The Republican journal., 1912-06-27
The Churches.

The meetings of the North Congregational
church Y. p S. C. E, have been discontinued,
as usual. during the summer.
The services at the ! irst Parish Church
(Unitarian) will be held next Sunday at 7.3O p.
m. Sunday school will meet at 6 pm.
The services at the Universalist church for
the week will be as follows: X. 0. K. A. Satur-
day night; preaching service Sunday morning
at 1045; Sunday school at noon.
The Christian Scientists hold services in
their hall, 1877 Main street, Sunday morning
at II o'clock and Wednesday evening at 7.SO
o'clock, to which all are welcome.
Last Sunday Rev. Ashley A. Smith. pastor
of the Universalist church, Bangor, preached
the sermon to the members of St. Johns COM
mandery at the ,Bijou theatre on Exchange
street, as his church is not yet ready for occu-
pancy.
The services at the North church will be
prayer meeting; morning worship Sunday at
10.45 a. m.; Sunday school at IL m. A cordial in
vitation is extended TO the public to attend
these services.
The services at the Baptist church will be as
usual next Sunday. Morning service at 1O45
a. M; Sunday school at IL o'clock. All who do
not attend Sunday school at any other church
are cordially invited. Evening service at 73O
p. m. Prayer meeting this, Thursday, evening
The services for the week at the First
Methodist church will be as follows: this,
Thursday evening the prayer meeting at 730
p. M; Sunday at 10.45 morning worship; Sum-
day school at IL M; Epworth League pray
er meeting Sunday evening at $50 p. m.
Praise and Evang elstic service at 7.3O p. m
each Sunday evening.
The Auxiliary of the North church held a
most successful meeting June 18th at the
home of Mrs. J. w. Jones, High street. The
work of the A. M. A. was the subject of the
evening, and the progress being made among
some of the strangers within our gates" was
brought out in the assigned topics. Especial
ly interesting were the reports from the south
ern fields, where the work among the negro
and mountain whites is making itself rapidly
increasing factor for good.
The St. Johns Day services of the Masonic
bodies were held last Sunday at the North
Congregational church and were attended by
about sixty Masons and thirty members of ths
Eastern Star. There were no special decora-
lions aside from some effectively placed bas-
kets of peonies and vases of yellow lilies The
regular choir, Mrs. Edith Bartlett, Miss Caro-
G. Hatch, Messrs. Arthur johnson and John
Parker, furnished the finely rendered musical
program. with Miss Amy E. Stoddard at the
organ. Rev. David L. Wilson took for his
text the 10th verse of the 25th chapter of
Mathew: lnasmch as We did it unto one of the
least of these, my brethren, We did it unto
me-" and applied it to the theme, Modern
Christianity" He said that these were the
days of practical Christianity, when deeds
surmount creeds in Importance, and urged up
on his hearers the need for Christ-ike lives in
this world of ours. Service and sacrifice have
their place in modern times as well as when
the two st. Johns, SO revered in Masonic
circles, lived and labored. Forgetfulness of
self and creed, and of the struggle for riches
and power, and whole hearted devotion to the
principles laid down by the long ago Leader of
men are the foremost needs of the world to-
day and the basis of Modern Christianity.