The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1912-10-31
REV. HARADEN S. PEARL ORDAINED
Now Assistant Pastor of Congregational
Church in Providence. r. l.

Rev. Haraden S. Pearl was on Thursday Oct.
oath, formally ordained as assistant pastor of
the Union Congregational church of Provi-
dence, r. l. Mr.. Pearl is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Charles S. Pearl of Bangor, and was for
years identified with the younger social set of
that city His call Immediately on leaving the
Bangor Seminary to be assistant pastor to Dr.
James E. Mcconnell of Union church, Provi-
dence, was conspicuously to his credit A fur
ther honor was shown Mr.. Pearl in the exer-
cises at Providence on Friday. Owing to the
high character of the paper which he present.
ed to the Council the usual examination was
dispensed and it was Immediately voted unan-
imously to proceed to the ordination, Already
Mr. Pearl has taken vigorous hold of the prob
lens of the young peoples work in the Provi-
dence church, and his friends look forward to
a career of distinguished usefulness. Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles S. Pearl were present at their
sons ordination, as were Prof. Eugene W. Ly-
man, D. D. of the seminary and Rev. C. A.
Moore, D. D., pastor of the All Souls church,
Bangor, who took a prominent part in the
ordination ceremonies. The Providence Jour-
nal says of the ceremony:
During the afternoon a council, composed
of delegates and pastors from churches in this
city and Pawtucket, with special members
from Bangor, the home of Mr.. Pearl, met and
organized, wi tn Rev. A. B. Cristy as modera-
tor and Rev. Edward C. Fellows as SCRIBE
The church gave record of its call to Mr..
Pearl last March and the entering of the can
didate upon it's active work in June.
"At the evening service the statement of
the afternoon meeting was given, there were
selections by the church organst and the
choir and a sermon by Prof Eugene W. Ly-
man, D. D., and the charge to the new pastor
by Rev. Charles A. Moore, D. D.
I'm his sermon, ,Rev.D DR.. Lyman declared that
Jesus Christ exercised His Lordship over men
by the power of His teachings. The mastery
teaching OF Chrst-the common gospel of the
actual Lordship of Christ-was to restore the
unity of the church, he said His teaching
would restore simplicity of thought and it
equipped men SO that they could do their own
thinking, he declared.
" Following the sermon, the ordination
prayer was given by Rev. James E. McCon-
nell, D. D., three of the ministers present
standing with their hands on the head of the
new pastor while this part of the ceremony
was being conducted.
I'm his charge DR.. .-oore said that priest
hood recognized God and spiritual life pre-
dicated revelation'provided for worship. The
minister must be the man of God, he said, the
herald of Jesus Christ, mediator between
God and man.
"Rev. Mr. Pearl is descended from one OF
the old families of Maine. Rev. George w
Field was an uncle on his mothers side. He
graduated from the Bangor High school anc
Fryeburg academy, and then after severa
years in newspaper work in his native city, he
entered Bowdoin college. Later he took a three
years course in Bangor seminary. At the or.
dination, his teacher, Prof Lyman, gave the
sermon, and his pastor Rev. Mr.. Moore, gave
the charge"