Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1854-12-15
Religious Intelligence.

Inc conductors oil the american uOme
Missionary Society, announce that their re.
ceipts during the first seven months of the
present financial year are less by about Sll,-
600 than in the corresponding months OF the
last yoar tina, the appropriations during
the same period have been greater by 10000;
that the Treasury isalready exhausted ; that
the Committee are compelled for the present
TO decline Masking further appointments for
the Pacific coast, and have much hesitation
in sending forth tho seven missionaries alrca-
dy commissioned for that field and that if
their appeal for relief does not meet prompt
and liberal response, other plans OF enlarge
ment must be abandoned the inviting fields
of labor just opened, in Kansas and Nebras-
ka, must remain unoccupicd the efforts to
increase the salaries of missionaries must be
relinquished and their claims for services
already performed must lie unpaid We
trust their appeal will not be in vain.
A new Methodist Church in Mortified is
TO be Dedicated on Tuesday, Dec. 81. Ser
vices TO commence at ! ! o'clock, \. NJ. Ser
mon by Rev E. j. Scott. Preachers meet
ing to commence on Wednesday morning at
. o'clock.
A bill is now before the Canadian Parlia-
mcnt designed to secure proper observance
of the Sabbath. II provides that on that
day no post Office shall be opened, nor any
mail matter be delivered; that no mail mat
ter shall be made up or dispatched; that all
those not reaching their destination on Satur-
day shall hold over and that the locks On all
the canals shall be closed from Saturday at
midnight to Sunday at midnight
Tho Now York and Brooklyn Tract Society
is in receipt Of late news from the missions
in China, India. Sandwich Islands, Armenia,
NestoriA, and tho Choctaw Indian station
On the 10th September nino Choctdrs were
admitted into the church. The church at
Hio, thrifty town among the palm trees
and orange groves ofthe deep ysly of Hawaii,
numbers $500 worshippers. And tho Ar
mcnians are to complete two churches lately
commenced, with dispatch.
Tho New York Bible Society distributed to
immigrant ships during the past year no less
than IS ,535 Bibles and Testamcntp. The
aggregate of all the distributions was ~ ,o0l
volume., of which 9,57l were Bibles anc
81 $3.50 Testaments
We take from The \. y Evangelist thu
following synopsis of the Report Of Rev DIR
Stiles corresponding Secretary of the South
ern Aid Society.
Tho report discussed the relative wants o
the North and South, and presented SOM
very interesting statistics. In contrastin,
the ministry of the North and the South, tn
report stated that the population OF tn
North is near Is 900 900 the population q
the South near 1000 600. In thesix follow
ing denominations, Baptist, Methodist, Epis
copal, Presbyterian, Congregational, and he
formed Dutch, the ministry Of tie Nortl
number about II ,OOO--at the South, :, 229
There is at the north somethinglike one min
lister to every 200 souls---at the South, on
minister to every 300 souls.
If the wealth of the church may be Judge
either by the amount Of her invested propert
or annual collections the church at the MORT
IN proportion to her membership, possesse
more than twice ns much Of the property a
the North. as the church at the South pos
sesses Of the property at the South. Th
vested property of the six prominent denom
nations at the North is something like S45
400, 600 at the South, Sll,50O, 900, Q
Northern property, one dollar OF every 50
belongs to the church by investment. q
Southern property, one dollar of every 500
belongs to the church in the same way. Tn
sum total of Home Missionary collections b
the aforesaid denominations at the North
S455 ,64O--at the South, lI3 500. The al
nual excess of collections for domestic mi:
lions at the North above those at the Sout
is more than S30O,0OO
The Home Missionary power Of our cour
try is expended very freely upon the North
very sparingly upon the South. The six dc
nominations annually send out into the vast
places of the nations near 1898 missionaries
of this number 2,tO2 labor in the dcstitl
lions Of the South.
These denominations annually expend upo
our national missions something like $3.50
t9o. OF this sum SilS 600 is disburscd
the North, aud 1882 900 at the South.
With all her missionary power, what do
tho North do for the South There are al
nually commissioned at the North, "a;
missionaries Of these, o,i02 are employ,
at the North and Northwest, and 81 sent
labor in the South and Southwest. The
are annually expended by that portion OF Il
Elk denominations who reside at the Mort
about S4lS 900. OF this SUN, if we mistal
not, more than S400 900 are spent III relai
ing the deaolatons Of the North, while /: l(
ot0 is more than We can find annually eXpen
cd upon the wastes Of the South.
~ JosIPH BowERs, the elder, Tor as lie
Familiarity known Old Joe Bowers), was DO
in Ypsilanti, Wsshtenaw county, Michiga
on the LIST day Of April, l776, Of poor b
honest parents" His father, during t
troubles Of the Revolutionary struggle, W
was engaged in business as a malefactor
western New York, from which part OF t
country he was compelled TO emigrate by /
preiudices and annoyances Of the bgoted ~
Tiers among whom he had for many yea
conducted his operations, Emigrating ~
donly, in fact with such precipitation
that he took nothing with him, Of his lar
property, but single shirt, which he h;
pened 10 have about him at the time he for
ed his resolution, he found himself aitci
journey Of several days Of vicissitudes a
suffering, upon the summit Of hill oycrlo
ing beautiful valley in tho fertile State
Michigan Here he finally settled, and m
rying afterwards Young lady whom
author somewhat obsourcly speaks of
- one of EN- had Issue, and finally en-
his career Of usefulness by falling from
cart in which he had been standing, addr'
ing numerous audience, in which fal
unfortunately broke his neck.
Series for 1853.
THE HOME JOURNAL.