Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-08-10
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tice in ali the earlier Sunday schools,
he endeavored to introduce religious
| instruction into the district schools. In
a list OF rewards which he prepared
for good behavior in the day school, he
suggested for good behavior-cvery
scholar who shall conduct himself with
ton, shall at the close of the school
be entitled to 20 pages of tracts" Also
for committing to memory the evan
| gelical primer-every scholar who COM
mits the minor doctrines anG cate
| chism, to be entitled to tickets of four
mills for the minor historical cate
chism, a ticket of one mill for every
10 answers, (without the Scripture
| proof, for the whole of the Assemblies
| catechisn. an additional ticket of one
cent, for the whole of the three cate
| chiSms, additional tickets to the
amount of three cents 1.-THE scholars
are to be required to commit to MEM
| Dry what is contained on their tickets;
to preserve them with care, and to be
| informed that at the close Of the school
| they will be entitled to receive the
| amount OF their tickets in religious
tracts, at the rate of one tract for
| every mill"
A year before this sermon was
preached a beginning had been made
| in Winthrop to stem the tide of i'm
| morality, prOfaneneSs, Sabbath break
| ing and drunkenness by the organiZa-
| ton of the Winthrop Society for the
Promotion of Good Morals. Its presi-
| dent was Samuel Wood. its correspond
ing secretary, Rev. Zachariah ellison
| and the recording secretary, David r.
| Thurston. In 1915 the society amended
| its constitution 50 as to embrace the
establishment and Of Sunday schools
as means of promoting correct NOR
ais. At the same meeting (March) the
society resolved to attempt to estab-
lish Sabbath school in each school
district in town. AT it's meeting in Sep
| TENDER it was stated that in seven dis
| tricts Sabbath schools had been COM
| menced and continued for different pc
RODS and with various success; but in
all, with So much as to afford en-
| couragemcnt for future eNcrtion. From
| 1919 uIlllI 1oo2 TIE principal efforts OF
| the society was directed to the organs
| iZatiOn and maintenance of Sabbath
schools. At this later day the society
| was discontinued The churches had
adopted the institution as one of their
| Observation-Disclosures. 1t is evident that our
people more than 90 years ago We're
engaged earnestly in the moral uplift-
ing of society. Our own church was not
alone in this work. Other denomina-
tions had come in and We're at work
spreading the Canaan of righteous
ness. In 1899 Friends Society was or
ganizcd i'll the easterly part CT the
town. A Methodist class was carried on
under the ministerial care of Rev.
| Philip Wager. In 1892 a Calvinistic
| Baptist Society was organized. In 1919,
| the period that we have been treating.
the Universalists began having STATED
ministra ton" a year earlier a society
| Of about 40 was formed, denominated
the Union Society of Winthrop, Read
| field and Wayne. This was a period
when Coos people loved their church
and endured hardships that they
| might worship in the sanctuary One
who as a boy had been brought up In
| Winthrop and who had sat under the
minStratiOn of Father ThurstOr, writes
| more than 90 years ago of memoirs of
those earlier times. Through the deep
snow of winter, the mud of spring and
autumn, and under the burnin" sun of
summer old men and youths plodded