Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1855-01-05
Religious Intelligence.

Mr.. Charles Scott was to have been or
daincd to the work of the Gospel Ministry,
rs Evangelist, in Marlboro. on "Wednesday,
Dec. 9th Ordination sermon by Rev Geo
p. Tyler of Brattlcboro.
Religious Services were held at tho Con
gregational Church in Ira.bursh on Chist-
mas eve, when the church was decorated and
n discourse was delivered by the Rev. Mr.
Lanphear, of Derby.
lIarkins, the Chief of the Choctaws, in his
recent message to his people says
"lf the abolitionists are not sotisfod to
teach our children alone, then, say, for one.
let the connection between the American
Board of Missions and ourselves be dissolved,
and every aboitionist he mad" to leave the
nation at once. We had II right TO pass laws
prohibiting the Missionaries from teaching
our slaves. Because we have done this, the
American Board of Missions looks upon it as
an outrage, and declares it's intention to with
draw its teachers from our schools. Let II
be done and the sooner The Jcttcr."
Recent letters bring intelligence of the
deaths of Rev Joshua Goddard, one of the
most influential missionaries Of the Amcri-
can Baptist Missionary Uunion, who died at
Ningpo, China, Sept. A, and of Mrs. ScuIdcr
wife of Rev. William W Scuddcr, the well
known Missionary, who died at Madras, In
dia, on the 18th Of September She was but
"a years of age. Rev. j. l.. Lyons Of Mon
trose, Pa and Mrs. c. \. Lyons of South
Berwick, Me, for the Syria mission; and
r =. - L. NJ
and Mrs +. b. Plummer Of Bloomfield, New
Jersey, for the American mission, embarked
at Boston Tuesday of last week
Rev. W. A. Macy sailed from Boston on
Monday for the Mission at Hong Kong, Chi
na.-Mr. Pearson. lately cfthc Choctaw Mis-
sion, is to labor at theMcroncsian islands.-An
additional body of chaplains have been sent
to the army in the Crmea by the English So
ciety for propagating the Gospel.
1t is .aid that another breach is expected
in the Methodist Church. Rev. DR.. Bond l..
editor Of the New York Christian Adrocdtc,
in noticing the opposition to the appropria-
lions of missionary money to tho preachers
laboring in their slavc-holding conferences,
says We have seen strange things in the
lapse Of three score years and ten, but this
caps the climax of the marvellous, and though
we are no prophet, nor the son Of a prophet,
we venture to predict that mischief is now
brewing in our neutrality-suspicious., convul-
slons and descriptions such as VIC have never
witnessed before
The Conference OF rrclate. at Rome adj
journed December ID, having decided almost
unanimously for the immaculate purity oil
the blessed virgin.
Hon George Bancroft, in hi. recent ad
drc.. before the New York Historical Society
was understood to avow his belief in the
Trinity, and Orthodox doctrines. His father
was one of the founders of Unitarianism in
Massachusetts,. The conversion Of his sor
to the opposite faith causes sensation i'll re
ligious circles.
The Queen Of England has given great
offence to the friends of the Sabbath, by hav
ing the French band of the Guides play OF
Sunday afternoon at Windsor Castle
An honest Dutch farmer of the Mohawl
was asked his opinion as to which denomina
ton of Christians were in the right way t.
Heaven. "Ncll, den, said he ven We rid,
our wheat to Albany, some say dis is de pes
vay--but it don't make much differcnc,
which road We take, for ven We get dare, day
never ask us vich way We come-and it is non,
Of their pusiness--J our ichcdt IS good ~