The Republican journal., 1906-10-18
THE CHURCHES.

The regular services will be held at the
Universalist church next Sunday. The
subject of the morning sermon will &c
Browning's "Pippa Passes"
The regular morning service will be held
at the Unitarian church next Sunday, con-
Quoted by Rev. Edward B. Magla,hlin of
West Bridgewater, Mass. Sunday school
at noon. All are most cordially invited.
There will be services in the chapel at
East Northport next Sunday at l.so p. m.,
with preaching by the pastor. Rev. G. G..
Winslow. Sunday school at 400 m. At
80 p. M. there will be services in the
Brainard schoolhouse.
The North church Y. P. {. E. are to have
"Seven Social at the church parlors
Wednesday evening, October 2ith, at ,.is
O'Clock. Admission cents. Every seventh
person admitted free. All the young peo-
pie OF the parish and their friends are cor
daily invited.
The services for the week at the North
Congregational church will be as follows
Junior c. E. meeting Thursday at $50 p.
m. morning worship Sunday at 1.45 a. m. ;
Sunday school at II nj. c. f. meeting Sun
day at $50 p, m.; evening worship Sunday
at 100 p. N.
Sunday, Oct, 2Sth, will be Rally Day in
the Methodist Sunday school. There vii.
be special music and an appropriate sermon
by the pastor, with report of the State
Sunday school convention. Ii will be a
home gathering day TO all the friends OF the
Sunday school.
Next Sunday will be 'Old Peoples Day"
at the Methodist church and the services
will be under the direction of the young
people. Sermon to the aged at 1915 by the
pastor, followed by the sacrament Of the
Lords supper. sunday school at noon :;
Gospel praise service at 80 p. m. All seats
free. and the public cordially invited.
At the Baptist church next Sunday there
will BE preaching service at 1045 a, NJ. !;
Sunday scheol at noon; mems meeting at
8. so p. m. Christian Endeavor conservation
service at $50 p. NJ. Gospel praise service
at $50 p. m. The seats are free, and an
invitation is extended to all. President
Charles L. White of Colby College will oc-
cupy the pulpit morning and evening.
The Maine Advent Christian Sunday
School Association met in its sixteenth an
! nual convention Wednesday, Oct 10th. with
the A. c. Church of Dover and Foxcroft.
Officers were elected as follows: Presi-
dent, Rev. j. F. Clothey of Auburn; First
Vice President, T. j. Coolbrooth of Rich
! u 4 Erio
son of Dover; Third Vice President, Rev.
B. W. CorlisS; Secretary and Treasurer,
Flora F. Ham of Bridgton.
The program of the rally day exercises of
the Baptist Sunday school last Sunday in
cluded selections by the SaXophone Quar-
tet, music and exercises by the school and
the primary department, and talks by the
pastor, Rev. t. 5. Philbrook, and others,
on "The Relation of the Sunday School to
the Church. The First Sunday School,
"Sunday School Beginning" and present
Day Sunday Schools" The officers OF the
school are: Superintendent, Charles Z.
Rhoades assistant, Alton X. Braley; Secre-
tary, Mrs. Mary Robertson, treasurer,
| Gerald W. Howard; librarian, Earl Talbot.
\ correspondent of the Boston Globe fur
nisheS the following interesting sketch Of a
we'll known citizen in connection with the
exercises:
One teacher in the school, Deacon Nath-
aniel Emery Keen. has been teacher of the
same class Ior more than Al years, and is.
without doubt, the dean OF the Sunday
school teachers of Waldo county. He is a
native OF Freedom, and joined the Baptist
church in the adjoining town of Knox in
1851.
He moved to Belfast in 1859, and transfer
red his church membership at once. Two
years later he was appointed teacher of a
class of large boys. and that class has
proved continuous. In some families three
generations have been in ~ ncle Emery's'
class, and there are now on the books two
members who have been enrolled there
more than 80 years.
Since Mr. Keen began teaching he has
seen complete revolution in Sunday school
methods. In his early days the pupil was
required to learn and repeat verbatim long
passages of Scriptures, and to learn "by
heart the answers to the questions in the
catechlsm.
BY gradual transition this method has
changed until the pupil learns not only the
language of the lesson, but the geography
and history of the countries studied, as
we'll as the botany, geology, and many
other matters pertaining to il full under
standing Of the subject MIR. Keen thinks
that the Sunday school worker of 40 years
,, hence will look back on the methods of to-
day as even more strange than we consider
| those of his early labors.
Mr.. keen's wife eQualled his record so
long as her health permitted, retiring from
the work about three years ago. Up to
that time she had class OF young women,
which, like that of her husband, was con-
tinous, and which included three cousecu-
tive generations in a number of families.
a reunion of the pupils of the classes Of
"Uncle Emery" and "Aunt Louise would
bring together IA crowded house.
Secret Marriage.