The Republican journal., 1901-05-30
THE CHURCHES.

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Rev. g. E. Edgett will preachsat. Poor's
Mills next Sunday afternoon at 2.30 O'Clock.
There will be services at the Unitarian |
church two Sundays in June, the dates to !
be announced later.
Rev. c. E. Owen of Waterville will occupy |
the Baptist pulpit next. Sunday. Other
services will be as usual.
The State Congregational Conference will
be held in Bangor, Sept. 23d and oath. An
interesting program is being prepared.
Meetings will be held at the Peoples Mis-
sion in the Frye schoolhouse, Miller street,
every Saturday evening at o'clock. All
are welcome. a.,
The Universalist State Convention will be
held at Bangor June 8, and 5 The Boston
and Bangor S. S. Co. will sell a round
trip ticket for one fare, good from June to
8. Those wishing to attend can go from any
landing on the river.
The Sunday services at the North church
will be as follows: Morning worship at 1O.45
with sermon by the pastor, Rev. George S.
Mills; Sunday school at r.. c. E. meeting
at $50 P. M; at 7.3O P. M, the pastor will
give the 10th lecture in the series on Great
Events in Church History; subject, The
Oxford Movement
The annual meeting of the Association of
Churches of God in Maine will be held on
Maple Grove campground, Searsport, begin
ming Thursday evening, June 9th, and
aOptin mo fbo S,,u
Services at the Universalist church next
Sunday will be as follows: At 1O45 a. H.,
| regular service, preaching by the pastor,
Rev. Ashley A. Smith; at IL M, Sunday
school; at 6.15 p M, young peoples meeting.
A cordial invitation is extended to ALL
"a Twentieth Century convention in
Maine, by Maine for Maine," is the name
under which the Maine State Epworth
league convention is to be held in Lewiston,
June 1928. Letters are being sent out to
all the secretaries of the league telling them
that they are entitled to three delegates at
the convention and that these will have free
entertainment. The session will be held in
Grace church. All of the speakers are to
be Maine men.
Rev. George E. Tufts of Islesboro gave
an informal talk of over an hour in the
Baptist vestry Wednesday evening, May
22nd, to the young men belonging to the
Brotherhood of Andrew and Philip. His
| subject was European Cathedrals. He
spoke of st. Paul's and Westminster Abbey
in London, describing the architecture of
those wonderful buildings, each covering
an area of nearly two acres, and containing
the remains of Englands illustrious dead
statesmen, warriors, poets and philOSo-
pliers. He gave an outline of sermon he
heard Archdeacon Farrar preach in the
Abbey to an audience of 5000; also of ser
mon by the Dean of Windsor in ST. Paul's.
He next took up the italian Cathedrals,
such as St. Marks in Venice, with its 500
marble columns, which once adorned ancient
temples in the East.and were brought toVen-
ice in the Eleventh century for St. Marks. He
then described the cathedrals in Milan,
Florence, Pisa and Rome. He mentioned
number of noted churches in Rome,
specially st. Peters, St. Lateron and St.
Paul without the walls.
AeCN. IL. y. llclIlCk IldS OCcupl6u Uno DAP
fist pulpit in this city many times, and has
numerous friends in Belfast who will be in
terested in the following paragraph from the
Boston Herald of Monday last:
Yesterday morning the letter of accept
ance from the Rev. Everett c. Herrick of
the Newton Theological Institution, who
has recently received call to the First Bap-
fist church at Charlestown, was read to the
members of that church. A letter of decli-
nation was also read to the members of the
Park Street Baptist church of South Franz
ingham, which had also called Mr.. Herrick
The latter's acceptance will place him in
charge of one of the Oldest churches in New
England He was born in Livermore, Me-,
and will be % years old this June He
graduated from Colby College with honors,
and then attended the Newton Theological
Seminary, from which he will graduate in
few weeks. For the last year he has also
been student at Harvard divinity school.
Mr.. Herrick has preached the last two sum-
mers at Mt Desert. Since October he has
also served as pastor at the Charlestown
church. Although his term of service in his
parish will begin in June, as he expects to
absent the greater norton of tho summer