The Republican journal., 1922-11-09

ana on SUNDAY afternoon at Z 3O by
Rev. c. w. Martin.
FIRST UNIvERsALIsT CHURCH. Ser
vices will be held next Sunday morning
at 1915 a. m. Sermon by the pastor,
Rev. William Vaughan, and music by the
choir A cordial welcome is extended
to all.
METHODIST CHURCH. Peoples Meth
odist Church, Rev. Charles w. Martin,
pastor; parsonage, No. Court St; tele-
phone, 2l3.1l. Sunday morning service
at 10.45. Sunday school, 12 m. Evening
service at 1880. Prayer meeting this,
Thursday, evening at 7.30.
Mrs. Katherine Quimby Hollingshead
sang in the choir of the Federated church
last Sunday in the absence of Mrs c. w.
Wescott, who was away for the day.
Mrs. Hollineshead was for several years
a member of the choir of the Unitarian
church and general favorite as sopra-
no Soloist
THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH. Rev.
George c. Sauer, pastor; residence, 13
Cedar. Telephone 1911.
The appointed services of this church
with Bible school at IL o'clock, and Chris
tian Endeavor Society at 6.a0. The mid
week service Thursday evening at 7S0
Sunday morning theme: "God Bless
the Red Cross" At the close of the SER
vice representative of the Belfast Chap
ter of the American Red Cross will be
ready to receive cur membership fee for
the ensuing year.
At the evening service there will be an
address on "How the People of Oberam-
mergau have kept faith with God" 1t is
story of the spiritual impression of the
famous Passion Play as given this sum-
mer The address will be superb y illus
trated with newly imported pictures. A
silver collection will be received. The
public is cordially invited to be present.
On Thursday evening Miss Clarssa A.
Hewey, r. N, supt. of nurses at the Kin
.Wah hospital, China, will speak upon the
work of Christian Missions in China, and
of the great movements and personalities
of the present hour in an awakening
China Miss Hewey is Maine woman,
highly trained for her work, and is in
great deman since returning home on
furlough, as speaker. Her life like pic
lures of present conditions in China are
of absorbing interest. Friends through
out the community are cordially invited
to attend this service.
The First Church, Federated, Rev. W.
F. Skerrye, minister; residence, 70 High
street; telephone, 86-4. Please do not
fail to telephone the minister of any
case of illness or distress where his SER
vices can be helpful. Sunday morning
service at 1915; sermon topic, "Our
tu and Tie Oh
ligation." 4" A cordial invitation is
extend d to all. Here let no man
be stranger. "Whosoever thou art
that enterest this church, leave it not
without a prayer for thyself, for him
who ministers, and for those who wor-
ship here" Sunday School Immediately J
after the morning service. All who are
properly considerate of he grave issues
of life recognize the right of the child to
the best environment possible. Hence
the Importance of vigorous and growing
/ Sunday School. 1t serves to give to every
child some measure of direct and personal
religious environment, which not only at
fords promise for the child's later life,
but offers greater ground OF assurance to
parents sollcitous for their children's well
fare, and provides a surer foundation for
the homes of the future, since the children
of today will be the home makers of
tomorrow,
All the world is on the move, and the
| line of direction is that in which a mans
heart is set. That which man most de
sires to be, this he eventually becomes.
This is the Interpretation of the statement
"Tne kingdom of heaven is within you. y
If man highly and wholly resolves to be
citizen of the kingdom of h aven In this
world, the course of his life will assuredly
be in this direction. The same law holds
of the kingdom of evil. 1t, too, is within,
and therefore possesses man more and
more in the mysterious processes of time.
This thought must have forcibly struck
more than one who saw ithe picture play,
ssThe Old Homestead" There were two
men, Joshua Whitcomb!and Ephraim Ho'-
brook, who had lived in the same town,
in the same environment, had the same
friends and neighbors, and attended the
same church all their lives. Ephraim
Holbrook read the Bible every night.
Joshua Whitcomb knelt by his bedside and
said his prayers every night. Y ct one OF
these men became, in the mysterious pro
cesses of time, so cruel that he coul S
wiring a neghbor's heart and whelm hi
family In shamefuiruin, rather than abate
a penny of that which he believed his due;
while the other had become so strong In
his faith in an unseen but unfailiue provl-
dence of good, that he not only bore with
cheerful forttude the severe trial to which
he was subjected, when he might well
have thought that God had forgotten him,
but was also able to say, when providence
had placed power for ample vengeance IN
his hand, at the darkest hour OF his for
tunes,-'There amt no revenge in my
religion, Eph." Holbrook had set his heart
on money: Uncle Josh had set his on love
to his neighbor, with malice toward
none, with charity for ALL" Each mans
purpose grew with his growth tlll it left
little room for anything else. whether
he would or no that purpose moulded and
fashioned his life to its own shape at last.
This is the impressive lesson to be learned
from the story of "Uncle JOSH"
Mrs. v WiIson Carter has returned to