The Republican journal., 1922-07-06
THE CHURCHES


Regular services will be held at the
Trinity Reformed church Sunday at 2. 80
p. m, with sermon by Rev. William
Vaughan. Sunday school will immedi-
ately follow.
Rev. George S. Mills of Bennington,
VT, will occupy the pulpit of the Fed
Grated church Sunday, July 10th, and
Rev. Adolph Rossbach of Waltham,
Mass, will preach there Sunday, July
9th.
METHODIST CHURCH. Peoples Meth
odst Church, Rev. Charles w. Martin,
pastor; parsonage, No. Court ST.; tele-
phone. 213.ll. Sunday morning service
at l0.45. Sunday school, IL m. Evening
service at 7.30. Prayer meeting this,
Thursday. evening at 7.30.
The st. Margaret Episcopal church,
corner of Court and Elm streets, will
begin services for the summer July 9th
The Rev. r. A. PgIrock, LID, d. c. Ii,
Prof. of Greek at Colgate University, will
have charge of the services. There will
be morning prayer and sermon at 10 45 a..
m. July 9th. Everyone is cordially in
vited.
On Sunday, July 9, there will be an
open air meeting of the Church of God
at o'clock in the grove on the j. II. Lord
farm in West Belfast. Everyone is in
vited. If the weather is not suitable for
an outdoor meeting it will be held in the
Lord house.
I The FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH. Rev.
George C. Sauer. pastor; residence, i3
! Cedar. Telephone 1911.
Sa bath service during July will be as
follows: Morning worship, 10 As; even
ing, 7.30; Bible school, IL; young people,
6 80; nidweek service Thursday. at 7 80.
20 magnify the Lord with me; let us
exalt his name together" This is both a
| duty and a delight. Only spiritual wor-
ship will be acceptable to God; this is
what he seeks, and, more than that. this
is what the very nature of the case re-
quires "The hour cometh and now is,
when the true worshippers shall worship
the Father in spirit and in truth, for such
doth the Father seek to be his worship
pers." 'For God is spirit, and they
that worship him must worship him in
spirit and in truth"
You are cordially invited to assist in
the service of worship next Sabbath
morning. The sermon theme is "Christ
Lifted Up" which was the motto every
where seen and spoken of at the Northern
Baptist Convention Just held at Indian
apolis. This was a convention which
marked an epoch in the life and opportu-
nifty of our churches. Notwithstanding
the changed conditions and beliefs, our
churches by an overwhelming majority
did reaffirm that "the New Testament is
our absolute rule of faith and pr actice "
/ This affirmation gives great Joy to the
rank and file of the Baptist people, and
they turn with confidence and devotion
to the manifold tasks of the Christian
church in the home field, and the raising
of $40, 600, 600 for the maintenance of the
work in the foreign mission field.
The Thursday evening service will be
conducted by the young people of the
church, "Nebuch adneZzar's Dream" Dan.
| 2l:36-45
The Sunday evening twilight services
/ of music and song will be continued dur
ing July at 730 o'clock. Everyone lcor-
daily invited.
The Federated Church: Rev. w. F.
Skerrye, minister; residence, 26 High
street; telephone, 86-4. Please do not
! fail to telephone the minister of any case
of illness OF distress where his service
may be helpful. Sunday morning service
at 10.45; sermon topic: 'W hats a
Cup of Water Worth" A cor
dial invitation is extended to all. Here
let no man be stranger. "Whosoever
thou art that enterest this church, leave
/ it not without prayer for thyself, for
him who ministers and for those who
| worship here"
| Religious differences has been mark
/ CHI acfa IF ho Dr. or oh
! from the beginning. The history of these
differences is painful reading to such as
believe that the supreme function of the
| church is that of ministry to human
souls. 1t is little disturbing to the
most complacent defender of sectarian
tenets and usages to be reminded that the
Father of all souls is, in all probability
not greatly interest. d in the peculiar con-
tent of any of our earthly isms. If the
gospel of the good life is the gospel of
Jesus, as people of every denomin ton
are more and more happily affirming, the
| highest value of church and individual
alike is correctly measured only in terms
of love to God and man, expressed in
| terms of sincere worship and kindly SER
vice. 1t is growing sense of this SIM
pie truth that characterlZes the religious
life of today. Unity is to be the word
and fact of the future. Signs of this are
seen in our newspapers, in religious edi-
torials, and, much more, in the bodily
union of the institutions themselves.
The period Oh Interpretation has passed;
that of practical conduct has come. AL
ready a number of former Trinitarian and
Unitarian churches in New England have
united. These two branches of the great
stream of independent Congregationalism
established by the Puritans, have been
flowing apart for a hundred years; now
they are reuniting. Striking evidence of
this is afforded by the recently consumat-
ed union of Harvard Divinity School and
the Andover Theological Seminary, the
representatives schools, for the last hun
dred yeas of the liberal and conserva-
tive branches, respectively, of the Puri-
tan Congregational order. In the last
number of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin
appears the following statement by Presi-
/ dent Lowell: ''The organization of the
new school, which will be known as the
Theological School in Harvard Univer-
sity, has made some friends of each
school fear THAT their own institution
would therefore lose the force of its ira
ditions. That fear seems the result of
misapprehension. In fact, the very OBJ
| iect is to preserve the full momentum OF
tradition of both schools and obtain for
each a larger scale of usefulness. One
| hundred years ago men thought the two
streams were separated by an impossible
har hu that har uad 70 he