Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-04-04
CHURCH AND PASTOR.
Late Items of Interest in Maine ReIie-
ious Circles.

| Rev. Donald Fraser of Old Town. has
organized a Universalist society at
Wytopitlock.
| Work will be begun Immediately on
the building of a Unitarian church at
Houlton.
| The Universalist church of Sanger
| Vile. has extended a unanimous call
to Rev. A. NJ. Bradley to remain for
the fourth year.
| The meeting house of the First Bap-
| fist church. Cherryfield, erected in 1874,
will undergo extensive repairs this
season.
| The repairs and improvements on the
/ Baptist church, Dexter, are being
pushed rapidly in order to use the
church for the Easter services.
| The new pipe organ recently pur-
| chased for the Baptist church at
Springvale is expected to be ready for
| use at the Easter services.
The Bethany church parish in South
cortland have voted not to accept the
| resignation of the pastor, Rev. Adrian
T. June.
The Baptist church in Warren ex-
poets to use it's new baptistery April
26. Three candidates have been re-
ceived and others are expected soon.
Preliminary preparations have been
completed for finishing off the base
mcnt of the Congregational church,
Pressure Isle, upon which $1,000 will be
expended.
Rev. FIR. Flanagan, assistant pastor
of the Catholic church at Calais, has
been appointed assistant to Rev. FIR.
Wallace of st. Patrick's Catholic
church. Lewiston.
The June meeting of the Oxford
Universalist Association will meet
with the Andover church, and at the
same time will take place the dedica-
ton of the new church.
The ordination of Alexander
Rheaume of Biddeford to the priest
hood. will take place at the seminary
at Sherbrook, p O., April 10. Father
Rheaume will celebrate his first mass
at st. Andrews church, Biddeford,
April IA.
Rev. Stephen Herbert Green of Ips-
witch, Mass, has recently been APP
pointed by the Right Rev. Robert Cod
man Of Portland, bishop of Maine, as
rector of ST. Saviour's Episcopal
church at Bar Barhor to fill the va
cancy caused by the resignation in
September of the Rev. William Osborn
Baker.
1t is understood that Rev. Richard
Owen. who for eight years was pastor
of the Bar Harbor Congregational
church. has applied for holy orders in
| the Episcopal church. Mr.. Owen re-
| signed from the Bar Harbor church
| last fall and went to Chicago with
view, it is said, of doing some kind Of
| literary work.
| The Baptist church at Brooksville
will observe the seventy-fifth ami
versary of the society May 21st. The
exercises will be held both afternoon
and evening in the church, the pro-
gram for which is now being arranged
| by a committee of which f. S. Herrick,
| M. D.. is chairman. The afternoon will
be devoted largely to social purposes,
including the reading of historical
papers and letters from former clergy
men and absent members. The eve
ming will be devoted to an address by a
j prominent Baptist clergyman, in the
| State or out.
| Bangor Theological Seminary is in
| most fiourishing condition, and pros
poets were never brighter. There are
| at present % students and a large en-
| tering class is being looked forward to
| this fall Tie buildings are all in the
| best of condition, and the library has
| been placed on better footing than
1t ever has been before. through the
| efforts of Miss Carrie Smythe Green,
| the efficient librarian. This library is
one Of the largest and most complete
of any theological school in the coun-
| try. Commencement week this year
will begin May 10 with examinations.
The program as it has been arranged
| will be an unusually elaborate one and
1t is hoped that a greater number of
| alumni will be back than usual. Prof.
Henry L. Chapman of Bowdoin Col
lege will deliver the address to the
graduates. Prof. Henry w. Hubert,
d. D., will deliver his inaugural. and
an elaborate and fitting memorial to
| the late Rev. DR.. Levi l.. Paine has
been written.