Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-04-18
MAINE NEWS IN BRIEF

where he will take charge of the church
on Sunday, April rs. He preached his
, farewell sermon Easter and on Sunday
April 10, will present his confirmation
| class to the bishop.
Mrs. Sarah K. Taylor of Rockland
who is the worlds president of the
| Home and Foreign Missionary society
| of the Advent Christian denomination
| is now engaged in raising a fund for
building a school for orphan girls,
| which will be located a short distance
from Madras, India. The school for
| orphan boys, which Mrs. Taylor pro-
jected some time ago, has been built
and is being carried on successfully.
| The fund for the school for orphan girls
! is rapidly increasing, and already its
size is sufficient to insure the ultimate
success of the undertaking.
On Wednesday afternoon, April s, the
people at West Brooklin dedicated their
new chapel free of debt. Order of SER
vice: Praise service; invocation, Rev.
C. L. Buckingham, North Sedgwick;
scripture reading, Rev. w. H. Y. Book,
Brooklin; prayer, Rev. E. K. Drew,
South Penobscot; report of building
committee, Lucius Bridges, West
Brooklin: dedicatory sermon, Rev. E.
s. Drew. Sedgwick; dedicatory prayer.
Rev. r. L. Odds. Bluehill. Appropriate
remarks were made by Rev. r. L. Olds,
Rev. E. K. Drew, Rev. C. L. Bucking-
ham, Rev. w. H. Y. Book. An offering
amounting to $13.45 was then taken to
help the people purchase an organ for
their chapel. Close with benediction
by Rev. E. S. Drew.
During Rev. c. w. Bradlees six
years pastorate of the Foss street
Methodist church, Biddeford, 70 persons
have been admitted on probation and 81
into full membership. By death or
other removal the church has lost 6S
members. Mr.. Bradlee has baptized IS
infants, 10 children and A adults. He
has performed 10 marriage ceremonies
and attended 157 funerals. During the
six years the church, besides meeting
its current expenses each year, has
raised for church benevolences and To-
cal charities more than $4,000. The
church property, both the building and
the parsonage, has been greatly i'm
proved at a cost aggregating several
hundred dollars and at the present
time the society has no debt on any of
its property.
A meeting of great Importance to all
Sunday school workers in Washington
county will be held in Machias on
Monday, June 8th. Several months ago
measures were taken to insure Sunday
school help for every county in Maine,
some primary and junior
worker. To undertake this important
work arrangements were made with
Mrs. Alonzo Petit, president of the
State Primary and Junior Council of
New Jersey. and member of the execu-
tive committee for that state of the
primary department of the Tenth In
ternational Sunday-school convention.
General Secretary Edward A. Mason of
the Maine State Sunday school Asso-
citation will accompany Mrs. Petit on
her tour and assist in the institutes
which will be held in every county in
tGe State. Arrangements for the Wash
ington county institute, which will be
held at Machias, are now being made
by committee of local Sunday-school
workers. If the present plan be carried
out the two sessions will be held, one in
the forenoon and the other in the after
noon.