Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-07-30
PsIfect Weather and T inc
Audiences in Attendance.
Saturday and Sunday Exercises
of Unusual Interest.
prnsam for he Wesk-..Scores Of Tho
Two Baseball Games.

"Tbe Pines" Hinckley. Me-. July 20.
-fSpeciaD .-Whatever may be the
weather conditions of the remainder of
the week at "The Pines" the atmos-
nbere and consequent cheerfulness and
enthusiasm was certainly exceptional
during Saturday and Sunday.
on Sunday morning in particular the
morning train brought scores of visi-
TORS who knew no better opportunity
for comfort and refreshment than what
this beautiful retreat offered. The at
mosphere was actually cool. A continu-
al succession Of balsam-Scentedb reeZes
we're waited through the tall pines to
the delight, of hundreds whether they
banpened to be seated in the Dunn Me-
motial building or upon some gnarled
root of the forest. Back of the places
of worship and the tents and cottages
we're comfortable horses tethered apart
fro,n the family groups which were en-
loving all of the comforts OF a New
England summer day.
The program of Saturday, with the
execution of the baseball game and
tennis matches, was of a routine ma
turc, combining religious study and
teachings with physical recreations.
The baseball game in which the visi-
tors tied with the Good Wills Satur-
day afternoon together with the score
of the previous day is given below.
There were surely 100 visitors in at
tendance at the Sunday services. These
were the official opening of the annual
assembly and before the sermon of the
morning by Rev. J. i. Wilson, D. D.,
pastor of the Free STREET Baptist
church of Portland, Rev. G. w. Hinck-
ley on behalf Of the assembly, stated Il
few facts connected with the inStitu-
ton which. although not new to the
hearers, nevertheless were of special
significance at that particular time.
After stating that the Good Will Assem-
bly, was Il distinct organization from
that of the Good Will Home for Boys
and reviewing briefly the history of the
former he explained that the donor and
the benefactor gentleman who had
made it possible by the purchase OF the
80 acres of timberland given the sum
Of about $4,000 for the erection OF the
main building on the grounds, the Dunn
Memorial building or auditorium, ne
stated that the real founder, Walter NJ.
Smith. being at the present time brok-
en in health, could not keep the assem-
bly, supplied as in former years with the
necessary funds for its maintenance
and that hereafter the assembly would
I,a IN -
Ct about $500 per year for the payment
Of insurance, the care of the grounds
etc. These remarks were closed Win
an appeal to those who were willing To
lend their sympathies to the cause.
After several selections and Sol'
rendered by Harper G. Smythe. kcV
]. X Wilson, D. D., of Portland gave
n very practical talk from a text found
In Nehemiah, Wiz, taking for his
theme The Value of Faithfulness. IL.
depicted as the ideal man for any bus
mess pursuit in which a young mar
is called to serve his fellow men mar
in whom strict confidence could IL
placed. He said that the great need
which was growing greater with each
passing generation was for reliable
men. Tracing the attributes which sc
to form such a character he named
modesty as one Of the prime clements
"a man who is asking people 10 no
tice his good works and his worth In
terms of character is the man above al
who should be observed, and observed
with suspicion. The man who Is capa
Bile of working Independently Of self
praise or self-aggrandizement is tht
!, man, above all men needed to help solve
: the political problems of the presen
day; the man who can keep his sense
of loyalty above the offers of tainted
money, in other words. the man wh'
values his unspotted character abov'
? material benefits. THE pressing neeG
z of such men he illustrated as exist
ing. not only in practical business lii
but in religious engagements and per
suits. The closing truth which h
pressed home to show the value of sucl
character and how it may be obtaine.
was That no man can be true to hi
responsibilities in life without having
by mental and spiritual discipline
worked out of himself a quality o
truth which as its original it's funda
mental Truth as illustrated in the Ri
BILE. Such man who cannot be faith
full to the God-given ideals of his ma
ture, cannot be one in whom confidence
may be placed in performing the du
ties of life"
The sermon of the afternoon wa
preached by Rev G. w. Hincklev. This
like its predecessor, was a sympathcti
appeal to the boys and was made forcibl
by the powerful personality of the ma
whose entire life and actions are a con
tinual stimulus to the youth whose pleas
ure and work it is for him to keep unde
the environments of proper discipline
The theme of the talk was taken froY
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