A second exercise of unusual interest was the presentation of a Bible to each of the baptized children of the church between the ages of seven and twelve.  To sixteen children, the day was thus made memorable, the giving being prefaced with fitting remarks, and the hope being expressed that during the year the new Bible might be read entirely through.  One recipient on reaching home immediately fell to work, and on being remonstrated with for using his eyes too steadily, said, “This is too good a {pg 219} Bible to stop reading.”  Doubtless all were appreciated in like manner, and will be sacredly treasured.

Short and pertinent addresses, suitable to childhood, were made by chosen speakers, hymns familiar and appropriate were sung, and the benediction, pronounced by a Baptist brother, closed a service unique and unusual.

A grandmother to twenty-three children, of whom three were presented for baptism, said to the writer, “Oh!  I am so happy.  We never had anything like this before, and the children and parents, too, are obleeged to remember it.”

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RECEIPTS FOR MAY, 1888.

MAINE, $722.07.

Augusta.  Miss Alice Means S.S.  Class,
  for Student Aid, Talladega C. 3.55

Bangor.  First Cong.  Ch. and Soc. 25.00

Bangor.  Miss Wyman’s S.S.  Class, for
  Oahe Indian Sch. 5.00

Bangor.  Mary F. Duren and others, for
  Rosebud Indian M. 0.60

Bath.  Winter St. Cong.  Ch., 157.75; Central
  Cong.  Ch. and Soc., 30 187.75

Calais.  Cong.  Ch. and Soc. 45.00

Foxcroft.  Mrs. D. Blanchard 1.00

Harpswell.  Cong Ch., 18; Sab.  Sch. of
  Cong.  Ch., for Indian M., 4 22.00

Portland.  King’s Daughters, by Miss
  Moniton, Sec., Box of Basted Work and
  1 doz. thimbles, for Selma, Ala.

South Berwick.  Mrs. K.B.  Lewis, 3.50;
  “A Lady in Neb.” by John H. Plumer, 2 5.50

Union.  Cong.  Ch. and Soc. 7.00

Winslow.  S.S. of Cong.  Ch. 10.00

Yarmouth.  A.H.  Burbank, M.D. 50.00

York.  Second Cong.  Ch. and Soc. 6.00

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368.40

LEGACY.

Bethel.  Estate of Sarah J. Chapman, by
  A.W.  Valentine, Ex. 353.67

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$722.07

NEW HAMPSHIRE, $488.29.

Amherst.  Cong.  Ch. 37.15

Claremont.  Cong.  Ch. 10.50

Concord.  West Cong, Ch., 20:  J.W. 
  Chandler, 1 21.00

Derry.  Nutfield Mission, by Edna A.
  Clarke, Treas., for Schp., Santee Indian
  M. 50.00