Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1854-08-11

H. roooints of the A. B. {. L. Nj. Tor
t,n. omounted to 500 ,594. From Aug to
.,nnc 40, sq66 ,255-being near S4,ooo less
- an for the corresponding II months oil 'ne
preceding financial year From vermont !"
June, S356.5l,
Tho CORNER stone ola new Methodist church
,r,. laid In Rutland on the 9th. The exer-
cises. as given by the Herald, were as follows
Singing of coronation" by the peo-
sic !, ,bo words Behold the sure founda-
ton stone" &c.
?. Reading of the Scriptures by Rev. Mr..
Ames, of Pittsford.
8. Prayer by Rev Mr. Patterson, of Cas-
Teton.
A. Singing.
s. Address by Rev. S. D. Brown, of Troy.
n. Y, son of Hon. Stephen Brown, of st.
Adams.
6. Laying of the corner stone. In recess
cut out of the marble rock was tin box con-
tanning Bible, Hymn Book, Methodist Dis
cipine a copy of the Christian Advocate and
unal, Missionary Advocate, Sabbath School
Advocate, and the Rutland County Herald
"A llsl VI lue nulntb Vi lIOoo SOhtliNutihS w
build the house, names ofthe builders, Arch
itect. and Building Committee, Record ofthe
doings of the last Troy Annual Conference,
Methodist Almanac, names Of the Preachers
in the Rutland Circuit, Official Members, Lo-
cal Preachers. number and condition Of the
Sabbath Schools, and names of the Religious
Societies in Rutland.
Z. Address by the venerable and well-known
Rev. Tobias Spicer, of Lansngburgh, NY.
6 Prayer.
9 Singing of Doxology.
10. Benedlctlon.
The Church is TO be erected on West street
few rods East of the Cemetery. It's esti-
M ted cost is $4,000, the most OF which is al
ready subscribed. 1t will doubtless, be COM
plcted before the first of January next
There is to be Camp Meeting upon the
"Old Camp Ground" in East Brooktied, Vt.
continuing from Monday, Aug 18th, TO the fol
lowing Saturday,
writer in Backwood says that, with thu
exception of SPAN, Belgium is probably thu
most complete Roman Catholic country il
Europr. Upon a Sunday, for example, tn
shops open on every side; priests in their lonI
gowns everywhere in the streets people o
all ranks crowdlng to mass the crossings o
the Catholics in the remotest places where TN
tnkngs of the church bells can be heard ; tn
air Of superiority assumed by the clergy at tn
slars; the evening theatres and Sunday smuse
ments- all tell of foreign people and foreg
church. Out Of the 4,337, 900 inhabitants G
Belgium, 1927 900 are Catholics,
The Scotch pre-eminence in the way of ecc
nomy, is ,trikingly exhibited in comparin
the expenses Of collecting and disbursing tn
revenue of the Free Kirk, of Scotland wit
that paid by some of the English Societies
The Free Kirk has raised f2o7 ,574, at an e1
p.nse Of between one fortyseventh and on
forty eight of the whole One Of the Englis
Societies, raising only f33 900, allows 70
expenses no less than E6,225, or more tina
one-iourth of the whole.
ETERNITY HAS no GREY IIAiRs."-Th
flower fades, the heart wlthers, man grows oil
and dies. the world lies down in the sepulchr
Of arcs, but time writes no wrinkles on til
i'rntes If eternity
er'iy Srupendous thought the eve
present now, unborn, underlying, and undyln!
the endless chtln, comprising The life of God
the Golden thread, entwlung the destlnle
OF tne universe.