The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1922-06-15
THE CHURCHES

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Regular services will be held at the
Trinity Reformed church Sunday at 80
o. M, with sermon by Rev. William
Vaughan. Sunday school will immedi-
ately follow.
At the Universalist church next Sum-
day morning there will be preaching SER
vice by the pastor, Rev. VIM. Vaughan.
Sunday school at noon. All cordially
invited to these services.
METHODIST CHURCH. Peoples Meth
odist Church, Rev. Charles w. Martin,
pastor; parsonage, No. 7 Court ST.; tele-
phone. 2l3.11. Sunday morning service
at l0.45. Sunday school,, IL m. Evening
service at 7.30. Prayer meeting this,
Thursday, evening at 1870.
THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH. Rev.
George C. Sauer, pastor; residence, Is
Cedar. Telephone l23l1.
Sabbath service during June will be as
follows: Morning worship, 10.45; even
ing, 7. 80; Bible school, IL; young people,
$50; midweek service Thursday, at 730.
Matches or Masts" will be the theme
of the minister's talk to. the boys and
girls at the morning service. The young
peoples chorus, under the direction of
Miss Hopkins, will sing. The flags of
the Camp Fire Girls and the Boy Scouts
have been given a place of honor in the
church and special seats assigned for the
members.
At the evening service an attractive
program of mas.c will be presented, in
which the chorus choir, orchestra and
solosts, including Leroy Green, cornet-
zst, will participate. A sermon story by
the minister follows: 1.-THE Burglar and
the Evangelist" Everyone cordially in
vited.
The Federated Church: Rev. W. F.
Skerrye, minister; residence, &c High
street; telephone, 1914. Please do not
fail to telephone the minister of any case
of illness or distress where his service
may be helpful. Sunday morning, at the
usual hour, Waldo Lodge, No. IL, l. o. ..
F., will hold its annual public service of
commemoration and worship here. Ser
mon topic, "The Threefo!d Cord" A cor
dial invitation is extended to all. Here
let no man be stranger. whatsoever
thou art that enterest this church, leave
1T not without a prayer for myself, for
<aim who ministers and for those who
worship here"
No man knows the good of which he is
capable. This is the truth that Browning
tells so well in "Pippa Passes" Pippa,
the Florentine mill-eirl. has her one holi-
day of the year, New Years Day. With
all her hungry heart she considers how to
get the most out of every moment of the
precious day. She cannot, she tells her
self, deck and adorn the day as Ottima,
the beautiful and proud young wife of the
rich old silk merchant, who lives in the
great house on the hill. The day cannot,
by any of the meagre possibilities within
her reach, mean to her what it means to
Monsignor, the CARDINALS brother, who is
to be welcomed to the city with fanfare
of trumpet and tumult of applause. What
can she do7 she can sing; only that, moth
ing more, and she goes singing on her
way. But note--he words of her happy,
high-hearted song float up to the win
dows of the old silk merchants mansion,
and strike one guilty, troubled heart wit
such force of conviction as cleanses it
at one awful stroke.
Gods in. His heaven" "who spoken
cried Sebold.
Oh, that little thing, one of our mill
airlsl She must have rested on the STEP"
replied the proud Ottima.
But the words had done their work;
they ndo pierced the man ueaIL as IL
were dagger; and he chooses that instant
death rather than further guilt.
Goods in His heavenl that little pea
SAINTS voice has riahted all againp he
amurmurs dying.
Again, as Pippa passes the episcopal
palace, where MonsiGnor, the cardinals
brother, is in deep conference with the
administrator of his dead brothers affairs,
the words of her song reach the ears of
Monsignor just when, to shield his
brothers name, he is tempted to yield to
the arguments of the administrator, who
has been q sharer in that brothers sins.
is it q bargain2" softly asks the
shrewd intendant, knowing Monsignor's
family pride.
And the words of Pippa's passing song,
Suddenly God took me-" rang in the
ears of MonsiRnor like the sound of
great bell in heaven, and he shouts for his
guards, and bids them bind the thief and
lead him to prison.
None of this the little mill girl knows.
She only knows that she has taken her
one day % gift of God and tried to give
it back to himin the one way open to her.