Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-01-14
CHURCH AND PASTOR
Matters Of Interest Cleaned in Maine
Religious Circles.

About u were taken into the Strong
Methodist church last Sunday morning
Rev. l.. w. Muttart of East Sumner
has a call to the Woolwich Congrega-
tional church.
,Thirty-scven persons were received in
the fellowship of Willist1n church in
Portland Sunday.
There were 10 baptized at the North
Arson Free Baptist church recently and
IS taken into the church.
Rev. f. S. Ride)ut of Norway was the
grateful recipient of a generous purse of
money which the people of the Center
church presented to him from the Christ
mas tree. Christmas night.
Few. J. NJ. Rieler of the Eastport Cen
trail Congregational church, who mas been
pastor there for several years past. has
resigned to ACCEPT a call TO the ConSrc-
gational church at Machias.
The executive committee of. the
Maine State Sunday School Association
has accepted the invitation of the sun
day schools of Watervillc to hold the
next State convention in that city
sometime in October:
Rev. J. F. Schneider of Bangor has
accepted a unanimous call to the pas
torate Of the Mianus Congregational
church in Greenwich. Conn. He has
been at Winterport since his gradu-
alton from Bowdoin in 1904.
The passionate of Rev. NJ. s. Howes
at Mexico is opening well. Four were
received into church membership at
the morning service Jan. 9Th, and at
the evening service eight persons OK
pressed a desire to become Christians.
A movement is on foot among the
friends of the late Herbert A. Mayo to
raise a fund for window to be placed
in memory of him i'll the Foss street
Methodist church, Biddeford. Mr..
Mayo was Il promicnnt worker at that
church.
A committee to do special evange-
listic work has been appointed by the
South Paris Congregational Y. P. 5. {.
E., Chairman. Miss Sue Rounds. Mrs. L.
S. Barnes. Miss Eva Walker, Miss
Blanche Barrows and Mrs. Frank
Shurtlef.
Rev. Claude H. Priddy, pastor of the
Congress street NJ. L. church Portland,
recently received very urgent call to
one of the leading churches in Mime
apClis 1t is understood that the Gtf,A
is very fattering and that $50 ,00J
edifice is shortly to be erected.
Rev. II. A. Roberts Of Paris III. who
recently gave up the pas torate Of the
First Baptist church in Montpelier. Vi.
to return to his former field a; Block
Island, r. j., was presented with an e!c-
giant study table by several Of tlle meF-
chants of the city, and al the regular
meeting of Vermont Lodge Of Odd Fci-
| lows Mr. Roberts was presented with 4
nice gold headed cane by the lodge.
Rev. Bernard Christopher. who. FOR
the past five years, has been pastor Of
the First Baptist church at Hudson, \.
H. has rendered his resignation. to &c
cept a call to the passionate Of the Bap-
fist church at Mechanic Falls. and viii
assume his pastoral duties there FEB.
| Srd. The Rev. Mr.. Christopher went
| to Brentwood, n. H., and has been
prominent i'll the work of the Merri-
mack Valley Union of the Y. p. S. e.
E., and of the New Hampshire Sunday
School Association.
The First Baptist church of Cherry
| field is the recipient of 4 marble tab
| let commemorative of the founders OF
this church. The church is the Oldest
! in the Washington Baptist Assocla-
ton, it's organization dating back to
| 1886 The founders, six in number,
| were John c. Todd. James Foster. Ma
| thanel Jordan. Fanny Snow and Pris-
| ella Small, she being the grandmother
| of the donor, Z. 5. Wilson, Esq. MI
| Wilson, now SO years old. has been a
| member of this church since 1856.
| Rev. Charles Homer Percival, who
| preached his inaugural sermon at the
First Congregational church at Rochcs-
ter. N. H., Sunday. Jan. c, is a New Eng
land man, Watcrville being his native
| college. lie is a graduate of Amherst
| College. studied at Andover Seminary
and in Scotland and Germany. lie Wa
| ordained to the ministry at WiscassCt il
| 1884 and spent a long Passionate in IA
cine, Wis, and at the old First ConGrc'
gatiCnal church of Terrc Hautc. Ind. Mr.
| Percival'S last paStorate was at the Mys
| tcsidc Congregational church of Everett
| Mass. where he completed five years
| ministry Dec. 81. 1906.
| A large number of repairs have re-
centlr been made in St Saviours churcl
| on Mount Desert street. Bar Harbor
principally of Il minor nature. which wher
| completed will add greatly to the com
fort and appearance of the building. Th'
emissions of the rews have been recovered
the front cleaned and repaired. the plat
| glass windows of the nave thoroughly
| nut in order end repaired. and new
chin nev built in preparation for the in
.tallatinr of a new heating plant. Al
iron fence will replace the hedge between
the church and the cemetery shortly, a
| th, hedge nas begun to show signs 0
| decay.
At the recent annual meeting. hell
by the Presque Isle Congregations
church in its new and commodiou
vestly rooms. the following officer
were chosen: Mrs. Arthur Gerow. clerl
and treasurer: a. B. Estabrook. super
intendcnt of Sunday school: Ambrcs
Bragg, assistant: E. f. Parkhurst wa
given the complimentary election o
l. 1la.c,nSbip for life. John Stephens an