Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-01-26
UNITARIAN CLcS.
Few. A. p. Mcdonald Describes Maine
Sea coas. Mission Work.

,,r;.p Climb of this city held at the
| Apr,.ta House Tuesday evening anu
| caya an interesting account OF Mission
| work dome along the Maine coast. The
| ,iot,,,es oj the different settlements
and the penple visited as shown by the
! sterpoDticon proved most instructive
| Mr. Mcdonald for five years has
gone m and down the coast making
| Bar Rarbor his headquarters and MIN
| sterine to the social, physical, intel
lectual and spiritual needs of the 5000
neople in the "a settlements on its
| beadIanls and islands. These people
are isolated and often neglected by the
larger towns ard almost entirely for
gotten by the church. The fisherfolk,
however. are composed of the best
| families of New England with very
few foreigners except the Italians, VINO
are employed in the granite quarrles.
The missionary visits these commu-
| mites in a 45-foot motor launch. he
| lives, eats. sleeps and studies on this
boat. 1t is his pleasure from time to
I time to have such men as Dl. Lyman
| Abbott. editor of the Outlook, and
! State Stunt. of Schools Payson Smith
as passengers. The first question often
asl.ed as the pastor-captain warps his
| boat into the harbor is: Whom have
| you ABOARD; this trip"
Not only is the Gospel message
preached every evening, in school,
houses. in chapclS, in cottages or
homes, and sometimes in old boarding
houses or fish-houses, but many other
matters are given thought The pubic
schools are visited Three State
schools have been organized on islands
deprived of school advantages, towns
have been compelled to transport
scholars from islands and in some
places to omen schools. The State SUI
pcrintendert has greatly aided the
missionary in this work by his per-
| sonal attention TO neglected places.
1T is however lamentable,' said the
! speaker, that over 100 lighthouse
keepers children on the coast of Maine
nave 10 school advantages except
what the mission affords through cor
resnondencc. Neither the State nor the
rational government feel any respon-
sihility in caring for the children at
light stations
The sick are also ministered to.
Some Is children have received hos
,tal treatment and in enc place where
the mission is to erect chapel for
the people it is planning to connect
with the chapel rooms for the sick. as
the homes on some islands arc SO snnail
and unsanitary ii seems necessary u
maze such provisions.
The missionary has a Sunday school
of $40 members. some at light Statlois'
some on islands, others at headlahuS'
All the mem ers OF tine school report
to the missionary and each Christmas
season each child is remembered WITH
some small gift. The people are OFTEN
helped in procuring postoffices ana
three have been established through
the mission. Loudville, Seaville and
Eagle. the missionary naming the Of
fees and directing all the arrange
ments. The matter of dredging harbors
and removing Instructions TO naVlsa-
ton has it's part in the mission work
along the coast. Much literature is as
trihuted to vessels and campers along
the coast and the mission has also
circulating library OF 400 volumes that
is of some service.
This mission has the kindest coop
Grafton of the people, who summer
along our coast. 1t is entirely unde-
nominational. Among it's directors are
Rev. A. F. SchaufIler. d. D., of New
York: Bishop Alex. MacKay Smith OF
| Philadelphia; Prof. w. j. Moulton, D.
| D., of Bangor; Alfred Howe Lewis OF
| New York. The president is Rev. A.
| NJ. Mcdonald of Bar Harbor vice pres
| ident, DIR. D. W. Bunker of Bangor
| treasurer, Thomas Scarls, cashier OF
the First National Bank of Bar Har-
hor, and secretary, Rev. Alexander P.
| Mcdonald of Bar Harbor.
| The work is supported by Individual
contributions. The only paid member
| of the society is the missionary and
his engineer. who happens to be a
young man found on the coast ambi
tious to do something more than fish
all his Gays.
| Mr.. Mcdonald criticizes most severe
| lY our present laws in dealing with
| plantation poor and he also urges that
the coast plantation schools should be
| made state schools the same as ir
| unorganized places. THE unorganized
isles. or no Mans Land. as someone
calls them. are coming to be the bes'
| islands of the coast" said the speaker
The address was proceeded by a
banquet. which was held in the private
dining hall and was served with the
| same attention to detail. which char
acteriZes all of the banquets held a
1 the Augusta House. Those seated a
| the tables We're Rev. Alexander
| Mcdonald. Bar Harbor: Sylvester j
Beach, Rev. Edwin NJ. Slocombe, As
sociate Justice William p Whitehouse
and Leslie c. Cornish; Gen. Selder
Conner. Major H. S. Burrage, o. w
| Turner Judge Benedict F. Maher
Frank r. Partridge. E. P Morton, F
F.. Smith. Frank J. Thrasher. Charles
r. Hall, John V. Lane. F. B. Purinton
i Nathan Weston, Nathan S. Weston. r
4 H. Stubs. Frank r. Libby. George X
4 Bassett. Daniel w. LaRue, Norman L
4 Bassett. Samuel Titcomb, W. H. Har-
4 riS. II. ". Norcross, Ralph w. Smith
Robert Es Rartta llpFh8sss q. 'ie6fba