The Republican journal., 1901-05-09
THE CHURCHES.

| The annual meeting of the Methodist
church was postponed from May 9Th, one
week.
| Sunday school social in the vestry of the
Universalist church on Friday evening, at
$50. Admission five cents.
The anniversary exercises of the Bangor
Theological Seminary will be held Tuesday
and Wednesday, May 14th and 18th.
The East Belfast Christian Endeaver. So
ciety will meet with Edmund Ames, Thurs
day, May 23d, instead of the regular day,
which falls on Memorial Day.
Rev. G. w. Hnckley of Good Will Farm
will occupy the pulpit at the Baptist church
next Sunday. In the evening he will give
his interesting steropticon lecture, "The
Boys l have Known" Other services Of
the week are as usual.
| The Epworth League anniversary, which
was to have been held at the Methodist
church next Sunday, is postponed to some
Sunday in June. The speaker who was ex-
pected is unable to come. The services al
| the church next Sunday will be as usual.
! 1uc IOplC VI Guc Hlu-WCCh PA0yCl MCCJ
ing at the North church this, Thursday,
evening will be "The PROCESS of Christian
| Character" The Sunday services will in
clude: Morning worship, with sermon by
the pastor, at .45 A. M; c. f. meeting at
6.15 p. NJ; topic, "Practice Christianity"
l John 3:l4-1S
| The services at the Universalist church
next Sunday will be as follows: at 10 A. NJ,
regular service, preaching by the pastor ;
| subject, The Five Points of the New TheOl-
ogy; at u NJ, Sunday school; at 615 P. M,
Young Peoples meeting; topic, Universal
| Salvation; at 7.30 P. NJ, vesper service, with
| address b; Mr.. Charles S. Bickford subject,
, Business, as a Profession for Young Men
and Women. Mrs E. S. Pitcher will sing,
and there will be other special music A
cordial invitation is extended to all.
The Maine Association of Liberal Chris
tian ministers held meeting at the Fal-
mouth hotel, Portland, May 1st. The fol
lowing members were present: Rev. Henry
Blanchard, d. D., Rev. j. NJ. Atwood, Rev.
H. Townsend, Rev. W. W. Hooper, Rev. j.
! c. Perkins of Portland; Rev. A B. Hewey,
Phi. D. of Bath Rev. C. A Hayden of Au-
gusta; Rev. W. F. Skerrye of Saco. Prayer
was offered by Rev. A. B. Hewey of Bath
Rev. A. G. Pettengill then read paper on
'sThe Riddle of the Universe" by Prof.
Ernst Haeckel. This was followed by a
paper on 1.-The Purpose of Preaching by
! Rev. c. A. Hayden of Augusta.
4 no Of bo hich
ops of the Methodist Episcopal church con-
vened at Portland May 1st for weeks ses-
sion The meetings were private, their
purpose being to converse upon matters
concerning the churches and make plans
for the work during the coming six months.
! The bishops present at the first days meet
| ing were: Andrews of New York, Bowman
of New Jersey, Merrill of Illinois, Warren
of Colorado, Foss of Pennsylvania, Hurst
of Washington, Mallalieu of Massachusetts,,
Fowler of New York, Fitzgerald of Mis-
souri,, Joyce of Minnesota, Goodsell of Ten
neSSee, CranstOn of Oregon, Hamilton of
California, and Taylor of New York.
Rev. A. 7. Dunn, D. d., of Waterville
preached at the Baptist church last Sunday
morning, after which the ordinance of bap-
tism was administered to eight candidates.
At 3 P. NJ the Lords supper was admins
tered and the right hand of fellowship was
given to those who were baptized. In the
evening the Brotherhood of Andrew and
Philip held an anniversary meeting with
the following exercises:
Invocation.
Responsive reading
Hymn, ''Dear Saviour, we would raise our
tiOn in 1889.
"What is Brotherhood Day?"
Hosea W. Rhoades, President
Solo, Emery F. White
Prayer, Rev. A. T. Dunn
Hymn, GLORIOUS things of thee are spoken"
"Our own chapter
Frank Black, Secretary
"Our feld,' Geo. II. Robertson,
of membership committee.
Hymn, Awake, young men, to action"
dedicated to the parent chapter.
sour methods Fred PendletOn
"Our weapons, Frank Condor
Address, 'sOur Allegiance
Rev. A. 7. Dunn
Hymn, Glove divine
Greeting from the president of the Federal
Council, read by Harry Simpson.
Hymn, "Blest be the tie
BenedictiOn.
At the annual meeting of the Unitarian
parish, held on Monday last, the following
officers were chosen: Moderator, Hon. Will
liam B. Swan; clerk, Joseph Williamson !;
treasurer, William II. Quimby; collector,
Miss Inez f. Crawford; standing commit
tee, William B. Swan, Charles B. Hazel
tine, William c. Marshall, H. f. Mcdonald,
Charles w. Frederick and James Fl. HOwes
1t was voted that arrangement for public re-
ligiOus services during the summer, be left
to the standing committee. The following
resolutions, presented by Hon. William C.
Marshall, were adopted:
Resolved, That the sudden death of our
beloved pastor, Rev. James NJ. Leighton,
has brought to every member of this Parish
feeling of personal bereavement and a
grief impossible adequately to express in
words. His eight years of faithful service
as pastor had endeared lim to all and had
established relations of personal friendship
and affection which will always be cher
| iShed.
/ He was true man, faithful in all his du-
ties as pastor or friend, warm hearted, ever
ready to help and encourage others, broad
minded and charitable. He strOve to make
/ men better and nObler and his influence
| pervaded the life of all with whom he came
in contact. The loss to his mourning parish