into membership.
Thirty conversions are reported as
result of the special revival meetings
lately held at Dover and FoXcroit.
Rev Mr. Walker Of Portland, has been 9,a.1
society at Readfield and Winthrop for
one year.
| Rev. G. NJ. Park has been engaged TO
fill the Baptist pulpit at Blaine, for the
coming year. This church reports
marked increase in attendance of late.
| Samuel Hadden of Cobb Divinity
| School Lewiston. has been engaged to
| supply the Congregational church at
| I,nycl for one year and has entered upon
| his work.
charles l.. Snow. Colby '97. Of the SEN
| ior class. Newton Theological Institution,
has been called to the pastorate Of the
| Ra%tist church in Wilmington Conn, ana
| Il is expected that he VIII DeSln MS ID
| bors there in June.
| Rev. ]. NJ. Adams of the CongreSa-
| tional church. Ellsworth. has organ
| al, fn, ,,annla
1t starts in with Il membership of over
thirty.
As a result of the meetings in
| Charleston, conducted by Evangelist
Harry Taylor of Hallowell, eleven con-
verts were baptized by the pastors of
the two churches. Rev. Messrs. Scher-
merhorn and Browne.
The fourteenth annual convention of
the Cumberland County Sunday-school
Association will be held at the Congre-
gational church. North Yarmouth,
Thursday. May 10th.
The Pittsfield Universalist church
| has voted to increase the salary of the
| pastor. Rev. l.. w. Coons. by 500. Tins
church is making arrangements to en-
| tertain the Universalist State Convcn-
! ton to be held in that town, June -.
| A most important meeting Of some Of
| the influential Hebrews of Portland,
| was held recently in the old syna-
| gogUe. at which decisive steps We're
| taken towards securing a new syna-
| gogue large enough TO accommodate
all the Hebrew families of Portland.
Rev. J. o. Spencer. who has been
| II. of h,
| gational church in Presque Isle ana
began his labors last fall, will now re
main in that town permanently, hav-
| ing finished his course Of studies at
the Bangor Theological school. Here
tofore he has been obliged TO return to
Bangor every Monday morning. reach
ing Presque Isle again on Saturday.
An Interdenominational sunday
| school convention will he held a East
| port. May 16 and l.. Among the
| speakers there Will be Rev. Smith
| Baker. =. d.. Of Portland. and Mr. L.
y. Halliday. field worker Of the Maine
State Sunday-school Association. IN
| vitations Will be sent to all the sun
day-schools in E,astport, Lubec Perry,
| Pembroke. Dennysvile, Edmunds.
Whiting. Cutler and Trescott.
For the past three months the
| Methodist Sunday-school of Rumford
| Falls, has set aside the collections
taken on the first Sunday OF each
month as missionary money and the
junior classes have each given a social
! entertainment for the same purpose.
| on Easter Sunday this money was
brought in ana turned over and it was
found that the school had collected the
sum of $53.31 for this purpose.
Rev Henry Il. Rose. formerly of Au-
| burn. and now pastor of the Church Of
| the Rcdeemer of Newark. y. J., was
treated to a genuine surprise Easter
| morning by the people of his church.
| They caused handsome Easter egg to
| be placed on his plate at breakfast. on
| opening it he found a chick inside Sit
| ting on Il roll of crisp bank notes. Mr..
| Rose lifted the chick with alacrity and
on counting the greenbacks found two
| hundred and twenty-five.