The Republican journal., 1911-06-08
The Churches.

The Belfast Spiritualists hold regular Sunday
services at their hall on High street at 2 p. m.
and z p. m.
Chaplain D. H. Tribou Of Bucksport will
occupy the pulpit of the church at Morrill, next
Sunday at the regular hour.
The annual conference of the Congregation
al churches of Waldo county will be held with
the church in North Belfast June 9th.
| Chaplain D. H. Tribou of Bucksport will
occupy the Methodist pulpit next Sunday in
the absence of the pastor, Rev. M. S. Hill.
First Parish (Unitarian) church. Service
sermon to the High school by the pastor. Sun
day school at noon.
There will be services in the chapel at East
Northport, June 18th, at 1045 a. M. con-
Quoted by the pastor, Rev. G. G. Winslow, and
followed by the Sunday school,.
At special business meeting at the Baptist
church June LIST. Charles E. Rhoades was elect
ed Deacon to fill the vacancy caused by the
death of Deacon Loren Fletcher.
The services for the week at the North church
will be as follows: prayer meeting this, Thurs
day evening at 7.30; morning worship Sunday at
1O45 a. M; Sunday school at IL.
The morning service next Sunday at the
Universalist church will be at 1915 O'Clock
with sermon by the pastor, Rev. Arthur A.
Blair. Sunday school at IL o'clock.
The Christian Scientists hold services in
10rN
at II o'clock and Wednesday evening at 7.3O
o'clock, to which all are cordially welcome. =
It is expected that a new chapel will be built
the present season by the Congregational So
ciety of Stockton Springs. Rev. Mr.. Hatch,
the pastor, is actively engaged in pushing the
preliminary plans.
A large congregation greetedSthe new pas
tor Rev. Arthur A. Blair, at the Universalist
church last Sunday. The sermon was forceful
and helpful, defining the speakers ideas of
"The Modern Church and What it Should be-"
There will be services next Sunday at Ma
sons Mills at TO- 80 a. M and at Trinity Reform
ed Church at 23O p. M, with sermons by Rev.
William Vaughan, followed by Sunday school.
day, evening at 750 o'clock.
INTERNATIONAL BIBLE STUDENTS AssocIA-
TON Glasses for independent Bible study are
held every Sunday at II a. and Thursday at
T. 80 p. m. at the home of Mrs. Eliza Jefferds,
3 Charles street. All interested in the study
of the Scriptures are cordially invited to at
tend.
The Maine association of Seventh Day Ad-
ventists has, through committee composed of
j. p Piper, A. J. Verrill, B. F. Davis, R. S.
Hobbs and W. O. Howe, recommended the
members of the u-ch throughout the State
to vote for a retention of the prohibitory
amendment.
The services for the week at the Baptist
church will be as follows: this, Thursday, even
ing the prayer meeting; Sunday, at 1O.45,
morning worship, with sermon by the PASTOR
Sunday school at noon; mems meeting. at
$50 D. M; Y P. S. C. E. at $50; evening SER
vice at 7.30 p. m.
The services for the week at the Methodist
church will be as follows: this, Thursday, even
ing the prayer meeting Sunday, at 10.45,
morning worship, with sermon by the pastor;
Sunday school at IL M; Junior League at $50
p. M; evening service at 7.3O p. M; Tuesday at
7.30 p. NJ, the Epworth League meeting.
Rev. Rollin T. Hack, for six years pastor of
the Congregational church at Gorham, read his
resignation from the pulpit last Sunday, to
take effect July LIST. Previous to going to Cor
of the Second Parish church in Portland, and
previous to that, and following his graduation
at the Bangor Theological seminary, he was
for several years pastor of the North Con-
gregational church in this city.
RESIGNATION OF REV. ADoLPH RossBAcH
The following letter, which is self-explana-
tory, will be read with regret by many outside
the Unitarian church, who will be sorry to lose
Mr. and Mrs. Rossbach as residents
First Parish Parsonage,
Belfast, Maine, June 3, 1911.
To the Parish Committee and Congregation
First Parish in Belfast, Me.
DEAR BRETHREN AND FRIENDS: When
left Meadville Theological school little over
enter Harvard University and Divinity school
at as early a date possible. / took Uni
tartan Parish in the West not with the idea of
beginning my permanent work as a minister
but mainly to earn the necessary money to
finish the course / had planned for myself
The story is long one, and see no reason
for inflicting it upon you, other than to ex-
plain that certain family obligations which
came upon me nine years ago, have used up
my savings each year and the Harvard pro-
ject has of necessity been postponed.
1t is my painful duty to announce to you,
of Harvard Divinity School to enter that in
would like to continue with you as your pas
tor until that time, and then be released to
take up my studies at Cambridge. A four
months notice of resignation may seem
rather long to you, and some may think it
undesirable. l have thought it out seriously,
and may say in explanation that it was my
intention to present my resignation little
later, but my application to the Divinity
School believe has become known in Boston
and had to decide between making an early
announcement, or run the risk of the news
coming to you from an indirect source. As my
farewell will come, hope, four months hence
l will confne myself to the mere announce
ment
Candidly, fear to attempt to express my
feelings to you today.
stand between two great incentives. One,
the desire for knowledge and mental expan-
sion, and thus greater spiritual usefulness; the
other, the desire to nestle down among the
people whom my wife and love. who have
ministered to our comforts and pleasures in
many delicate and substantial ways, the peo-