Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1854-01-13
ReligiOus InlellipencG.

Inc Chron'cfc gives intelligence of rcvivals
in Danville, Vt, in both the Methodist and
Congregational Churches in Grafton, VT. in
the Baptist church, and in Groton, n. Y
The journal of Missions also reports an OK.
tenslvc revival among the Indians on the Ton
AMANDA Reservation. They have hitherto
been almost entirely pagans.
A full meeting of delegates from all the
Congregational conscientious in the State OF
Connecticut, is to be held at New London the
first Tuesday in May next, " to consider the
nature of the ecclesiastical organization under
which they live, and what can be done to i'm
prove and invigorate it,
The Church Almanac gives the number of
Episcopal clergy of Vermont as 81, and the
combinations during the year past 1926. In
the United States there are 81 Dioceses, and
81 Bishops.
There are nine Mormon Apostles, all loca-
ted in Great Salt Lake City, SIS bishops, 254
priests, % dcacons, and 20S teachers. During
the year subsequent to the 9th of October
1852, Is Of the saints had been excommuni-
Gated. One hundred and thrty-ninc of the
Mormon priests and elders are on missionary
expeditions in other parts, and in foreign
countries. The total population of Salt Lake
City is 1913, Of Utah Territory Is ,2O6.
One of the products of the anti-popcry cx-
element in New York, is weekly pa per
just issued under the title of ." The True Free
man journal 1t is Protestant paper
and claims to do hattie for the Protestant
camp generally, without regarding the dilTe-
rences which divide the Protestant dcnomi-
nations.
1t is said that the gospel is making rapid
''srcss in Piedmont, Qtaly.) The church
81 Iurin has nearly five hundred conmuni
r"n,s, when four years ago there was not one
.a France it is said that bibles are finding
1.r way in quantities into the provinces,
Sud ne consequence has been the conversion
- ,.,-. 0u'al.:- F., "r'test,ntism
a .o.vign correspondent says, Sunday in
'A''~ is very much like any other day. only q
,''r'r more So
laut ltdnts, in Switzerland, the Protustants
,'... CatAQlics have but one church. They
re it peaceably together. What is more,
.a3y have but one grave yard. The church
i> divided into two parts, Catholic and
Protestant. Their religious services alternate.
and they never quarrel.
VIA. : mighty procession has been moving
towards the grave during all this past year
vt the usual estimate, since the first of JAN
nary, 1893. there have been more than Miltv-
one mliHon fct hUndrcd h0uSaud of the
worlds population gone down to the grave
Place them in long array, and they will give
Il moving column of more than thirteen to
every mile of the circumference of the globe
What spectacle as they move on. tramp
tramp, the Dead March giving its funeral
notes as they go to the silent shades
TURKISH L'BERALITY.-Christian have at
all times had churches in Turkey, Turks have
rarely been allowed mosque in Christian
land. 10 this day, no Mussulman can settle
in the Pope's domnions, nor even disemburk
upon the Eastern coast of Naples; though on
the opposite shores of Turkey a Neapolitan
may land without passport, wor ship God in his
own way paying only poll tax of three dollars
in compensation fer which he is exempt from
military service.
DR.. BETHUNE ONLY DEDUCTION In a
recent lecture, this eminent divine spoke of the
mistake which the best of reporters and printers
will sometimes make. He bad spoken in a
sermon of the devil sowing tares, but found
chat the morning paper had 1t d" the devil who
saw many irees!" But he then records worse
treatment: once said Il was not by decent
but only enthusiastically a Dutchman.' Judge
of my surprise, on learning from newspaper
that was only an ecclesiastical deductionn"
The 4" CITIES OF TIE PLAIN. M. de
Sauay's discovery Of the sites of Sodom and
Gomorrah IS considered one of the most strik-
ING within the whole range of Biblical anti
lulty. The disnterment of Nineveh is, as
sn1lter of feeling. small matter compared
with the discovery of Sodom and Gomorrah.
Ihere is some thing strangely awful in the
'dni OF these living monuments Of Divine ven
i'e"nce yet remaining after six and thirty centn-
ms, with the actual mark of the overthrow
still visible upon their blasted ruins.
Rev THOMAS F. Norris. editor and pro-
precr of the Boston Olive Branch died at
SonerviIIe, recently. He had been connected
with the Olive Branch for eighteen years, and
was native of Chelsea, Vt.