The Republican journal., 1907-02-07
THE CHURCHES.

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Prof. Hugh R. Hatch of Colby College
will occupy the Baptist pulpit next Sunday
morning and evening. The other services
will be as usual
The quarterly meeting of the Church of
God will be held in the Young schoolhouse,
Swanville, beginning Thursday, Feb. 21st,
and continuing over Sunday.
The regular services will be held at the
Universalist church next Sunday. The
| subject of the morning sermon will be The
M essage of Thomas Carlyle.
The North church mission study classes
meet, as usual this, Thursday, evening
directly after the service, and Friday even
ing at 7.S0 at the home of Miss Avis Mori-
son.
Christian Science services are held at j
F. Fernald's, No. 81 Cedar street, every Sun
day morning at II o'clock and Wednesday
evening at 7.30, to which all are cordially
welcome.
There will be services in the chapel at
East Northport Sunday. Feb. 10th, at TO- 80 a.
m. with sermon by the pastor, Rev. G. G.
Winslow. Sunday school at 1l30 a. m
Services in. the Brainard schoolhouse at .. 80
p. m.
A series of special meetings conducted by
Evangelist Brown, who has been laboring
in Montville, began last Tuesday evening at
tho RaSoro
continue each evening until further notice
Mr.. and Mrs. John A. Patterson continue
as managers and eighteen persons have
made start in the Christian life since
they took charge last fall
The services for the week at the North
Congregational church will be as follows:
Junior c. E. meeting Thursday D. m at
$50; prayer meeting Thursday evening at
73O subject: Hearing His Voice Heb. 3:7-9; !;
morning worship Sunday at 1045 m, c.
E. meeting at $50, subject: Lessons from
the Pdtrarchs Noah. Heb. III; Pet.
,: 40; l Pet. 3: 1922; evening worship at
73O.
Service at the Unitarian church next Sun
day at 45 a. m., 18th sermon by the pas
tor, Rev. Adolph Rossbach, from the text:
He that planted the ear, shall he not hear?
he that formed the eye, shall he not see?
He that teacheth man knowledge, shall not
he know ?" oath Psalm. Sunday school at
- m.; subject of study, The Tower of
Babel.
Lincolns birthday and the 4Oth ami
versary of the Freedsmens' Aid and
Southern Education Society will be OBJ
served at the Methodist Episcopal church,
next Sunday morning, using the official
program of the society, "The New Eman-
cipation." A special offering will be taken
Sunday school at noon; Junior Epworth
League at 8 80 p. m. Gospel service at 7.3o
p. m. Seats free, public invited.
The Seaside Spiritualist church of Belfast.
recently organized in this city, is the sue
cessor Of the Progressive Spiritualists' AS
sociation, which for number of years held
meetings in the various halls in the city and
in the chamber of adopts in the residence
of the late John N. Stewart. This hall,
specially fitted up by Mr. Stewart for use
of the SpiritualistS, was on the upper floor
of his house on Custom House square, and
the emblems of the "adeptS," which he
carved and placed on the outside of the
building, are still there. The Progressive
Spiritualists' Association has been dormant
for some time as an organization, but fire.
quent meetings and seances have been held
and the anniversaries of Spiritualism have
been observed. The interest awakened the
past fall has encouraged the members to
unite and reorganizeEas a church, with the
following officers: President, Orrin j.
Dickey; vice presidents, George F. Mayhem
Jennie L. Stevens; treasurer, Edgar M.
Cunningham executive committee, Andrew
E. Clark, Albert 7. Stevens, Mrs. L. A.
Mayhew, Mrs. Mary S. Knowlton, Mrs.
Nina Hobbs. Meetings are held every Sun
day at Seaside Grange hall, the next to be
Sunday, Feb. 10th, at 2.30 p. m.
The Congregational Club members and
their friends are to have a rare treat on
next Monday evening, when Professor
Hugh Black is to be the guest of the club
and deliver an address on "The Church
and the Age' Professor Black, who has
just come to America TO take up permanent
work in the Union Theological Seminary of
New York City, is one of the most noted
preachers of Great Britain, and one Of the
most popular authors of the day. His
books, "The Dream of YOUTH" "Friend-
ship" "Culture and Restraint" "Work,"
and "The Practice of Self-Culture," are
very popular, being both thoughtful and
thought-provoking. In his former church,
St. Georges Free Church in Edinburgh,
a church whose senior pastor is the famous
DR.. Alexander Whyte, the large auditorium
was crowded to hear him nearly an hour
before the service began, even the pulpit
being crammed with auditors. Professor
Blacks address will be preceded by recep-
tion and by an organ recital by Miss Amy
E. Stoddard, the organist of the North
church. The program, which will begin at
$780, will be as follows:
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