The Republican journal., 1911-07-06
The Congregational Conference


Held its 63d, and Last, Annual Conference
June 9th. 1t is Succeeded by the Waldo
Association of Congregational Churches
and Ministers.
The 63d annual conference of the Con-
gregational Churches Of Waldo county
was held June 9th with the Congrega-
tional Church in North Belfast, Modera-
tor Walter G. Hatch presiding. The
opening devotional exercises at 10 a. m.
were impressively conducted by Rev.
D. L. Wilson of the North Church of
Belfast. At the roll call of the county
churches, all but three were represented.
The following officers for the day were
then elected Moderator, Rev. Charles
H. Mckinney of the First Congrega-
tional Church of Searsport; scribe and
treasurer, Rev. David L. Wilson, Bel
fast.
The records of previous meetings were
read and approved, and the report of the
treasurer read and accepted. Reports
VI liO Guilty CIuLSuCo WCLC PlCSCilCd,
showing good conditions and a promising
outlook
The courtesies of the conference were
extended to the visiting clergymen, Rev.
W. H. Randolph, of Carthage, N. Y;
Rev. Jonah w. Vaughan of City Point
and Rev. William Vaughan of East Bel
fast
The new constitution was read by the
scribe and it was unanimously voted to
accept it. The same vote was passed in
regard to the new bylaws.
The following were appointed from
the floor as a nominating committee:
Chairman, Rev. David L. Wilson, Bel
fast, Walter G. Hatch, North Belfast;
W. S. Jones, Brooks.
With the adjournment at noon the
Waldo Conference went out of existence,
after 63 years of life and the Waldo
Association of Congregational Churches
and Ministers was born.
After brief devotional service, led by
Rev. C. H. Mckinney, at 100 p. M,
the first annual meeting of the Waldo
Associati ton of Congregational Churches
and Ministers was called to order. The
nominating committee presented the fol-
lowing list of officers and they were duly
elected:
Moderator, Rev. Charles H. Nc
Elhiney, Searsport; Vice Moderator, W.
S. Jones, Brooks; Registrar, treasurer
and scribe, Willis Hatch, North Belfast;
Council committee, Rev. Charles H.
Mckinney; Rev. H. G. Booth, Brooks;
Rev. C. E. Walsh; H. M. Prentiss, Bel
fast.
State Conference director, Rev. David
L. Wilson, Belfast; Visitor to Bangor
Seminary, Rev. Charles H. Mckinney,
Searsport; Committee on Ministry, Rev.
H. G. Booth, Brooks; Walter G. Hatch,
Willis S. Hatch, North Belfast; Rev.
Charles H. Mckinney, Searsport.
Bible study and Young Peoples work,
G. A. Hatch, Standpoint; Mrs. Annie
S. Craig, Belfast; Mrs. James Duncan,
Searsport; Dayton Bickmore, Stockton.
Auxiliary organization, Miss Mabel
R. Matthews, Belfast; Mrs. Charles H.
Mckinney, Searsport; Miss Margaret
Hazeltine, Belfast.
Missionary and Benevolences, Rev.
David L. Wilson, Belfast; W. S. Jones,
Brooks; Rev. David Jack, Frankfort.
A stirring address on 1.-THE Church and
the Country Community by Rev. Will
liam Vaughan of the Trinity Reformed
church of East Belfast, provoked long
and earnest discussion, which resulted in
a motion being passed that the moder-
ator should call a meeting of ministers
of the county to make plans for an or
gained campaign in the rural districts
of the county. Occurrence of Moral
Issues was the subject of the address
by Rev. David Jack of Frankfort, follow
ed by an address on Evangelism, Its
Methods and Results by Charles A.
Hatch of Standpoint.
The following committee on resolutions
was appointed: Charles A. Hatch, Sandy
point; W. S. Jones, Brooks; Mrs. Whit
tier, Searsport.
The place of the next meeting is
Searsport, the second Tuesday in June
1912, or at special call of the Moderator.
The conference sermon was preached
by Rev. C. E. Walsh. His text was
from Galatians 60. The sermon was
very inspiring and helpful.
The communion service at 4 o'clock
was impressively conducted by Rev. w.
H. Randolph of Carthage, N. Y, and
Rev. H. G. Booth of Brooks, assisted by
deacons Alonzo j. Knowlton of Belfast
and S. B. Smith.
In the evening the praise service was
conducted by the moderator. The COM
mittee on resolutions reported as fol-
lows:
Resolved, that this association extends