The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1902-05-08
THE CHURCHES.
Rev. 6. E. Edgett will preach at Poor S
Mills next Sunday at go P NJ


| Mills next Sunday at go p. NJ.
If pleasant Sunday afternoon company
of young people from the Baptist church
| will go to Halls Corner to hold a gospel
meeting and organize a Sunday school,
The services at the Methodist Church
| next Sunday will be as follows: Preaching
| by the pastor at 1915 A. NJ; subject, "The
faithfulness of Cod Sunday school at u
NJ; Epworth League at 63oP. A. preaching
service at 7.30 P. NJ
! The list of appointments of the East
Maine Conference as published last week
| in the daily papers was largely inaccurate.
| The journal was enabled to print correct
| list through the courtesy of Rev. G. f.
! Edgett of the Belfast N. E. church
The anniversary exercises of the State
| Bible society will be held in the auditorium
of the Hammond Street Congregational
| Church, Bangor, Sunday evening, May 18th,
| when addresses will be delivered by Dr.
Dunn of Waterville, Prof Anthony of Bates
| college, and other we'll known speakers.
DR. H. X. Carroll, who has for many years
| collected and published the statistics of
| church membership in the United States,
reports the gain in 1901 to be only about two
and half per cent, and the rate of in
crease in the Catholic Church to be very
much more rapid than that of any Protes-
tant sect.
Rev. }. p. Simonton has been returned to
the Methodist church here for another year,
N hA r.ti e
the church and his many friends in the city.
Mr.. Slmonton is the first pastor of the Ellis
worth Methodist church who has been re-
turned for the fifth year. Mr.. Simonton re-
turned home from conference yesterday.
He spent Sunday in Rockland with his
mother, who passed her eighty-siXth birth
day on that ay.-EllSworth American
Prayer meeting at the North Church this,
Thursday, evening at 7.15; topic. GLOW
shall We aid the Holy Spirits Work sun
day service; Sermon by the pastor, Rev
&. 5. Mills, at 1913 a. M; subject, The
EXcellences of the Original Christians Sun
day school at - M c. f. meeting at go
p. m; topic, ")esus, the Living Bread"
John Goo So, 1919; address by the pastor
at 80 p. M. subject, ''A Noble Treatment
of an Enemy"
The morning. service at the Unitarian
Church at 10 10 o'clock next Sunday will be
as follows: Preaching by the pastor: sub
Ject: The MaccabeeS' the second of the
series of four sermons for May based upon
the pre-Christian thought and history: /,
The story of Jonah !; >, The Maccabees: 3,
The Messiah; I, THE Kingdom of Heaven
OF Jesus. The Browning class will meet at
the home of Albert NJ. Carter Tuesday
evening, May 18th, at 1-15 O'Clock The
Bible class will meet at the parsonage sat
urday evening at rs O'Clock All are most
cordially invited
The services at the IniyerSalist Church
next Sunday, will be as follows: At lo:45
a M, regular service: preaching by the
pastor; subject, ''liope" Text, Cor l:':1';
at II III, Sunday school and Bible class at
80 p. m, service of song; singing led by
violin and cornet. Special music by quar-
tette, Mrs j. H. Weboer, soprano Miss Ada
cunningham, contrlIto; Mr.. Ed. White,
tenor; Mr.. Frank Mixer, bass. Ten minute
address by the pastor. Please note the
change in time of this service. This song
service is for all, and cordial invitation is
extended to all.
The Brotherhood Of Andrew and Philip
celebrated Brotherhood day at the Baptist
Church last Sunday evening. The church
was prettly decorated with an abundance
OF evergreen, bunting and potted plants \
large chorus of Young men furnished music,
accompanied by the organ, violin and flute.
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department work of the chapter and
Clarence Hall gave an address on the Broth
erhood in the church both doing themselves
credit. The pastor spoke on the Wider
Brotherhood. The service closed with the
baptism of -four persons, including a cand-
date for the Morrill, Baptist Church.
Seed and Soil is the topic for the weekly
social meeting at the Baptist Church this,
Thursday, evening. The Sunday service
will include reaching by the pastor morn
ing and evening, on The Preciousness of
Trial and a Question of Neglected Escape
The Sunday school will hold its session at
noon. There will be a gospel meeting for
men and boys at $50 p. Nj. The Christian
Endeavor Society and the Women's Circle
will hold meetings at $50 p. NJ. A service
OF praise, with short sermon by the pastor
and singing by Mrs. Frost, will follow at 80
p. NJ. A cordial invitation is extended to all
Monday evening at 10 there will be meet
ing to which all girls and young women are
invited. The Christian Endeavor Society
will hold its monthly sociabe Tuesday even
ing between and $50 p. NJ.