The Republican journal., 1914-07-02
The Churches.

Preaching service at North Belfast as usual
next Sunday aft.rno At 23O o'clock. followed
by Sunday school.
The morning service At the First Parish
Church (Unitarian) 10 held at lO.Ab . m. Sum-
day. The Sunday school meets at ll.A5.
Rev. Robert P. Doremus, pastor of the
FarminRton Unitarian Church. will occupy the
Unitarian pulpit next Sunday morning.
The regular services at the Universalist
church next Sunday will be as follows:
preaching service at lO.45 O'Clock; Sunday
school at noon.
The Christian Scientists hold services in
their hall, l27 Main street, Sunday morning at
II O'Clock and Wednesday evening at 730
o'clock. to which all are welcome.
The services next Sunday at Mason's Mills
will be held at 1890 a. M, followed by the
Sunday school, and at Trinity Reformed church
at 2.30 p. M, folio we'd by Sunday school.
The services for the week at the Methodist
church will be as follows: This. Thursday,
evening, the prayer meeting; young peoples S
chorus at 7.l5 p. m, Friday; Sunday at 10 As,
morning worship: Sunday school at IL.
The services for the week at the Baptist
church will be as follows: prayer meeting this,
Thursday, evening; morning service, with SER
mon by Harry w. Upton, Sunday at lO.45 am;
Sunday School at noon; Christian Endeavor
meeting at $50 pm m.
Children's Day was observed at the Univer-
salist church last Sunday. The decorations
were attractive and consisted principally Of
peonies and roses. The pastor. Rev. Arthur A.
Blair, preached an appropriate sermon. Georgia
Emma, the infant daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Elmer S. Whitehead, was christened.
The services for the coming week at the
North church will be as follows: This, Thurs
day, evening at 7.S0 o'clock, prayer meeting;
Friday evening at o'clock regular meeting Of
Castle North, K. o. K. A.: Sunday, morning
worship at 10.45, with sermon by the pastor,
followed by Bible school; at 80 p. M, Christ
ian Endeavor meeting.
The communion service will be observed at
the Methodist church next Sunday morning.
There will be no evening service on account of
the union meeting at the Colonial Theater.
Rev. Horace B. Sellers will preach in the audi
torium at Bayside next Sunday at p. m. The
subject for discussion at the teachers meeting
to follow the regular prayer meeting this,
Thursday, evening will be 1.-THE Why of the
Graded System"
The North Church (CongregationaD will
hold the usual Sunday morning service of wor
ship at 10.45 o'clock every Sunday during the
summer. with preaching by the pastor. 1t has
been customary for this church to observe va
cation during August. but it is considered best
to allow the work to continue without inter-
ruption. The usual preaching service will be
held next Sunday, followed after an interval
of ten minutes by Communion service. Rev.
George S. Mills, of Bennington. Vermont, will
act with the pastor at this service.
An article on St. GabrieTs Catholic parish,
Winterport, in the June issue OF the Maine
Catholic Magazine. by Rev. M. W. Reilly, mar
rates little of the early history of Winter
port and then tells of the establishment of the
Catholic church in that town and Of its sue
cessive pastors. Special prominence is given
to Rev P. ]. Garrity, who for 20 years. begin
ing June Il, 1885, was the pastor of St.Gabriers.
OF the church in Belfast Father Reilly says:
In the summer of 1891 a church was begun at
Belfast under the supervision of Father Car
rity generous Catholic citizen, William S.
Brannigan, preferring to have monument TO
his memory in the haunts of the living rather
than hidden away in the city of the dead, do
bar rd a
sum for the work Father Garrity gratefully
accepted the old mans gift and built beau
tiful house of worship to stand as the crowning
work of long life, we'll spent in the lay apos
tolate at Belfast This church was dedicated
under the patronage of St. Francis Assist by
Bishop Healy Thank giving Day, 1891.
A Children's Day concert given at the
Baptist church last Sunday morning in place
of the preaching service, when the following
program was we'll carried out snging by the
Sunday school: responsive reading of Psalm
14s: prayer by Rev Hosea W. Rhoades Of Lee;
Welcome by Wight Robbins and Marion
Rhoades; recitation, Lena Delaney; singing,
Lulu Smalley's class; recitations, Violet Dex-
ter, Georgia Knight, Jennie Roberts and AL
fred Cannon; singing, Sunday school chorus;
recitations, George Bartlett, Vida Fowles and
Pearl Gilchrest; singing, Maud and Edna Nc
Leod; recitation, Edith Philbrook and Adelaide
Howard; singing, girls choir; Ten Little But
tercups, by girls of the primary class; reading,
"The Lost Word" by Van Dyke. Miss Maud
Astle of Houlton; recitations, Elsie Mcleod
and Frances Grotton; singing, girls chorus;
recitations, Winnifred Welch, Dorothy Bruce
of New York and Erva Allen; singing. girls
classes; remarks to the children by Harry Up
ton of Colby College; recitations, Daphne
Smart, Mary Narrower. airline Curtis; recita-
tion, 1.-THE Collection" Waldo Craig; chorus by
Sunday school, benediction by Rev. H. W.
Rhoades.
A pleasing Children's Day concert was given
by the Methodist Sunday school last Sunday
under the direction of Mrs. Clarence E. Frost.
The decorations were wild flowers. furnished
by the little children. and were very attractive.
The following program was carried out:
Singing. "Showers of Blessings"
by the School
Defamation, "June," harry Bowen
Defamation, "Children's Day"
Wesley Patterson
Recitations: Dew Drops,' Evelyn Mank,
Florence Howie
"All things Beautiful" Marian Thurston
"Flower Joys" Marie smith
Defamation, "June," Charlie Wright
Recitations: "a Little Bird Melissa Dyer
what the Child Has,
Kathleen Chamberlain
Reading, "The Day for the Children"