Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-04-07
CHURCH AND PASTOR.
Items Of Interest in Maine Ecclesiastical
Circles.

| CtrCieS.
Rev. Mr.. Todd Of Brunswick will sup
| ply the Baptist church in Harpswcll the
coming year.
| Thirty or more conversions are report
! ed in connection with recent revival SER
vices at Levant.
At the Baptist church Old Town. sun
! day, seven persons were admitted To
| church membership.
Three new members were received into
the Congregational church at West
! Brooksvillc Sunday. by baptism.
The South Portland Cniversalist society
| has voted to finish its new church ediiicc
regardless Of expense.
The Congregational church, Saco, has
| voted to extend call to Rev. Leroy ;.
| Bean of Portland.
The Congregational, church at Machias
| has extended call to Rev. George
Bloomfield Of Pawtucket. r. |.
The Congregational church at Steuben
has unanimously asked Rev. Mr.. Cullcn-
to reconsider his resignation and stay an
other year.
Fifty-six volumes have just been
added to the FoXcroft and Dover Con-
gregational Sunday school library.
Nine candidates were admitted, re-
Gently, on probation TO the Methodist
church at Fl. Fairfield.
Five persons were received on proba
ton and two into full membership in
the Methodist church, at Madison, last
Sunday, and others are to follow.
There is prospect that the North
church, PASSPORT, may be opened for
services again this spring and the pull
pit supplied by the Rev. T. q. Moses.
Through the generosity Of Il. II. Kit
tredge of Bar Harbor a bell will soon
be placed in the belfry of the Baptist
church at West Trenton.
Rev. Fr. Summa has preached his fare
well sermon at St. GATHERINGS Roman
Catholic church. Norway. ana will spend
France this summer.
AT the Methodist church, South Paris,
Sunday evening. fourteen united with the
church on probation, one from probation
and one by letter.
\ member of the Elm street NJ. +.
church, Yarmouth. has presented the
church with an individual communion
set. This was used for the first time at
the communion service on sunday.
Rev. c. L. Banghart Of the Methodist
church, Old Town, who has been asked To
remain in charge OF the church another
year, has decided not to remain, but 70
accept one Of the other parishes which
will be open this wear
y AtN ~ al 10 III ~ ps,iN'7S - ~ N4AN.7N
nut street Methodist Episcopal church,
Portland. Great interest is manifest
ed, and the meetings promise to be
very successful.
Fred Taylor Of Bath, a senior in Roch-
ester Theological Seminary. will be or
daintd as Baptist minister At the Elm
street church, Bath. May =. There will
he exercises afternoon ana evening. Mr..
TAYLOR has call to Moscow, ana he Will
60 there about the middle of June.
Rev Russell Woodmin. rector of St.
Peters Episcopal church. Rev f.. H.
Chaplin, pastor Of the Church of lmman-
uel TniVCrsaIist. ana Rev. FIR. PhclIn uf
St Bernard's Catholic church. have each
written letters to the MethebeScc club.
cordially endorsing the project Of 4 cur
few law for RocklInd.
Rev. ". H. Nickerson, who recently
rendered his resignation as pastor of
the Baptist church of South Portland
Heights. has, at the earnest desire Of
his parishioners. reconsidered, ana will
remain with the church another year.
The cornerstone of the Free Baptist
charel At East Franklin will be laid
the town will hold Il rally 1T thu church
at that time. Rev. George II. Salley,
pastor OF the Free BAPTIST church at
Ellsworth, will deliver the address.
There Will be a supper in the evening
Rev. DR.. J. q. Sawyer, editor az the
Northern Christian Advocate. who is be-
ing urged by friends in Albany and Troy.
in both Of which cities he formerly re-
sided for election 10 the board Of bishops
at the coming session Of the general con
ference Of the Methodist church, was
pastor of the Beacon street church in
Bath from 1866 to 'GN.
The services at the Foss Street Mctho-
dist church. BiddefOrd, sunday, We're of
exceptional interest. 4 sacramental SER
vice was held in the morning at which
two persons We're received into tull men,
bership. In the AFTERNOON, Miss Emily
Harvey Of CaWnporc India, delivered an
inspiring address To a good sized audi
ence. ana fourteen now members We're
added to the local auxiliary OF the WOm-
ans Foreign Missionary society.
Rev H. A. Roberts who has been pas
tor Of the Baptist church at Paris Till
for more than four years, read his reSiE-
nation on Sunday, to take effect the first
of May, having accepted call to the
passionate of the Baptist church in New
ShOreham. II. H., on BLOCK island, fifteen
miles out to sea. 1t Is church Of nearly
four hundred members, and with large
congregations. particularly in the sum
mer season. the place being largely pat
ronized resort, says the oxford Demo-
crat.
The Methodist society at Madison is
already making plans for rebuilding.
Subscription papers are being circulat-
ed and friends from away are being
solicited for assistance. The insurance
was adjusted by reduction of $50 from
the face of the policy. The parts left
standing will be sold for the best offer
and an entirely new structure, on 4
more modern plan and larger will take
the place of the church recently
burned.