The Republican journal., 1901-01-24
THE CHURCHES.

Meetings will be held at the Peoples Mis-
sion in the Frye school house. Miller street.
every Saturday evening at O'Clock. All
are welcome.
Mrs. A. r. Craig of Boston will hold Cos
pei meetings at So High street every night
at 7.15, and Sunday at 2.30. until further
notice.
Morning service at the Unitarian church
next Sunday at 1915 A. M, with sermon by
the pastor. Rev. j. NJ. Leighton; Sunday
school at - M: Young Peoples meeting at 5
o'clock
Services at the list Parish church (Uni-
tarian) next Sunday at 1915 a. M, with SER
mon by the pastor; subject, ''The Transient
and the Permanent in Religions" Sunday
school at 70 M; young peoples meeting at
5 p. m.
| The executive committee of the Universal
| list State Convention was in session Jan.
18th at the Elm House, Lewiston. It is
understood that the committee decided that
the place of meeting of the next convention
will be in Bangor.
The subject of Rev. G. E. Edgett's ser
mon at the Methodist church next Sunday
forenoon will be "The eccentricities of
religion" Other services will be as usual.
except the evening service, which will be
omitted on account Of the Sunday schoo
rally.
Services.at the Universalist church next
| In fn11OWS at ii
regular service, preaching by the pastor,
Rev. Ashley A. Smith; at II M, Sunday
school at 6 rs p. M. young peoples meeting
topic "Our Future Church" A cordial
invitation is extended to all.
Dr. Nathaniel Butler, president of Colby
College, occupied the pulpit of the Baptist
church last Sunday and gave two very ex-
eellent sermons to large congregations. Dr..
Butler is pleasing speaker and has a fine
presence, which adds much to his forceful
thoughts. Rev. /. N. Halliday will occupy
the pulpit next Sunday morning.
The subject of the weekly prayer meeting
at the North church this, Thursday, evening
will be, ''No substitute for the Gospel
Luke 15:1-5 Sunday services will be as
follows: preaching by the pastor, Rev. Geo.
S. Mills, at 1915 a. m. Sunday school at
T. m. ; conservation meeting of the Y. P. S.
G. f. at els p m, subject, "My faVOrite
promise and why
The regular evening services at the
Methodist. Baptist and Congregational
churches will be omitted next Sunday on ac-
count of the Union Sunday School rally in
the Methodist vestry. l. n. Halliday, field
worker of the Maine State Sunday School
Association, will deliver the address. The
meeting will open at $50 o'clock All who
are interested in Sunday school work are in
vited.
Rev. Robert G. Harbutt of SearSport, Me-,
who has accepted the call to the pastorate of
the Free church, Congregational, of Morrills
and the North Deering Congregational
church, is to assume the duties of the re-
Spective pastorates early in February. Mr..
l1arbutt has supplied these pulpits two or
three times during the past few weeks, and
| has been we'll liked, so that the societies at
a recent meeting extended him the call
which he has just accepted. Mr.. Harbutt is
a man apparently over 40 years of age, and
South Pacific ocean, his parents being locat-
ed there at the time as missionaries. Mr.
Harbutt was educated in England and pre-
pared for the ministry at Aucdale indie
pendent (CongregatonaD now known as
the Yorkshire United college under Dr. A.
NJ. Fairbain, generally esteemed among the
first Of the living theologians, (and now of
Mansfield college, Oxford) Mr.. Harbutt
was ordained to the ministry in 1883 in the
Cathedral City Of Ripony, England, and
held this pastOrate three years, when he was
called to the passionate of the Searsport, Me-,
church. where he has been successfully
located for the past IA years. Mr.. Harbutt
the Rev. Chas. Harbutt, representative of
the Maine Missionary society. Portland
Press.