Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1855-04-27
Observation-Disclosures.

Chronicle, says There has been in the
town of Orwell during the past winter an
interesting and much revived state ofrcligious
life. Christians have been revived and
united and goodly number of souls hope
fully converted Some 40 persons in connex-
ion with the Congregational Society are
INDUCING hopes, and nearly us many more
in connection with other societies"
Among the Methodists of Wolcott and
Elmore, Lamoile Co, REVEALS have recently
been enioyed. As tho result of Il series OF
evening meetings about eighty souls have
professed religion.
Rev. Mr.. Cox, Methodist, aud Rev, Mr.
Cilley, Baptist, had union baptism Mt
Charestown, Mass, last sabbath, when
twelve persons were immersed in the pres
ence of great crowd of people In Hudson
N va revival has been going on at the
Methodist Church for the last three months,
during which time nearly or quite 400 con-
verts have been added to the society. Last
Sabbath some IA or Is were baptised hy
immersion.
The American Tract Society held its month
ly meeting in New York on the 10th. \
letter was read ordering fifty copies of the
Childs paper for a Sabbath school in South
ern Africa. The Rev Mr. Winslow, Madras,
India, writes ." The Christian press is
becoming more and more influential in India.
Native presses are also increasing, and n
spirit of inquiry is abroad. Mr.. Williams,
Of Of bn nnt ira
Chinese missionary force, namely Ameri-
can 46 English "a, Swiss 2, German 3, total
rs, and states that the operations of the
Christian press are much interrupted by the
civil strife. The grants of publications for
the month amounted to 23,Sl7 ,249 pages,
value SIS $500, and for the year more than
seventy seven million pages, value S5l,1737.
The receipts for the closing month of the
year were $50, $50. The total receipts for
the year in donations, Sl47 POS, and for
Gales s265 ,s75-s4l3,l73.
The receipts of the NJ. Z. Tract Society for
the year were ,95 and its expendi-
lures Sl1,l35,92. 1t has forty Confer
ence auxiliary societies which sent out l53
colporteurs during the year, who have visited
1888 families. ga conversions have been
traced to their labors, and they are known
to have introduced 800 children into sabbath
Schools. The Messenger says this great enter
prise of the church has been pretty much
ignored in the Vt. Conference.
Walton's Vermont Register for 1855, gives
the names Of 532 clcrgymen resident in the
State. OF these Isl are Congregationalists,
142 Methodists, Is Baptists, SO Universal
lists, % Episcopalans, 81 Free Will Baptists,
IL Adventists, Christian, Z Wesleyan Meth
odists, 6 Catholics, 5 Presbyterians 2 Uni
tarians, Protestant Methodists, . Camp
bellities, &" rnionists, " Independent"
Methodist, Covenanter.
FATHER HoBARr' of Berlin, who now
supplies the pulpit left vacant by the lament
ed death of Rev. Austin Hazen, is nearly so
years of age, but breaches twice every Sab
bath, and attends third service regularly.
He uses no manuscript, but either extempor-
Uses his sermons or delivers them from mem
ory. They are decidedly of the - old school"
lie lives u mile and q half from
the place of worship, to and from which he
long life very much to his temperate and
nctive habits. He is careful in respect to
food depending largely on farinaceous diet
fruit and vegetables. He has also accustomed
himself to great deal Of horseback exercise
riding about his missionary iclds-ior he
has spent most of his life as Home Mission
ary-and even taking long journes, winter
as well rs summer, on horseback.
a quarter ofa century ago the Episcopal
Church in the United States numbered 500
clergy and ii bishops now the clergy num-
Der ,723 and the bishops So OF the IL
bishops then living 3 only survive, Brownell,
II. L. Onderdonk and Meade. OF the SOP
priests and deacons, "a have been made
bishops, Of whom one has apostatized and
four are dead three Of the presbytcrs have
apostatizcd to Rome, and three to other
scots; one of the former and one Of the latter
have returned to the Episcopal fold, 900
have died.
The New York Independent thinks that
the practice of audible assent to and union in
public prayer might he adopted without i'm
churches, There might be opportunity given
in the worship for the silent prayer, each one
for himself and for his friends Of all the con-
gregation. Especially might the Lords
Prayer have n permanent and prominent
place in the public worship Of every church,
oil joining in it.
The colored Baptist Church in Richmond,
Va, numbers about twenty-seven hundred
it is believed to be the lar
gsst number of any church in the States.
The sdult slave and free colored population
Of South Carolina is about us 900, of whom
IS 900, or about one-fourth are members of
tho Methodist Church. In Charleston there
are about Is 900 and one third are commune
oants in this church. There are many cir
cults in which the number Of colorod mem
bers about equals or exceeds that Of the
white members
The Boston CHRISTIAN Register. Unita.
rian,) says it has no fears for the stability of
any of the doctrines essential to Unitarian
but expects that some Of those
doctrines will meet with large modification
among others, that Christ will be regarded
as higher being than Cnitarans have gene
rally hitherto viewed him to be, and that an
efficacy will be attributed to his work Of
stonement beyond what has usually been as.
signed to it.
The Protestant missionaries and ministers
residing at Canstantlnople have been invited
by the French branch of the Evangelical AL
lance to organize, in Constantinople, n
Turkish branch of the same, which will
shortly be done. There are among the Pro.
testant residents in that city, Episcopalians,
Presbyterians, Independents, Lutherans, &c.
but there is the utmost harmony, and for
long time back there has been quarterly
clerical meeting in which all the Protestant