Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-11-11

q, 1900 a great congregation stood IN
this room and many were unable TO
obtain entrance The meeting lasted
from 3 till IL o'clock and representa-
tives of every denomination were pres
ent.
After the new church was built the
Rev u. 3. Randall was the first res
ularly appointed pastor and after he
came to Augusta he looked down on IL
from Burnt hill from the same loca-
ton previously mentioned He says,
my head sunk down. down and Won
dered how | could sustain myself in
such a place RaDdalFS grandfather.
Elder Benjamin Randall was u found
er Of the Free Baptist denomination.
The speaker then gave graphic
description If the old mcctinghouse.
we're high. old fashioned affairs. some
of them painted one color and Sornc
another a gallery ran about til" rear
Of the Westinghouse for the singers
and the pulpit was entered by wind
ing stairway. with a window on either
side There WAS Il tower over in the
corner which was very high but in IT
was Il small bell If tn" ding dong Va
rioty. This tower opened right int"
the n"ctinGhous" and in il sat the bell
ringer where he could look into tn"
room and the length of time that he
rang the bell seemed to depend on the
congregation assembled. and whether
or no the house was sufficiently filed
to suit his ideas
Since the erection of the old original
building some forty-two or three pas
tors have InniStcrcd to this church
From that time until 1912 the term was
one year only and during that time we
have the names of Eeale. Hustled,
Croker. Warren. Weber. Spaulding.
Caldwell, Daniel Fuller. Wiley. Aspen
wall. James and Barnard. Some of
these men rose to considerable pr"mi-
ncncc. Kew. Geo. Webber being one of
the leaders of the church. The Rev.
Justin Spaulding was sent. while here.
as a missionary 10 Rio De Jeniro. South
America. In lSi1-43 Rev. Caleb Fuller
was pastor and is remembered by many
very aftectionatcly owing to the fact
that he returned to Augusta and made
his home here for some time prior to
his death in 1890 In 1874 Rev Ashel
Moore. who was a graduate of Bowdoin
CoHPSt, Was pastor anu tIl' lliSl '''-
lege graduate that came tn the church.
Since that time there have been six
graduates of Bowdoin College. two of
the Wesleyan Seminary and one. Il
student of the Northwestern Universe
ty If ENaStoWn. III.
r. 1S4S. during the passionate Of Rev.
stephen Allen. who WAS 4 sanity man.
u modest parsonage WAS built which
was in keeping with the size of the
church cdifice and probably of the city
at that time. III 1S4S during the same
passionate. the meeting houS" was en-
largcd and improved by the citizens
by tho insertion of 20 new p"wS. Rev.
Mr.. Allen was followed in the charge
of this Church by his brother. Charlie;
| Allen
victories and Mission of Methodism'
The concluding number on Sunday
! evenings program was d naSterful
well worded and particularly well de
| livercd address by the Roy. Robert A.
Colpitts of Portland. Mr.. Colpitts is a
| speaker of unusual merit and he held
| his audiences attention from start to
| finish. His delivery is very rapid and
| he makes his points with great quick
ness, hut 50 plainly that they ar" cas-
| lily grasp"d ny tn" mind. Mr.. colpitts
said in part
In her pen picture entitled the Pill
| grim Fathers" Mrs Hnamans picture.
| the enthusiasm that that gallant band
| enjoyed in their Cntrauc,. into the new
| world. But the last lines catch us with
| a reverend grip. What sought they
| present the doorstep of the now worlC
| has been regarded as a sacred spot
THE Victories and Mission Of Meth
odism" was tn" subject Of Mr.. col
pitts remarks.
We are standing in a Holy plac,
| tonight. You are retrospective II
| thought tonight. You are thinking oil
tbs struggles Of the other days of the
people that have gone before and that
| arc singing Hallelujahs; on the Other
| shore. You are looking into the flu
| ture. What does the future have II
| store for YOU? The United States. the
| Christian church and Methodism Dna,
Father. the past has been glorious;
We thank Thee for it,
"MethodiSm was born among str
| ring scenes and in the past 100 years
has made 100" years in progress. What
has progress accomplished" TIL.
| speaker mentioned the telephone. the
| telegraph. the automobile, tn" palace
| car and a thousand and one things
| that have b"Cn invented for tn" better
| ment of the condition Of mankind
| Three great words of the century
! progress change revolution. Mr.. Col
| pitts looks for the same change ir
| Mcthodism. Born at Oxford and push
ed by that nobl" man Wesley, il has
been world power Had Wesley used
| his ability for other purposes he might
| have been Il Richelicu in directing
| Today it is light and religion. oppor-
| tunity and modernism have taken the
| pl3cc of the old days of blackneSS, i'm =
| morality and degradation. In the
times mentioned in tho early history
of England we find the ministers liv-
ing in Il state If drunken dcbauchery
| and the whole country Il sink and
| dumping place for all that was ba sc
| and vile one hundred and twenty
five years aEo one fifteenth Of tins
| worlds population were church gocrS
| today one fifth of the population are
| church attendants. In tho old days all