Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-06-04

| oiliy eiSht VI nine more are thought
OF with small debts. All may feel well
satisfied over the situation.
Mrs. Sarah DeShon of Canton. left
$500 TO WeStbrook Seminary and S1OO to
| the Canton church, in care of the con-
veLtion. Miss EveIine p. KimbaII left
a trust fund to the Biddeford narish in
the name of her sister, Dorcas Kimball.
Of $500. She had given, while living.
! $500 to the same fund, making $1,000 i'm
| all. Miss kimball also left to the state
Convention, her pastor reports, $500 in
| her sisters name in trust, the income
| to go to the F'ryeburg church. To be
! paid July l. one thousand dollars has
| been given to WeStbrook Seminary by
one of its trustees. Two thousand dol
lars has been received by the Gardiner
parish, from the estate of Joshua Gray
Mrs. Frank Jones of Woodfords. left
$1,000 or $4,000 to the Woodfords church
Mrs. Frances II. Haines, ever generous,
gives handsome new organ to the
Biddeford church, the largest organ in
York county and with but few in the
State better. The generosities of our
good people toward our church are
constant and growing A new bell has
j
costing s430. Rev. Miss ii. j. Powell is
the helpful pastor. At Brunswick,
where Rev. DR.. Whitman is having a
very successful pastorate, in all $ll35
has been paid out in improvements and
by fall it will all be paid. Bridgton.
Rev. II. A. Philbrook, pastor, has paid
s25S.52 on the church; Gardiner, $44, !
Rev. w. +. Small, pastor; Guilford, !
$161.51; Winthrop, Rev. S. Walker, |
pastor, $l65. Rev. NJ. b. Townsend has |
started meetings regularly, every other |
Sunday, at West Peru, which are well |
attended and promising. Rev. Donald /
Wytopitlock, where no Universalist |
services had ever been known. He has
organized Ladies' Circle and a Sun
day school, and the schoolhouse is well
filled at his preaching services.
In the executive committees report
is incorporated the report of the State
missionary, Rev. w. w. Hooper of
Deering. This official has spent con-
siderable time III South Paris and other
places during the year, and reports en-
couraging growth of the church in
North Fryeburg, Hiram, Madison,
North Anson, South Portland, Win
throp, Readfcld, Skowhegan, Rumford
Falls, Mechanic Falls, Turner Center,
Oakland. Lvcrmore Falls, Machias and
Richmond.
The committee concludes its report by
presenting the following recommended
tions:
1st Recommendation is made that |
your present plans and methods of mis-
sionary and church extension work, in
Guiding the employment of State mis-
sionary, be continued.
I'd. Recommendation is made that
Rev. w. w. Hooper be employed as
State missionary another year at the
same salary and on the same cOndi-
tions as before.
I'd. Recommendation is made that |
the usual quotas be assessed.
4th Recommendation is made that |
the w. II. NJ s., the S. S. Convention |
and the Y. z. G. IT,, be asked to con
tinue the aid so faithfully given from
year to year.
The report of the treasurer, nj. B. |
Coolidge, shows the financial condition |
of the convention to be excellent, with
a marked improvement over one year
ago.
Following the report of the treasurer, |
Miss Alice Blanchard spoke for the |
Woman's Universalst Missionary So |
ciety. The report showed large in |
crease in the resources of the society |
and Il great awakening of interest. |
The missionary spirit of the denomina-
ton may be judged from the fact that |
9S per cent of the amount assessed |
for this purpose by the denomination |
in the State has already been paid. !
Nothing speaks higher for the pros
pcrity of a body of this kind than the |
promptness with which funds are
raised for it's work, and the Univer |
SaliSts have reason to be especially |
proud of this record. Rev. T.. w. Web |
Der of Hallowell, spoke for the Sunday |
school convention. The condition of
the Sunday school is very encouraging. |
There was an increase of 500 in the |
total enrolment, last year, and the re-
ports already indicate as large an in |
crease this wear Mr.. Webbcr closed