Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1855-03-16
Religious Intelligence.


new Societies were recognized Two in Ten
ncssce, and one in New York, Arkansas, Iowa |
and Oregon. Commun cations were laid be- |
fore the Board from Rev c. y. RICHTER, the /
socicty's agent in the East, written from the .
camp before Sebastopol, stating his kind re-
ccption by Lord Raglan, and his distribution
of Scriptures in the army and among kus-
sian prisoners from Rev. 5. Cummings, OF
Fuh Chau China, stating that the blocks for
printing the book of Genesis and the four
Gospels in the Fuh Chau colloquiul, have
been completed. A letter was also presented
from Rev. l., b. Peet of Fuh Chau, propos-
ing compromise for settling the dilieult
question of term to express the name OF the
Divine Being in Chinese.
Among the Grants of books was one to Rev.
Mr. Leach, Baptist clergyman, for distribu-
ton in Vermont and $500 were appropriated
to Am. b. c. F. NJ for printing the Gospels
of Luke and John in the Seneca language,
with several volumes for the Blind.
1t is stated that the disasters of the times
fall heavily ON the American Bible society
200 hands, one half of the entire working force
having been recently discharged from the
Bible House, in New York, and nearly ono
half Of the presses stopped.
The \. W. Christian Advocate says under
the head of Revivals. Judging from our
own revival notice department. and from our
exchanges generally, we think we are Justified
in assuming that the church is enjoying in
large and marked measure Il " time OF reircSh-
ing from the presence Of the Lord Pccu-
mary scarcity seems to have been but lrclim-
mary to spiritual prosperity. KS with
individuals, so with society, disaster and
affection are often blessings in disguise
With the friends of Zion we rejoice at this
The spiritual element is the vital one in all
the departments of church extension The
power, the continuousncss and the success of
all evangelical measures is as perfectly de-
pendent upon the powers Of the Holy Ghost,
in the heart, as is the stream dependent upon
the fountain Without me We can do moth
ing" Though not equaling some Of "a few
weeks preceding, yet the number OF CONVEX
sious and additions given i'll our revival
notices" of this week, amounts to about fifty
over one thousand.
The Catholic Mirror, puzzled for an apollo
gy for the unauthorized liberty taken in the
Roman Catholic Catechisms in suppressing
that part of the first command in the dcca-
loguc which prcscrbcs, " Thou shalt not
make unto thee any craven image, or any
likeness of anything,' excuses it on the
ground that tins part is only explanatory,
and was omitted " in order not to fatigue or
ovcrburden the memory Of children
The Rev Mr. Trench in his - New Lee
lures on the English Language, quotes from
the Dublin Rerie,c the following testimony
of a Roman Catholic pervert from the COM
munion Of the English Church, who expresses
himself in deeply touching tones Of lamcnta-
ton over what in forsaking the Standard
English version of the Bible, he feels himself
to have lost:
Who will not say that the uncommon
beauty and marvellous English Of the Protcs-
tnnt Bible is not one of the great strongholds
of heresy in this country! 1t lives on the
car, like music that can never be forgotten,
like the sound Of church bells, which the con-
vert hardly knows how he can iorcgo. Its
fcicities often seem to be almost things
rather than mere words. 1t is part Of the
national mind and the anchor of national Sc
robustness. The memory 0! the dead
passes into it. The potent traditions OF
childhood are stereotyped in its verses. The
power of all the grIeis and trials OF n man is
hidden beneath its words. 1t Is the repre-
sentative of his best moments. and all that
there has been about HIM Of soft and gentle,
and pure and penitent and good, speaks to
him for ever out Of his English Bible.
It is his sacred thing, which doubt has never
Ii,n,,nI anil Nj al In
the length and breadth of the land there is
not Il Protestant with one spark of religious
ness about him whose spiritual biography is
not in has Sacred Bible.
la 1916, n society called the " First Pres
bytcran Church in Boston set up claim
to the land and property belonging to the Fed
eral street Congregational Society in Boston,
under the pastoral care Of the Rev. Dr. CAS-
NETT. The suit has been in litigation until
few days past, when the Seprcme Court Of
Massachusetts gave decision, confirming
the title Of the Federal street Congregational
Society. The property is valued at from
$50 1000 to sos 900.
1t is reported by New York papers that
the proprietor of one Of the lager bier saloons
in which the Bowery abounds, is in the habit
OF holding mock religious worship in his es-
Enlistment on the Sabbath, for the purpose
Of cyading the law requiring him to close.
Collecting a congregation of CUSTOMERS, lie
takes upon himself the sacrligious Office Of
expounding the truths of revealed religion.
md after reading select portion Of the
Scriptures, dIspenscs the sacrament in the
form Of liberal potations of A." lager bier"
concluding the ceremonies by taking upa
collection
A popular clergyman, Of New York city
or its vicinity, who was sadly annoyed last
Sabbath by incessant coughing among his
congregation, paused in his discourse and re-
marked, that ii ladies would wear their
bOnncts on their heads, and tic the strings,
coughs would not be so prevalent