Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-10
CLOSING SESSIONS OF THE
UN|vERSALIST CONVENTION.
Two Splendid Addresses Last Evening at
Gardiner---Large Amount of Important
Business Has Been Transacted.

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Inc SOth annual session of the
Name Universalist Convention closed
wednesday evening with two magnifi-
cent addresses before q crowded audi
forum The speakers were Miss En-
ma +. Foster Of, Boston, president OF
the National Universalist Woman's
Missionary Society and Rev. Henry
Blanchard, ID. D., of Portland, the last
of a list of brilliant speakers who for
three days have delighted and in
structed large congregations So 81.
The program called for a brief SEES
sion Thursday morning. but the BUSH
ness of the convention had been per-
formed i'm so thorough a manner that
there We're no loose ends to be cleared
up, and it was accordingly thought
best to close the convention with
Wednesday evenings session.
A. portion Of the day was devoted 10
the Womans Missionary Society. ard
the ladies improved their opportunity
by the transaction of a large amoun.
of important business, including a re-
vision Of the constitution of the State
Society.
with the Universalist church of Lew
iston in June, 1910.
The exercises of Wednesday opened
bright and early at 6 A. Mr., a rousing
praise service being held at that hour.
Very nearly all of the delegates We're
present. The conference meeting was
held at A. NJ, and was led by Rev.
Of ":
service also proved to be helpful and
Inspiring. 49,. -..-.-.
"A Parliament of Parish Administra-
ton was conducted by Rev Leroy W.
Coons of Augusta Among the funda-
mental necessities the speaker said
that in parish administration there
must be leader and the leader ought
to be the minister
"Rut if you have a leader, there
must be those willing to be led; there
must be spirit of cooperation, re-
ceptiveness, open-mindedness and will
insness. After this. there must be a
real spirit in the whole enterprise"
The questions which We're passed in
were then answered in order The oues-
tons covered a wide range of subjects.
| Rev. DR.. J. F. Albion of Portland was
called upon to answer the question of
how to secure men for the church. He
said that he believed that 1.-THE best
way to get that man whose wife goes
| to church and he does not is to get him
into Il Bible class studying the Bible. ~
MI. Coons added incidents from his
own knowledge in support of the same
position.
"What are the best methods for rails
Ing the money for the minister's sal
| ary?" Mr.. Coons said that the minister
| should do something to draw the
| amount into the church
What is the best Method of Raising
the Convention Quota?" Mr.. Albion
told of the duplex envelope with two
pockets, one for home work and the
other for foreign missions
| what Constitutes Legal Membership
in a Parish?' was answered by Rev. l..
F.. Mckinney, who said that members
of parish are those whose names
have been regularly proposed and vot-
ed on. Rev. Hervey II. Hoyt added that
they must be q years of age.
| GLOW Does a Parish Lose It's Or
ganization and How Can 1t BE Re
gairad?" IT was stated in reply that
a parish loses it's organization by
holding no annual meeting for three
years.
"Wtat Is the True Place and Mission
Of the Ladies' Aid Society" was an
swered by Mrs nunnewell of Pitts
field. who said that it should be to aid
socially and financially in the work Of
the church. 1t was asked by one of the
delegates il there is any church with
L
Kinney said that church without Il
Ladies' Aid is dead church.
should n Parish Raise any Portion
of its Funds by Dances and Whist Par
ties?" The general consensus of opinion
was that while lawful. it was not eX-
pedielt
What Is the Best Way to Engage a
Minister. Indefinitely or Year by
Year," Mr. Coons replied: Get him
for 10 years if you can: If he is no good
one year is enough. There is nothing
needed in these things more than sim
pie frankness."
Several other questions We're read
and answered The cent-a-day plar
Twas commended as method of rails
ing quotas.
Rev. Stanley G. Spear of Dexter de-
livered an address on mans Work
and Gods Help"
| Taking as a text the words Of Jesus
"Roll away the stone" the speaker de
lscrihed the scene at the raising of Lag
arus.
why wait. for human strength wher
He could have accomplished it by g
word Here was something those stand
ing about could do, consequently He
gives them the task. We commence t.
realize that there is q work for us t.
do God will not do for us what we arc
able and qualified to do for ourselves
There is mans work and Gods part
in 1t. God neither plants nor cuitlvates
TIC grain: He does what man canno
do. He makes it grow. Man must rol
away the stone, from the place wher'
his best helps are entombed.
God is trying to have us accept I'll:
kingdom when too often we are ask
ing for our own. God does not Worf