The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1906-11-22
THE CHURCHES.

InC O1UkOI1CS.
The Unitarian church has received a let
ter from Rev. Adolph Rossbach of Detroit,
Mich, accepting the call to their pastOrate.
The regular services will be held at the
Universalist church next Sunday. The
subject of the morning sermon will be
Kipling's "Recessional" "a Thanksgiving
sermOn.)
Meetings are held at the Union Rescue
Mission, 5S High street, every Wednesday,
Saturday and Sunday evening at 7.3O
standard time, and Sunday afternoon at 2
O'Clock, standard.
There will be services in the Chapel at
East NorthpOrt Sunday, Nov. 25, at 80 a.
m., with sermon by the pastor, Rev. G. G.
Winslow. Sunday school at 11.30 a. m.
Services in the Wood schoolhouse at 2 p. m.
Rev. Fl. B. Haskell, presiding elder of the
Bucksport District, will preach at the
Methodist church next Sunday morning.
Sunday school at noon. At 730 in the even
ing the Worlds Temperance Sunday will be
observed
The services next Sunday at the Baptist
church will be as follows: preaching by the
pastor, Rev. E. S. Philbrook, at 10.45 a. ILL., !,
sermon topic, The Most Mastery Motive;
Sunday school at noon; mems meeting at
$50 p. m. Christian Endeavor service at
$50 p. m. illustrated discourse, The Pas
sion and Glory of Our Lord, at 7.3O p. m.
All are 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 0.45 a. m. Sum
day school at II m. c. E. meeting Sunday
at $50 p. NJ, subject; "What Christian
Endeavor is doing in Mission Lands"
evening worship at 73O.
Announcement is made that the next an
nual convention of the COngregationalists
of Maine will be held in Hallowell the place
of the birth of the denomination in this
State, on the anniversary of the Maine mis-
sionary society in 1907. A committee from
the Old South church has been appointed to
make arrangements for the convention to be
held in June.
At the meeting of the North church sew
ing circle, held with Miss Anne V. Field
last Tuesday afternoon, Miss Mabel r.
Mathews gave very interesting report of
the recent convention of the Women's
Board of Missions h cid in Portland,
which she attended.
The Worlds Temperance Sunday will be
observed at the Methodist church next
Sunday evening at 73O with the following
program:
Anthem, Praise the Lord, Church choir
Hymn, ssTo the Rescue Congregation
Tidings from the Field, Rev. J. ". Hatch
Who is Responsible, Miss Hattie Roberts
Lncoln's Message, Chas. G. Coombs
Hymn, Congregation
Awake O Church of God,
Miss Lillian Spinney
Is it Right? Mr.. Samuel DuroSt
Duet, Thy will be Done,
Mr.. Pettengill, Miss Spnney.
Which shall it be? Miss Mildred Mason
Hymn, America, Congregation
Benediction.
The service will be under the manage
ment of the Sd vice president of the Ep-
worth League. Seats free and public in
vited.
Rev. NJ. c. Andrews of Searsport will
preach at the Union Rescue Mission, IS
High street, this Thursday evening, at 7.3O
p. m.
Sunday, Nov. 18th was observed as the
10th anniversary OF the opening of the mis-
sion at IS High street. with sermon ap-
propriate to the occasion by Mrs. Willis E.
| Hamilton, local worker, followed by a
| testimony meeting. The mission was lately
reorganized as the Union rescue mission,
under the charge of Mr.. and Mrs. John A.
| Patterson, formerly mission workers in Bos-
ton and vicinity. 1t was started as the Cos
| pei mission in the Haraden building,
| Church street, by Rev. j. F. Hazel and wife,
| Nov. Is, 1896, and was moved the following
| year to the present rooms. Meetings were
| held on four evenings week and on Sun
| days. Tent meetings in summer were be-
gun in 1901 and continued to this year,
| There have been numerous workers and
many converts have been made. In October,
this year, the mission was reorganized,
the name changed, and the rooms thor
Sunday afternoons at O'Clock and We'd
nesday and Saturday evenings at 7:3o:
John A. Patterson is a veteran of the Civil
war, having served in Co. H., of the 10Th
Maine infantry. After the war he worket
as farmer and for a time drove mail
| StdSe over tHG Dledk Hills UcGWecH DcudSt
and Freedom. He then moved to a farm in
Liberty, and with his wife began missionary
work in the nearby towns of Appleton and
Washington. The meetings were held in
the schoolhouses. At the beginning of
their work in Appleton they found but two
protesting Christians, man and his wife,
and in the revival which followed so per.
sons were converted, II at one series of
meetings and Is at another. In Washing
ton there had been no meetings in the
neighborhood for seven years. and the first
series of meetings resulted in 26 converts.
From Liberty they moved to North Cam
bridge, Mass, where they continued their
work, holding cottage meetings at their
home. They were also connected. with the
Washington and Dover-st missions and
the Bethany mission in Alston.. They are
members of the First Pentecostal church in
| Somer e.-Correspondence Boston Globe.
THE PEARY EXPEDITION.
| Letter From Engineer Wardwell of the
| Roosevelt.
| The following is taken from a letter re