The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1912-02-22
Convocation Week at Bangor.


Convocation Week at Bangor
The Convocation Week in Bangor came
to successful close Friday night, Feb.
ruary 9th, at the Hammond street church
All of the speakers left messages tina,
will be long remembered. 1t is a great
thing for the ministry and great thing
for the churches of Maine. Besides the
lectures it gives the minis ters of the
State opportunity to get acquainted and
discuss questions of unusual interest.
1t is worth all of the trouble bestowed
by President Beach and his faculty to
make it success. In fact, its worth
cannot be measured. Among the lee
turers, Professor Palmer of Harvard
University gave most interesting
course of lectures on masterpieces of
English poetry - Shakespeare, Pope,
Wordsworth, Tennyson and the Lord s
Prayer-five lectures in all. Perhaps to
the High school students the Wednesday
lecture on Tennyson was one of the
most interesting. He said Tennyson' s
first book was published when he was IS,
the last in 1892, making s. years of
writing. Browning was citizen of the
world at large, but Tennyson was pat
riot. Coupled with Tennyson's patriot
ism was his intense devotion to home
and to love. The world knows his
reverence for the love upon which the
family is founded. {. cit is my pur-
pose in these lectures to open new lines
of study to you, said the speaker. This
course of lectures gave many helpful
thoughts on the lives of these great
writers.
The Samuel Harris lectures on preach
ing by DR.. Jefferson of New York must
have been of great value to the assem-
bled ministers. His subjects were: "The
Shepherd Idea in Scripture and History;
The Shepherds Work; The Shepherds
Opportunity; The Shepherds Tempta-
tons, and The Shepherds Reward. He
compared the work of the pastors to the
shepherds work and said at the close of
one of his lectures "How can young
man become true shepherd of his
people? Let him get near to the ideal
shepherd, Jesus Christ. From Him he
will absorb the shepherd temper and
learn the shepherd ways. We live in
universe created by Shepherd God.
The Lord is our Shepherd. Our world is
redeemed by a Shepherd Savior. Our
elder brother is shepherd. Every mes
senger of Christ is sent to do shep-
herds work. We are to stand at last
before shepherd judge. The questions
which every pastor must meet and
answer are, Did you feed my lambs?
Did you tend my sheep? Did you feed
my sheep?'
The lectures by DR.. Smith of St. Paul,
Mimi, on Democracy and the Church,
included Jesus and Democracy, Papacy
and Liberty, Social Revivals in Italy and
England, Influence of the Reformation,
Social Spirit of Modern Christianity. In
these lectures he gave much of history,
and the Bible student and the church
worker found much help and many in
spring ideas.
DIR. Calkins of Portland had charge
of the Quiet Hour. Every pastor and
every church worker and student en-
joyed these helpful services. The gen.
eral topic was Confidence in God. In
his last talk DIR. Calkins said GAS we
go back to our fields after this Convoca-
ton week, we shall go back in one or the
other spirit, of despair before our OBJ
stacles, or full of confidence like Caleb.
Now Caleb pinned his confidence to one
thing, the land before the Israelites had
been promised them by God. With us
the land is likewise promised land, and
we need resurrection of faith in the
highest ideals and Gods presence and
help, his promises sure and abiding"
A fine group of lecturers for the 1915
convocation was announced before the
closing exercises.
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