TABULAR VIEW.

REMARKS.

53. On the 3d of January last Mr. Loring was installed pastor of this Church. Under date of June 14 he thus reports" Our numerical strength continues about the same. The character of our congregation for stability has greatly improved. Our Sabbath School is more than usually promising. This spring a class of young men has been formed numbering about a dozen. Our prayer meetings for the last three months have been more than usually interesting. Some indications of more than usual seriousness on the part of several impenitent persons, and quite recently there have occurred two or three hopeful conversions."

54. More than usual religious interest was manifested the last fall in No. 11, and some two or three cases occurred of hopeful conversion. No one has yet been obtained for Fort Kent.

55. An addition to this society is reported of "one or two families." The Sabbath School is larger than ever before. The people have added $50 to the pastor's salary. 56. "We are encouraged by the presence of the Spirit, and its effectual working. Our prayer is, that it may not soon depart from among us.'

57. This Church and people have been supplied the greater part of the time during the year by students from the Seminary in Bangor. They have now a parsonage, and are hoping soon to obtain a pastor. The labors of Mr. Davis among them ceased with the close of the last missionary year.

58. The whole number of congregational families in Oxford is fifteen. The Church has been much reduced and weakened by deaths and removals; but some signs of spiritual life remain, and a little band of sisters, and a few brethren who appear to be earnestly engaged in prayer for the Holy Spirit, encourage the pastor in his efforts At West Minot a new (union) Church has recently been built. In that place and Hebron are ten congregational families. Recent prospects are quite encouraging. For the present Mr. Tewksbury preaches at West Minot one-fourth of the time. In the fall the way will be open for congregational preaching one-half the time.

59. This Church always weak, save in faith and courage, has become unable to do as much as heretofore for the support of preaching, and has been obliged to abandon the enterprise of building a house of worship. Mr. Merrill left them in April last, and is now laboring at Deer Isle. Since his departure they have had but little preaching.

60. "Patten village has been favored, since the year commenced, with a revival of religion. A number (all of them young persons) have been hopefully converted-including three or four of the children of that little Church." Mr. Fobes has preached in the village one-fourth of the time during the last six months. He has also supplied (for how many Sabbaths is not reported) at Island Falls, Fairfield's Mills and No. 3.

61. This Church and people have been for several years without a pastor, and while men slept, tares have been sown, in the form of another Gospel. Evangelical religion, however, has too strong a hold among this people to be rooted out. Father Kellogg's services are still remembered with interest, and the truths which he taught are regarded as sacred and precious. Being without a choir of singers, they have expended during the year $80 for the interests of sacred music and $30 for a Sabbath School library. The Sabbath School suffers for want of suitable teachers. On the whole the prospect is brightening.

TABULAR VIEW.

REMARKS.

62. "Decided improvement during the year, and a better prospect of progress for the future. Our average congregation at the village, and on the hill, has been onethird larger the past year, than it was the year previous. Of those added to the Church, two are heads of families, not yet advanced to middle age, the other two are young.'

63. "For the year now commencing we expect no aid from the M. M. S., and reserve our money for our own use." The thought of being thrown upon their own resources, "instead of discouraging them, has awakened more energy."

64. This society of colored people consists of thirty-five families. The annual rent of pews amounts to $125. $75 more are raised by the Church for the pastor's support. The Sabbath School numbers fifty-nine, and is in a prosperous condition. Mr. Lynch enjoys the confidence of the christian community, and is laboring diligently for the good of his people.

65. The beautiful chapel, erected during the last year by this infant society, was completed in December, and the pews in it were rented for $250. On the same day with the dedication of the house, Mr. Howard was ordained, as pastor of that Church, with very fair prospects of usefulness. But since then his health has failed, and "the probability is that he will be compelled to leave."

66. "A growing attachment to the ordinances of the Gospel." Three hopeful conversions and others known to be inquiring." New movements of late in the cause of temperance..

67. For several months after the departure of Mr. Bailey there was no congrega tional preaching in this place. In May and June they were supplied for several Sabbaths by Rev. Edmund Burt.

68. Within the bounds of what is considered the east parish in Searsport are forty families, twenty-five of which may be regarded as congregational. A Church has not yet been organized, but will be probably soon. There is a good attendance on the Sabbath, and at weekly lectures; the Sabbath School is well attended by more than half the congregation. The people are enterprising-"more than seventy of them between the ages of four and twenty-one"-and the expectation is, that they will not long need missionary aid; perhaps only for the present year.

69. "The congregational interest is gaining. The attendance on Sabbath services has been good, and for the last six months more than usual religious interest. The Church has been truly revived, and many of the impenitent seemed deeply affected. We hope some have been truly born again, but dare not speak with confidence. Four persons have been added to the Church, and many others are expecting to join us.” 70. There is joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth. Mr. White reports the hopeful conversion of one individual-the mother of five children-who before the first Sabbath of January last had not attended meeting for a year and a half. In this town of 1800 inhabitants, Mr. W. is the only resident minister of any denomination, who has any regular appointment on the Sabbath. "With the exception of a small, unpainted meeting house, belonging to the Society of Friends, there is no house in town built for religious worship." No Sabbath School, when Mr. White commenced his labors; now there are three.